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City of Sunny Isles Objectives, Needs and Goals Olin Hydrographic’s principal owners have been working on engineering beach erosion hot spots and surveying projects on the beaches of Sunny Isles since 1997. The City of Sunny Isles requires a beach management plan to protect its ocean front asset. These plans are a requirement for the City of Sunny Isles to seek federal funds to help maintain their beaches. Included in the plans are beach monitoring surveys, which are performed twice per year, once in the spring prior to hurricane season and once in the winter. These surveys capture the current, existing conditions of the beach and are compared to previous surveys to help analyze the beach’s performance in terms of erosion and accretion, and to plan and predict maintenance and re-nourishment events. In the case of a storm event where significant loss of beach occurs, these surveys can be used to help secure emergency funding for restoration. Olin Hydrographic Solutions, Inc. understands the critically important need to maintain and mitigate against beach erosion along Florida’s Riviera. Like many municipalities on the east coast of Florida, the City of Sunny Isles is faced with an affordable sand source dilemma for the critical future renourishment projects that will be needed in the short term to protect against major storm events and hurricanes. With the costs of offshore sand source projects soaring, more municipalities are turning towards upland sources. Olin Hydrographic is uniquely qualified to assist the City with its endeavors in this regard. OHS played a critical role in the implementation of the largest upland sand source truck haul project in the state in Indian River County. OHS performed all of the surveying for the entire project including pre construction beach profiles of the entire county and volume estimates to time sensitive daily pre/ post storm volume calculations to final project As builts. OHS also served as the sand mine engineer which analyzed the available sediment at numerous mines and personally ensured each truckload of fill material met the strict DEP guidelines. Many feel the county is not doing enough to protect the beaches in north Miami. Unfortunately several truck haul projects have been implemented recently in Miami Dade County using inferior sand contaminated with construction debris, glass, and nails. OHS was recently contracted by Morgan and Ecklund to oversee the beach cleanup project and ensure all of the inferior sand was removed and mitigated. The added costs and bad press associated with mitigating a failed project demonstrate the need to use qualified professionals in performing the work. The actual project surveyor spend the most time on the beach and should be considered a critical link to the QA/QC process, surveying the stockpiled sand before it even leaves the mines. Also, it is imperative that the county projects are coordinated so that efforts are not duplicated. OHS has a great working relationship with DERM and the county staff currently involved in protecting Dade County’s Beaches. The substantial investment into prestigious beach-front property, tourism from around the globe and high net worth residents requires pristine usable beaches through-out the year. Sound