# Presentation: 458353

## The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan

**The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan**

**Implementing CERP**

-       South Dade, Florida Bay, Florida Keys

## SOUTH FLORIDA REGIONS

**LAKE**

**OKEECHOBEE**

**EVERGLADES **
**AGRICULTURAL**
** ****AREA**

**MIDDLE EAST**
**COAST**

**LOWER EAST**
** ****COAST**

**KISSIMMEE**
**BASIN**

**MIAMI**

**UPPER EAST **
**COAST **

**KEY WEST**

**LOWER WEST COAST**

**ORLANDO**

**FT MYERS**

**SOUTH DADE/**
**FLORIDA KEYS**

## South Dade, Florida Bay and Florida Keys

**CERP Efforts**

-   **Initial Authorization**
** ****WCA Decompartmentalization Phase 1**
**  ****L-31 N Seepage Management Pilot Project**
**  ****C111 N Spreader Canal**
**  ****Programmatic Authority**
** ****Key Tidal Restoration**
**  ****Feasibility Studies**
** ****Florida Bay/Florida Keys**

## PARTNERSHIP

**SFWMD and Corps**
**Two project managers**
**One From Each Agency**

## Project Development Process

**PCA**

**RECOVER**

**Master**
**Program **
**Mgmt.**
**Plan**

**Project **
**Mgmt.**
**Plan**

**Project**
**Implementation**
**Report**

**30%**
**Detailed **
**Design**

**Plans **
**and **
**Specs**

**Construct **
**Project**

**Design **
**Agreement**

**Monitor**
**Project**

**SFWMD/Corps**
**Approval**

**SFWMD/Corps**
**Approval**

**SFWMD/Corps**
**Approval**

**SFWMD/Corps**
**Approval**

**SFWMD/Corps**
**Approval**

**SFWMD/Corps**
**Approval**

## RECOVER

**Restoration Coordination and Verification**
**System-wide/Big Picture Responsibility**
**Not Our Job**

## IMPLEMENTATION  PROCESS

**Project Management Plans**
**Project Implementation Reports (PIRs) ****will bridge the gap between ****the comprehensive plan and ****detailed project design**

**IMPLEMENTATION  PROCESS**

## Project Management Plan

**Details activities necessary to deliver the project**
**Scope, Schedule and Resources**
**Not a Design Document**
**Management Document**

## Project Implementation Report

**Additional Plan Formulation**
**Economic and Environmental Analysis**
**Engineering and Design**
**WQ Analysis**
**Real Estate Analysis**
**Supplemental NEPA**

## Project Delivery Team

**Develop products necessary to deliver the project**
**Interdisciplinary teams**
**Request Federal, state, local and tribal government participation in PDT**

## Why?

**Additional expertise**
**Facilitate flow of information among agencies**
**Ownership by key public agency stakeholders**

## Yellow Book Implementation Plan

**Schedule**
**Cost**
**PMP will define**
**Goal is to have all PMPs approved by end of Sept 01**

## What Can You Expect Next?

**July - Post Draft PMP    **
**                ****on Website**
**Aug - Public **
**                ****Workshop**
**Sep - Approval**
**Oct - Initiate**

## C-111 Project

**C-111 Project**

**Experimental Program of  Water Deliveries to Everglades National Park/FBO/ISOP/IOP/ CSOP**

**Modified Water Deliveries Project**

## South Dade, Florida Bay and Florida Keys

**CERP Efforts (North to South)**

-   **Initial Authorization**
** ****WCA Decompartmentalization Phase 1**
**  ****L-31 N Seepage Management Pilot Project**
**  ****C111 N Spreader Canal**
**  ****Programmatic Authority**
** ****Key Tidal Restoration**
**  ****Feasibility Studies**
** ****Florida Bay/Florida Keys**

## Decompartmentalization

**Bridge Tamiami Trail**

**Degrade L-29 and fill C-4**

**Improve S-150****  **

**Improve ****Conveyance**** Canal**

**S-8**

**L-29**

**Tamiami Trail**

**Backfill Miami Canal**

**L-67s**

**Miami Canal**

**WCA 3A**

**WCA 3B**

**North New River Canal**

**S-7**

**Improve S-351****  **

**Decompartmentalization**
**Phase 1**

## Problems Today

- Continuous sheetflow has been interrupted.
- Northern WCA 3A tends to dry out.
- Southern WCA 3A tends to flood.

## Goal

- Restore historical sheet flow distributions and hydrologic connectivity in the ridge and slough landscape, thereby creating an environment suitable for the recovery of native flora and fauna** **

## Objectives

- Promote rainfall driven hydrologic recession rates throughout the ridge and slough landscape
- Promote recreational opportunities consistent with Everglades restoration
- Reduce the artificial pathways for the occurrence and dispersal of exotic plant and animal species.

## Objectives

- Restore, maintain and sustain ridge and slough topography, and patterns native vegetation.
- Integrate project objectives and features with other related projects
- Restore and recover populations of migratory birds, particularly species of wading birds and other wildlife species listed as endangered, threatened, or species of special concern by the State and Federal governments.

## Objectives

- Restore rainfall driven sheet flow and hydroperiods within WCA 3A and 3B
- Remove unnatural landscape discontinuities such as those caused by roads, levees, canals, drainage ditches, and spoil banks which are barriers to sheet flow.
- Create opportunities for passive management of WCA 3 and ENP
- Recommend features, assumptions, constraints and sequencing to be considered in Phase 2 and other CERP related projects.

## CERP - Authorization

**“**No appropriation shall be made to construct the WCA 3 Decomp and Sheetflow Enhancement Project or the Central Lakebelt Storage Project until the *completion *of the project to improve water deliveries to ENP authorized by Section 104 of ENP Protection and Expansion Act of 1989.”

## South Dade, Florida Bay and Florida Keys

**CERP Efforts**

-   **Initial Authorization**
** ****WCA Decompartmentalization Phase 1**
**  ****L-31 N Seepage Management Pilot Project**
**  ****C111 N Spreader Canal**
**  ****Programmatic Authority**
** ****Key Tidal Restoration**
**  ****Feasibility Studies**
** ****Florida Bay/Florida Keys**

## L-31N Levee Seepage Management

**L-31N Levee Seepage Management**
**(Pilot Project)**

## Pilot Project Design Report

**Plan Formulation**
**Engineering Design**
**Construction**
**Monitor Project**

## GOAL

- Identify, test and determine relative effectiveness of seepage management technologies in order to recommend features to control groundwater flow and levee seepage from ENP.

## Objectives

- Establish baseline data in order to compare seepage management effectiveness.
- Evaluate effectiveness and flexibility of seepage management technologies.
- Evaluate impacts on groundwater demands for well fields and Biscayne Bay freshwater flows.
- Evaluate seepage management impacts on hydropattern restoration of NESRS.

## Objectives

- Evaluate water quality impacts.
- Evaluate cost effectiveness.
- Evaluate effects on flood protection.
- Evaluate saltwater intrusion.
- Evaluate ecosystem impacts.

## South Dade, Florida Bay and Florida Keys

**CERP Efforts**

-   **Initial Authorization**
** ****WCA Decompartmentalization Phase 1**
**  ****L-31 N Seepage Management Pilot Project**
**  ****C111 N Spreader Canal**
**  ****Programmatic Authority**
** ****Key Tidal Restoration**
**  ****Feasibility Studies**
** ****Florida Bay/Florida Keys**

## C-111N Spreader

**C-111N Spreader**
**    ****Canal**

## Description

**Construct Stormwater Treatment Area**
**Enlarge S-332E**
**Extend Spreader Canal under US 1, Card Sound Road to Model Lands**
**Place culverts under US 1**
**Fill C-111 below C-111N to S-197, backfill C-110**
**Remove S18C**
**Acquire 6,184 acres in Model Lands**

## Goals

- Improve habitat and functional quality
- Improve native plant and animal species abundance and diversity
- Reduce flood damages (agricultural/urban)

## Objectives

- Restore more natural flow patterns, hydroperiods, and ecological connectivity between Southern Glades, Model Lands, and adjacent natural areas
- Reduce ecologically damaging flows in C-111 to Barnes Sound and Florida Bay
- Provide ecologically compatible water quality consistent with Federal and state requirements to Southern Glades and Model Lands

## South Dade, Florida Bay and Florida Keys

**CERP Efforts**

-   **Initial Authorization**
** ****L-31 N Seepage Management Pilot Project**
** ****WCA Decompartmentalization Phase 1**
** ****C-111N Spreader Canal**
**  ****Programmatic Authority**
** ****Key Tidal Restoration**
**  ****Feasibility Studies**
** ****Florida Bay/Florida Keys**

## Programmatic Authority

**Similar Authorization to Critical Projects**
**Implement projects which would produce ****independent, immediate****, and substantial restoration, preservation and protection benefits**
**Projects NTE $25 million**

## Florida Keys Tidal RestorationGOAL

**  ****To enhance the ecological function by restoring the tidal connection between Florida Bay and the Atlantic Ocean that was eliminated by the construction of Flagler’s railroad in the early 1900’s.  Four potential sites have been identified between Mile Markers 54 and 57 along US 1 in Monroe County.**

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## Florida Keys Tidal RestorationOBJECTIVES

- Improve water quality and the health and productivity of benthic floral and faunal communities and habitats
- Restore circulation and improve larval distribution of marine species

## South Dade, Florida Bay and Florida Keys

**CERP Efforts**

-   **Initial Authorization**
** ****L-31 N Seepage Management Pilot Project**
** ****WCA Decompartmentalization Phase 1**
** ****C-111N Spreader Canal**
**  ****Programmatic Authority**
** ****Key Tidal Restoration**
**  ****Feasibility Studies**
** ****Florida Bay/Florida Keys**

## WRDA 1996

**Three Feasibility Studies**
**Restudy - Did Not Permit Thorough Investigation of All Regional Water Resource Problems of South FL**
**Continuation of Studies and Analyses that are Necessary to Further the Objectives of the Comprehensive Plan**

## Florida Bay/Florida Keys Feasibility StudyGOAL

**   ****Evaluate Florida Bay and its connections to the Everglades, the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys coral reef ecosystem to determine the modifications that are needed to successfully restore water quality and ecological conditions of the Bay**

## FB/FK Feasibility StudyOBJECTIVES

**Determine the quantity, timing, quality and distribution of freshwater that should flow to Florida Bay and provide recommendations for any modification of water deliveries that will result from current CERP plans for Everglades wetlands**

## FB/FK Feasibility StudyOBJECTIVES (continued)

**Determine nutrient sources and loads to the study area, evaluate their impacts to reef and Bay ecosystems, and recommend restoration targets and implementation plans**
**Establish water quality and ecological performance measures**

## FB/FK Feasibility StudyOBJECTIVES (continued)

**Evaluate the effects of restoring historical connectivity between Florida Bay and the Atlantic Ocean**
**Evaluate management alternatives in a holistic manner employing, where necessary, hydrodynamic, water quality and ecological models**

## STUDY  AREA

- <date/time>

*Biscayne **Bay*

*Gulf of Mexico*

***Everglades***
***National***
***Park***

**STUDY  AREA**

**Miami**

**Marathon**

**Big Pine Key**

*Atlantic** Ocean*

**Key West**

***Florida Bay***

**Key Largo**

***FKNMS***

## FEASIBILITY STUDY REPORT REQUIREMENTS

**FEASIBILITY STUDY REPORT REQUIREMENTS**

** ****Plan Formulation Studies**
** ****Environmental Studies & Documentation  ****	****(National Environmental Policy Act)**
** ****Public Involvement Program**
** ****Engineering & Design**
** ****Economic Analysis**
** ****Real Estate**
** ****RECOVER**
** ****Technical / Peer Review**

## NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT STUDIES & DOCUMENTATION

**NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT STUDIES & DOCUMENTATION**

** ****Impact Assessment**
** ****Fish and Wildlife Studies**** **
** ****Cultural Resources**
** ****HTRW Assessment**
** ****Water Quality**

## ESTIMATED TIMELINE

**ESTIMATED TIMELINE**

** ****Scope of Work Development ****	****	****Mar - Jun 01**
** ****Approval Process****	****	****	****	****Jul - Sep 01**
** ****Restoration Target Development****	****Oct - Dec 01**
** ****Development of Models / Studies****	****Oct 01 - Jun 04**
** ****Analyze Scenarios / Select Plan****	****Jun 04 - Jun 05**
** ****Final Peer Review****	****	****	****	****Jun 05 - Aug 05**
** ****Complete Study****	****	****	****	****Sep 05 **

## PLANNING ISSUES

**PLANNING ISSUES**

** ****Upland Hydrologic Inputs**
** ****Physical Oceanography**
** ****Water Quality and Algal Blooms**
** ****Benthic Habitat (Including “Key” Species)**

## FEASIBILITY STUDY COMPONENTS

**FEASIBILITY STUDY COMPONENTS**

** ****Ecological Problem Identification**
** ****Establish Targets for Restoration**
** ****Development of Models / Data Inputs**
**  ****ID Scenarios**
** ****Analyses of Scenarios**** **
** ****Select & Optimize Recommended Plan**

## ASSESSMENT MODELS

**ASSESSMENT MODELS**

** ****Hydrodynamic Model**
** ****Upland Model (GW/Surface Water/Canals)**
** ****Mangrove Model**
** ****Water Quality Model**
** ****Ecologic Assessment Model (FWCAR)**

## MODEL DEVELOPMENT

**MODEL DEVELOPMENT**

** ****ID Performance Measures**
** ****Model Selection**
** ****Incorporate Standard Data Set**
** ****Define Boundary Conditions**
** ****Model Calibration/Validation**

**Peer Review**

## ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

**ECONOMIC ANALYSIS**

** ****Regional National Economic Development Impacts On:**
** ****Navigation**** **
** ****Recreation**
** ****Fishing**
** ****Flooding**
** ****Water Supply (Urban & Agricultural)**

## Thank You

**Thank You**