State of Alabama FINAL Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP ...

County will each submit a separate grant application for their respective project within this grant.
Appendix G-11 contains a map depicting the proposed monitor locations. The map also depicts the
locations of the existing funded monitors.
AUTHORIZED USES
o This project meets the criteria set forth in Authorized Use #1, projects and activities for the
conservation, protection, or restoration of coastal areas, including wetland.
o Justification: This project meets Authorized Use #1 because it will obtain data necessary for
scientific research and investigation of coastal areas. These data are necessary in conserving,
protecting, and restoring complex coastal ecosystems
o Cost Sharing: Cost sharing is not applicable to this project.
o Partnering: This project will utilize 100% CIAP funding. The State of Alabama, Baldwin County,
and Mobile County (AL-21, BC-9, and MC-9) will partner to create an east-west transect of
continuous and real-time weather and water quality recording stations along southern coastal
Alabama.
This project contains many partners in addition to CIAP. Specifically, the Dauphin Island Sea Lab,
Mobile Bay National Estuary Program, University of South Alabama, Weeks Bay National
Estuarine Research Reserve, the Alabama Department of Conservation, State Land Division,
Coastal Program, EPA’s Gulf of Mexico Program and the Alabama Lighthouse Association have
all contributed to the implementation of these systems in coastal waters. Additional funding from
the Emergency Disaster Response Fund (EDRF) is being utilized to purchase and maintain
monitors in the Mississippi Sound, near the western boundary of Mobile County.
State of Alabama Final Coastal Impact Assistance Program Plan
Baldwin County Tier One Project Descriptions
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