Driving along the Longboat Pass Bridge, the dredge equipment in the Longboat Pass channel is hard to miss. The equipment indicates the town’s Gulfside Road beach nourishment project is underway.
Interim Public Works Director Charlie Mopps said he hopes the Gulfside Road beach nourishment project will wrap up by the end of January and, if so, is confident that much of the project — if not all — will be reimbursed.
The beach nourishment project will fill 80,000 cubic yards of sand onto the erosive Gulfside Road beach using sand dredged from the Longboat Pass channel…