MANASOTA & PEACE RIVER BBDs Meeting Notebook 10-21-09.docx

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Terra Ceia Isles Habitat Restoration
District Budgeted - Ad Valorem Based
Revenue
021 Manasota Basin 1,174,764 6,927 10,269
0 1,191,960
041 Florida Forever/SOR/P2000 216,189 0
0
0 216,189
District Budgeted - Outside Revenue
Ecosystem Trust - Terra Ceia Habitat
Rstr (SWIM)
Nat'l Fish & Wildlife - Terra Ceia
(SWIM)
Prior
FY 2009 FY2010
Funding Funding Funding
2,312,500 0
0
300,000 0
0
0
0
2,312,500
300,000
NOAA - Terra Ceia 2,000,000 0
0
0 2,000,000
State Trust Funds (SWIM) 323,939 6,927
0
0 330,866
State Trust Funds (SWIM) - Prior 2006 1,276,234 0
0
0 1,276,234
WMLTF (SWIM) - Prior Year Funds 0 0 10,269
0 10,269
Total:
Future
Funding
Total
Funding
$7,638,018
Critical Project Milestones Projected Amended Actual
1. Critical Project Milestones
30% wetland design plans 9/30/02 9/30/04 12/1/04
Draft Phase 3 upland restoration RFB 8/1/04 4/15/04
Release Phase 3 upland restoration contract 9/1/04 8/13/04
Award Phase 3 upland restoration contract 11/1/04 12/2/04
Complete 60% wetland design plans 4/30/05 8/1/05 8/9/05
Submit Environmental Permit Applications 12/31/05 2/1/06
Complete 100% wetland design plans 12/31/05 12/22/05
Draft wetland construction RFB 12/31/05 12/22/05
Release Wetland Construction RFB 1/31/06 1/13/06
Negotiate/process/execute const. contract 6/15/06 9/4/06
Complete Phase 3 upland restoration 7/31/06 9/30/06 9/29/06
Complete Phase 1 wetland construction 3/31/08 5/15/08
Status As Of: September 02, 2009
Processing continues by USGS of their contract with a modeler to complete the Frog Creek Hydrodynamic Modeling
Study as originally envisioned; no additional funds are being requested by the USGS to complete the Frog Creek study.
The study should resume during September 2009. Commercially available (non-native) seed used for grassing of the 24
bare ground acres of what-used-to-be Australian pine and Brazilian pepper forests (i.e., "airplane" area) have not
continued to sprout and grasses viable during winter/spring have withered under summer conditions; alternative ground
cover options are being implemented to replant grass cover and replace pine trees that succumbed to the drought;
guidance from a soil scientist from the U.S. Natural Resouces Conservation Service has been solicited and will be
followed during the replant. Quarterly maintenance by Tampa Contracting Services (TCS) has increased for the 217 acre
Phase 3 upland restoration project; persistent guinea grass problems are being addressed by TCS. Maintenance of the
64 acre Phase 4 Upland Restoration also continued by a private contractor (Rick Richards, Inc.). The purchase order has
been awarded and work almost finished redressing upland Phases 1 and 2 to get non-native plants back under control
and allow a partial replant of plants that have been killed over the years due to drought, flooding, and/or non-native plant
competition; labeled as "Phase 5" upland restoration, the purchase order includes quarterly maintenance for three years.
Discussions and site visits by FDEP Regulatory and SWFWMD personnel have resolved the fate of the augmented
"haul" roads within the preserve (i.e., "haul" roads used by TCS); the roads may be retained for management purposes
and no additional permitting is necessary; one section of relic (i.e., farm) road immediately adjacent to a wetlands has
been removed, graded, and a purchase order issued to plant with appropriate native vegetation (the road has been
relocated through an upland). A second section of road will be stabilized with crushed granite. FDEP (Parks ) has
completed their plans for the revamped Bishop Harbor Boat ramp. Lastly, SWIM and FDEP staff completed their GPS
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