2012 FDOT Mitigation Plan - Southwest Florida Water Management ...

Construction & Planting $128,000
Maintenance & Monitoring $20,000
ATTACHMENTS
1. Description and depiction of pre-post construction activities. Refer to previous discussion, Figures A-C, and site
photographs. Additional site and construction design details are available through the SWFWMD’s Land Resource
Division and FDOT Mitigation Program Manager..
2. Schedule for work implementation. Planning and design commenced in 1999, construction and planting completion
in Sept. 2001. Monitoring & maintenance conducted from 2001-2008. Perpetual land management activities, annual
monitoring to document and conduct any necessary maintenance activities.
3. Success criteria and associated monitoring plan. Success criteria includes documentation of hydrologic restoration of
the enhanced wetlands and vegetative re-establishment in the filled ditches, and eradicating and maintaining exotic
vegetation below 1% coverage within the enhanced and restored wetlands. Annual monitoring conducted through 2009
conduct qualitative evaluation of the enhanced wetlands (habitat, vegetation, hydrology, wildlife). All success criteria has
been achieved with semi-annual site evaluations conducted to ensure success is maintained.
4. Long term maintenance plan. Herbicide maintenance to eradicate nuisance & exotic vegetation is conducted as
necessary to maintain success criteria; no maintenance activities have been necessary since 2005. Normal land
management activities include periodic prescribed burns within the adjacent flatwood habitats.
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