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Jodie Wagner Palm Beach Daily News After back-to-back hurricanes depleted the sand at Phipps Ocean Park, the town has begun a months-long project to replace it. As part of a $9 million beach renourishment project that mirrors one completed at Midtown Beach last May, approximately 400,000 cubic yards of sand will be dredged offshore and then placed along 1.6 miles of beach from the northern tip of Phipps Ocean Park southward to R.G. Kreusler Park near the Lake Worth Pier.  The new sand will replace losses from Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Irma the following year. The project a...

Current and former UD students to begin work with federal government

On December 18, 2020, the Fourth District Court of Appeal published 11 Lagunita, LLC v. California Coastal Commission, __ Cal.App.5th __ (2020) (Case No. G058436), a case involving a Coastal Development Permit issued by the California Coastal Commission in 2015 for the reinforcement of an existing seawall that was installed years earlier, before the Coastal Act, at the base of a 1950’s era Laguna Beach home. Because seawalls have negative effects on beaches and can impact public access, the Commission intended to allow the seawall to remain and be repaired only to protect the existing stru...