Florida has about 825 miles of beautiful beaches, yet some of them are not as healthy as many people would think. Usually, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection spends about $25 million to $40 million on restoring beaches a year. The department also has concluded that approximately 407 miles of the beaches are badly damaged or eroded. That has doubled the amount of damage from when they first did a check of the erosion in 1989. Some of the beaches have been so damaged that it has affected wildlife and future development to the land. Although erosion is a natural process, the process often happens a lot quicker by human causes, like building new things on areas that should be avoided and by offshore development
