Picayune Strand Restoration Project WORK PLAN FOR 30% DESIGN Partnering to Achieve Success Janet Starnes 1 , Victoria Lehr 2 , Norm Prima 2 Picayune Strand Restoration Project WORK PLAN FOR 30% DESIGN Picayune Strand Picayune Strand 1 SFWMD Principal Project Manager, Ft. Myers, FL 2 Parsons Water & Infrastructure, West Palm Beach, FL US Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District
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Picayune Strand Restoration Project
WORK PLAN FOR 30% DESIGN
Partnering to Achieve Success
Janet Starnes 1, Victoria Lehr 2, Norm Prima 2
Picayune Strand Restoration
Project
WORK PLAN FOR 30% DESIGN
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1 SFWMD Principal Project Manager, Ft. Myers, FL 2 Parsons Water & Infrastructure, West Palm Beach, FL
US Army Corps of EngineersJacksonville District
Project Overview
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Project Problems & Needs
• 279 Miles of Roads and 48 Miles of Canals Constructed on 55,000 Acres by Private Developer in Late ’60s
• Over-Drainage of Northern and Southern Golden Gate Estates
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• Extreme Flows to Estuaries, Affecting Salinity and Marine Habitat
• Drier Conditions Inland- Expansion of Invasive Plant Species such as
Cabbage Palm and Brazilian Pepper- Loss of Cypress Forests- as Plant Species Changed, Quality of Animal
Habitat Declined
• Land for the project was acquired from 1984 to 2005 by the Dept of Environmental Protection with funding assistance from the US Dept of Interior
• Included as part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan and authorized under WRDA 2007
• Final Project Implementation Report completed in
Project Background
• Final Project Implementation Report completed in 2006 with the recommended alternative including: