Save Flagler's Beach

How Much is Flagler’s Beach Worth to You?

Beaches are valuable assets to coastal communities. They create a host of benefits from a socio-economic standpoint. The beach is acknowledged to be our county’s major attraction.

• A big billboard on I-95 announces the Flagler Beach Exit as “The closest exit to the beach.”
• The Tourism Development Council clearly understands the importance of the beach to our tourism industry. A portion of each bed tax dollar is set aside for our beaches in Flagler County.
• Sixty-seven percent of tourists exiting I-95 are on their way to the beach.*
• And what do people coming to the beach also do? They eat at our restaurants, browse our shops, buy fishing and beach supplies, enjoy our museum and markets, stay at our hotels.

Flagler county’s beach is already critically eroded. If we do not take action now, we may find ourselves “beachless.”

Citizens all over the world take active roles in the issues that affect them. Flagler County should be no exception. As Jacques Cousteau said, “People protect what they love.” If we don’t protect the beach we love, our story will be that of a seaside community that loses its recreation, its natural resource, its sea turtle habitat and ultimately its way of life and, for many, its quality of life. Our real estate values, our business community, our quaint “Old Florida” charm will be no more!

Seawalls and other forms of coastal armoring do not protect the beach; they protect only the land and structures behind them. Armoring is a death sentence to a beach. Dredging is a band-aid that washes away.

Your tax dollars, either locally or at the federal level, are paying for what happens to the coastline in Flagler County.

The City of Flagler Beach will need to lead the way on the planning for the stabilization and restoration of Flagler’s Beach.  Flagler County and city governments within the county will need to lead the way for their communities as well.

Please get involved by contacting the Flagler Beach City Commissioners and Mayor.
You can contact them by email, mail, or phone here.

Ask for support and funding for what we have found to be the only alternative to seawalls and dredging that naturally rebuilds an eroded beach: Undercurrent Stabilizers by Holmberg Technologies, Inc (HTI).

This the way we will save Flagler’s Beach.

*Flagler County Visitor Profile Study page 26; www.visitflagler.org