HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 1991-15RESOLUTION NO. 91 -15
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING APPROPRIA-
TIONS AND CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR
CANAVERAL SAND BYPASS FACILITY AND
EXTENSION OF SOUTH JETTY; PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, when the Corps of Engineers in the early 1960'S
proposed widening and deepening the Canaveral Harbor, their
studies recognized 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 a sand transfer facility be authorized to mitigate
the loss of littoral drift; and
WHEREAS, the U. S. Congress in 1962 authorized a sand
transfer facility to be constructed at the Canaveral Harbor as a
100% Federally funded project for mitigations; and
WHEREAS, withoi
south of the Port
deprived of annual
yards a year of net
further erosion of
condition;
it this vital facility, the beaches of Brevard
entrance, including Cape Canaveral, will be
nourishment of approximately 140,000 cubic
southern littoral sand drift which will cause
Cape Canaveral beaches that are in critical
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, Florida, as follows:
SECTION 1. The City of Cape Canaveral hereby requests that
no extension or preparation for construction of the extension of
the Port Canaveral Harbor Channel be allowed until such time as
the second part of this project, i.e., the sand transfer
facility, has appropriate funds allocated by the Administration
for it, and design plans are in place, to allow for the orderly
construction of these two elements at approximately the same
time.
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 the funding of this vital project.
SECTION 3. This Resolution shall take effect immediately
upon its adoption.
ADOPTED BY the City Council of the City of Cape Canaveral,
Florida, this 2nd day of April , 1991.
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