Cindi Peters remembers the fight to first get beach renourishment approved as a Belleair Beach City Council member.
It was the early 1990s. Belleair Beach hadn’t received enough sand to add cushioning between homes and the Gulf of Mexico. Peters’ home had flooded a few times, leaving her to pick up the pieces after each storm.
She said her home hadn’t flooded again after Pinellas regularly replenished sand on its beaches. Until last year…