Our shoreline is eroding at an alarming rate! Fort
Lauderdale was next in line to undergo a critical beach renourishment program,
but now Broward County is considering delaying the program.
The Fort Lauderdale City Commissioners need your help to
make sure that Fort Lauderdale is not pushed to the back of the line. Let
Broward County know that you oppose the proposed Port Everglades Sand Bypass
Project and that you want them to implement the Segment II Beach Renourishment
Project as promised.
The Sand Bypass Project will benefit Hollywood at the
expense of Fort Lauderdale residents, visitors, and businesses. There are
unresolved concerns that the project will jeopardize public safety and have
significant repercussions for our local tourism, boating, and fishing
industries.
What Can You Do?
Call or e-mail your County Commissioner today (contact
information can be found below) and urge them to do the right thing and protect
our beaches here in Fort Lauderdale! Let them know that you don't want to wait
any longer and that you won't stand by as they put your community and its most
vital industries in harm's way.
We have prepared the following letter that you can copy
and paste into your e-mail message:
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Dear Broward County
Commission:
I support the Fort Lauderdale City
Commission's position strongly opposing the Port Everglades Entrance Sand Bypass
Project.
I urge the Broward County Commission to
immediately suspend all work and activities related to this project. I further
urge the County Commission to fulfill its commitment to the City of Fort
Lauderdale by completing the Segment II Beach Renourishment
project.
Broward County promised that when Hollywood
Beach was finished, the renourishment of Fort Lauderdale Beach would begin. The
County would be breaking its promise if it moves forward with the Sand Bypass
Project.
This initiative will not help Fort
Lauderdale Beach and will only succeed in putting even more sand on the recently
renourished Hollywood Beach at the expense of Fort Lauderdale residents,
visitors and businesses. The project itself will change the structural
integrity of surrounding buildings. In addition, blasting and the disruptive
and noisy construction will have significant repercussions for our local
tourism, boating and fishing industries.
Although the Hollywood Beach project was
completed three years ago, the renourishment of Fort Lauderdale Beach has still
not begun. In the meantime, Fort Lauderdale Beach continues to lose sand at an
alarming rate.
Each day the City waits, a portion of our
beach loses close to 2,000 cubic feet of sand, or enough sand to fill five dump
trucks each day. Please don't make us wait any longer. Don't put our community
or its most vital industries at risk. Please do what you promised and renourish
our beach now.
Sincerely,
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