Intracoastal and Okeechobee Waterway Maintenance Dredging Vicinity of St. Lucie Inlet and Jupiter Inlet, Martin and Palm Beach Counties, Florida

Project Summary

Project will consist of maintenance dredging from the Intracoastal Waterway channel (IWW) in the vicinity of Jupiter and St. Lucie Inlets. These two areas are approximately 16 IWW channel miles apart. The Jupiter Inlet portion of the project consists of maintenance dredging approximately 100,000 cubic yards from IWW Cuts P-1 through P-9. The excavated material will be piped to the beach placement area immediately south of Jupiter Inlet. The St. Lucie Inlet work consists of maintenance dredging approximately 200,000 cubic yards from IWW Cuts M-1 through M-6 and OWW cut-1. Excavated material will be placed in the St. Lucie inshore impoundment basin for future use as beach renourishment fill. Incidental work for both project areas will include endangered species monitoring, turbidity monitoring. Vibration monitoring and beach tilling will be required at the Jupiter Inlet beach site.