New sand at Cocoa Beach soon

[teklord]

[h=4]North Reach - Cape Canaveral / Cocoa BeachC[/h] The US Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company (GLDD) to renourish 7 miles of the Brevard County Shore Protection Project’s North Reach to counter erosion caused by Hurricane Sandy. GLDD will place approximately 1 million cubic yards of sand along the shoreline between Cheri Down Park in Cape Canaveral and Surf Road in Cocoa Beach (the Northern North Reach) and between 3rd Street North and the northern limit of Patrick AFB (the Southern North Reach). Work in the Northern North Reach is expected to begin around January 26, 2014 and work in the Southern North Reach is expected to begin around March 14, 2014. The sand will be dredged from Canaveral Shoals, an offshore borrow area located approximately six miles east of Cape Canaveral. All beach work will be completed by May 1, 2014. The remainder of the North Reach shoreline between Surf Road and 3rd Street North has remained stable and will not receive sand. Construction funding for the project is 100% federal. Check back soon for more project details or click here to read the project history.
Brevard County Natural Resources Beaches Program - Building Beaches


If only there was a wreck at Canaveral Shoals...

 

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[S.S.Tupperware]

I think you just might be surprised whats out there... Might have to heead over before they cover it up... never hunted Cocoa, always a lil further N.

 

[seeker41]

"If only there was a wreck at Canaveral Shoals... "

lots of wrecks out there , im sure there are many that are not known. problem is they are under about 20 feet of sand.

if I can, im going to take some before and after pics of some of these beaches.

chuck.

 

[teklord]

On Cocoa Beach there looks to be the end of a pipeline for the sand they will be sucking up from the ocean bottom, several years ago when they did the beach by Cherie Down Park they brought the pipeline in and then hooked it to another long line of pipe running north to south and pumped the sand so they could replenish the beach much easier and didn't need a bunch of trucks the way they did when they recently did Satellite Beach and beach's south. Yesterday it looked as if they were just about ready, then they unhooked everything and dragged it way up Cape Canaveral, then late afternoon they dragged everything back down and stopped near the pier and today they have moved the lines and the dredge barge further out. Looks like sand will be moving soon. You can just make out the pipe from the Pier cam south.