Work will be underway this winter to help protect two popular provincial parks in western Prince Edward Island.
The province is adding two offshore reefs at Cedar Dunes Provincial Park near the West Point lighthouse. Meanwhile, shoreline protections installed at Jacques Cartier Provincial Park almost a decade ago will need to be upgraded.
Brian Thompson, director of land and environment with the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, said five offshore reefs placed off Cedar Dunes in early 2022 were critical to protecting the coastline during post-tropical storm Fiona 14 months ago.
“Those offshore reefs are making an incredible difference at West Point-Cedar Dunes,” he said. “If our reefs were not in place at that time, we estimate that about 50 per cent of the Cedar Dunes campground would have been seriously impacted, if not lost.”
