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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #539 |
| Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration |
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| Requester: |
Pegeen Hanrahan, Mayor |
Organization: |
City of Gainesville |
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| Project Title: |
Paynes Prairie Sheetflow Restoration |
Date Submitted |
12/31/2007 10:45:29 AM |
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| Sponsors: |
Oelrich |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Protects the state water supply, the Floridan Aquifer, bu reducing nutient levels in urban stormwater runoff to level acceptable to the environment. |
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| Recipient: |
City of Gainesville |
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Contact: |
Russ Blackburn, City Manager |
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200 East University Avenue |
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Contact Phone: |
(352) 334-5010 |
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Gainesville 32601 |
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Contact email: |
blackburnrd@cityofgainesville.org |
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| Counties: |
Alachua |
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| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
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| Project Description: |
| This project will restore over 1,300 acres of formerly impacted wetlands in Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park, achieve regulatory TMDL requirements for City of Gainesville, provide protection of the Floridan Aquifer, and offer outstanding opporunities for public recreation and wildlife viewing. The requested funding will be used as cost-share funding for the construction of a sheetflow channel with water-control structions and backfilling a two mile long canal. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| Reduce nutrient levels for nitrogen and phsophorus to background levels of 1.4 mg/1 TKN and 0.1 mg/1 TP, respectively. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$2,000,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$4,300,000 |
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| Request has been made to fund: |
Construction |
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| What type of match exists for this project? |
Local |
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Cash Amount |
$2,300,000 |
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| Was this project previously funded by the state? |
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Yes |
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Fiscal Year: |
2005-2006 |
Amount: |
$350,000 |
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| Is future-year funding likely to be requested? |
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No |
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| Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request? |
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Yes |
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Agency |
Environmental Protection, Department Of |
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| Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? |
Yes |
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| Is there a documented need for this project? |
Yes |
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Documentation: |
Orange Creek Basin Management Action Plan |
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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: |
Alachua County Legislative Delegation |
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| Is this a water project as described in Section 403.885, Laws of Florida? |
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Yes |
| Is the project eligible under section 403.885(2),F.S. to protect public health or the environment; and implement plans developed pursuant to the Surface Water Improvement and Management Act created in part IV of Chapter 373,F.S., other water restoration plans required by law, management plans prepared pursuant to 2.403.067,F.S., or other plans adopted by local government for water quality improvement and water restoration? |
Yes |
| Is your project addressed in a state, regional or local plan (such as a SWIM Plan, Comprehensive Plan, Local Master Plan, etc.)? |
Yes |
| Name the plan and cite the pages on which the project is described: |
| Sweetwater Branch Watershed Management Plan and Orange Creek Basin Mgmt Plan |
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| Are requesting funding for a stormwater, surface water restoration, or other water management project? |
Yes |
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| In which Water Management District is your project located? |
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St. Johns River Water Management District |
| Have you provided at least 50% match (that is, one-half the total project cost identified in this request? |
Yes |
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Match Amount: |
2300000 |
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Match Source: |
Sweetwater Utility Fund |
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| Will this project reduce pollutant loadings to a water management district designated 'priority' surface water body? |
Yes |
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Name of water body: |
Orange Creek Basin |
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| Describe, specifically, how it will reduce loadings, identify anticipated load reductions for total suspended solids, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and other contaminants, and specify the practices that will be used to reduce loadings: |
| 124,386 pounds per year of total nitrogen and 8,521 pounds of total phosphorous will be removed in a man-made enhancement wetland. |
| Is the project under construction? |
No |
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| Are you requesting funding for a wastewater project? |
No |
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| Are you requesting funding for a drinking water project? |
No |
