Bay County OK’s Mexico Beach renourishment project

Bay County (FL) commissioners have just awarded a $27 million Mexico Beach renourishment project to Weeks Marine.

The Mexico Beach Re-nourishment and Dune Restoration is first and foremost a shore protection project intended to provide critical storm protection for public and private infrastructure, structures, and property upland of the beach.

Nearly one million cubic yards of sand will be placed with this first full-scale beach restoration project for the Mexico Beach shoreline.

The work consists of a dune-only component on the west end of the beach and then transitions to a dune and beach berm around 34th street all the way to the Gulf County line. The beach berm will be extended approximately 175 feet from the seaward toe of the proposed dune.

The project is expected to take approximately 3 months, with an anticipated completion by May 1st, 2025.; however, construction may move faster or slower.