It often contains darker, fine material that washes out as the sand is reshaped on the beach by the bulldozers. The sand coming out of the pipe is a water and sand slurry mixture. Bulldozers reshape the newly placed sand to meet the designed construction template. The sand stays on the beach, and the water runs back into the Gulf of Mexico.
The sand is discharged as a water and sand slurry mixture through the pipeline. The submerged pipeline runs from just off the beach up onto the beach and connects to shore pipeline, which runs laterally along the dry beach. The hopper dredge motors from the borrow area closer to the project site and hooks up to a submerged pipeline. The sand is dredged from the offshore borrow areas into a hopper dredge. The sand for large-scale beach nourishment projects comes from our offshore “borrow areas.” The main borrow area is located approximately 1.5 miles offshore of Shell Island, and secondary borrow areas are located near the St. They were the contractor for the 2011 beach nourishment project. The Bay County Tourist Development Council, serves as the local sponsor for the project. Army Corps of Engineers is managing the construction of the project. There may be circumstances that cause lengthy delays due to construction shutdown, like weather conditions or major repairs to equipment. The project will take approximately 4 to 5 months however construction may move faster or slower. Because this is an authorized and previously built federal shore protection project, the project team secured Federal Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies funds for this project to replace the sand losses due to hurricanes Michael and Sally in 20, respectively. The construction cost for this project is $28.5 million and is entirely federally-funded there are no local or state matching dollars required. Andrews State Park to Gulf Drive/Hurt Street. The 2017 project placed approximately 840,000 cubic yards of sand along a total of four project areas which included a half-mile at Pinnacle Port/Carillon Beach, a one-mile segment stretching west from the City Pier, a one-mile segment stretching west from the County Pier, and a one-mile segment stretching from the western end of St. That project also formally incorporated a project at Pinnacle Port and Carillon Beach. The 2011 project placed approximately 1.3 million cubic yards of sand along a total of 7.5 miles of the beaches (east and west ends) and was referred to as a “repair” project as it was conducted in response to several storms following Hurricane Ivan. The 2005-2006 project placed approximately 3.3 million cubic yards of sand along 17.5 miles of beaches, and it was conducted in response to 2004’s Hurricane Ivan. The initial restoration of the Panama City Beaches in 1998-1999 placed approximately 9.8 million cubic yards of sand along the 18.5 miles of beaches. This will be the third largest renourishment done in PCB. It did not experience enough erosion to justify renourishment in this area.Īpproximately 2.1 million cubic yards of sand will be placed with this project. The middle of the beach – from the City Pier to Ocean Towers – will not be renourished with this project.
Andrews State Park (not including the park) to Ocean Towers. The “eastern” project area extends from St. The “western” project area extends from Pinnacle Port to the City Pier. This renourishment project is taking place along two large project beach segments totaling approximately 12 miles. Equipment is delivered and moved continually along the beach for the duration of this project. Active dredging and placement of sand on the beach started September 11, 2021. The contractors will work down the beach over the following several months replacing over 2.1 million cubic yards of sand.Ĭonstruction mobilization started when equipment and pipeline were delivered to the west end project area beach. This is a very important project for maintaining the health and beauty of our beaches! This project begins in on the west end of Panama City Beach near Pinnacle Port. Our sugar white sands need renourishment from time to time to keep them soft and beautiful! The fifth renourishment of the Panama City Beach, Florida will begin September 2021, with anticipated completion by early 2022.
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