Palm Beach voices concerns about Port of Palm Beach expansion  

by William Kelly
Communications Coordinator

Palm Beach’s elected officials told a Port of Palm Beach consultant this week that the town remains firmly opposed to any plan to widen and deepen the port’s navigation channel.

Kerry Simpson, a vice president with Moffatt & Nichol, the port’s consultant, updated the Town Council at its meeting Tuesday on the port’s 20-year draft master plan. The plan calls for expanding the port’s infrastructure to accommodate growth in container cargo and cruise passenger traffic.

It does not explicitly mention deepening or widening the channel, which runs through the Lake Worth Inlet between Singer Island and Palm Beach. But it also does not appear to rule that out, Palm Beach officials pointed out.

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