Flagler County beaches suffered severe erosion from recent storms, exposing the vulnerability of local dunes and coastal infrastructure, as a FlaglerLive survey of the shoreline illustrates in a special report. Although emergency dunes and past renourishment projects successfully protected State Road A1A, securing permanent funding remains difficult due to budgetary constraints and political disagreement. Officials must navigate fiscal hurdles and now the added challenge of Amendment 3’s erosion of the local tax base to maintain essential shoreline defenses against rising seas.
