Broward County recently issued the following announcement.
The construction of mitigation reefs starts this month to recreate habitat on the ocean floor and encourage colonization of corals, fish, sea turtles and other marine life in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea.
The reefs will be located about 1,500 feet offshore in water depths just under 20 feet. They will be made of more than 4,000 individual concrete blocks and limestone rocks specifically designed for the project. More than 600 reef-units were manufactured since May 2021 with installation scheduled to be completed by the end of October 2021.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection and United States Army Corps of Engineers issued permits for the construction of 6.8 acres of these reefs after the 2016 Shore Protection Project was completed that placed 650,000 cubic yards of sand along the shorelines of Pompano Beach, Lauderdale-By-The-Sea and Fort Lauderdale to restore the beaches and sand dunes from eroding sand due to storms, hurricanes and sea-level rise.
The County has contracted with Resolve Equipment, Inc. of Fort Lauderdale to provide the mitigation reef units and install them in the waters offshore. For more information on beach construction/re-nourishment projects, visit Broward.org/BeachRenourishment.
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