USACE Beach Renourishment Miami Beach Hotspots Vegetation Assessments

WGI provided environmental services on this U.S. Army Corps of Engineers beach renourishment project. The project involved placing approximately 305,000 cubic yards of sand over a 16-acre area of critically eroded shoreline in ‘hotspots’ along the beaches of State Road A1A throughout Miami Beach. Because the sand was hauled from an upland source and had to be transported across the dunes to the beach, the project necessitated some temporary damage to dunes and coastal vegetation to provide beach access. WGI conducted pre- and post-construction dune vegetation and tree inventories to assess impacts to the access areas, prepared a restoration plan with native coastal plant species to restore the affected areas to pre-construction conditions, and verified the restoration was satisfactory.