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Your LAST chance to voice your concerns on the Midreach Project

ACOE Public Comment Meeting Letter - delivered Jan. 25th, 2010

(there is a 3rd page that maps the 6 areas. This letter was send as a PDF and the text copied so there may be a spelling mistake or two)

Planning Division
Environmental Branch

To Whom It May Concern:

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
JACKSONVILLE DISTRICT CORPS OF ENGINEERS
P.O. BOX 4970
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 32232•0019
JAN 21 2010

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-lacksonville. District (Corps) and Brevard County invite you to attend a public workshop on the proposed Hurricane and Storm Damage Reduction Project, Mid-Reach Segment, Brevard County, FL. The purpose of this workshop is to provide stakeholders one last opportunity to discuss and comment on the project prior to sending the final report to Corps Headquarters, Washington D.C. This meeting will be held at the following time and place:

DATE: February 10,2010
TIME: 6:00 to 8:00 PM
PLACE: Radisson Suite Hotel Oceanfront
3101 North Highway AlA
Melbourne, FL 32903
(321)773-9260

Authorization for Federal participation in this study was provided by the Water Resources Development Acts of2000 and 2007. The Mid-Reach study length is 7.8 miles in length, and is located between Patrick Air Force Base in the north and the Brevard County South Reach shore
protection project to the south (see enclosed map). The Tentatively Recommended Plan consists of beach nourislunent, including a 10-foot extension of the mean high water line plus advanced nourisrunent to maintain that design fill volume in Reach I (R-119 to R-l 09), a 20-foot extension of the mean high water line plus advanced nourishment to maintain that design fill volume in Reaches 2 and 3 (R-109 to R-99), a 10-foot extension of the mean high water line plus advanced nourishment to maintain that design fill volume in Reaches 4 and 5 (R-99 to R-83), and a dune fill in Reach 6 (R-83-R-75.4).

The public workshop will feature a brief presentation on the project from 6:00-6:15 PM. Following the presentation, you will be invited to informally discuss the project with Corps and Brevard County staff from 6:15-8:00 PM. Federal and State natural resource agencies are also
being invited to attend.

If you would like additional information, please contact Mr. Paul Stodola at phone number (904) 232-3271, or email at Paul.E.Stodola@usace.army.mil.

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Here are the links to the GRR report and Appendix:

Read more about the proposed project HERE - (big pdf file explaining the EIS)

and the appendix is HERE - (even bigger file but has the background data)

Articles written on the subject: (Surfer Magazine)

http://surfermag.com/features/onlineexclusives/fl_bch-erosion/

This court case (Palm Beach wins dredging case) (Surfline.com)

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/environmental-news/palm-beach-county-chapter-winds-major-court-battle_25071/

You Are What You Fish! By Jim Harper - BBT Columnist + LINK

Dredge and Fill Projects - How to protect coastal structures and also the nearshore reef system. Read these articles by Terry Gibson

Link to your State reps to contact:

Ritch Workman

Mitch Needleman: Phone: 321.777.6150
mitchneedelm@earthlink.net

Bill Posey:
http://posey.house.gov/forms/writeyourrep/

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PROTEST ALERT!

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If you want design a "poo" costume, go for it! Same goes for wearing brown or grey.

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Support HB 897 Clean Oceans Act 2008

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Please attend this IMPORTANT event

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Miami2Maine

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Join her at Latham Island (Floridana Beach) on May 13th or at Whitley Bay Marina (Cocoa, FL) on May 14th.

Surfrider Sebastian Inlet Gets a Face Lift

If you haven't already noticed we have a new website!! If you have problems or find any errors, please let us know about it by dropping us an email at surfrider@cfl.rr.com.

Special thanks to Surf Guru Productions for their help!
www.surfguru.com

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