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QE 4.0 PROJECT COSTS 4.1 PROJECT DESCRIPTION The BPP shore protection project initiatives are intended to provide protection to the barrier island shoreline from moderate storm damage, and to mitigate the historical adverse effects of the inlet on the downdrift oceanfront properties. The planning initiatives identified in the BPF' revealed sand placement activities in all or part of five (5) of the eight (8) planning sectors which encompass the County's 22 -mile shoreline. A secondary goal which will be derived frorn providing storm damage protection and reinstatement of sand bypassing along the Indian River County shoreline is recreational enhancement of the beach. The principal means of maintaining the island's beaches which is economically and environmQntally feasible is beach restoration and subscquent renourishment. Beach restoration involves identifying a suitable source of borrow sand, typically found offshore of the project shoreline, and transferring that sand to the shoreline to create an additional beach width and height at an elevation suitable to protect the upland property and infrastructure from a moderate to severe storm event. Material pumped to shore from conventional dredging equipment is placed and graded above the waterline at construction, with a seaward slope of the fill established by earthmnvinrg equipment to tie Into, or 'toe' in to the pre -construction beach at some elevation below the practical limits of equipment movement. Those segments of the artificially created brach above the slope break, or berm, are graded to a final elevation and occasionally planted with dune vegetation at the landward limits of the new berm.