Beaches will be widened by more than 200 feet in parts of Pompano Beach and Fort Lauderdale, as Broward County's biggest beach restoration project in 10 years begins this fall.
A parade of dump trucks will carry sand from mines in Florida's interior to a five-mile stretch of coast from northern Fort Lauderdale to southern Pompano Beach, where years of erosion have narrowed some beaches to just a few yards.
The permit from the Army Corps of Engineers finally came through this summer after years of review.
"We feel elation," said Pio Ieraci, president of the Galt Mile Community Association.