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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #193 |
| Big Cypress Basin Restoration |
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| Requester: |
Henry Dean, Executive Director |
Organization: |
South Florida Water Management District |
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| Project Title: |
Big Cypress Basin Restoration |
Date Submitted |
1/8/2004 11:42:57 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Saunders |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| This project is regional in scope, is intended to meet a documented need of statewide interest, is intended to produce a measurable result and has tangible community support. |
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| Recipient: |
South Florida Water Management District |
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Contact: |
Palmer Mason, Legislative Affairs Representative |
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3301 Gunn Club Road |
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Contact Phone: |
(561) 248-0486 |
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West Palm Beach 33416-4682 |
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Contact email: |
pmason@sfwmd.gov |
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| Counties: |
Collier |
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| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
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| Project Description: |
| The Big Cypress Basin Initiative is a combination of project components that have multiple benefits, but all fall within the general goals of resoration and water quality improvement in Big Cypress Basin and the receiving coastal waters. The project components include flow way restoration at Camp Keais Strand, Okaloacoochee Slough and Barron River Canal; tramway rehabilitation and flow enhancement at Bird Rookery Swamp; development and implementation of Old World climbing Fern (Lygodium); development of hydrodynamic mixing model of estuarine systems; and aquisition of improved topographic information for flood control, watershed management, restoration and other purposes. |
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| Is this a water project as described in Chapter 2002-291, Laws of Florida? |
Yes |
| Has the project been submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection? |
Yes |
| DEP Identfying Number: |
SWR20022146 |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Major project components focus on restoration of sheet flow. Project components such as the Camp Keais Strand and Barron River Canal Flowway resoration would involve redesign of the canal and feeder ditches, providing stormwater treatment and eliminating or reducing point discharges to natural preserves on public lands and to the estuaries. These measures would lead to a reduction in loading of priority pollutants such as total nitrogen, total suspendable solids and phosphorous. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$4,800,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$9,600,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Construction |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local, Private, Federal |
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Cash Amount |
$4,800,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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No |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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Yes |
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Amount: |
$5,000,000 |
To Fund: |
Construction |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
No |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
SFWMD Big Cypress Basin Five Year Plan 2002-2006, January 2002 |
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| Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)? |
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Unknown |
