Town Taking Steps To Explore Mitigation Wall

All five members of the Fort Myers Beach Town Council would like to put the construction of an island-wide mitigation wall on warp speed. After experiencing the destruction of Hurricane Ian three years ago, council members would like to put their town in the best possible position to defend against future storms.

On Monday, the council gave Town Manager Will McKannay direction to spend approximately $60,000 with J.R. Evans Engineering. Senior Vice President of Floodplain Management and Stormwater Design at J.R. Evans Elizabeth Fountain made another presentation to the town council Monday hoping to move the process to the next step which would be for her firm to put together a plan to build the wall, options on how the town might pay for it, and organize meetings with the community. If an agreement is reached with Fountain’s firm she says she could have a proposal to show the Town Council in about 6 weeks.

J.R. Evans is already under contract with London Bay to build a mitigation wall at the old Outrigger property. We’ve asked both Fountain and London bay CEO Mark Wilson if that wall translates to London Bay being able to build any differently on the beach. We have not heard back as of the publication of this story…

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