- December 13, 2025
Sid Patel, owner of the Beverly Beach Camptown RV Resort, said it could cost at minimum around $3-4 million to repair or replace the campground’s seawall.
“I think it’s beyond repair,” Patel said. “I think I’ll have to replace the whole thing.”
After continuous erosion from recent storms and king tides, the seawall, which is over 40 years old and around 1,000 feet long, began falling apart during the week of Oct. 14. No one was injured at the time, but the beachside campground sites are closed until the repairs are complete.
Patel said his separate business, Toral Park, located directly across from the Camptown on the west side of S.R. A1A, will remain open. He’ll essentially be operating at two-thirds capacity, he said.
Patel, an Ormond Beach resident, has been in business since 1981. He owns Camptown and Toral Park under separate businesses and has maintained the campgrounds for decades.
Patel’s seawall was not the only one that was damaged in the recent storms. A seawall under construction by the Florida Department of Transportation has had most of its sand washed away over the course of the recent storms.
The FDOT is been working on constructing two buried seawalls in Flagler Beach and Ormond-by-the-Sea since early 2024. The north wall is located north of Highbridge Road in Volusia County to South Central Avenue in Flagler Beach while the southern seawall project is in Ormond-by-the-Sea, from Sunrise Avenue to Marlin Drive.
In a September press release, the FDOT announced the work on the seawalls was completed, excepting a few areas with turtle nests, some dune walkover construction and landscaping. The projects were set to finish entirely by early 2026.
FDOT Public Information Officer Matthew Richardson said in a phone interview with the Observer that seawall is not damaged, despite the sand being washed away.
“The seawall is doing exactly what it needs to do,” he said.
FDOT will continue finishing the work on the buried seawall, Richardson said, and will be replacing the sand that has washed away. Once the new sand is in place, it will receive landscaping that will help ground the dunes and keep them from washing away as easily.
“That vegetation would work as a gap for helping that sand stay stable, instead of it being washed away, exposing the seawall,” he said. “But the seawall is doing exactly what it needed to do, which is preventing washouts on A1A.”
The FDOT does not have a timeline at this stage, he said, but crews were on site last week beginning the work.
In a letter sent to Patel from Flagler County, the county reminded Patel he is responsible for debris removal, repairs, permit compliance and pollution prevention.
Because the Camptown seawall is on private property, it is up to Patel to fund the repairs. He said he is working with an engineer from Daytona Beach that is familiar with seawall construction and has reached out to a New England company as well to possibly contract for the construction.
He said he is still working to get an emergency repair permit to begin the work.
Despite the great expense, Patel said he is considering upgrading the seawall to newer technology instead of cement. The cost is nearly double, he said, but would result in a stronger wall.
“I have to fix or replace it,” Patel said. “Whatever the permit becomes.”
