Dredge Stuyvesant pumping sand Melbourne Beach, FL

Beach Nourishment

The Dutra Group’s Hopper Dredge Stuyvesant is dredging material from a designated borrow area offshore of Cape Canaveral.

Photo courtesy of Dutra Group

This material is transited to Melbourne Beach where it is offloaded through approximately 4,500’ of subline. The material is being used to build a stockpile approximately 26’ high, that has a max capacity of 160,000 CY, which will then be loaded onto road dump trucks and transported to multiple staging areas in the “Mid-Reach.”

Once the material is dumped at these staging areas, it is reloaded into offroad trucks and transited down the beach where it is graded to template.

This is a multi-season project that will be placing material on the beaches of Melbourne Beach, Satellite Beach, Indialantic, and Indian Harbor Beach.