Posted on December 17, 2024
Ocean Inlet Park in Boynton Beach, often under water during excessive high tides, will become unusable unless the entire site is elevated to protect it from flooding. The warning was contained in a county grant application to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
The county is seeking $7.5 million from the state to raise the entire site west of A1A by 3 feet. It would be a matching grant, requiring the county to pay $7.5 million as well. The last major work at the park was in 1987.
The heavily visited 11.4-acre facility contains a parking area, shade structures, fishing areas with cleaning stations, a picnic pavilion, restroom facilities and a caretaker’s residence, all west of A1A. They will all have to be demolished and then rebuilt. The guarded beach is to the east of A1A. Without a usable parking area, it would be difficult for beachgoers to use the beach.
