Beach Access Project
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CURRENT SITUATION
Napili Bay and Beach Foundation has been working to remediate the damage to the public beach access path, stairs, and beach shower destroyed by coastal erosion over two years: 2017 - 2019. An estimated 50,000 - 60,000 residents and Maui visitors per year use this public access point to Napili Beach.
THE COST
The cost to complete the entire project is estimated to be just over $218,000. Several county and state grant applications have been submitted in order to raise the money needed.
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Private donations have been used to pay for new architectural plans for new stairs and a path that are more resilient to coastal erosion processes and spare the headland from further erosion. All plans and County SMA permits are now in place, also privately funded.
APRIL, 2021 UPDATE
We are happy to announce that the Governor has released the $75,000 Capital Improvement Project Grant-in-Aid money awarded to NBBF in 2019! In addition, the Maui County Council and the Mayor’s Office are working on giving us at least $49,000 which would allow us to move forward with restoring beach access to Napili this year.
The 2021 Beach Access Project will:
• remove all the old concrete structures
• build new Trex composite stairs to the beach
What we'd also like to do at the same time is build a new public beach shower with a rain garden drainage system, but we still need to raise about $15,000 to complete this piece of the project.
And, we'd also like to replace the path leading to the stairs with Trex composite decking to keep foot traffic from further battering/eroding the fragile part of the headland, but we need about $67,000 for this piece of the project. We've asked for additional funding from the County and are awaiting an answer. Stay tuned ~ we will know by early June, and our goal is to do the construction in Summer, 2021!
Mahalo nui loa to all who have donated to the NBBF! We are making great progress!
The 2021 Beach Access Project will:
• remove all the old concrete structures
• build new Trex composite stairs to the beach
What we'd also like to do at the same time is build a new public beach shower with a rain garden drainage system, but we still need to raise about $15,000 to complete this piece of the project.
And, we'd also like to replace the path leading to the stairs with Trex composite decking to keep foot traffic from further battering/eroding the fragile part of the headland, but we need about $67,000 for this piece of the project. We've asked for additional funding from the County and are awaiting an answer. Stay tuned ~ we will know by early June, and our goal is to do the construction in Summer, 2021!
Mahalo nui loa to all who have donated to the NBBF! We are making great progress!
