The contract for renourishing the South Reach and sections of the North Reach was awarded to Weeks Marine, Inc., which subcontracted much of the South Reach construction to Bean Stuyvesant, LLC. This project began in early March and was completed mid-May, 2005.

The dredging contractors placed approximately 1,333,500 cubic yards of beach-quality sand along the North and South Reach beaches of Cape Canaveral, Cocoa Beach, Indialantic, and Melbourne Beach—enough sand to fill  over 67,000 commercial dump trucks: a bumper-to-bumper convoy from Cocoa to Tampa and back again!

Focusing on the renourishment of the North Reaches, Weeks Marine, Inc. deployed two dredges—the R. N. Weeks and the B. E. Lindholm—each with a hopper capable of transporting 4000 cubic yards of sand.

Renourishment of the South Reaches was the focus of the Stuyvesant, owned by Bean Stuyvesant, LLC.  The largest hopper dredge operating in U.S. waters, the Stuyvesant is capable of transporting up to 6400 cubic yards of sand at a time.

Previous renourishment efforts completed in 2001 along the North and South Reach beaches served to mitigate the erosion suffered during the 2004 hurricane season.  No buildings were undermined within these project areas and relatively few crossovers were damaged.

This South Reach nourishment area still had vegetated dune slopes after the storms.

Devastating erosion occurred in areas where renourishment did not take place.