Here’s the latest available info on Margate beach work by the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE).
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Margate Beach Drainage Update April 5 2018Contractors hired by the ACOE are still using sump basins, temporary outfall pipes, and automated pumps— to fix the flooding problem caused by the new dune system. During heavy rainfall, water is now trapped between the new dune and the bulkhead. This issue was caused by the dunes trapping water, and reducing natural percolation into the beach.
The ACOE is still working on the controversial stormwater management system, designed to collect rainwater runoff from the beach blocks between Fredericksburg and Vendome Ave.
It features collection inlets (drains) at each street-end bulkhead. These sewers will tie into a beach-wide network of five outfall pipes.
The City’s contractor is currently installing street-end collection inlets. The system is being constructed in stages starting at Vendome Ave, and moving north to Fredericksburg Avenue.
Five, new outfall pipes are being installed at Vendome, Nassau, Kenyon, Franklin and Douglas Avenues. Each outfall is oriented perpendicular to the shoreline and directs stormwater from the streets, to the ocean. Much of the piping will be buried beneath the dune and beach, but will be very visible near the shoreline.
Construction on the Vendome Ave ocean outfall pipe began in February and is expected to be completed this spring. Work will then proceed to the next outfall at Nassau Ave. ACOE anticipates the entire system to be completed by the spring of 2019.
When will beach construction pause for the summer? Oddly, the exact shut-down date is not being shared. We hear conflicting reports. Will work stop on June 28? Or will a work shut-down happen before Memorial Day? This lack of detail is problematic. We smell something fishy.
Beach work will resume after Labor Day.
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