Maintenance Dredging Fort Pierce Harbor 28-Foot and 30-Foot Projects and Shore Protection Project Fort Pierce Beach Renourishment 2025, St. Lucie County, Florida

Project work includes maintenance dredging within Fort Pierce Harbor. Beach compatible material will be placed into the Fort Pierce Beach project area identified below, while all non-beach compatible material will be placed into the Fort Pierce Ocean Dredge Material Disposal Site (ODMDS), located five nautical miles southeast of the Fort Pierce Harbor entrance.

Project work also includes construction of a beach berm along approximately 7,000 feet of shoreline immediately south of Fort Pierce Inlet between Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) Range Monuments R-34 and T-41. Remaining beach compatible sand for the Fort Pierce Beach portion of the project will be dredged from Capron Shoal, located approximately four miles southeast of the project site. Work on the beach must be completed by May 15 between R-37 and T-41 and by May 30 between R-34 to R-37.

Due to the extensive hardbottom areas located offshore of the fill area, offshore pipeline access to the beach site is prohibited. Offloading to the beach will be done inside Fort Pierce Inlet just north of the South Jetty. A staging area and beach access to the beach placement area is located at the end of Seaway Drive and near the south jetty offloading area.

Work also includes but is not limited to environmental species monitoring, sea turtle trawl sweeping (hopper dredges only), turbidity monitoring, beach tilling, munitions and explosives of concern construction support (offshore dredging only), and vibration control and monitoring.The project will have an estimated period of performance of 210 calendar days after receipt of the Notice to Proceed (NTP).

The stated time is inclusive of 60 calendar days to commence work and will be divided into base work and one option as follows:Base (including commencement and demobilization): 195 calendar days.Option A: 15 calendar days.Option A work consists of dredging 100,000 cubic yards of material from the Capron Shoal with placement on the beach between R-39A and R-41.

Option A work also includes screening, beach tilling, remediation of noncompliant material, transportation and disposal of noncompliant material, vibration controls and monitoring, sea turtle non-capture trawl sweeping and stand by time.