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After more than a year of work and months of delays, the beach renewal project at Fort Myers Beach was completed with around 1 million Kubik tomorrow Sand. This week, city officials announced that the sand excavator and pumps for the project are now over. The contract over 23 million US dollars for working with AHTNA Marine and Construction, which was approved in May last year, requested the work in six months. Due to equipment problems, water leaks in the dredging pipe and weather delays, the project lasted about seven months after the expected final date.

Chadd Chustz, manager of the city of Fort Myers Beach, said that the project's sand exchanger has now been completed. “The booster pumps, equipment and the pad from the excavator to the coast are removed via the old Junkanoo plot. All devices will be on the beach by September 3,” said Chustz. “The equipment will be moved from the Newton and Old Junkanoo real estate by September 10th.”

Will Mckannay, Manager of Town von Fort Myers Beach, wrote Chustz for his “leadership and commitment in order to complete the renection and the hurricane recreation project”. Mckannay said that the work of the beach renewal formation, which Chustsz contributed to “supervision and resistance from Fort Myers Beach, and I am incredibly proud of what we have achieved together.”

Chustz stated to the city's coastal engineer, Michael Poff, the engineering consultant who was the city, for her work on renenaing the beach and the previous sand transport and Berm projects.

“We could not have done it without the support of the city council and the community and a great coastal engineer,” said Chustz.

While the city has not yet published a final total of the project's costs because it expects to examine work, most costs are covered by agricultural, state and federal funds. According to the provisions of the agreement, the contractor stands for the schedule for the schedule. Chustz said the amount of the punishments was still being worked out.

“The city's expenses for the renourening project will be received as part of the budget, since the city takes advantage of the scholarship program of the Hurricane Recovery refund,” said Chustz. “The settlement of the project is carried out as soon as an examination of the project editions is completed.”

The city must also rate additional costs for environmental surveillance and construction management, he said.

The project was to be completed before February when the NistS season of the ShoreBird began. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) approved extensions for the city and Ahtna Marine and Contruction in order to renectize beach renewal by the critical wildlife area of ​​the Little Estero Island. The city approved the contractor, who continued his work in the middle of the island in front of the critical wildlife area until August deep into the nest season of the sea turtle. The turtle period laid more than 40 sea tortoises -nests, since the sandbag tube was laid around areas in which the breads of the sea turtle could possibly be. Turtle Time also recorded 314 false crawling of the nest turtles this year. The organization quoted the whistles as the reason for the record number of false crawling, which means that turtles ended up on the beach, but were turned away after meeting the pipe or had returned to the water in other ways.

The next face of the city's beach restoration project is to plant dunes. In June, the city approved a contract of 509,859 US dollars with the Earthbalance Corporation for more than 100,000 plantings in advance. The contract was signed this month and requested 52,582 grass plant panicum amarum, 46,429 dune sunflowers, 12,854 plantings of railway Vine Ipomoea Pescaprae and more than 24,000 plantings of sea pants.

The plantings are completed on the city's beach object at their beach access points and the ancestors together with the district ownership and private ownership of wherever private owners in the city to enable dune plantations.

The dune plantings should make the beach more resistant out of future storms by holding the sand together. A large part of the work for the approval of private property for the relief was done before the hurricane Ian. It is still time to register for the activities for dune plantations on its beach objects.

Those who sign for the relief may be approved free plantings on their property. “It is one of the best owners friends of beach management plans in the state of Florida,” said Chustz. “If real estate owners who are not registered want to receive plantations, please sign a relief from the city.” The form is located on the city's website at www.fmbgov.com/beach. A direct link to the relief form can be found at http://www.fmbgov.com/documentcenter/view/20037/tempory-east.

Chustz said the dune plantings should start in a few weeks.

“Personally, I couldn't be happier that we were able to complete the project and protect the Upland real estate and the infrastructure of additional protection before other big storms Fort Myers Beach met,” said Chustz.