In Brevard County, A Five-Month Beach Renourishment Project
• An $18 million beach renourishment project is getting underway in Brevard County.
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• An $18 million beach renourishment project is getting underway in Brevard County.
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• Not sure where you can celebrate July 4th? Find a local event here.
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• A million and a half cubic yards of muck.
That’s enough to pile 300 yards high on a one-acre football field, and that’s how much Brevard County leaders want to remove from Florida’s ailing Indian River Lagoon.
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• This spring’s stunning fish kill was the latest distressing bellwether for the Indian River Lagoon.
It came three years after die-offs of dolphins, pelicans and manatees. Their deaths remain a mystery.
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• Residents, scientists and business owners along the Indian River Lagoon are wondering whether it has reached a tipping point after this spring’s stunning fish kill, the worst in modern history.
The 156-mile lagoon stretches nearly half the length of Florida’s east coast and is considered the most biologically diverse estuary in North America.
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• Brevard County is using the lure of nostalgia to try to increase tourism to its beaches. People are going to be asked to share old vacation photos with certain hashtags such as #CocoaBeach #stillcool.
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• First it was coffee, now Lysol, mascara, and cooking oil. Those are some of the items washing up along Brevard County beaches. Also, a couple hundred dead fish—Atlantic Threadfin Herring.
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• The Coast Guard is trying to figure out where tar balls that washed up on Cocoa Beach came from. A sample is heading out this week for testing in Connecticut.
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• A wildlife trapper in Cocoa Beach caught a female iguana a couple of days ago and is now after its male companion on the loose.
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• Cocoa Beach residents could have to pay higher property taxes. As 90.7’s Renata Sago reports, the city commission will consider tonight a proposal to raise the tax rate by up to 20 percent.
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