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| Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #606 |
| Escambia Bay PCB Remediation |
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| Requester: |
Taylor (Chips) Kirschenfeld |
Organization: |
Escambia County |
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| Project Title: |
Escambia Bay PCB Remediation |
Date Submitted |
1/4/2008 3:49:50 PM |
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| Sponsors: |
Peaden |
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| Statewide Interest: |
| Protect public health. improve safe of seafood consumption. orovide safe recreational waters for residents and tourists, improve waler quality |
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| Recipient: |
Escambia County Water Quality |
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Contact: |
Taylor (Chips) Kirschenfeld |
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1190 W. Leonard Street |
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Contact Phone: |
(850) 595-3449 |
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Pensacola 32501 |
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Contact email: |
chips_Kirschenfeld@co.escambia.fl.us |
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| Counties: |
Escambia |
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| Gov't Entity: |
Yes |
Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit): |
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| Project Description: |
| The PCB (polychiorinated biphenyl) spill into the lower Escambia River circa 1969 resulted in an area of highly contaminated sediments with PCB concentrations nearly IOU times the Probable Effects Concentration level for harmful environmental effects and significant human health risk. PCBs are carcinogenic and a maior human health concern. The known persistence of PCBs in sediments, along with recent data showinR high concentrations in sediments and fish tissue, indicates that significant PCB contamination and human health concerns remain after 37 years. PCBs do not decompose but rather persist in the environment for lone periods of time. These PCBs in the Escambia Bay sediment are continually resuspended into the water columii where they are bioavailable to fish and shellfish and enter the human food chain. The Escambia Cnun Water Ouality Division proposes to lead a targeted sediment sampling effort in the lower Escambia River and upper Escambia Ba region. in collaboration with the University of West Florida, to measure PCB concentrations at multiple sites and sediment depths in the impaired area. Data will be used to accurately delineate and man the extent and severity of PCB contamination. determine the area and volume of highly contaminated sediments. arid develop p remediation plan to sequester or remove the contaminated sediment to alleviate continual significant human health risk from eating contaminated fish, ecological impairment, and economic loss. |
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| Is this a project related to a federal or state declared disaster? |
No |
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| Measurable Outcome Anticipated: |
| : The project will provide essential, but currently unavailable. infomiation on the extent and severity of PCB contamination of sediments in unper Ecambia Day. As p result of this nroiect, stakeholders, governments, and aeency staff will have a strong scientific basis from which to make informed decisions regarding ootential actions and solutions to remediate the PCBs. reduce impacts to public health, the economy, and the environment, and to improve seafood safety. |
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| Amount requested from the State for this project this year: |
$300,000 |
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| Total cost of the project: |
$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 |
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Cash Amount |
$ |
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In-kind Amount |
$300,000 |
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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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No |
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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: |
1. Pensacola Bay Watershed Mgmt Plan. 2. Pensacola Bay SWIM Plan 3. UWF fish tissue analysis |
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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: |
Bay Area Resource Council (BARC); Escambia Cty Board of County Commissioners |
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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: |
| Pensacola Hay SWIM Plan; (2) Pensacola Bay Watershed Management Plan, pages 5-79 |
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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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Northwest Florida 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: |
300000 |
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Match Source: |
In Kind |
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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: |
Pensacola Bay |
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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: |
| This project will serve to reduce iniernal loading (ie from sediments) of PCBs to the water column and into the regional aquatic food chain, by delineating and quantifying the extent of sediment PCB contamination, and by providing recomendations for removal or sequestration of the contaminant source from the affected water bodies. Currently, PCBs are being resuspended and entering the fish and shellfish food chainand affecting human health and the environment. |
| 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 |
