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VOL. 29 NO. 12 FAX 561-624-9088 • E-MAIL canpga@yahoo.com DECEMBER 2019
i Wishing You Safe and Happy Holidays O
PGA POA Jottings
By Dawn Levinstein, Annual Meeting And Election For January
PGA POA In this issue you will find the biographies for each of Since I took up my allotted space in this issue with the
The Holiday Season the candidates to the PGA POA Board of Governors. The candidate information, you can be sure I will ramble on
I hope you all had a POA annual meeting will be held on Wednesday, January next month (hey, I may ramble but you’re reading this!).
wonderful Thanksgiving 22, 2020 at 6 p.m. at the PGA Resort. The meeting notice I plan to include some interesting information regarding
holiday! For those are not and election information will be mailed this month to bicycles, sharing the road (and paths); reminders of
aware, the City of Palm your ‘address of record’ with the POA. Five candidates common courtesy we learned at age 4; and share some
Beach Gardens holds an will be elected to the nine member board for a two year interesting laws I bet you weren’t aware of (for cars and
annual “Toy Drive” and term. bicycles).
we collect new unwrapped This meeting will be the 40th annual meeting of the Wishing you all the very best of the Holiday Season:
gifts at the POA office. POA since 2020 begins the 41st year since the POA was Remember, be nice to one another and if I forget to tell
Please make a child’s incorporated. The POA Board has something special you: Happy New Year!!!!
holiday special and drop off a new toy at the POA office for all attendees at the meeting but even if you can’t
between now and mid-December. We challenge you to personally attend, it is important to cast your ballot so See Board Of Governors Candidate Bios on page 2
out-do the POA/Lang staff – We love to give toys! please don’t wait.
Commissioner’s Update
Beaches Are Our Business opportunities, and sea turtle nesting habitat. sand will be placed above the mean high water line and planted
With projected construction between December and March, with native dune vegetation.
By Commissioner residents may notice changes in the sand color, odor or cloudy The county is working with the Town of Jupiter on easements
Hal Valeche water. Sand will be dredged from an offshore borrow area 70 needed for staging and access, while minimizing impacts to
As the only county in feet deep and about 1.6 miles northeast of the Jupiter Inlet. It traffic on A1A.
Florida with the word beach will appear dark during and immediately after placement, but Juno Beach Segment Three
in its name, maintaining the will lighten after a few weeks of sun exposure. Odors occur from This re-nourishment project, anticipated to commence
quality and sustainability of the decay of organic fauna in the sand, which will also subside in November/December 2020, will place approximately 1.3
this beautiful Palm Beach after a few weeks of exposure. million cubic yards of sand along 12,750 feet of beach in Juno
County natural resource is of Cloudy water is turbidity associated with hydraulic pumping Beach. FEMA will provide $17.2 million toward this $23
the highest importance. of sand on the beach and may persist throughout the duration million project, with the state and local partners splitting the
The Palm Beach County of pumping activities. Turbidity will subside after project remainder at $2.9 million each.
(PBC) Department of completion, but can periodically re-occur during heavy wave This particular project will leverage additional sand
Environmental Resources events. placement within the Jupiter/Carlin segment.
Management works diligently with federal, state and local Palm Beach County will place signs at public access locations Palm Beach County is grateful for the partnerships we have
partners to acquire the dollars needed to undertake beach within the project area that will include a web address for with Jupiter, Juno Beach and all of our coastal cities that help
re-nourishment and dune restoration projects. Bringing these project updates. us accomplish these ongoing beach improvements, so that all
projects to fruition can take a long time to get through all the A significant development in connection with this project of us can enjoy our magnificent beaches that are vital to our
permitting agencies, but I am pleased to tell you about three is the extension of the federal authorization until 2045. This is tourism, recreation and economy.
projects that are advancing toward construction. important in that it maintains the project’s eligibility for future Your input on areas of concern is very helpful. As always,
Jupiter/Carlin Segment One federal funds, reducing state and local costs. please contact me if I can be of assistance at (561) 355-2201,
The United States Army Corps of Engineers is funding South Jupiter Dune Segment Two or by email at hvaleche@pbcgov.org.
and will manage this federally qualified project to pump This FEMA funded
517,000 cubic yards of sand along 5,500 feet of beach from project will restore the dune
Jupiter Beach Park to the south end of Carlin Park, which along 1,200 feet of beach Be Part Of A Memorable
includes the shoreline in front of Ocean Trails, Jupiter immediately north of Jupiter
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restore material eroded by Hurricanes Irma and Dorian. anticipated in mid- to late-
The cost is approximately $8.4 million. The stabilized January, with construction
beach and dune will provide storm protection, recreational lasting up to three weeks. All Members Club
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