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A sign warns of dune restoration at Little Talbot Island in 2016. | Blake Allen, WHCT News 89.9A sign warns of dune restoration at Little Talbot Island in 2016. | Blake Allen, WHCT News 89.9
A sign warns of dune restoration at Little Talbot Island in 2016. | Blake Allen, WHCT News 89.9

Duval awarded $32 million to renourish beaches

By Dan Scanlan
Published on January 2, 2024 at 10:47 am
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Duval County has been awarded more than $32 million to renourish about 10 miles of its Atlantic Ocean beachfront.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Shore Protection Project grant will renourish critically eroded beachfront in Atlantic, Neptune and Jacksonville beaches. That stretch runs from the St. Johns River to the Duval-St. Johns County line.

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Operations will start soon. The Corps of Engineers will use its social media channels to advise the public of the start date and progress.

For more information, visit saj.usace.army.mil.

author image Reporter email Dan Scanlan is a veteran journalist with 40 years as a radio, television and print reporter in the Jacksonville area, as well as years of broadcast work in the Northeast. After a stint managing a hotel comedy club, Dan began a 34-year career as police and current events reporter at The Florida Times-Union before joining the staff of WJCT News 89.9.

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