{"id":230419,"date":"2026-04-13T23:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230419\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:09:08","slug":"15m-beach-restoration-begins-in-martin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230419\/","title":{"rendered":"$15M beach restoration begins in Martin County"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Beaches are closing in our area due to severe erosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From the Palm Beaches to the Treasure Coast, projects are underway to restore them.<\/p>\n

WATCH: Martin County beach hasn’t been restored in 8 years <\/p>\n

$15M beach restoration begins in Martin County<\/p>\n

In Martin County, equipment is on Jensen Beach for a major shore protection project that started on Monday. <\/p>\n

John Somma, from Port St. Lucie, came to Jensen Beach to see the work for himself. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s just interesting to watch it,\u201d said Somma. \u201cWe need to bring our beaches back. This erosion really took them far back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Palm Beach<\/p>\n

Beach day ruined: Popular Palm Beach access points closed due to erosion<\/p>\n

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Part of the beach is closed for the $15 million federally funded shore protection project.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will work in increments along a four-mile stretch, dumping sand from the St. Lucie County line to Stuart Beach.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t look that bad, but it’s been eight years since we’ve restored this beach,\u201d said Jessica Garland, the coastal program manager for Martin County. \u201dWe have lost a lot of sand over eight years.”<\/p>\n

Up in Fort Pierce, WPTV has tracked the ongoing restoration project at Jetty Park<\/a> for months.<\/p>\n

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Palm Beach County<\/p>\n

‘It looks good’: Beaches are seeing fresh sand from renourishment projects<\/p>\n

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Video from mid-March shows what the progress looks like now, with work continuing a few more weeks.<\/p>\n

Back in Martin County, Garland said the project will wrap up May 1, protecting not just the sand, but wildlife and infrastructure, too.<\/p>\n

“If we don’t do it, it will be 10 times worse than if we did do it,” said Garland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Beaches are closing in our area due to severe erosion. From the Palm Beaches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3885,28,1160,171,173,172,179,12758],"class_list":{"0":"post-230419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-beach-erosion","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-martin-county","11":"tag-port-st-lucie","12":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","13":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","14":"tag-treasure-coast","15":"tag-wptv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}