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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #295 |
| Caloosahatchee River Restoration |
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| Requester: |
Henry Dean, Executive Director |
Organization: |
South Florida Water Management District |
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| Project Title: |
Caloosahatchee River Restoration |
Date Submitted |
1/7/2004 3:25:36 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Alexander |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| This project is regional in scope, it is intended to meet a documented need of statewide interest, it 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, Legislaitve Affairs Representative |
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3301 Gun Club Road |
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Contact Phone: |
(561) 248-0468 |
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West Palm Beach 33416-4682 |
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Contact email: |
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| Counties: |
Glades, Hendry, Lee |
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| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
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| Project Description: |
| The Caloosahatchee River Basin, a priority watershed, extends 105 kilometers (km) from Lake Okeechobee to San Carlos Bay. The freshwater systems of the Caloosahatchee RIver are divided into two distinct hyrologic units, east and west basins. These basins include parts of Lee, Charlottee, Collier, Glades, and Hendry Counties. The Caloosahatchee River Restoration is a combination of project components that have multiple benefits but all fall within the general goal of restoration and water quality improvements in the Caloosahatchee Basin and the receiving coastal waters. The project components include retrofitting an old part of the City of Clewiston with a stormwater system, restoring a riverine flow way, restoring flow to a natural system that supplies water to our aquifers, creating filter marshes to remove impurities going to the bay, model a few systems so that through permitting we can improve the overall system and finally restoring the natural system contained in our estuaries so the shellfish and fish have improved habitat. All of these project move forward the idea of an overall system working together to improve the watershed. |
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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: |
SWR20022142 |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Major project components focus on restoration of sheet flow. Project components such as the Four Conrners Project, City of LaBelle Storm Water Retrofits Cecil Webb WMA, Harn's Marsh Leigh Acres and City of Clewiston - Stormwater Treatment Improvements would provide stormwater treatment and eliminating or reducing point discharges to natural preserves on public lands and to the estuaries. These meausures would lead to reduction in loading of priority pollutants such as total nitrogen, total suspended solids and phosphorus. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$5,037,349 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$10,064,698 |
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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 |
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Cash Amount |
$5,037,349 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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Yes |
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Fiscal Year: |
2002-2003 |
Amount: |
$500,000 |
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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 Caloosahatchee Water Management Plan - April 2000 |
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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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Yes |
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Hearing Body: |
Lee County Legislative Delegation |
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Hearing Meeting Date: |
12/16/2002 |
