Volusia County, in association with the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA), Shell USA, Inc. (Shell) and OUC—The Reliable One, will deploy 350 tons of concrete structures and 30 tons of granite at Volusia County’s newly permitted reef site approximately 2.75 miles offshore of Lighthouse Point Park on Saturday, June 18.
Because of the reef site’s proximity to shore, the deployment offers the opportunity to be viewed by recreational boaters. While the barge transporting the material should be viewable from shore, the deployment from the barge will be hard to see with the naked eye.
OUC donated concrete structures from a new net-zero utility campus under construction in St. Cloud (Osceola County), staging site, and transportation of the materials, Shell donated the granite, and CCA donated the $20,000 to Volusia County to pay for the deployment of the materials by the county’s artificial reef contractor McCulley Marine Services.
The exact departure time of the barge transporting the material out of Ponce Inlet will be released via the County of Volusia Facebook page closer to the day of deployment. Stay tuned.
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