Palm Beach officials say state authorities told them this week they expect to issue an environmental permit for Riviera Beach to establish mooring fields in the Lake Worth Lagoon.
The permit is likely to be approved within two weeks, Palm Beach was told by officials within the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which issues the permits.
That’s unwelcome news for Palm Beach, which has strongly objected to Riveria Beach’s proposal to locate one of three mooring fields south of the Lake Worth Inlet, around 500 feet from Palm Beach’s North End shoreline. The other two fields would be located north of the inlet…