What is a Best Restored Beach?
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For the last 40 years, beach restoration has been the preferred method of
shore protection in coastal communities on the east, west and Gulf coasts.
Beach restoration is the process of placing beach-quality sand on eroding
beaches to reverse or offset the effects of erosion.
The three main reasons for restoration are:
* Storm protection A wide sandy beach helps separate storm waves from
upland structures and infrastructure
* Habitat restoration Numerous species rely on wide, healthy beaches
as a place to live, feed and nest
* Recreation Americas beaches have twice as many visitors annually as
all of Americas national parks combined. Every year, there are over 2
billion visitors to Americas beaches. In 2007, beaches contributed $322
billion to the Americas economy. More importantly, for every dollar the
federal government spends on beach nourishment, it gets $320 back in tax
revenues.
Coastal communities have restored more than 370 beaches in the United
States, including such iconic coastlines as Miami Beach, Coney Island and
Southern Californias Venice Beach.
To meet submission deadlines, all nominations must be sent electronically to
[email protected] by April 8, 2011. The nomination text must be in
MS Word, WordPerfect, or PDF, and photos must be saved in JPEG or TIF
formats. A nomination checklist is available here.
Nomination packages must contain the following:
1. Nominators contact information (name, address, phone, fax, email).
2. The name and contact information for the nominees public relations
specialist who will be coordinating with the media for press releases, etc.
3. Project description (whether or not it is a federal project, sponsors,
designers, engineers, location, length, dates and volumes of nourishment
material for each nourishment episode and dates of nourishments, obstacles
overcome, success of project).
4. At least one professional quality color photograph of restored beach with
release (tourist development councils and local resorts are good sources for
photos of this quality).
5. Project locator map.
6. Before and after restoration photographs.
7. A statement about why you consider this beach a best restored beach in
the United States.
Winners will be notified in advance. ASBPA will prepare press releases to
notify the media of the winner. Winners must agree to provide press releases
to their local media and arrange for a representative to be present at the
2012 ASBPA Summit in Washington D.C. to accept the award.
All materials submitted will become property of the American Shore and Beach
Preservation Association and will not be returned. A nomination from 2010
that was not chosen can be carried over to 2011.
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