Beach Management Program

The Brevard County Beach Management Program administers several beach restoration projects that place beach quality sand and native dune vegetation along the Atlantic shoreline to protect upland property and maintain healthy beaches to be enjoyed by residents, tourists and wildlife.

Because healthy beaches are essential to Brevard’s tourism based economy, the Tourist Development Council has dedicated a portion of the bed tax (collected from hotels and motels) to fund the local cost share of most County beach management projects.

In addition to traditional beach projects, Brevard County continues to seek innovative technologies which may improve the function or cost effectiveness of future beach restoration projects.

Current Beach Project Updates

There are four segments of shoreline along the Brevard County coastline between Jetty Park and Sebastian Inlet with County beach and dune restoration projects. The area within the boundaries of Patrick Space Force base is federal and does not fall within any of the County projects.

The US Army Corps of Engineers manages the Federal Shore Protection Project, and Brevard County is the local sponsor.  The Federal Project encompasses three sections of shoreline, the North Reach, which lies between the Port Canaveral Jetty and the northern border of Patrick Space Force Base, the Mid Reach, which begins at the southern border of Patrick Space Force Base and extends south to Flug Avenue, Indialantic, and the South Reach, that begins at Flug Avenue, Indialantic and extends south to Spessard Holland Park North.

In response to Hurricane Ian and Tropical Storm Nicole restoration work in the Mid Reach and South Reach, as well as the South Beaches, began in 2023-24 and is restarting in November 2024 after the summer sea turtle nesting season.

The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is managing the Mid Reach and South Reach projects, and their contractor Dutra Group, is stockpiling sand upon the beach between Spessard Holland North and South Parks.  The two parks will generally remain open during this work but the beach area between them will be closed, and during November and December Spessard Holland North will be closed at times.  Spessard Holland South will always remain open.  Sand stockpiled here will be moved by truck up highway A1A to the Mid Reach.  

Mid Reach sand placement will begin between at Flug Avenue and Howard Futch Paradise Beach Park in December 2024.  Paradise Beach Park will be closed for limited portions of this time. Later in the winter/spring work will proceed northward to reach the Pineda Causeway by April 30, 2025.  Brevard County will install sea oats and similar plants throughout the Mid Reach on the newly constructed dune slope in March/April 2025. The South Reach, between Spessard Holland Park and Flug Avenue , will be nourished between December 2024 and April 2025.  Work will generally proceed from south to north.  Mid Reach and South Reach progress maps can be seen here:  https://olsen-associates.com/brevardbeach/ 

The North Reach, between Jetty Park and Patrick Space Force Base is expected to be nourished between December 2024 and April 30 2025.  Work is being done in combination with the Canaveral Harbor Sand Bypass. Additional information can be found here: www.portcanaveral.com/About/Environmental-Stewardship/Sand-Bypass-Project 

The South Beaches is the southern segment of Brevard County’s shoreline and extends south from Spessard Holland Park to Sebastian Inlet. Brevard County completed South Beaches sand placement in March 2024.  Between January 2025 and March 2025, Brevard County will install sea oats and similar plants throughout the South Beaches along the sandy dune slope constructed last year.

Progress updates will continue to be posted here regularly while the project is still underway.