Lovers Key Summary & Conclusions

• Due to the combined effects of Hurricane Charley and other storms, some sand from the project over-washed across the island and migrated alongshore to the adjacent ebb shoal.  Post-construction surveys show more sand removed from the borrow area than measured on the beach. The project area has significantly more sand volume and beach width than the pre-construction conditions of the beach.  Despite the impacts of the active hurricane season, the fill volume and beach widths will provide storm protection and recreational benefits for years to come.

• There are some problems in the post-construction survey, such as monument offsets and offshore inconsistency, which caused some discrepencies between the reported CP&E and BSRC shoreline change results.
• The BSRC calculated pre to post construction volume change to 800 feet offshore rather than the depth of -8 feet (NGVD).  The resulting value is 582,498 cy compared to 533,385 cy reported by CP&E.