is not beach quality and will be managed in 4 upland sites. is beach quality and will be returned to an ocean beach and 785,000 cyds. of sediment to be maintenance dredged from 15 miles of waterway channel over the next 50 years. To date this planning effort for the Okeechobee Waterway has identified approximately 1 million cyds. of beach quality materials will be offloaded from existing sites in the vicinity of ocean inlets and transported to ocean beaches thereby returning this sediment to the coastal system. These sediments will be temporarily stored in 53 upland containment sites where the material will be selectively excavated and used beneficially. of sediment contains levels of silt that preclude this material from being placed on the beach. Of this dredging volume, 12 million cubic yards of sand has been identified as potentially beach quality material and 8 permanent beach placement areas have been identified and designed for these materials. To date this planning effort for the Intracoastal Waterway has identified approximately 23 million cubic yards (cyds.) of sediment to be maintenance dredged from 398 miles of waterway channel over the next fifty years. When fully implemented this program will provide a permanent infrastructure of management facilities for all maintenance material dredged from the 398 miles of Intracoastal Waterway channel connecting Fernandina Harbor in Nassau County with Miami Harbor in Miami-Dade County and for 15 miles of the Okeechobee Waterway from its confluence with the Intracoastal Waterway to the first navigation lock. In response to this situation, the Florida Inland Navigation District (District) initiated in 1986 a program of long-range dredged material management. This has resulted from the nature of dredging, the requirements of handling and storing dredged material, and the environmentally sensitive and rapidly developing areas in which these operations are performed. The identification and permitting of suitable dredged material management areas for the Atlantic Intracoastal and Okeechobee Waterways in Florida has become increasingly difficult.
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