HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 1990-68RESOLUTION NO. 90 -68
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING APPROPRI-
ATIONS AND CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR
CANAVERAL HARBOR SAND TRANSFER AND
BEACH RESTORATION PROJECT TO SOUTH
JETTY; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Corps of Engineers in the early 1960's proposed
widening and deepening the Canaveral Harbor, their studies recog-
nized that the jetties and the Port inlet would impede the
Natural Littoral drift of sand along Brevard Beaches; and
WHEREAS, the Corps of Engineers proposed to the U.S.
Congress that sand transfer be authorized to mitigate the afore-
mentioned loss of of Littoral drift; and
WHEREAS, the U.S. Congress in 1962 authorized a sand
transfer at the Canaveral Harbor as a 100% federally funded
project for mitigations; and
WHEREAS, the Corps of Engineers has the capability to
proceed forthwith with sand transfer through the most economical
methods, subject to the Congress of the United States providing
the necessary appropriations; and
WHEREAS, without the sand transfer to the beaches of Brevard
south of the Port entrance, including Cape Canaveral, will be
deprived of further erosion of Cape Canaveral beaches that are in
critical condition;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, Florida as follows:
SECTION 1. That our Governor, Lawton Chiles, and our
Congressional Delegation, namely Honorable Connie Mack, Honorable
Jim Bacchus, Honorable Winston "Bud" Gardner and Honorable Dixie
Sansom, pursue the funding of this project with Federal appropri-
ations of the aforementioned Canaveral Sand Transfer and Beach
Restoration Project.
SECTION 2. That the Secretary of the Army and the Congress
of the United States continue to fulfill the obligation that was
made in 1962 by authorizing this vital project in funding this
project.
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SECTION 3. This Resolution shall take effect immediately
upon its adoption.
ADOPTED BY the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, this 4th day of December , 1990.
City Attorney
NAME
YES
NO
KEDZIERSKI
PORTER
X
RANDELS
X
SALAMONE
THURM
X
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