chargeable to the publicly owned frontage. In 1948 local interests 

 placed about 2,000,000 cubic yards of sand substantially in accord- 

 ance with the project plan, but no contribution has been made for 

 the Federal share of the costs thereof. The widened beach was to be 

 maintained by periodic replenishment of the material in the stock- 

 piles at an estimated rate not in excess of 200,000 cubic yards 

 emnual ly • 



The district and division engineers and the Beach Erosion Board 

 concluded that the most practicable plan of shore protection consists 

 of artificial placement of a protective and recreational beach and 

 construction of a sand-transfer plant at Lake Worth Inlet. Periodic 

 nourishment by artificial placement of material from Lake Worth would 

 be required in addition to operation of the sand-transfer plant to 

 provide for stability of the protective beach. They found that this 

 plan of protection was economically justified. They therefore further 

 concluded that the public interest associated with protection of public 

 lands and improvements, and restoration and stabilization of public 

 beach areas was sufficient to warrant adoption of a project authorizing 

 Federal participation in the cost of protecting the shore of Palm Beach 

 Island, the share of the expense thereof to be borne by the United 

 States being one-third of the costs of the work applicable to publicly 

 owned shores, and one-third of the costs adjusted by the ratio of 

 public to total benefits for those privately owned shores where public 

 benefits arise, in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 826, 

 84th Congress. In addition benefits to the Federal navigation project 

 for Lake Worth Inlet (Palm Beach Harbor) warrant Federal aid in the 

 costs of constructing and operating a sand -transfer plant at that inlet, 

 based on the relative benefits to be anticipated from the sand-transfer 

 operation compared to the total nourishment operation. 



The district and division engineers and the Beach Erosion Board 

 recommended modification of the existing project for Palm Beach, Florida, 

 authorized by the River and Harbor Act approved May 17, 1950, to author- 

 ize Federal participation in the costs of a plan for protection of the 

 shore of Palm Beach Island, comprising restoration of a protective beach 

 with berm elevation of 10 feet above mean low water, to a general width 

 of 150 feet at mean high water from Lake Worth Inlet to a point about 

 1,000 feet south of Southern Boulevard extended, thence with a general 

 width of 100 feet to South Lake Worth Inlet, construction and operation 

 of a sand-transfer plant at Lake Worth Inlet, and additional periodic 

 nourishment from Lake Worth or other suitable source. Federal assistance 

 would entail contribution of funds in amount of 4.7 percent of the 

 initial construction costs of the beach restoration and appurtenant 

 drainage work, and of the expenditures for periodic nourishment from 

 Lake Worth for a period of 10 years from the year of the initial place- 

 ment, plus 19.3 percent of the expenditures for construction, and for 

 operation, maintenance and current replacements of parts of the sand- 

 transfer plant for the same period. Continuation of Federal partici- 

 pation after the initial 10-year period will be subject to review of 

 benefits, methods and techniques. The Chief of Engineers concurred in the 

 views and recommendations of the Beach Erosion Board. 



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