Sebastian Inlet dredging set for March

ATL Diversified, Inc., (ATL) has completed about 80 percent of the truck hauling portion of Sebastian Inlet District’s current beach placement project, with the dredging portion of the project slated to begin in early March. 

ATL is placing approximately 80,000 cubic yards of material on part of a 2.5-mile stretch of beach south of Sebastian Inlet. 

The company will then begin dredging approximately 215,000 cubic yards of beach-compatible sand from a designated sand trap and adjacent navigation channel located within Sebastian Inlet.

Sand is set to be placed on the downdrift beaches between the state park’s day use beach on the south side of the inlet and McLarty Treasure Museum. 

According to the Sebastian Inlet District, the project is necessary for the them “to meet its requirement to bypass sand that migrates into the inlet system to downdrift beaches per the Florida Beach & Shore Preservation Act.”