The 2.4-mile length of the Sunny Isles segment was added to the Dade County Beach Erosion Control and Hurricane Protection Project project in 1985. Construction of Sunny Isles Beach took place between 1987 and 1988, but the 2017 beach renourishment project was the first truck haul for this segment.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District awarded a contract on Jan 26 to Eastman Aggregate Enterprises, LLC of Lake Worth, Florida, for $14,040,069.05, for the Sunny Isles Beach shoreline renourishment project, part of the Miami-Dade County Beach Erosion Control and Hurricane Protection Project.
Eastman Aggregate will renourish eroded shoreline in Sunny Isles Beach, using trucks to haul beach-quality sand from an upland sand mine. The project is 100 percent federally funded via the Flood Control and Coastal Emergency Act (Public Law 84-99) and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123).
The contractor will place an estimated 280,000 cubic yards of beach-quality sand on approximately 2.3 miles of eroded shoreline in Sunny Isles Beach, to protect the shoreline during seasonal storms as well as tropical storms and hurricanes.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District awarded a contract on August 9, 2017 to Eastman Aggregate Enterprises, LLC of Lake Worth, Florida, for $8,605,564.33, for the Sunny Isles Beach shoreline renourishment project, part of the Miami-Dade County Beach Erosion Control and Hurricane Protection Project. Eastman Aggregate renourished two critically eroded areas of shoreline in Sunny Isles Beach with 140,000 cubic yards of beach-quality sand truck-hauled from an upland sand mine. A public meeting was held on August 31, 2017.