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RESOLUTION NO. 2016- nn7 _ <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY <br />COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br />OPPOSING THE UNITED STATES ARMY CORPS OF <br />ENGINEERS PROPOSED PLAN TO DREDGE AND RELOCATE <br />BULK OCEAN SAND FROM MARTIN AND ST. LUCIE <br />COUNTIES TO MIAMI-DADE COUNTY. <br />WHEREAS, Indian River County is located on the Atlantic Coast of Florida; <br />WHEREAS, Indian River County has established a Beach Preservation Plan and a Beach <br />Preservation Fund to provide strategy and funding for beach restoration activities; and <br />WHEREAS, offshore beach compatible sand sources exist immediately offshore of Indian <br />River County and are critical to the County's beach management program; and <br />WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers has proposed a plan to dredge <br />and remove hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of bulk ocean sand from Martin and St. Lucie <br />Counties and deposit it on Miami -Dade County beaches, and <br />WHEREAS, The use of Martin and St. Lucie County offshore sand deposits to meet the <br />needs of larger Counties to the south would severely impact the local area supply of a non- <br />renewable resource, and <br />WHEREAS, If local ocean sand deposits are exhausted from Martin and St. Lucie <br />Counties, the demand pressure for beach compatible ocean sand could extend northward into <br />Indian River County. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of <br />Indian River County, Florida opposes the dredging and removal of bulk ocean sand from Martin <br />and St. Lucie Counties to Miami -Dade County, and urges the United State Army Corps of <br />Engineers to consider use of upland and Bahamian sand sources for Miami -Dade erosion control <br />projects. <br />THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION was offered by Commissioner n°R ",an and <br />seconded by Commissioner Flescher and, being put to a vote was as follows: <br />Chairman, Bob Solari AYE <br />Vice Chairman, Joseph E. Flescher AYE <br />Commissioner Wesley S. Davis AYE <br />Commissioner Tim Zorc AYF <br />Commissioner Peter D. O'Bryan AYE <br />The Chairman thereupon declared the resolution duly passed and adopted this 12th day <br />Of 3An1]A=y 2016. <br />114 <br />