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Brevard County is installing honeycomb-shaped Reef Arches to combat shoreline erosion along the A. Max Brewer Memorial Parkway.
This new $135,000 effort adds to a larger $4.2 million project that previously installed concrete pyramids and other measures.
The arches are designed to break up waves that were bypassing the existing erosion control structures.
First, the rocks along the bridge weren't enough. Then Brevard embarked on a more than $4 million project that installed large concrete pyramids to protect Parrish Park along A. Max Brewer Memorial Parkway in Titusville. They weren't quite enough, either.
Now, the county is putting in honeycomb-shaped arches to help ease the erosion east of the bridge’s rock revetment. Southeast winds were causing waves to bypass