Posted on October 7, 2024
DELRAY BEACH — The Florida Department of Environmental Protection announced in September that Delray Beach is expected to receive its full funding request of $9.7 million, which will go toward the city’s beach nourishment project.
The city did not undergo any damage from Hurricane Helene, which made landfall last week in the Big Bend area as a Category 4 storm, City Manager Terrence Moore said.
The city is in line to receive $28.5 million in total for its beach nourishment project. The FDEP funds will supplement $3.8 million previously committed by the state for the project, $11.16 million from the federal government and $3.78 million from Palm Beach County.
“Recommendations for formal acceptance and authorization by the City Commission are likewise anticipated during the 2025 state legislative budget process,” City Manager Terrence Moore said regarding the funds in his Sept. 13 newsletter.
Delray Beach is currently ranked third on the annual list of beach and inlet projects that have applied for state funding, Director of Public Works Missie Barletto said. But it will rise to No. 1 once the federal funding agreement, which will come from the United States Army Corps of Engineers, is official, she said.
Specific design features of the project have not been released, Moore said.
“Now that the funding has been announced, we will proceed with that work,” he said. “Once we get to that place, we’ll be able to define and delineate more precisely what the specific features of the project will entail.”
Work on the project is expected to begin in the winter 2025-26.
