The Apollo Beach community organization ABWIG, which was formed to raise money for canal dredging in the community, secured an agreement with Hillsborough County for funding to help with dredging and with a beach renourishment project currently ongoing at the Apollo Beach Nature Park. The park has been closed for renovation and for the construction of a breakwater designed to reduce erosion and silting of channels. Mitch Traphagen photo.
At the April 15 Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners meeting, commissioners voted to approve a license agreement between the county and Apollo Beach Waterway Improvement Group, better known as ABWIG.
The agreement allows for county funding of up to $50,000 for channel dredging and a beach renourishment project at the Apollo Beach Nature Park, which has been closed for renovation and for the creation of a breakwater to help prevent both erosion and sediment refilling the channels into the community.
ABWIG thanked all of the commissioners but singled out Commissioner Sandra Murman as being instrumental in securing the agreement, after having met with ABWIG volunteers and organizers numerous times over the past few years.
According to ABWIG, the agreement brings them another step closer to “the Dig” and to bring a beach back to Apollo Beach.
For more information visit www.abwig.org.
