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Manasota Basin

Projects

April 2011

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On-Going Activities

Z010 - Boards Services - Governing and Basin Board Support........................................................................................ 1

Z030 - Planning - Manasota Basin.................................................................................................................................... 2

Z050 - Information Resources (IT).................................................................................................................................... 3

Z060 - Public Information.................................................................................................................................................. 4

Z090 - Community and Legislative Affairs......................................................................................................................... 5

Z300 - Resouce Data and Restoration Department - Manasota Basin............................................................................. 6

Z500 - Resource Projects - Manasota Basin..................................................................................................................... 7

Z600 - Operations - Manasota Basin................................................................................................................................ 8

Z700 - Land Resources - Manasota Basin........................................................................................................................ 9

Property Appraiser & Tax Collector Commissions

Z910 - Property Appraiser and Tax Collection Commission - By Statute Collects All Ad Valorem Taxes........................ 10

Reserves

H100 - Water Supply & Resource Development Reserves - Future Alternative Supplies and Conservation................... 11

Z930 - Reserve For Contingencies - Basins..................................................................................................................... 12

Save Our Rivers (SOR) Reimbursable Projects

S005 - Myakka River & Myakka River State Forest.......................................................................................................... 13

S019 - Edward W. Chance Reserve (Gilley Creek and Coker Prairie)............................................................................. 14

S024 - Upper Myakka River Watershed............................................................................................................................ 15

S030 - RV Griffin Reserve - Monitoring Land Management by Peace River/Manasota Regional WSA........................... 16

S031 - Myakka Prairie....................................................................................................................................................... 17

S032 - Little Manatee River............................................................................................................................................... 18

S041 - Myakka Conservation Area.................................................................................................................................... 19

S042 - Tampa Bay Estuarine Ecosystem.......................................................................................................................... 20

S099 - Save Our Rivers (SOR) Land Management and Use............................................................................................ 21

SA05 - Deer Prairie Creek................................................................................................................................................. 23

SA19 - Lake Manatee Lower Watershed Upland Restoration Project.............................................................................. 24

SA31 - Restoration - Myakka State Forest Hydrologic Restoration.................................................................................. 26

SA42 - Design and Permitting to Construct a New Terra Ceia Boat Ramp...................................................................... 28

SB05 - Restoration - Myakka River Deer Prairie Creek Preserve Wetland Restoration Design & Permitting.................. 29

SB19 - Restoration - Edward W. Chance Reserve Hydrologic Restoration...................................................................... 31

SB31 - Myakka River State Park - Myakka Prairie Tract Wetland Restoration Project Design & Permitting.................... 33

Surface Water Improvement & Management (SWIM) Projects

W020 - Planning - Tampa Bay Protection and Restoration Planning................................................................................ 34

W027 - Planning - Tampa Bay Estuary Program Plan Development & Implementation................................................... 37

W028 - Education - Partial Funding for TBRPC's Bay Soundings.................................................................................... 40

W030 - Education - Tampa Bay Watch Field Trip Program at Tampa Bay Watch Marine Center.................................... 42

W226 - Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - City of Anna Maria............................................................................ 44

W312 - Tampa Bay Habitat Restoration Regional Coordination....................................................................................... 47

W331 - Data - Biennial Seagrass Coverage - Tampa Bay, Sarasota Bay, Lemon Bay and Charlotte Harbor................. 49

W338 - Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - City of Bradenton - Bradenton Riverwalk Restoration...................... 52

W348 - Terra Ceia Isles Ecosystem Restoration.............................................................................................................. 54

W358 - Restoration - Tom Bennett Park Habitat Restoration........................................................................................... 57

W364 - Restoration - Palmetto Estuary............................................................................................................................. 59

W394 - Restoration - FELTS Preserve Restoration.......................................................................................................... 61

W501 - Planning - Charlotte Harbor Protection and Restoration Planning....................................................................... 63

W506 - Education - CHEC Charlotte Harbor/Lemon Bay SWIM Watershed Public Education Initiative.......................... 65

W509 - Restoration - Alligator Creek In-Stream Restoration............................................................................................ 67

W521 - Data - Charlotte Harbor Water Quality Monitoring Program................................................................................. 69

W526 - Planning - Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program Comprehensive Management Plan Development and Implementation.71

W528 - Data - Myakka River Water Quality Monitoring..................................................................................................... 74

W547 - Education - CHEC Reporting of Water Quality Data Peace, Myakka, Charlotte Harbor & Lemon Bay................ 76

W552 - Study - Sarasota County's Pollutant Model Development.................................................................................... 79

W558 - Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Venice Hatchett Creek Stormwater Facility...................................... 81

W601 - Planning - Sarasota Bay Protection and Restoration Planning............................................................................ 83

W602 - Restoration - Neal Preserve Environmental Restoration...................................................................................... 85

W603 - Restoration - Ungarelli Preserve Habitat Restoration........................................................................................... 87

W604 - Restoration - Philippi Creek In-Stream Restoration.............................................................................................. 89

W611 - Restoration - Natural Systems - Sarasota Bay Spoil Island Restoration Project.................................................. 91

W612 - Planning - Sarasota Bay Estuary Program Comprehensive Management Plan Development and Implementation. 94

W613 - Stormwater Improvements - Water Quality - Sarasota Catfish Creek Stormwater Facility................................... 96

W616 - Restoration - Sarasota Bay Habitat Restoration................................................................................................... 99

W617 - Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Coastal Basin Beach Road.............................................................. 101

W619 - Restoration - Perico Preserve Environmental Restoration................................................................................... 103

W620 - Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Pelican Cove Stormwater Project.................................................... 105

W621 - Planning - Little Sarasota Bay Water Quality Management Plan......................................................................... 107

W622 - Planning - Sarasota Bay Water Quality Management Plan.................................................................................. 109

W623 - Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Holmes Beach Stormwater Retrofit.................................................. 111

W624 - Restoration - Red Bug Slough Restoration........................................................................................................... 113

W625 - Restoration - Runaway Bay - Shoreline Restoration............................................................................................ 115

W626 - Restoration - Blackburn Point Park Addition Project............................................................................................ 117

W627 - Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Bradenton Beach Stormwater Retrofits............................................ 119

Basin Initiatives

B074 - WMP - Manatee - Braden River............................................................................................................................. 121

B099 - Abandoned Well Plugging Program (QWIP) Manasota Basin............................................................................... 125

B131 - Education - Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Water Conservation Programs (CHAMP & WATERPRO).................... 126

B136 - Data - IFAS Data Network - FL Auto Weather Network (FAWN) Data & Education.............................................. 128

B183 - WMP - Sarasota County Model Review................................................................................................................ 130

B229 - IFAS Research - Water Needs, etc of Bahiadwarf to Other Grasses.................................................................... 132

B238 - IFAS Research - Crop Coefficients & Water Use for Peppers in SWFWMD......................................................... 134

B239 - IFAS Research - Water Needs for Genetically Altered Lantana Camera.............................................................. 136

B240 - IFAS Research - Water Needs in Poly-Mulched & MBr Fumigation Alternatives -Tomatoes & Peppers.............. 138

B246 - FFL - Water Star Developers Outreach................................................................................................................. 140

B256 - IFAS Research - Feasibility of Low-Cost Automated Irrigation Pump Controllers................................................. 143

B264 - IFAS Research - Citrus Irrigation & Nutrient Mgt. to Improve Earlier Growth & Prod............................................ 145

B265 - IFAS Research - Optimizing Irrigation to Conserve Water for Shade Tree Production......................................... 147

B273 - MFL Research - Pilot Streamflow Reductions to Measure Effects of MFL 15% Reduction Criteria...................... 149

B274 - Data - SWUCA - Salt Water Intrusion Monitoring Network With Data Collected by Permit Holders..................... 151

B277 - Education - Florida Water Star Program - Builder Conservation Education.......................................................... 153

B310 - WMP - Maintenance, Updates, As Needed Peer Review and Outreach - Manatee.............................................. 156

B315 - WMP - Maintenance, Updates, As Needed Peer Review and Outreach - Sarasota............................................. 158

B620 - Mapping & GIS Spatial Data Management............................................................................................................ 160

B630 - Field Operations - Basin 21 Maintenance of District Works.................................................................................. 162

B733 - FFL - Manatee County........................................................................................................................................... 163

B735 - FFL - Sarasota County.......................................................................................................................................... 166

P259 - Education - Youth Water Resources Education Program...................................................................................... 168

P268 - Education - Public Water Resource Education Program....................................................................................... 171

P528 - Data - Myakka River Water Quality Monitoring...................................................................................................... 176

Water Supply & Resource Development

H008 - Restoration - Lake Hancock Design, Permit & Mitigation to Raise Lake Nearly 1.5'............................................. 178

H009 - Lake Hancock Outfall Structure P-11 Replacement To Raise Lake Nearly 1.5'.................................................... 181

H015 - FARMS - Wells With Poor Water Quality in the SWUCA Back-Plugging Program............................................... 183

H017 - FARMS - Facilitating Agricultural Resource Management Systems..................................................................... 184

H024 - Identify Other Surface Water Storage and Release Options to Meet Peace River MFLs..................................... 186

H048 - WMP - Myakka River Watershed Initiative............................................................................................................ 190

H051 - Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 2 - PRMRWSA Facility to North Port.......................................... 193

H052 - Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 3a - Carlton Facility to Cow Pen Slough.................................... 196

H059 - Design & Construction - Bradenton Reservoir Expansion - 580 MG Offstream Reservoir.................................... 199

H069 - Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 1A - PRMRWSA Facility to Charlotte to Punta Gorda................ 201

H079 - Feasibility - PRMRWSA 3 MGD Brackish Intermediate Aquifer RO System......................................................... 203

H086 - Design & Construction - Manatee's First of Four MARS 10 MG Reclaimed Storage Tank.................................. 205

H088 - Feasibility - Cow Pen Slough Treatability Study and Intermediate Aquifer Exploration Well................................ 207

H089 - Restoration - Upper Myakka Flatford Swamp Restoration via Water Removal to Potential User......................... 209

H093 - Design & Construction - Manatee's Second of Four MARS 10 MG Reclaimed Storage Tank.............................. 211

H532 - FARMS - CFI USA, Inc. - Venus Citrus Grove...................................................................................................... 213

H538 - FARMS - FFD Land Company, Inc........................................................................................................................ 215

H583 - FARMS - 4-Star Tomato, Inc - Long Creek Farm.................................................................................................. 217

H597 - FARMS - Sun-Fire Nurseries, LLC........................................................................................................................ 218

H599 - FARMS - C&D Fruit & Vegetable.......................................................................................................................... 219

H605 - FARMS - WFA Land Company, Reservoir Project................................................................................................ 221

H615 - FARMS - FLM, Inc. - Blossom Grove.................................................................................................................... 223

Cooperative Funding Projects - Ongoing

K114 - Construction - Bradenton ASR System Including Oxygen Removal Study........................................................... 225

K269 - Construction - Sarasota County's 1.2 MGD Reclaimed Water ASR System in North County Area...................... 228

K883 - WMP - City of North Port - Big Slough Watershed................................................................................................ 230

L007 - WMP - Manatee - Buffalo Canal/Frog Creek Watershed....................................................................................... 232

L010 - WMP - Manatee - Gamble Creek Watershed........................................................................................................ 235

L200 - Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Bradenton - Wares Creek Bridge Replacement......................... 238

L210 - Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Sarasota - Celery Field Regional Storage & BMPs in Philippi Creek. 241

L230 - Interconnects - Longboat Key Backup Potable Water Supply Interconnect........................................................... 243

L604 - WMP - Manatee - Little Manatee River.................................................................................................................. 245

L608 - Construction - Palmetto's 1.2 MGD Dry Season Reclaimed Water ASR System.................................................. 248

L610 - Other Water Resources Planning - Sarasota - Lemon Bay Watershed................................................................. 250

L611 - Other Water Resources Planning - Sarasota - Roberts Bay Watershed............................................................... 252

L614 - Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Sarasota - Matheny Creek.......................................................... 254

L615 - Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Sarasota - Alligator Creek........................................................... 256

L624 - Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Venice - Hatchett Creek-Venice Avenue Area............................ 258

L693 - Education - Water Education Exhibits at the Glazer Childrens Museum in Tampa............................................... 260

L867 - WMP - Sarasota GIS Dataset Development to Support Stormwater Assets and Modeling................................... 262

L874 - Design & Construction - Aqua Utility's Transmission and Pumps to Service Lakewood Ranch............................ 264

L949 - Conservation - Manatee - Low Flow Toilet Rebates.............................................................................................. 266

N084 - Design & Construction - City of North Port Reuse Storage Tank and High Service Pump Station....................... 268

N107 - Conservation - Braden River - Soil Moisture Sensor Pilot..................................................................................... 270

N115 - Conservation - Manatee - Indoor Water Conservation Retrofit Program............................................................... 272

N139 - Low Impact Development Manual-Ph IV............................................................................................................... 274

N143 - FFL - Sarasota County.......................................................................................................................................... 276

N181 - Education - SEC Science Curriculum Enhancement Program.............................................................................. 277

N188 - Mapping - Bradenton - NAVD88 Vertical Control Densification............................................................................. 279

N218 - Design & Construction - Englewood's Additional Reclaimed Water ASR Well and Pond Expansion................... 281

N231 - Conservation - Manatee - Toilet Rebate Project - Ph IV...................................................................................... 283

Cooperative Funding Projects - Ranked 1A

K120 - Construction - North Port 1.5 MGD Dry Season ASR System - Includes Oxygen Removal Study....................... 285

L618 - WMP - Sarasota - Coastal Fringe Areas................................................................................................................ 288

N263 - WMP - Manatee - Watershed Evaluation (Incl N215)........................................................................................... 290

N277 - Design & Construction - North Port's Reclaimed Water Transmission Main Phase 1.......................................... 292

Cooperative Funding Projects - Ranked High

K253 - Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Manatee - Wares Creek Watershed........................................... 294

L019 - WMP - Update Sarasota County Watersheds........................................................................................................ 297

N014 - Education - Florida Aquarium's Watershed Education Initiative............................................................................ 300

N151 - Mapping - Manatee - NAVD88 Vertical Control Densification............................................................................... 303

N206 - Education - G.Wiz Water Wonders Workshop...................................................................................................... 305

N255 - Data - Venice Beach Water Quality Project........................................................................................................... 307

N276 - Stormwater Improvements - Water Quality - Sarasota - Low Impact Development (LID) at Venice East............. 309

N306 - Stormwater Improvements - Water Quality - Sarasota - Englewood CRA Stormwater Retrofit............................ 311

N325 - Conservation - Manatee - Toilet Rebate Program - Phase V................................................................................ 313

N340 - Palmetto - 5th Street LID Implementation............................................................................................................. 315

N341 - WMP - Lake Manatee Watershed......................................................................................................................... 317

N344 - Design & Construction - Manatee Country Meadows RW Transmission.............................................................. 319

N355 - Construction - BRU / City of Sarasota RW Interconnect....................................................................................... 321

N397 - Conservation - Rainwater Harvesting and Commercial Reuse............................................................................. 323

N412 - Conservation-Venice- Toilet Replacement............................................................................................................ 325

N415 - Wildlands Watershed Training Program................................................................................................................ 327

Cooperative Funding Projects - Ranked Medium

L238 - Education - SEC Watershed Leadership & Education Program............................................................................ 329

L520 - Education - Around the Bend Nature Tours in Manatee & Sarasota Counties...................................................... 332

N266 - Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - North Port - Structure 101 Improvements................................... 334

N342 - Dona Bay Hydrologic Restoration......................................................................................................................... 336

N372 - Island Adventures Pilot Program........................................................................................................................... 338

N381 - Planning - Sarasota County North Reuse Study................................................................................................... 340

Cooperative Funding Projects - Ranked Low

L015 - Data - Sarasota County Surface Water Flow Monitoring Program........................................................................ 342

N336 - Design & Construction - BRU / City of Bradenton Reclaimed Water..................................................................... 344

Cooperative Funding Projects - Not Recommended

N082 - Construction - North Port 1.5 MGD Intermediate Aquifer RO System................................................................... 346

N403 - Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 1B - Redundant Segment in Punta Gorda................................. 349

N416 - Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 1 DeSoto to Punta Gorda.......................................................... 351

FEMA - Map Modernization Projects

M110 - FIRM Maps - Manatee - Development and Outreach of Flood Insurance Rate Maps.......................................... 353

M115 - FIRM Maps - Sarasota - Development and Outreach of Flood Insurance Rate Maps.......................................... 355

M118 - FIRM Maps - Map Modernization Management Support - Districtwide FEMA Funding........................................ 359

Z010

Boards Services - Governing and Basin Board Support

Project Type On-Going Activities

AORs Strategic InitiativesManagement Srvc. Management Services

Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Northwest Hillsborough, Coastal Rivers, Pinellas-Anclote River,

Withlacoochee River, Peace River, Manasota

N/ACooperator(s)

Project Manager KAVOURAS, LOU

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Boards and Executive Services Department provides administrative support to the Basin Board. These support

activities include noticing, scheduling and preparing the agenda and minutes for regular and special meetings and

workshops. Other functions include preparing meeting and travel arrangements and correspondence for Board

members. The Deputy Executive Director for Outreach, Planning and Board Services is the primary staff liaison for

members. The Deputy also assists with the conduct of meetings, works with the Governor's staff to ensure the legal

constitution of Boards, coordinates with appropriate staff to ensure follow up on meeting issues, conducts new

member orientation and ensures compliance with the Sunshine Laws. In addition, the Deputy and staff coordinate

Board field trips, including planning, scheduling, meals, logistics and arranging for staff support. This budget item also

provides funds for equipment and facility rental, legal advertisements for meeting notices, miscellaneous office

supplies and printing and Board member travel reimbursements (e.g., meals, conference registration, mileage, etc.).

Status As Of: March 13, 2007

As of this date, this project will not show an update. Ongoing project details are shown in the project description.

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Z030

Planning - Manasota Basin


AORs Strategic Initiatives



Cooperator(s)

Project Manager DAVIES, DIANNE

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionPlanning is an Executive support function responsible for long-range comprehensive planning and near-term strategic

planning. Department staff administer the Comprehensive Watershed Management initiative; provide Basin Board

support; and assist the Basin Board with development of resource management priorities.

BenefitsPlanning Department staff support the Basin Board through the following tasks. Project Management Database project

worksheets that are used in the Budget Notebook for each Basin Board meeting are reviewed to ensure accuracy and

completeness. Planning staff work with project managers to identify any significant issues and resolve any

discrepancies. Staff take the lead in preparing for joint Governing and Basin Board Planning Workshops and for the

Basin Board's Annual Planning Workshop. Basin Board meetings are attended and presentations are made to the

Board on an as-needed basis. Staff often coordinate responses to issues raised during meetings. Staff respond to

Board Member questions and requests via oral and written communications. Staff assist Basin Board members by

creating and providing presentations on Basin-specific issues. At the Board's request, research is conducted and

special issues are presented during Board meetings. Department staff assist the Community Affairs Coordinators with

Cooperative Funding kick-off meetings held for local governments and other potential cooperators. Assistance is

provided for new Board member orientations.




Z050

Information Resources (IT)





Cooperator(s)

Project Manager LEWIS, JIM

WOOD, CLINT, CASH, KIM, MCNIFF, MAUREENTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionVideo production and conferencing staff provides audio-visual, archive tape, and video teleconferencing support for

Basin Board and Governing Board meetings, including staff presentations. Audio-visual staff provides support for

annual Basin Board planning workshops, and the semiannual Governing Board/Basin Board planning workshops, as

well as other non-regularly scheduled workshops not held in a District office, as needed. Based on the time devoted to

these activities, including travel, the appropriate salary percentage is allocated to each Basin Board.




Z060

Public Information


AORs Strategic InitiativesFlood Protection Floodplain ManagementNatural Systems Natural Systems Conservation and RestorationWater Supply ConservationWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and Improvement



N/ACooperator(s)

Project Manager MOLLIGAN, MICHAEL

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Communications Department is an Executive support function responsible for a broad range of activities that

support the District's mission, Governing and Basin boards, and other departments. Departmental functions include

projects funded by the Governing and Basin boards, such as public information and media coordination; youth and

public education programs and initiatives in coordination with local governments and other community organizations;

promotion of sound water conservation practices; presentation of projects to the Basin boards in the budget adoption

process; and graphics support for Basin Board presentations. Communications Department staff support the Basin

Board through the following tasks. Basin Board meetings are attended on an as-needed basis to make presentations,

answer questions, and participate in budget discussions. Reponses are prepared to answer Board Member questions

and requests via oral and written communications. Educational materials are developed, reviewed, updated, promoted,

and distributed. Assistance is provided to cooperators to develop education projects that support the District's mission.

Education and grant programs are promoted at schools and to cooperators. Support is provided to the Basin Board

Education Committee. Media contact summaries and articles are disseminated. The District's web site is maintained.




Z090

Community and Legislative Affairs


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Supply Alternative Water SupplyWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementNatural Systems Minimum Flows and Level Establishment and MonitoringFlood Protection Emergency Flood Response



Cooperator(s)

Project Manager RATHKE, DAVID

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionBasin Board funds budgeted are for the administration and coordination of the Cooperative Funding program, including

conducting cooperator workshops, processing applications, communicating with applicants and participating in project

ranking. Basin Board funds are budgeted for the Community Affairs Program Manager (CAPM) to attend and

participate in Basin Board meetings and new Board member orientations and briefings and for the CAPM's responses

to Board member information requests, as well as other "as needed" services to the Basin Board.




Z300

Resouce Data and Restoration Department - Manasota Basin


AORs Strategic Initiatives



Cooperator(s)

Project Manager DEHAVEN, ERIC

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Resource Data and Restoration Department is involved in the collection, management, and analysis of water

resource data and the development and implementation of restoration projects to improve resource conditions. The

Department includes five sections comprised of professional and technical staff with oversight from an administrative

section. The FARMS Section is involved in the implementation of innovative agricultural water conservation and

alternative supply projects that are designed to reduce ground water withdrawals and improve water quality within the

Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA). The Water Quality Monitoring Program (Section) performs water quality

sampling and analysis for a number of long-term ground and surface-water monitoring efforts, as well as specific,

short-term projects that investigate water quality issues. The Geohydrologic Data Section supports the Regional

Observation Monitor Well Program (ROMP) and the Quality of Water Improvement Program (QWIP), which provide

hydrogeologic data and well construction services. The Chemistry Laboratory Section conducts the water quality

analysis for District-related projects (Cooperative Funding and initiatives) and programs (regulation). Finally, the

Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) Section is responsible for implementing the SWIM legislation

which requires that the water management districts prepare and maintain a priority list of water bodies requiring

management action for restoration or preservation; write management plans consistent with the rules established by

the Department of Environmental Protection; and implement the plans.




Z500

Resource Projects - Manasota Basin


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementFlood Protection Floodplain ManagementWater Supply Alternative Water SupplyNatural Systems Minimum Flows and Level Establishment and Monitoring



Cooperator(s)

Project Manager HAMMOND, MARK

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Resource Projects Department addresses issues related to water supply, flood protection, water quality, and

natural systems and consists of the Conservation & Utility Outreach, Ecologic Evaluation,

Engineering, Environmental, Hydrologic Evaluation, and Water Supply and Resource Development sections. The

District's goal for water supply is to ensure an adequate supply of the water resource to provide for all existing and

future reasonable and beneficial uses while protecting and maintaining water resources and related natural systems.

The Department's efforts involve activities associated with the regional water supply planning, alternative water

supplies, conservation, and reclaimed water strategic initiatives. The District's goal for flood protection is to minimize

flood damage to protect people, property, infrastructure and investment. The Department's efforts primarily involve

activities associated with the floodplain management strategic initiative and support for the flood and emergency

response initiative. The District's goal for natural systems is to preserve, protect, and restore natural systems in order

to support their natural hydrologic and ecologic functions. The Department's efforts involve minimum flows and levels

and wetland system restoration. The District's goal for water quality is to protect and improve water quality to sustain

the environment, economy and quality of life. The Department's efforts involve diagnostic, monitoring and

implementing water quality improvement projects. The funds budgeted here are for coordinating the Water Supply

and Resource Development Program, Water Resource Assessment Projects, Minimum Flows and Levels Program,

Watershed Management Program, FEMA Map Modernization, and Cooperative Funding Programs, as-requested

attendance at citizen meetings, and those unforeseen basin analyses which occur during the year. The Department

works on ongoing projects and reviews, evaluates, and ranks each Fiscal Year's Cooperative Funding projects related

to water supply, water quality, natural systems, and flood protection. Staff makes recommendations regarding these

projects, and other items proposed in each year's budget. Staff also works to address any budget issues identified at

Basin Board meetings. The funds budgeted here are for staff time related to coordinating those activities that do not

relate to specific budgeted projects. These include the staff time of the Director, managers and several staff.




Z600

Operations - Manasota Basin


AORs Strategic InitiativesNatural Systems Natural Systems Conservation and Restoration



Cooperator(s)

Project Manager HOLTKAMP, MIKE

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Operations Department consists of six sections including Administration, Field Operations, Aquatic Plant

Management, Hydrologic Data, Structure Operations and Mapping and GIS. The Administration section provides

support for departmental management, planning, budgeting, and clerical functions. The Field Operations section is

responsible for maintenance and restoration of all District-owned lands including fence construction, mowing, culvert

installations, road and bridge maintenance and construction, fire line maintenance, prescribed burn support, erosion

control, and well site preparation/restoration. The Aquatic Plant Management section is responsible for aquatic and

ditch bank vegetation management operations on District flood control systems, the control of exotic aquatic plants on

natural waters throughout the District, and the control of aquatic vegetation around water control structures and lake

level gauges. Additionally, the Aquatic Plant Management section controls/eradicates infestations of upland invasive

species including Brazilian pepper, Australian pine, cogongrass and tropical soda apple on all District-owned

conservation lands. The Hydrologic Data section is responsible for designing, installing, and maintaining data

collection sites in support of the District's resource monitoring and technical analysis, as well as data analysis and

database management. The Structure Operations section inspects, operates, maintains, and repairs all District-owned

flood and water conservation structures as well as salinity barriers throughout the District. This section also directs and

operates the District's Emergency Operations Center (EOC), which is part of a state and nationwide storm tracking

and emergency response network.The Mapping and GIS section is responsible for providing and maintaining all

mapping and Geographical Information System database support. Included in this project are administrative salary

allocations associated with overseeing field operations and maintenance, aquatic plant management, emergency

operations, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), and structure operations programs throughout the

Basin, as applicable. Funds expended have been to prepare for Basin Board meetings as required or provide data to

Board members, local agencies or the public.

Status As Of: May 12, 2009

Ongoing project details are shown in the project description.


Z700

Land Resources - Manasota Basin





Cooperator(s)

Project Manager SUTTON, ERIC

BLASCHKA, STEVEN, MILLER, WILL, WALSH, TOM, LOVE, KEVINTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Land Resources Department consists of five sections, including Administration, Land Acquisition, Land

Management, Survey, and Land Use and Protection. The Administration section provides support for departmental

management, planning, budgeting and clerical functions. The Land Acquisition section acquires lands as set forth in

the District's Florida Forever Workplan. These lands are acquired for various functions including flood control, water

storage and management, conservation and protection of water resources, aquifer recharge and recovery, water

resource development, and preservation of wetlands, streams, lakes, and other natural systems. The Land

Management section is responsible for the management and protection of natural and cultural resources on District

lands. Major functions include natural systems restoration, prescribed burning, forest management, exotic species

control, and monitoring. The Survey section is responsible for providing land surveying assistance in support of various

projects and programs within the District. The Land Use and Protection section is responsible for land use activities on

District lands including development of recreational trails and facilities, monitoring of public and private uses,

management of the security officer program and maintaining visitor safety. Included in this project are activities on

District-managed lands purchased with funds other than Florida Forever, Preservation 2000 and Save Our Rivers such

as surveying costs (salaries and equipment rental), miscellaneous land use requests (salaries), resource protection

(utilities and maintenance) and structural flood control projects.




Z910

Property Appraiser and Tax Collection Commission - By Statute

Collects All Ad Valorem TaxesProject Type Prop. App.&Tax Coll.




Cooperator(s)

Project Manager PILCHER, LINDA

LINSBECK, CATHY, CACIOPPO, MIKETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThese funds pay the commissions due to the counties within the Basin for tax collection and property appraisals.


During the five months ended February 28, 2011, $218,360 was remitted in commissions to Property Appraisers and Tax

Collectors. Property Appraiser and Tax Collector commissions are statutorily prescribed and are based on property tax

levies and collections, respectively. Amounts collected in excess of the underlying Property Appraiser and Tax Collector

budgets are returned to the Basin as excess fees. Excess fees not recorded as accounts receivable as of September 30,

2010 are reflected as current FY2011 revenue.


H100

Water Supply & Resource Development Reserves - Future

Alternative Supplies and ConservationProject Type Reserves

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Supply Alternative Water Supply


Peace River, Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager HERD, KEN

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionIn 1997, the Florida Legislature amended the Water Resources Act to clarify the water management districts'

responsibilities relating to water supply planning and water resource development. Specifically, the water management

districts were directed to complete a district-wide water supply assessment by July 1, 1998. Further, the districts were

to develop regional water supply plans for regions where demands are expected to exceed available supplies by 2020.

The SWFWMD regional water supply plan encompasses a ten-county area extending from Pasco County in the north

to Charlotte County in the south. This region encompasses the northern Tampa Bay region and the Southern Water

Use Caution area. The regional water supply plan includes the following elements: (1) projected water demands for all

use sectors through 2020, (2) available existing sources, (3) projected deficits in available supplies, (4) minimum flows

and levels, (5) recovery and prevention strategies, (6) water supply development options, (7) water resource

development options, (8) five-year work plan for water resource development projects, and (9) funding mechanisms

and project schedules for selected projects. Projected water needs increase from 1.4 billion gallons per day (bgd) in

2000 to 1.67 bgd in 2020, a 19 percent increase. Staff has identified over 500 mgd of potential supplies, including

demand management, to meet these needs. The reserves for water supply and resource development will be used to

cooperatively fund future water supply and resource development projects to meet the needs identified in the regional

water supply plan.

District Budgeted - Ad Valorem Based

Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 104,372,352 0 (69,171,109) 173,543,461 0 0

011 Alafia River Basin 443,192 0 (1,768,788) 2,211,980 0 0

013 Hillsborough River Basin 24,337,216 0 (673,132) 11,162,870 0 13,847,478

015 Coastal Rivers Basin 1,644,104 0 (373,630) 2,017,734 0 0

016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 11,137,889 0 (2,129,914) 9,655,634 0 3,612,169

020 Peace River Basin 820,466 0 (1,950,942) 2,771,408 0 0

021 Manasota Basin 5,233,869 0 (1,552,578) 6,786,447 0 0

$147,989,088 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or

Lapsed Funding Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY Future

Funding

Total

Funding

Status As Of: January 10, 2011

In December 2010, $963,000 was transferred from the Pinellas-Anclote River Basin Board WSRD Reserves to N333 to

address flooding and natural systems issues in the Brooker Creek Watershed.


Z930

Reserve For Contingencies - Basins

Project Type Reserves




Cooperator(s)

Project Manager PILCHER, LINDA

LINSBECK, CATHY, CACIOPPO, MIKETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionFunds are budgeted for contingencies to be used at the Board's discretion. The goal is to set aside an amount equal to

approximately 5 percent (2.5 percent minimum target) of the ad valorem based budget (ad valorem taxes plus interest

plus balance forward multiplied by 5 percent).


To date, the Basin Board has not allocated any of its contingency funds.


S005

Myakka River & Myakka River State Forest

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager LOVE, KEVIN

MILLER, WILL, NELSON, BRIAN, SOWDERS, GINA, GREEN, STEPHANIE, HAGBERG,

JEFFREY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionA majority of the lands within the Myakka River Save Our Rivers project were jointly purchased with the State of

Florida's Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) program (Myakka State Forest). Lands within the project area

are characterized by a variety of natural lands and lands altered by development including mesic pine flatwoods, oak

hammocks, shell mounds, prairie hammock and improved pasture. The project area includes portions of the Myakka

River and its floodplain forests. Lands included within the Myakka State Forest are managed by the State of Florida's

Division of Forestry (DOF). The DOF has made the following recreational improvements/amenities available on the

property: 13 miles of marked shared use trails for bicycling, horseback riding and hiking, and primitive camping.

BenefitsPursuant to Section 373.1391(1)(a), Florida Statutes, lands within the project are managed and maintained in such a

way as to ensure a balance between public access, general public recreational purposes, and restoration and

protection of their natural state and condition.

Costs

The FY2011 budget consists of salaries and operational costs for public use management, resource monitoring,

resource protection, road and bridge maintenance, exotic plant control, a trail counter, 142 acres of firelane

maintenance, 150 acres of chopping, 73 acres of road maintenance, 13 days of prescribed burning and six culverts;

and contractual services for 689 hours of security. Costs for these activities are reimbursable through the state's

Water Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) - Ad

Valorem Revenue

79,707 0

District Budgeted - Outside Revenue

(SOR)

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 0 0

021 Manasota Basin 0 113,859

Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY

Status As Of: February 23, 2011

Aquatic Plant Management Section staff treated 48 acres infested with invasive melaleuca trees.


S019

Edward W. Chance Reserve (Gilley Creek and Coker Prairie)

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Peace River, Manasota

Cooperator(s)


MILLER, WILL, NELSON, BRIAN, SOWDERS, GINA, VANGELDER, WILL, GREEN, STEPHANIE,

HAGBERG, JEFFREY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionIn 2007, the former Lake Manatee Reserve, was dedicated and renamed as the Edward W. Chance Reserve, in honor

of departed Governing Board member, Ed Chance. The Reserve extends over a large area which includes narrow

floodplain forests and native pine lands surrounded by vast areas of rangeland, improved pastures, croplands, and

citrus groves. Lands purchased within this project protect an existing regional water resource, protect floodplains, and

restore adjoining wetlands in the headwaters. Management units include the Coker Prairie and Gilley Creek Tracts.

Hiking, bicycling, and horseback are available on the Gilley Creek tract. Hiking is available on the Coker Prairie tract.




Costs


resource protection, road and bridge maintenance, exotic plant control, a trail counter, entrance sign, picnic tables and

fire rings for a new campground, 238 acres of firelane maintenance, 30 acres of hydro-ax maintenance, 149 acres of

road maintenance, six culverts, and 25 days of prescribed burning; and contractual services for 41 acres of

recreational mowing and 648 hours of security. Costs for these activities are reimbursable through the state's Water

Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

136,064 0


(SOR)



Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


Aquatic Plant Management Section staff treated 141 acres infested with the invasive species cogongrass and 38 acres

with camphor trees.


S024

Upper Myakka River Watershed

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


MILLER, WILL, NELSON, BRIAN, VANGELDER, WILL, GREEN, STEPHANIE, SOWDERS, GINA,

HAGBERG, JEFFREY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Upper Myakka River Watershed project is located in Manatee County and includes forested floodplain swamps

and marshes along the upper portions of the Myakka River watershed. The headwater swamps function as retention

and detention areas for local drainage. Wetland forests and adjoining uplands provide treatment of surface runoff.

Access to the property is limited since the project lands are often flooded, which is not conducive to recreational trail

development. However, the property contains narrow flatwoods roads and jeep trails that can be used for hikers during

dry weather.




Costs


resource protection, road and bridge maintenance, exotic plant control, an entrance sign, 20 acres of firelane

maintenance, 13 acres of road maintenance, and 4 days of prescribed burning; and contractual services for 18 acres

of recreational mowing and 662 hours of security. Costs for these activities are reimbursable through the state's Water



Revenue


Valorem Revenue

39,616 0


(SOR)



Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY

Status As Of: December 08, 2010

Aquatic Plant Management staff treated 28 acres infested with the invasive species cogongrass. The Land Department is

in the process of reviewing the accuracy of recreation trails and the appropriate level of maintenance.


S030

RV Griffin Reserve - Monitoring Land Management by Peace

River/Manasota Regional WSAProject Type SOR



Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Auth.Cooperator(s)

Project Manager LANE, CHUCK

MILLER, WILL, NELSON, BRIAN, GREEN, STEPHANIE, ELLIOTT, PAUL, LANE, CHUCK,

HAGBERG, JEFFREY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe RV Griffin Reserve is located in DeSoto and Sarasota Counties and includes lands supporting and surrounding

the existing facilities at the Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority treatment plant. Lands in the

project area include mixed hardwood forests along the river; however, the majority of the lands consist of pine

flatwoods, rangelands, pastures and pine plantations. The project supports and protects present potable water

supplies. Land management has recently been delegated to the Water Supply Authority. Recreational

activities/amenities include 21 miles of shared-use trails available for bicycling, horseback riding and hiking. A

3,804-acre conservation easement is known as the Lewis Longino Preserve.




Costs

The FY2011 budget within the Peace River Basin consists of contract coordination and monitoring for management of

the land by the Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority; within the Manasota Basin the funds are for

monitoring the conservation easement over the Lewis Longino Preserve.

Costs for these activities are reimbursable through the state's Water Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

4,588 0


(SOR)


020 Peace River Basin 0 2,637


Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


No significant activity during this period.


S031

Myakka Prairie

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Florida State ParksCooperator(s)

Project Manager MILLER, WILL

LOVE, KEVIN, SOWDERS, GINA, GREEN, STEPHANIETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionLands within the Myakka Prairie project are characterized by the region's flat topography and include landscapes of

extensive shrub and brushlands, pine flatwoods and pastures. Numerous isolated freshwater marshes dot the site's

flatlands. The project provides surface water detention and natural water quality treatment of overland sheet flow. The

Myakka Prairie is adjacent to lands within the Myakka River State Park and is managed by the State¿s Division of

Recreation and Parks. Recreational development/amenities on the property made available by the Division of

Recreation and Parks include several miles of hiking, bicycling and horseback riding trails. District land management

activities primarily consist of exotic species control.




Costs

The FY2011 budget is for salaries for staff to coordinate management responsibilities and to monitor the management

agreement with the Division of Recreation and Parks . Costs for these activities are reimbursable through the state's

Water Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

1,742 0


(SOR)


Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


On November 18, 2010 the annual monitoring inspection of Myakka State Park and the Myakkahatchee Creek Carlton

Fee property was completed with no violations noted.Myakka Ranchlands tour on December 3, 2010 was successful in

showing other agencyies and the public the newly aquired Longino/Walton CE's.


S032

Little Manatee River

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Alafia River, Manasota

Hillsborough CountyCooperator(s)


MILLER, WILL, NELSON, BRIAN, KRUK, COLLEEN, VANGELDER, WILL, SOWDERS, GINA,

HAGBERG, JEFFREY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Little Manatee River project, located in Hillsborough and Manatee Counties, contains parcels of land along the

Little Manatee riverine corridor from downstream estuarine waters, to the river's headwaters. Dense forest dominates

the land along the river's floodplain with the adjoining uplands being comprised of a mixture of pine flatwoods, mixed

hardwoods and shrub and brushlands. The District has entered into an interlocal agreement with Hillsborough County

wherein the County has lead responsibility for lands jointly purchased by Hillsborough County and the District.

Recreational improvements/amenities made available by the County include: canoe landing sites adjacent to five

primitive campsites along the river; fishing; and hiking trails. District land management activities consist of road

stabilization, prescribed burning, natural systems restoration, mowing and recreational development/maintenance.




Costs


resource protection, road and bridge maintenance and 30 acres of hydro-ax restoration and maintenance. Costs for

these activities are reimbursable through the state's Water Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

108,714 0


(SOR)

011 Alafia River Basin 0 46,367


Project Funds Not Budgeted by the

District

Hillsborough County 0 0

Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


Aquatic Plant Management Section staff treated 13 acres infested with the invasive species Old World climbing fern.


S041

Myakka Conservation Area

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


LOVE, KEVIN, SOWDERS, GINA, GREEN, STEPHANIETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Myakkahatchee Conservation Area consists of oak/cabbage palm hammock dominated banks along the southern

portions of the creek, isolated marshes and improved pastures within the upland portions and mixed natural lands

scattered throughout. The main surface water feature, Myakkahatchee Creek, is a 21.5-mile long tributary creek of the

Myakka River. Lands are managed by Sarasota County.

BenefitsSince the lands within the project were purchased in less-than-fee simple, no land management activities are required.

Costs

The FY2011 budget consists of annual conservation easement monitoring, contract monitoring, and 50%

reimbursement of land management costs to Sarasota County for their management of jointly owned lands within the

project. Costs for this activity are reimbursable through the state's Water Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

38,581 0


(SOR)




District

Other 0 0

Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


On November 18, 2010 the annual monitoring inspection of Myakka State Park and the Myakkahatchee Creek Carlton

Fee property was completed with no violations noted.


S042

Tampa Bay Estuarine Ecosystem

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Alafia River, Pinellas-Anclote River, Manasota

Hillsborough County, Florida State ParksCooperator(s)


LOVE, KEVIN, HAGBERG, JEFFREY, KRUK, COLLEEN, SOWDERS, GINA, VANGELDER, WILLTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Tampa Bay Estuarine Ecosystem project furthers the Tampa Bay Surface Water Improvement and Management

(SWIM) plan. Approximately half the project consists of mangroves and salt marsh which dominate the northern

project area along Bishop Harbor and the western area associated with the tidal bays of Moses Hole, Clambar Bay

and Williams Bayou. The natural upland and wetland habitats within the project area provide natural water quality

treatment of overland flows before reaching the receiving waters of Tampa Bay. A majority of lands within the Tampa

Bay Estuarine Ecosystem project were jointly purchased with the State or local governments. Under an agreement

with the State, the Department of Environmental Protection's Division Recreation and Parks is the lead land manager

for the Terra Ceia tract. Hillsborough County manages the Bullfrog Creek and Port Redwing tracts, and Pinellas

County manages the Clam Bayou tract.




Costs


resource protection, road and bridge maintenance, recreation equipment, nine acres of road mowing, two days of

prescribed burning; and contractual services for 271 acres of recreational mowing. Costs for these activities are

reimbursable through the state's Water Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

35,081 0


(SOR)


016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 0 0



District

Hillsborough County 0 0

Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


County has been working with the Sarasota Reg. office for permits to clean out ditches, this project has the potential to

extend into TECO/Rockpond parcels. In preparation for the SWIM restoration project the Land Resouces Department is

working with CSX and DEP on access and conservation easements on site.


S099

Save Our Rivers (SOR) Land Management and Use

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) General Fund (District), Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Northwest Hillsborough, Coastal Rivers,

Pinellas-Anclote River, Withlacoochee River, Peace River, Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager SUTTON, ERIC

LOVE, KEVIN, MILLER, WILL, WALSH, TOM, HAGBERG, JEFFREY, NELSON, BRIANTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Save Our Rivers Administration project contains monies for those items not attributable to one unique project

during the budget cycle. Examples are studies affecting all conservation lands, preparation of resource evaluation

reports, heavy equipment used solely on conservation lands, overtime, staff time, vehicle charges and equipment

rental.




Costs

The FY2010 budget includes salaries, central garage charges, tree removal in cases where trees fall from District

property onto adjoining owners' property in the Coastal and Hillsborough Basins, and aerial flights to view exotics

species in the General Fund, and Hillsborough, Peace and Manasota Basins. Costs for these activities are 100

percent reimbursed through the state's Water Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

1,135,585 1,118,761

013 Hillsborough River Basin - Ad

Valorem Revenue

0 9,519

016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin - Ad

Valorem Revenue

0 4,311


(SOR)



013 Hillsborough River Basin 0 0

015 Coastal Rivers Basin 0 9,519

016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 0 0

019 Withlacoochee River Basin 0 9,519

020 Peace River Basin 0 7,719


Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


S099

Save Our Rivers (SOR) Land Management and Use


With the exception of the District fund, the Save Our Rivers (SOR) Administration project is used primarily to budget

monies for SOR, Preservation 2000 and Florida Forever (reimbursable) projects. Generally, funds are not charged to this

project, but transferred to other reimbursable projects within the Basin. An example is overtime. Staff knows at budget

time that overtime will be required within the basins for work on SOR projects, but does not know for which projects, so

monies will be budgeted in S099. When overtime is used later in the year, the monies will show as being spent for the

actual project the staff member worked on (i.e., S009- Starkey, S016 - Weekiwachee Preserve, etc.). In the District funds

monies are primarily used for SOR program administration, purchase of equipment and contractual services.


SA05

Deer Prairie Creek

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

NoneCooperator(s)


MILLER, WILL, NELSON, BRIAN, FOX, AUGUST, GREEN, STEPHANIE, SOWDERS, GINA,

HAGBERG, JEFFREY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionAll lands within the project are jointly owned by the District and Sarasota County. Lands within the project area are

characterized by a variety of natural lands and lands altered by development including mesic pine flatwoods, oak

hammocks, shell mounds, prairie hammock and improved pasture. The project area includes portions of the Myakka

River and its floodplain forests. Lands within Deer Prairie Creek are jointly managed by the District and Sarasota

County. The District is lead manager for prescribed burning, natural systems restoration, exotics control and timber

management. The County is lead manager for land use and management plan development, public recreation,

education and land use requests, wildfire response, resource monitoring, cattle grazing and security.




Costs

The FY2010 budget consists of salaries and operational costs for resource monitoring, resource protection, road and

bridge maintenance, exotic plant control, 304 acres of firelane maintenance, 200 acres of chopping, 100 acres of

hydro-ax restoration and maintenance, 172 acres of road maintenance, and 15 days of prescribed burning.

The FY2011 budget request consists of salaries and operational costs for resource monitoring, resource protection,

road and bridge maintenance, exotic plant control, 251 acres of firelane maintenance, 200 acres of chopping, 18 acres

of road maintenance, four culverts and 15 days of prescribed burning.

Costs for these activities are reimbursable through the state's Water Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

113,325 0


(SOR)


Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


Aquatic Plant Management Section staff treated 72 acres of the invasive species Old World climbing fern.


SA19

Lake Manatee Lower Watershed Upland Restoration Project

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager VANGELDER, WILL

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionIn 1991 the Governing Board authorized the acquisition of lands within the Lake Manatee Lower Watershed project in

Manatee County. The Lake Manatee Lower Watershed extends over a large area that includes narrow floodplain

forests and native pinelands surrounded by vast areas of rangeland, improved pastures, croplands, and citrus groves.

Lands purchased within this project protect an existing regional water resource, protect floodplains, and restore

adjoining wetlands in the headwaters. To date 7,932 acres have been acquired in fee simple within the project, with an

additional 11,046 approved for future fee simple acquisition. In 2002, 149 wetland acres were restored via the Florida

Department of Transportation (FDOT) mitigation program. In FY2005 through FY2010, approximately 324 acres of

former farm field are proposed for restoration back to upland vegetation communities, including scrub, scrubby

flatwoods and dry prairie. The site is the largest contiguous altered site on the tract and ranked as a high priority for

restoration. In FY2005, site work began in preparation for re-vegetation of a 25-acre portion of the site to serve as a

pilot project to test planting methods. A grower was contracted to propagate plant materials for the project, including

palmettos, and three species of scrub oaks, totaling 18,500 plants. The re-vegetation of this site will expand a five-acre

remnant scrub patch that currently supports a family of scrub-jays. This pilot phase of the project was completed in

July 2006. Subsequent monitoring has indicated that the pilot results have exceeded target levels.




Costs

Funds were included in the FY2008 budget to conduct phase 2 of the project, which included plant material and

planting labor to re-vegetate approximately 46 acres of the site. Plant species, stocking rates and planting methods will

be similar to those proving successful on the pilot phase. Future restoration efforts on the remainder of the site will be

conducted in annual stages over an approximately four-year period.Funds in the FY2009 and FY2010 budgets are for

salaires and central garage charges. Costs for these activities are 100 percent reimbursed through the Water



Revenue


Valorem Revenue

1,444 0


(SOR)


Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY

Critical Project Milestones ActualProjected Amended

Phase 1RFB 9/1/04 9/1/04


SA19

Lake Manatee Lower Watershed Upland Restoration Project

Install Plants 7/31/06 7/31/06

Award Contract 12/1/07 12/1/04

Phase 2RFB 10/1/07 11/1/07


Install Plants 7/31/09

Phase 3RFB 10/1/08 10/15/08



Phase 4RFB 10/1/09

Award Contract 12/1/09



No significant activities this period.


SA31

Restoration - Myakka State Forest Hydrologic Restoration

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager RHINESMITH, PHILIP

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe District's Governing Board approved the Hydrologic and Wetlands Restoration of District-owned Lands initiative at

their January 2004 meeting. The initiative focuses on 2 goals which are: A) recovering the functions of water storage

and conveyance in impacted wetlands and streams; and B) recapturing the benefits of water quality and wildlife habitat

formerly provided by the impacted system in its undisturbed state. The Myakka State Forest Hydrologic Restoration

project is located in the Myakka State Forest in Sarasota County. The property is currently managed as a passive

recreational facility by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services-Division of Forestry. The surface water

impacts are to two separate creek systems both of which contribute surface water flows to Lemon Bay. These include

Ainger Creek and Oyster Creek. Based on the results of the post restoration surface water modeling accomplished

during the first phase of the project, a total of 122 acres of wetlands will be restored. The restoration includes the

installation of ditch plugs and the construction of a weir structure at the extreme southern boundary of the property to

restore the normal flows to Oyster Creek.

BenefitsThe project will restore the functions of water storage and conveyance of Oyster Creek, Ainger Creek and numerous

isolated herbaceous wetlands, and recapture the benefits of water quality and wildlife habitat formerly provided by the

impacted system in its undisturbed state.

Costs

The design and permitting for the project will be completed at a cost of $75,082 and construction at an estimated cost

of $295,925 using previously budgeted funds. The FY2012 funding amounts shown in the table below include staff

salary, travel and central garage charges. These activities are reimbursed at 100 percent from the state's Water



Revenue


Valorem Revenue

3,052 0


(SOR)


Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


1. Project DesignFeasibility and Analysis Report Complete 8/31/07 1/1/08

Design Complete 10/31/08 3/15/10

1A. Permit Exemption FDEPStart Construction-Phase 1 Removal of Salinity Barrier 8/13/09 11/25/09

Complete Construction-Removal of Salinity Barrier 10/31/09 12/4/09

2. Permitting


SA31

Restoration - Myakka State Forest Hydrologic Restoration

Permitting Commence 12/31/08 9/30/10

Permitting Complete 1/31/09 10/25/10

3. ConstructionConstruction Commence 2/28/09 1/11/12

Construction Complete 5/31/09 6/11/12

4. Agreement Expiration DatesKing Engineering Contract Expires 5/31/12


The consultant completed the final restoration plan which identified three distinct areas where minor modifications to the

ditch network will result in rehydration of degraded wetlands. These include: removal of a tidal salinity barrier to restore

natural tidal fluctuation to the lower portions of Ainger Creek; installation of a berm on the south side of the forest to

restore normal flows through Oyster Creek; and installation of a series of ditch plugs in the ditches connecting wetlands

in the south-eastern portions of the forest. District staff presented the restoration plan to the "Myakka State Forest

Liaison Committee" at their 04/22/2008 meeting with a favorable response. ACTION TO DATE: DELAYED. The District

selected King Engineering to finish the surface water modeling for the project and complete the design, permitting and

construction services. The model verification will require more time to complete than originally budgeted. There are

however certain elements of the project that can be accomplished by permit exemption. Part of the construction plan is to

remove a salinity barrier that interrupts flows of Ainger Creek. The District applied for and received a minor activities

exemption (de minimis) from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) for this. The exemption allowed

District crews to begin construction and accomplish a portion of the project. The District's contractor, American

Construction, completed the removal of the salinity barrier on December 4, 2009. King Engineering continues to make

progress on the design phase and has reached the 60% design phase. The District held a public meeting with adjacent

property owners and interested parties on October 27, 2010. In the original plan, the project construction was to be

completed using District crews and equipment. Because of increased demands on Operations staff, construction will now

be bid out to a private contractor. This requires additional design work and assembling a bid package and proposal for a

Request for Bid. This will likely delay the project 1-year from the original date.The District held a public meeting with

adjacent property owners on October 27, 2010. This served two purposes; (1) it allows the District to qualify for a Noticed

General Permit through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and (2) it provides information to adjacent

landowners and interested parties that the restoration/rehydration will not increase the flood risk to adjacent properties.


SA42

Design and Permitting to Construct a New Terra Ceia Boat Ramp

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Manatee CountyCooperator(s)


SOWDERS, GINATask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe boat ramp at the Terra Ceia State Park in Manatee County will consist of a launch and parking for approximately

20 vehicles. The boat ramp will be located on Bishop Harbor on the Terra Ceia State Park jointly by the District and

State of Florida. There currently exists an unimproved launch on the property. Surface Water Improvement and

Management (SWIM) program restoration plans require that the launch and parking be relocated to facilitate plan

implementation. Relocation will meet regional needs for boat launching facilities.

BenefitsPursuant to Section 373.1391(1)(a), Florida Statutes, lands within Preserve are managed and maintained in such a



Costs

Funding will be split between Manatee County, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the District.

Design and permitting is estimated to cost $150,000, with the District and Manatee County splitting the costs. The

District's portion of the funds are available from the Water Management Lands Trust Fund. It is anticipated that

construction will be funded by other entities.


(SOR)

021 Manasota Basin 0 0

Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


No significant activity this period.


SB05

Restoration - Myakka River Deer Prairie Creek Preserve Wetland

Restoration Design & PermittingProject Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


GREEN, STEPHANIETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe District's Governing Board approved the Hydrologic and Wetlands Restoration of District-owned Lands initiative at

their January 2004 meeting. The initiative focuses on 2 goals which are: A) recovering the functions of water storage


formerly provided by the impacted system in its undisturbed state. The project includes the hydrologic restoration of

impacted natural drainage conveyances and altered emergent marshes. Past agricultural practices of previous

landowners have altered the site's hydrology increasing the discharge from the wetlands. The restoration will provide

increased hydroperiods in the isolated wetlands and increase the habitat value of the wetlands. The FY2011 funds will

be for design and permitting. Construction and construction management will be budgeted for in FY2013.

BenefitsThe restoration will provide enhancement to the site's wetlands and increased habitat value for fish and wildlife.

Costs

The total project cost is $200,000 and will be used to hire a consultant for design and permitting. Funds for

construction will be requested in FY2013. The FY2012 funding amounts shown in the table below include staff salary,

travel and central garage charges.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

5,649 0


(SOR)


Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


1. Project DevelopmentField Meeting with District's Land Manager 10/7/10 3/8/11

2. Consultant and Contractor Agreement DevelopmentDevelop and Publish Request for Proposal 2/16/11

Select Consultant 4/13/11

3. Design and PermittingEnd Design 10/19/11

Permit Applications submitted FDEP/USACE 11/16/11

3. Project TasksBegin Design 6/15/11

Complete and Publish Bid Package 1/11/12

Select Contractor 3/14/12


SB05

Restoration - Myakka River Deer Prairie Creek Preserve Wetland

Restoration Design & PermittingCommence Construction 4/18/12

Complete Construction 7/18/12


To accomplish the project, a request for proposal will be developed to secure the services of a design/engineering

consulting firm to complete the engineering analysis for construction and environmental assessments necessary to

secure the environmental resource permits from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the United

States Army Corps of Engineers. Following the completion of the design and permitting phase, the consultant will assist

the District in selecting and securing the services of a contractor to complete project construction. Construction will take

place in FY 2013.


SB19

Restoration - Edward W. Chance Reserve Hydrologic Restoration

Project Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe District's Governing Board approved the Hydrologic and Wetlands Restoration of District-Owned Lands initiative at

their January 2004 meeting. The project focuses on 2 goals which are: A) recovering the functions of water storage


formerly provided by the impacted system in its undisturbed state. To accomplish this goal, the District will retain the

engineering and environmental services of PBS&J to complete a feasibility and alternatives analysis for the site. The

restoration site is located in the District's Edward W. Chance Reserve (formerly known as the Rutland Ranch). The

property is currently managed by the District for passive recreation and natural resource protection. There are many

isolated wetlands throughout the project area. The impacts to wetland systems are a result of linear ditches

constructed to facilitate drainage off-site thereby improving lands for row crops.

BenefitsThe project will recover the functions of water storage and conveyance of Gilley Creek and numerous isolated

herbaceous wetlands and recapture the benefits of water quality and wildlife habitat formerly provided by the impacted

system in its undisturbed state.

Costs

The design and permitting for the project will be completed at a cost of $75,439 and construction will be completed at

an additional cost of $236,475. The total project cost is estimated to be $311,914. The FY2012 funding amounts

shown in the table below include staff salary, travel and central garage charges. These activities are reimbursed at

100 percent from the state's Water Management Lands Trust Fund.


Revenue


Valorem Revenue

3,052 0


(SOR)


Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


1. DesignFesibility and Analysis Report Complete 8/31/06 2/21/08

Design Complete 10/31/09 3/15/10

1A Construction Under ExemptionAg Ditch Ponds and Fill Begin 9/15/09 9/15/09

Ag Ditch Ponds and Fill Complete 11/15/09 11/15/09

2. PermittingPermitting Commence 12/31/09 12/23/10

Permitting Complete 1/30/10 2/9/11


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Restoration - Edward W. Chance Reserve Hydrologic Restoration

3. ConstructionConstruction Commence 2/28/10 3/14/12


4. Agreement Expiration DatesKing Engineering Agreement Expires 5/31/12


The consultant completed the final restoration plan which identified three distinct areas where minor modifications to the

ditch network will result in rehydration of degraded wetlands. ACTION TO DATE: DELAYED. King Engineering, the

District's environmental consultant on the project is working on the Final report and permitting documents. Part of the

construction plan was to fill several upland agricultural ditches that are no longer contributing surface water to Gilley

Creek. Instead of incorporating this into the ERP, the District was able to apply for and receive a de minimis exemptions

from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) for minor activities which included the filling of 2.4 miles

of agricultural ditches. The District received a Nationwide 27 Permit from the Army Corps of Engineers. One of the

conditions of the NW 27 was for the District to create two mitigation ponds to compensate for the loss of foraging habitat

that the agricultural ditches provided for wood storks, a federally listed species. District crews completed the construction

in November 2009. The two mitigation ponds were planted in February 2010. In the original plan, the project construction

was to be completed using District crews and equipment. Because of increased demands on Operations staff,

construction will now be bid out to a private contractor. This requires additional design work and assembling a bid

package and proposal for a Request for Bid. This will likely delay the project 1-year from the original date.

The District held a public meeting with adjacent property owners on November 4, 2010. This served two purposes; (1) it

allows the District to qualify for a Noticed General Permit through the Florida Department of Environmental Protection

and (2) it provides information to adjacent landowners and interested parties that the restoration/rehydration will not

increase the flood risk to adjacent properties.


SB31

Myakka River State Park - Myakka Prairie Tract Wetland Restoration

Project Design & PermittingProject Type SOR


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager ZAJAC, CHRIS

RHINESMITH, PHILIPTask Manager(s)

Status Cancelled

DescriptionThe Myakka River State Park-Myakka Prairie Tract is located just south of the Myakka River State Park. The proposed

restoration included the filling of ditches which interconnect the site's isolated wetlands. The ditches alter the

hydroperiods in individual wetlands thereby reducing their hydroperiod. The project was endorsed by the Florida

Department of Environmental Protection who is responsible for the management of the State Park. District staff met

with park staff on July 7, 2010. During the site inspection the tract was too wet to access most areas. Additional

communications with park staff indicated that restoration activities were not needed on this tract of land. The wetlands

on site are inundated and show no signs of hydrologic stress.

BenefitsThe restoration project will provide enhancement to the site's wetlands and increase habitat value for fish and wildlife.

Costs

The total project cost is $100,000 and will be used to hire a consultant for design and permitting. Funds for

construction will be requested in FY2012-13. The District funding amounts shown in the table below include staff

salary, travel and central garage charges.

Additional Information

The Myakka Prairie Tract is approximately 8,275 acres and was purchased by the District in 1994 using Preservation

2000 funds. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has listed the property as having priority

wetlands habitat for the Florida Sandhill Crane, Black Bear and American Alligator. The FWC has also identified

strategic habitat for wading birds and two bird rookeries on site.


(SOR)


Funding Funding

2011 FY 2012 FY


1. Project DevelopmentProject Awarded to Consultant 10/20/10

Contract Development 12/15/10

2. Design and PermittingDesign Begin 3/16/11

Design Completed 7/20/11

Permit Applications FDEP/USACE 9/14/11


District staff met on site on July 7, 2010 with representatives from the Myakka River State Park to discuss potential sites

for restoration on the Myakka Prairie Tract. Based on site inspections and discussions with park staff it has been

determined that restoration is not currently needed on this tract of land.


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Planning - Tampa Bay Protection and Restoration Planning

Project Type SWIM

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and Improvement

Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Northwest Hillsborough, Pinellas-Anclote River, Manasota

Tampa Bay Estuary ProgramCooperator(s)

Project Manager KAUFMAN, KRIS

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project provides for the administration and implementation of projects as outlined in the SWIM Plan for Tampa

Bay. Administration and implementation includes assessment of implementation progress, a review and refinement of

the Pollutant Load Reduction Goal (PLRG) for the waterbody, periodic SWIM Advisory Committee meetings, new

project development (rationale and justification), development of relevant contracts and Requests for Proposals or

Quotes, invoicing, project related presentations, field visits, and miscellaneous duties as they arise. Additionally, this

project provides for the implementation of projects identified in the Tampa Bay SWIM Plan; including water quality

assessments necessary for SWIM plan implementation and periodic Tampa Bay Estuary Program (TBEP) Technical

Advisory Committee meetings.

BenefitsThis project's support of the Tampa Bay SWIM Plan creates an opportunity for a cohesive effort between the District,

and other state and local agencies to better implement resource management decisions and restoration activities.

Historically, SWIM projects have been eligible for state matching funds with the state funding 50 percent of the project

costs and the District funding the remaining 50 percent. In FY2011, all projects within the Tampa Bay SWIM watershed

are funded 100 percent by the Alafia, Hillsborough River, Pinellas-Anclote, and Manasota Basin Boards as no State

SWIM funds were available.

Costs

The FY2012 ongoing costs for the Tampa Bay SWIM Plan Implementation are funded 25 percent from the

Pinellas-Anclote River, 25 percent from the Manasota, 25 percent from the Hillsborough River, and 25 percent from

the Alafia River Basin Boards. District funds shown in the table include staff salaries.


In 1987, the Florida Legislature established the Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) Act having

recognized that water quality and habitat in surface waters throughout the state have degraded or were in danger of

being degraded. The Act requires the five water management districts to maintain a priority list of water bodies of

regional or statewide significance within their boundaries, and develop plans and programs for the improvement of

those water bodies. Tampa Bay was identified by the Legislature in the SWIM Act as the highest priority on the

District's SWIM priority list. To date, ten SWIM water bodies in the District have had plans developed and approved by

the state. Several plans have been updated one or more times as required by the Act.


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Revenue

011 Alafia River Basin 149,813 12,500 (4,445) 98,215 21,990 21,553

013 Hillsborough River Basin 125,250 12,500 (29,445) 98,652 21,990 21,553

014 Northwest Hillsborough Basin 74,686 0 0 74,686 0 0

016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 151,254 12,500 (4,445) 99,656 21,990 21,553

021 Manasota Basin 150,300 12,500 (4,445) 98,702 21,990 21,553


State Trust Funds (SWIM) 193,160 0 (25,000) 218,160 0 0

State Trust Funds (SWIM) - Prior 2006 236,306 0 0 236,306 0 0

WMLTF (SWIM) - Prior Year Funds 44,220 0 0 44,220 0 0

$1,124,989 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesTampa Bay SWIM Plan Update 2/8/99 2/8/99

Next Update of SWIM Plan 12/31/06 12/31/11

2. Critical Project MilestonesUSF Stable Isotope Analysis Purchase Order Opened 8/25/05 8/25/05

Coordination Meeting for Isotopic Investigation of OTB Pollutants 4/15/07 4/15/07

Expiration of Purchase Order 12/31/07 12/31/07

3. Critical Project MilestonesDesign and implementation of Tampa Bay Shallow Water Sampling 1/31/08 2/29/08 2/25/08

3. Critical Project MilestonesCompletion of first year of Tampa Bay Shallow Water Sampling 12/31/08 12/31/08

Completion of second year of Tampa Bay Shallow Water Sampling test 12/31/09 11/29/10 12/31/09

4. Critical Project MilestonesTBEP Old Tampa Bay Expert Technical Support P.O. Notice to Proceed 12/15/10 9/22/10

TBEP Old Tampa Bay Expert RFP Developement Meeting 1/13/11 1/13/11

TBEP Old Tampa Bay Expert Technical Support PO Expiration 12/31/11

5. Critical Project MilestonesTBEP Development of Water Quality and Nutrient Criteria PO Notice to Proceed 4/1/11

TBEP Development of Water Quality and Nutrient Criteria PO Expiration 12/31/11


Coordination and implementation of the Tampa Bay Shallow Water Quality Evaluation is complete. The final monthly

sampling event was held December 2009. The data was integrated into the District's EDMS/Adapt program and will be

uploaded to FDEP STORET. The data is currently being reformat for analysis purposes. Evaluations of TBEP's existing

monitoring programs and discussions of other cooperative implementation opportunities will continue to be reviewed

through participation in the TAC and subcommittee meetings. Coordination with the TBEP is ongoing to gather expert

advise and relevant information related to the modeling and assessment of Old Tampa Bay. A purchase order with the

TBEP was opened in December 2010, to procure the services of two experts for assisting in developing the OTB

assessment tool RFP and proposal review. The coordination and information gathering will provide support for

development of the FY2011 Old Tampa Bay Assessment RFP (W200 and W201). An RFP development meeting with

participation by the TBEP OTB Experts was held Jan 2011. As an element of the District's ongoing participation in the

Estuary Program's estuarine numeric nutrient criteria setting efforts, the District is working with TBEP staff to coordinate

and cooperatively fund target setting for Boca Ciega Bay, Terra Ceia Bay and Manatee River bay segments. As of March


W020


3, 2011, a purchase order with associated scope of work is being processed to have TBEP lead the effort for

development of water quality and nutrient load criteria for the above referenced segments.


W027

Planning - Tampa Bay Estuary Program Plan Development &

ImplementationProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Pinellas-Anclote River, Manasota

Tampa Bay Estuary Program, Tampa Bay Estuary ProgramCooperator(s)

Project Manager GARCIA, LIZANNE

CRAW, VERONICA, SEACHRIST, JENNETTETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project provides funding for the Tampa Bay Estuary Program (TBEP) as outlined in the Interlocal Agreement

which established the TBEP as a independent special district in 1998. The District participates in three main areas.

First the District's SWIM program, funded by the basin boards and State, carries out the projects that will address

water quality and habitat restoration within the bay. Second, the basin boards and State have contributed funding to

the TBEP since 1990 to carry out the administration and implement projects identified in the TBEP Comprehensive

Conservation and Management Plan. And finally, the District provides staff to sit on the technical, management and

policy (Governing Board Member) boards and the Nitrogen Management Consortium of the program. The District's

annual budget includes funding support to the TBEP and District staff salaries, travel and central garage to administer

the project, which includes attending board meetings and other workshops and invoicing.

BenefitsThis project's support of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program creates an opportunity for a cohesive effort between the

District, TBEP and other state and local agencies to implement resource management decisions and restoration

activities. Additionally, this project provides for leveraging funding between the partners.

Costs

The District has provided funding to the TBEP on an annual basis since 1990. The District's annual funding

commitment to the TBEP is $138,335. Prior to FY2010, the District share was split between State SWIM funds (50%)

and the Basin Boards (50%). In FY2011, the District's funding is funded 100% by the Basin Boards. The

FY2011 funding is split 25 percent ($34,583.75) from the Pinellas-Anclote River, 25 percent ($34,583.75) from the

Manasota, 25 percent ($34,583.75) from the Hillsborough River, and 25 percent ($34,583.75) from the Alafia River

Basin Boards. In FY2012 the proposed funding is $138,335 to be funded 100% by the Basin Boards with the same

percentages for each basin as in 2011. District funds are used to implement projects outlined in the Annual Workplan.

District funds shown in the table include staff salaries.


TBEP Background: In 1987, the Florida Legislature established the Surface Water Improvement and Management

Program (SWIM) Act having recognized that water quality and habitat in surface waters through out the state have

degraded or are in danger of being degraded. The Act requires the District maintain a priority list of waterbodies of

regional or statewide significance within their boundaries. The Act listed Tampa Bay as the District's number one

priority. Subsequently, in 1990, the United States Environmental Protection Agency identified Tampa Bay as an

estuary of Federal Significance and included it in the National Estuary Program. As a result of this designation, the

Tampa Bay National Estuary Program (TBNEP) was established in 1991 (with the District as a founding partner) to

assist the region in developing a comprehensive plan for the restoration and protection of Tampa Bay. The TBNEP

developed the first Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) for Tampa Bay in 1996 which

included measurable goals for restoring seagrasses and related targets for reducing nitrogen discharges to the bay.

The parties unanimously adopted a "hold the line" target on nitrogen discharges that capped the load at a level that

would ensure adequate water clarity and light to sustain seagrass recovery. In August 1996, the NEP's governmental

partners joined with key industries in the Tampa Bay region to create a unique public/private partnership known as the

Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium (Consortium) for the express purpose of developing a Consortium

Action Plan to meet the "hold the line" target. The original Consortium Action Plan consisted of more than 100 projects

which collectively reduced or precluded nitrogen discharges to the bay by an estimated 134 tons/year between 1995

and 1999. In 1998, local government and agency partners in the TBNEP executed the Tampa Bay Estuary Program

Interlocal Agreement reinforcing their commitment to the NEP and its purpose (at which time the NEP became the

Tampa Bay Estuary Program or TBEP). Parties to the Interlocal Agreement include the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA), Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), the District, Hillsborough, Manatee and

Pinellas counties and the cites of St. Petersburg, Tampa and Clearwater. The Interlocal Agreement requires that

parties provide annual funding to the TBEP, develop an agency action plan and to participate as a member of the

Consortium. Later in 1998, the public and private entities in the Consortium executed the "Resolution of the Nitrogen


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ImplementationManagement Consortium Adopting the 1995-1999 Nitrogen Management Action Plan and Committing to its

Implementation" (1998 Resolution). This resolution was presented to the five Basin Boards that represented Tampa

Bay (Alafia River, Northwest Hillsborough, Hillsborough River, Pinellas-Anclote River, and Manasota) and the

Governing Board at their meetings in June 1998 and the Governing Board approved this resolution and the District's

Action Plan June 23, 1998. Tampa Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Status: In 1998, pursuant to the federal

Clean Water Act, FDEP submitted a TMDL for nitrogen for Tampa Bay to the EPA. The TMDL is based on the annual

average total nitrogen loading to major bay segments estimated by the TBEP. These loadings are seen as the

maximum loadings that can occur and still meet the seagrass restoration goals. EPA approved the submitted TMDL

June 18, 1998. In 1999, the Florida Legislature passed the Florida Watershed Restoration Act which established the

state's TMDL process. This Act allows for stakeholders to show that existing or proposed pollution control programs

will provide "Reasonable Assurance" (RA) that impaired water bodies will meet their designated uses. If FDEP accepts

the documentation for RA, then the water body will not be included on the Verified List for Impaired Waters and will not

require the development of a TMDL. Subsequently, the TBEP and the Consortium developed and submitted a RA

document to the FDEP in 2002, based on the Consortium Action Plan. The document provided the FDEP with a

complete description of the Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Strategy. The TBEP also provided FDEP with a copy of

the 1998 Resolution that committed both private and public partners to the projects identified in their action plans. The

FDEP accepted the 2002 RA document submitted by the TBEP and the Consortium as adequate to address nutrient

impairment in Tampa Bay segments, and removed Tampa Bay segments from the State's 303(d) list for 2002-2007.

Fertilizer Ordinance: The Estuary Program, through a consensus driven stakeholder process, developed a Model

Fertilizer Use Ordinance that is now being considered by several communities in the Tampa Bay region. The

ordinance is intended to reduce nitrogen pollution from stormwater flowing into the bay and other surface waters.

TBEP scientists estimate that a 50% compliance rate with the ordinance could reduce the amount of nitrogen entering

Tampa Bay each year by 84 tons.


Revenue

011 Alafia River Basin 201,201 34,584 0 94,181 35,594 36,842

013 Hillsborough River Basin 201,201 34,584 0 94,181 35,594 36,842


016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 201,201 34,584 0 94,181 35,594 36,842

021 Manasota Basin 201,200 34,584 0 94,180 35,594 36,842


State Trust Funds (SWIM) 288,408 0 0 288,408 0 0



District

Local Government Partners 1,679,990 0 0 1,393,325 0 286,665

US EPA 3,402,983 0 0 2,602,983 0 800,000

$6,241,516 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2011 Annual Workplan Critical Project MilestonesFY2011 Draft Agreement to Management Services 6/2/10 5/18/10

Agreement fully executed 10/1/10 10/4/10


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ImplementationFY2011 First 1/2 payment 12/1/10 12/8/10

FY2011 Second 1/2 Payment 3/1/11

End of Contract 9/30/11

FY2012 Annual Workplan Critical Project MilestonesFY2012 Draft Agreement to Management Services 6/1/11

FY2012 Agreement Fully Executed 10/1/11

Fy2012 First 1/2 Payment 12/1/11

Fy2012 Second 1/2 Payment 3/1/12

FY2012 Contract Expiration 9/30/12


FY2011 Annual Work Plan: The FY2011 workplan has been executed and the invoice for the first payment has been

received and processed. TBEP Nitrogen Management Consortium (Consortium): The NMC had a joint meeting with the

TBEP Technical Advisory Committee on January 28, 2011. The group heard prestentations on the 2010 water quality

and seagrass mapping results. In December 2007, 40+ public and private participants in the Tampa Bay Nitrogen

Management Consortium proactively committed to develop an equitable process to propose TN load allocations to all

sources consistent with the TMDL. The RA Document was completed and the FDEP approved the technical changes to

the document. Compliance will be calculated annually for point sources and every 5 years part of the RA Plan updates

for non-point sources. FDEP used the allocations published in the Final 2009 Reasonable Assurance Addendum to

develop the Tampa Bay WQBEL (water quality-based effluent limitations). It provides TN limits for point and non-point

source discharges into Tampa Bay based on the. FDEP published its Final Order regarding the WQBELs on November

16, 2010. The WQBELs will be implemented in permits at the time of the next permit renewal. Numeric Nutrient Criteria

(NNC): The Consortium is continuing to meet to review and participate in the development of Numeric Nutrient Criteria

for FDEP and EPA. The TBEP and Consortium requested that USEPA accept and recognize the Consortium's TN and

TP loads as Interim Estuarine Numeric Nutrient Loading Targets. The TBEP Policy Board/elected officials sent a letter to

EPA (dated 3/18/10) endorsing the request of the NMC that EPA accept and finalize the TN and TP loads as the

protective loads for the TB estuary. On June 7, 2010, EPA and the Plaintiffs filed a Joint Notice to the Court of Extension

of Consent Decree Deadlines that recognized that peer review should be conducted prior to proposing or soliciting

additional comment on the criteria for estuarine and coastal waters. The publication of proposed criteria for coastal and

estuarine waters was changed to November 14, 2011 and final rulemaking was delayed until August 15, 2012. The

Consortium provided recommended methodology for Numeric Nutrient Criteria for estuaries to EPA in July 2010. The

recommended methodology is referenced within the master EPA methods document. There was a Joint Meeting

between FDEP, SW Florida NEP TACs and NMC on Sept. 2nd to discuss draft estuarine numeric nutrient criteria.

Janicki presented the results of his effort to develop bay segment-specific TN and TP concentrations consistent with the

TN and TP loads recommended previously. EPA has sought input from the NEP on several specific topics including:

consideration of spatial and temporal variability, non-anthropogenic exceptions (hurricanes, El Nino, etc.), and how to

address bayous and tidal creeks. Representatives from the NEP attended EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) meeting

held on December 13 - 14, 2010. The SAB was receptive to supporting local efforts in developing Site-Specific

Alternative Criteria. The SAB was critical of Downstream Protection Values and EPA's modeling approach. The TBEP

submitted recommendations to EPA regarding the establishment of numeric nutrient criteria for the Tampa Bay Estuary

on February 22, 2011. The document proposed TN and TP loading criteria for the four mainstem segments of Tampa

Bay. It included language addressing concentration-based criteria, the lack of need for downstream protection values,

and a recommendation that tidal creeks be considered as unique entities.


W028

Education - Partial Funding for TBRPC's Bay Soundings

Project Type SWIM

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementWater Supply ConservationNatural Systems Natural Systems Conservation and Restoration


Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, Tampa Bay Regional Planning CouncilCooperator(s)

Project Manager HARROUN, AMY

Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) project consists of a full-color, 16-page, quarterly

environmental journal that provides important information on issues affecting Tampa Bay, its watershed and the

natural resources of the Tampa Bay region. The Bay Soundings publication supports the Tampa Bay SWIM plan and

is consistent with the Tampa Bay Estuary Program goals. Through the education efforts of Bay Soundings, residents in

the Tampa Bay area learn about the restoration and preservation of SWIM water bodies. This free publication is

distributed throughout Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough and Manatee counties to government and non-government

agencies, local attractions, private businesses, environmental clubs, schools, libraries, elected officials and sponsors.

District staff sits on the editorial board and provides story ideas featuring District projects that meet the editorial focus

of the publication. Bay Soundings' web site is www.tbsoundings.com. The effectiveness of this publication will be

measured by the total print circulation and number of online impressions.

BenefitsBay Soundings increases residents' knowledge and awareness of the District's educational outreach efforts on Tampa

Bay and helps to increase the readers' knowledge of local environmental issues. Each edition of this publication

features one or more topics pertaining to District projects or areas of responsibility. SWIM water bodies are often

featured in the publication's articles.

Costs

The total proposed cost for the FY2012 project is $45,000, with the District requested to contribute $22,500 (Alafia

River $2,250; Hillsborough River $7,875; Pinellas-Anclote River $7,425; Manasota $4,950). District funds are being

requested for the production, printing and circulation of 30,000 copies each issue.


The total cost for the FY2011 project was $45,000 with the District contributing $22,500 (Alafia River $2,250;

Hillsborough River $7,875; Pinellas-Anclote River $7,425; Manasota $4,950). The publication's circulation totaled

30,000 distributed copies each issue. In addition the web site was reporting 35,000 hits per month.


W028

Education - Partial Funding for TBRPC's Bay Soundings


Revenue

011 Alafia River Basin 10,415 0 0 5,915 2,250 2,250

013 Hillsborough River Basin 33,703 0 0 17,953 7,875 7,875


016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 39,226 0 0 24,376 7,425 7,425

021 Manasota Basin 24,928 0 0 15,028 4,950 4,950




District

Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council 67,500 0 0 22,500 22,500 22,500

$226,618 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2008Winter issue 2/20/08 2/20/08

Spring issue 5/20/08 5/20/08

Summer issue 8/20/08 7/29/08

Fall issue 11/20/08 10/17/08

FY2009PO opened 10/1/08 10/20/08

Winter issue 2/20/09 2/5/09

Spring issue 5/20/09 5/18/09

Summer issue 8/20/09 8/20/09

Fall issue 11/20/09 11/20/09

FY2010PO opened 10/1/09 10/1/09

Winter issue 2/20/10 2/20/10

Spring issue 5/20/10 5/7/10

Summer issue 8/20/10 8/6/10

FY2011Fall issue 11/20/10 11/15/10

PO opened 1/28/11 2/28/11

Winter Issue 2/21/11 2/14/11


ACTION TO DATE: On time. The Winter issue was distributed on time. The issue contained stories about the District's

restoration efforts of Old Tampa Bay. SWIM manager, Jennette Seachrist, was interviewed for the story. Additional

stories included coverage of the District's "Skip a Week" campaign and information about District staff helping with the

Stewart Middle School "Living Laboratory."


W030

Education - Tampa Bay Watch Field Trip Program at Tampa Bay

Watch Marine CenterProject Type SWIM

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementNatural Systems Natural Systems Conservation and Restoration


Tampa Bay Watch, Tampa Bay WatchCooperator(s)

Project Manager HULL, MARY MARGARET

Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) project proposes to educate elementary, middle, high

school and college students about estuarine science and empower them to act as stewards of the Tampa Bay estuary

by combining classroom curriculum with 325 hands-on field experiences in and around Tampa Bay Watch's Marine

Science Center. The proposed programming will reach students and teachers in Hillsborough, Manatee and Pinellas

counties. In FY2012, the program will include educational field experiences, classroom presentations, teacher training,

coastal plantings, oyster reef enhancement efforts and coastal cleanups, while continuing a pilot

comprehensive program evaluation of student learning. The program evaluation will assess student knowledge gain

and retention of estuarine science and environmental literacy as well as behavioral changes due to progressive

experiences linked with the programming. The project will also provide restoration of approximately eight acres of

coastal and near-shore habitat, build and install 300 new oyster domes and construct approximately 600 linear feet of

new oyster shell bars. The program's effectiveness will be measured with student pre/posttests, journal work and

teacher surveys.

BenefitsTampa Bay was identified as the highest priority on the District's SWIM priority list in 1988. The program's proposed

goals are to educate students and teachers about the importance of estuarine habitats and restoration efforts and to

empower them to become lifelong stewards of Tampa Bay. The cooperator continues to look for ways to innovate the

program and implement improvements. A three-year comprehensive pilot study with three to five participating middle

schools will track students' progression and learning from sixth through eighth grade. A 32% gain in student knowledge

has been documented through pre/posttest analyses. Cooperator has a long history with the District and is well versed

in Florida's standards-based education guidelines.

Costs

The total proposed cost of the FY2012 program is $323,049, with the District contributing $159,925 (Alafia River

$7,996; Hillsborough River $39,981; Pinellas-Anclote River $95,955; Manasota $15,993). The dollar amount allocated

for each contributing Basin Board is determined by the projected participating schools within each basin. District

funds are being requested for program implementation, 325 field trips, three teacher training workshops, four student

newsletters, program evaluation, aquatic supplies, equipment and field guides. The proposed FY2012 program

includes a 7% cost increase due to adding 25 more field trips and adding college students in field trip

programming. The program will reach 12,968 students and adults at a cost to the District of $12.79 per person, 11%

lower than other comparable youth education projects. The cost per participant contact hour is $3.57, 9% lower than

the youth education average. The budget lines below include costs for staff to manage the project.


The total cost of the FY2011 program is $307,170, with the District contributing $147,850 (Alafia River $14,785;

Hillsborough River $36,963; Pinellas-Anclote River $88,710; Manasota $7,392). The dollar amount allocated for each

contributing Basin Board is determined by the participating schools within each basin. District funds are used for

program implementation and evaluation, 300 field trips, three teacher training workshops, four student newsletters,

aquatic supplies, equipment and field guides. The program will reach 12,600 students and adults at a cost to the

District of $11.73 per person, 28% lower than other comparable youth education projects. The cost per participant

contact hour is $2.05, 31% lower than the youth education average. The District has supported this project since

FY2007.


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Education - Tampa Bay Watch Field Trip Program at Tampa Bay

Watch Marine Center


Revenue





021 Manasota Basin 46,554 0 0 22,293 16,869 7,392



WMLTF (SWIM) - Prior Year Funds 479 0 0 479 0 0


District

Tampa Bay Watch 658,464 0 0 495,340 0 163,124

$1,423,688 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2009 Budgeted FundsPurchase order opened 10/27/08 10/31/08

Field trips and teacher training completed 8/30/09 8/30/09

Final report and invoice due to District 9/30/09 9/30/09

FY2010 Budgeted FundsInitiate purchase order 10/1/09 12/4/09

Field trips and teacher training completed 8/31/10 8/31/10



Field trips and teacher training completed 8/31/11

Final report and invoice due to the District 9/30/11


ACTION TO DATE: On time. Cooperator completed field trips (81 on-site Estuary EDventures, 46 off-site Bay Grasses In

Classes field trips), 1 community ecotour, 9 outreach sessions and 1 community saltmarsh planting within the first

quarter (October through December). Teacher workshops will occur during the fourth quarter of grant cycle. One issue of

student newsletters has been completed and the second will be distributed in March. Summer camps are being

scheduled.


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Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - City of Anna Maria

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

City of Anna MariaCooperator(s)

Project Manager PRESTON, MATT

Task Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThe City of Anna Maria has submitted this multi-phase cooperative funding project to implement water quality and

flood protection best management practices (BMPs) in the Lower Tampa Bay Watershed, part of Tampa Bay and

Sarasota Bay, SWIM waterbodies. The project will impact four areas within the City totaling approximately 124 acres:

1) North Bay/Tarpon Basin, 2) North Shore/Jacaranda Basin, 3) South Drive/South Bay Area, and 4)

Crescent/Gulf/Willow Basin. All four basins outfall into the internal canals of Anna Maria, which in turn discharge into

Lower Tampa Bay. With FY2007 funding the work on the Implementation of BMPs (Phase 1) includes the following

tasks: design, development of construction documents, construction permitting, bidding and contractor selection,

construction of the BMPs and construction engineering and inspection for the Crescent/Gulf/Willow improvement area.

The BMPs will address level of service (LOS) deficiencies. The flood protection and water quality improvements

include 10-ft wide shallow dry retention swales with ditch blocks, various diameter HDPE/RCP pipe, inlet/control

structures and BMP baffle structures (one at each basin outfall location). The swales will provide treatment of

stormwater runoff through percolation and evaporation while the baffle structures will provide treatment through

sedimentation, filtration and skimming. The City submitted a request for FY2008 and FY2009 funding to complete the

implementation of BMPs in the final three areas.

BenefitsThe City of Anna Maria has initiated a program to provide capital improvement projects that will improve both the water

quality and flood protection LOS provided by the City's surface water management system. The overall effect of the

improvements will be a reduction in pollutant loadings to the internal man-made canal system (classified as

Outstanding Florida Waters), Anna Maria Sound, Sarasota Bay, and Tampa Bay. The anticipated increase in flood

protection LOS will be through an increase in storage and conveyance capacity. The stormwater filtration devices

being proposed will provide suspended solids removal from stormwater runoff that previously discharged directly into

the canal/bay system.

Costs

The total budget amount for this project is $1.47 million with the Distict and the City of Anna Maria each contributing

half. The FY2009 project cost is $225,600, with the City and the District each contributing half ($112,800). The District

share is split between the Manasota Basin Board ($56,400) and State SWIM ($56,400). The probable construction

costs for this project are based on the BMP alternative analysis developed by the cooperator. The District funding

amounts shown in the table below include staff salary, travel and central garage.


Since 1950, approximately 50 percent of Tampa Bay's natural shoreline and approximately 40 percent of Sarasota

Bay's intertidal wetland habitat has been lost due to development and reduction in water quality. This resulted in a

decline in the aesthetic, recreational, and commercial value of the bay, as well as loss of habitat for native plants and

animals. The SWIM Plans for Tampa Bay and Sarasota Bay outline goals to restore habitat throughout the bay areas

and reduce pollutant loads entering the bays. The improvements will be made in City owned alleys and right of ways.

The funding should complete the following tasks for Phase 2 (North Bay/Tarpon Basin, North Shore/Jacaranda Basin,

and South Drive/South Bay improvement areas): design, development of construction documents, construction

permitting, bidding and contractor selection, construction of the BMPs and construction engineering and inspection.


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Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 380,729 0 0 377,897 0 2,832





District

City of Anna Maria 734,800 0 0 734,800 0 0

$1,493,422 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Phase I - Contract Development & ExecutionNotice to Proceed 10/1/06 10/1/06

Draft Agreement sent to Management Services 11/30/06 11/30/06

City Approval of Contract 12/15/06 12/15/06

Contract Executed by District 12/27/06 12/27/06

2. Phase I - Critical Project MilestonesProject Conceptual Design Complete 6/30/07 6/30/07

Design and Survey Complete 12/1/07 11/28/07

Acquire Project Permits 1/30/08 6/12/08

Commence Construction 3/31/08 6/15/08

Preparation of Construction Documents Complete 7/30/08 12/28/07

Public Bid for Project Construction 9/30/08 12/14/07

Project Construction Complete 7/30/10 5/29/09

As-built Record Drawings 9/30/10 11/5/09

Final Project Report with Evaluation of Improvements 9/30/10 11/5/09

3. Phase I - Close OutContract Termination 12/31/10 12/31/10

4. Phase II - Contract Development & ExecutionDraft Agreement 8/9/07 8/9/07

Draft Agreement to Management Services 9/4/07 9/4/07

Agreement to City 9/20/07 9/20/07

City Approval of Contract 9/28/07 10/11/07

District Approval of Contract 10/1/07 1/14/08

Agreement Back to Contracts for Funding Adjustments 12/11/07 12/11/07

Revised Agreement Back to City for Approval 12/31/07 1/15/08

City Approval of Revised Contract 1/15/08 1/9/08

Executed Contract and Notice to Proceed to City 1/31/08 1/14/08

5. Phase II - Critical Project MilestoneDesign and Survey Complete 10/17/08 3/31/09 4/30/09

Commence Construction 12/31/08 10/30/09 10/26/09

Project Construction Complete 9/30/11 4/21/10

As-built Record Drawings 11/30/11 9/22/10

Final Project Report With Evaluation 11/30/11 9/22/10

Contract Termination 12/31/11


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Phase I and Phase II construction has been completed and the project has been closed out.


W312

Tampa Bay Habitat Restoration Regional Coordination

Project Type SWIM

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementNatural Systems Natural Systems Conservation and Restoration

Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Northwest Hillsborough, Pinellas-Anclote River, Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager HENNINGSEN, BRANDT

Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis project provides funds for general support to SWIM habitat restoration efforts for Tampa Bay. Limited project

construction expenses are budgeted under this activity code. Additionally, this project includes funds for exotic plant

maintenance at the habitat restoration sites. Lastly, funds for this project allow planning of future projects, and facilitate

SWIM involvement with various environmental committees and task forces (e.g., various committees of the Tampa

Bay Estuary Program, etc.)

BenefitsThis project is important for meeting management goals of SWIM and the Tampa Bay Estuary Program (TBEP).

Coordination and planning of existing and future projects is a critical component of long term success of both

programs. If funds are not allocated, then SWIM's ability to successfully perform their habitat restoration projects for

Tampa Bay will be compromised. Accordingly, the District will not be meeting its (and the TBEP's) goals to restore

important habitats (and improve water quality) for the bay, habitats which have suffered great losses because of land

development and other human uses of the resource.

Costs

The FY2011 and proposed FY2012 costs are funded 25 percent from the Pinellas-Anclote River, 25 percent from the

Manasota, 25 percent from the Hillsborough River, and 25 percent from the Alafia River Basin Boards. District funds

shown in the table include staff salaries. District funds shown in the table include staff salaries, travel and central

garage.


Tampa Bay is the District's top priority Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) program waterbody, is

a category I (most in need of restoration) under the State's Unified Watershed Assessment and Watershed

Restoration Priorities, and is considered an "estuary of national significance" with the designation of the Tampa Bay

(National) Estuary Program. Since 1950, about 50 percent of the bay's natural shoreline and 40 percent of its

seagrass acreage were lost as a result of physical destruction and water quality impairment. This resulted in a decline

in the aesthetic, recreational, and commercial value of the bay, as well as a loss of habitat for native plants and

animals.


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Tampa Bay Habitat Restoration Regional Coordination


Revenue

011 Alafia River Basin 207,887 12,500 (13,702) 169,793 20,750 18,546

013 Hillsborough River Basin 142,576 12,500 (77,691) 167,169 22,052 18,546


016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 229,190 12,500 (13,702) 191,096 20,750 18,546

021 Manasota Basin 213,237 12,500 (15,279) 176,720 20,750 18,546


Ecosystem Trust Fund - Tampa-Allen's

Ck (SWIM)

1,500,000 0 0 1,500,000 0 0




$3,449,804 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


On 01/11/2011, SWIM in concert with Tampa Bay Watch conducted a volunteer marsh transplant event for the Clam

Bayou Ecosystem Restoration and Stromwater Treatment Project; working in concert with the project's contractor and

their trackhoe operator, the 30 volunteers transplanted thousands of units of three species of marsh grasses to a new

intertidal marsh platform of a newly excavated tidal lagoon; the plants were removed from a previously restored sector

(2001) of the Clam Bayou project, an area that now will have a tidal channel linking the previous phase to the new tidal

lagoon; this is the first time that SWIM has ever attempted this sort of restoration activity, and it appears to be very

successful. On 02/16/2011, Dr. Brandt Henningsen provided a requested overview of the Clam Bayou Ecosystem

Restoration and Stormwater Treatment project to and Environmental Ecology class from the University of South Florida.

At the request of the Pasco County Environmental Lands Acquisition and Management Program (ELAMP), Dr.

Henningen provided a tour of various Tampa Bay ecosystem and stormwater treatment projects (02/21/2011); Pasco

County ELAMP is planning to begin restoring and managing public lands that they have purchased over the last six years

and wanted to gain perspective on the restoration process and the maturation of restored habitats. In addition, Dr.

Henningsen was invited to serve as a member of an ecofocal group for the "Resilience Tampa Bay" workshop hosted by

the University of South Florida during 02/22-23/2011). Lastly, Dr. Henningsen provided an invited presentation

(02/24/2011) to the St. Petersburg "Exchange Club", providing an overview of Tampa Bay restoration and the ongoing

Clam Bayou project. With Tampa Bay Watch, SWIM staff are coordinating a volunteer marsh planting involving an

anticipated 150 volunteers to install 10,000 units of marsh grass and a number of upland trees on Saturday morning,

03/12/2011, at the Clam Bayou Ecosystem Restoration and Stormwater Treatment Project.


W331

Data - Biennial Seagrass Coverage - Tampa Bay, Sarasota Bay,

Lemon Bay and Charlotte HarborProject Type SWIM

AORs Strategic InitiativesNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and Monitoring

Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Northwest Hillsborough, Pinellas-Anclote River, Peace River,

Manasota

Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program, Tampa Bay Estuary Program, Sarasota Bay Estuary

Program, Pinellas County

Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis SWIM initiative project involves mapping and monitoring seagrass within four SWIM priority waterbodies: Tampa

Bay, Sarasota Bay, Lemon Bay, and Charlotte Harbor. Funds requested in the FY2011 budget of $175,000 will be for

the 2012 phase of mapping. The funds needed for the 2012 effort will be budgeted in FY2011 and FY2012. In

addition to SWIM waterbodies, contractual services for the St. Joseph Sound/Clearwater Harbor Biennial GIS Mapping

of Seagrass (See K150) are completed under a single agreement to benefit from economy of scale. Specifically, the

District's consultant will provide digital aerial photography, photointerpretation, and GIS-based mapping in order to

generate calculations of seagrass acreage and distribution within each of the named waterbodies. The project is

conducted every two years to monitor the long-term health of these vital resources. Funds budgeted in FY2009 and

FY2010 are for the 2009 - 2010 effort. The digital format utilized in 2004 and 2006 allowed for more detailed GIS

analysis to be conducted beyond creation of the original seagrass map product and will allow for efficient transfer of

the imagery to fill agency and public requests. A new task started during the 2007-2008 effort was to scan historical

photography from previous seagrass mapping efforts in the 1990s and early 2000s at high resolution. The effort is

onging and the intent is to complete the georeferencing needed for creation of digital GIS imagery layers that will then

be uploaded to the District's GIS system.

BenefitsThe mapping of seagrasses within each estuary allows the District, the Estuary Programs, and other entities to monitor

the health and distribution of seagrasses. Seagrass health is used as an indicator of water quality conditions. Thus,

this project can assist with water resource management decision making, specifically in evaluating the effectiveness of

water quality improvement projects.

Costs

The project costs for mapping SWIM waterbodies in 2012 is estimated at $350,000, of which $175,000 was budgeted

in FY2011 and $175,000 is proposed for FY2012. The FY2011 funding is $175,000 with five basin boards (Alafia

River, Hillsborough River, Pinellas-Anclote River, Peace River, and Manasota) contributing equally. District funds

shown in the table include staff salaries.


The recently completed phase of mapping began in December 2009. Seagrass mapping for SWIM waterbodies

(W331) and St. Joseph Sound Clearwater Harbor (K150) will be completed under one agreement at a total estimated

cost of $350,000. Seagrass meadows serve as nurseries for a variety of commercially and recreational important

species of fin fish and shellfish, and they are highly dependent upon the maintenance of good water quality. The next

phase of mapping is planned for December 2011. The project meets the goals and objectives of the Tampa Bay,

Sarasota Bay, and Charlotte Harbor SWIM Plans, the Tampa Bay Estuary Program, Sarasota Bay Estuary Program,

and Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program. The 2010 effort is complete and results are available. Between 2008

and 2010, seagrass coverage in Tampa Bay increased by approximately 11%, Sarasota Bayseagrass increased

0.4%, Lemon Bay seagrass coverage increased by 6%, and Charlotte Harbor coverage increased by 4%.


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Lemon Bay and Charlotte Harbor


Revenue

011 Alafia River Basin 186,078 35,000 0 72,958 40,185 37,935

013 Hillsborough River Basin 186,078 35,000 0 72,958 40,185 37,935


016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 186,078 35,000 0 72,958 40,185 37,935

020 Peace River Basin 270,901 35,000 0 157,781 40,185 37,935

021 Manasota Basin 266,957 35,000 0 153,837 40,185 37,935




WMLTF (SWIM) - Prior Year Funds 100,020 0 87,500 12,520 0 0

$1,786,882 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesRequest for Proposals 6/15/03 7/11/03

Begin Review of Proposals 8/15/03 9/22/03


Contract Executed 11/15/03 1/16/04

Photography Shot for 2003/2004 1/31/04 1/17/04

Final Report for 2003/2004 12/31/04 12/31/04

First Amendment to the 2003/2004 Agreement 12/1/05 12/13/05

Consultant Notice to Proceed 12/1/05 12/13/05

Acquisition of Aerial Photography 1/31/06 2/15/06 2/10/06

Final Deliverables for 2005/2006 12/31/06 12/31/06

Agreement Expiration Date 12/31/06 12/31/06

2. Critical Project MilestonesProcessing of Technical Specifications and Purchase Order 10/30/07 11/30/07

Purchase Order with scope of work Opened 11/30/07 11/30/07

Work Order #1 Opened 12/13/07 12/13/07

Consultant imagery acquisition 1/30/08 2/15/08 2/15/08

Consultant ortho-imagery production 3/31/08 3/31/08

Consultant photointerpretation 10/31/08 10/31/08

Consultant GIS validation 11/30/08 11/30/08

Consultant submittal of 2008 final deliverables 12/31/08 12/31/08

3. Critical Project MilestonesWork Order 1 under 2010 P.O. Executed 12/1/09 12/1/09

2010 Work Order 1: Imagery Acquisition Complete 2/15/10 1/12/10

4. Critical Project Milestone2010 Work Order 4: PI Variance Exercise Complete 12/31/10 12/31/10

2010 Work Order 5: Accuracy Assessment Complete 1/31/11 1/31/11

2010 Work Order 3: Georectification of Historical Photo Scans Executed 4/30/11

4. Critical Project Milestones2010 Work Order 2: P.O. Executed 3/1/10 3/1/10

2010 Work Order 2: GIS Mapping Complete 12/31/10 12/24/10


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Lemon Bay and Charlotte Harbor


The first work order for the 2010 effort was executed December 2009. Imagery for all waterbodies was captured by

January 12, 2010. The second work order for photointerpretation and GIS based mapping was executed in March 2010.

Final imagery deliverables were submitted, approved, and are available to the public and District staff. Draft final map

deliverables were submitted to the District Dec. 21, 2010 and have been reviewed and approved by the District. The post

map production classification accuracy assessment is complete with the consultant achieving the required 90%

accuracy. Final 2010 seagrass maps were presented to project cooperators and the public January 18, 2011 at the

TBEP Seagrass Working Group Meeting. The 2010 results found Tampa Bay seagrass increased 11% from 2008 to

2010, Charlotte Harbor increased 4%, Lemon Bay increased 6%, while Sarasota and St. Joseph Sound / Clearwater

Harbor increased less than 1%.


W338

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - City of Bradenton -

Bradenton Riverwalk RestorationProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

City of BradentonCooperator(s)

Project Manager YOSLER, PAUL

Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThe project will create a (1) Restored Estuary (2) Tidal Discovery Marsh (3) Restoration Area and (4) Bioswale. As to

Water Quality Priorities, the project will provide for the treatment and storage of surface water runoff above and

beyond the level required by current ERP permitting criteria, while incorporating all BMP technologies. The

incorporation of bioswale treatment technology into the overall design of the proposed surface water management

system will provide treatment for surface waters currently discharging into the Manatee River with little to no treatment,

thereby enhancing the quality of the River system itself. The proposed updated technology used in the bioswale

treatment systems (i.e. incorporation of native wetland and transitional vegetation), along with the creation of new and

enhanced wetland habitats within the project area will all combine to form aesthetically pleasing improvement to the

area while significantly improving the quality of surface waters discharging to the River system. Signage indicating the

purpose and function of these areas will assure the public is aware of the value of these water quality treatment

systems. By incorporating state of the art bioswales and by creating and enhancing wetland habitats in conjunction

with native vegetated floodplain habitats as part of the overall Bradenton Riverwalk project area, the interdependence

of water conservation, flood protection and natural systems will be illustrated as well as explained via environmentally

responsive signage and pamphlets provided to the public entering the Riverwalk area. As to Natural Systems

Priorities, the project will restore and will improve plant communities for the purpose of providing measureable benefits

to the Manatee River; a natural water feature. This will be achieved through the improvement of the quality of surface

waters being discharged into the River system via the implementation of a bioswale system, the restoration of native

vegetative shoreline communities and the capacity of stormwater conveyance and storage systems will be enhanced

and improved via the proposed stormwater management design and the incorporation of bioswales into overall surface

water routing and treatment system. The Bradenton Riverwalk project will greatly improve the biodiversity of the

vegetative communities within the project area. This will be achieved via the creation of native upland vegetated areas

as well as both freshwater and estuarine vegetated habitats. These habitats will comprise portions of the Botanical

Walk, and Butterfly Garden, the Tidal Discovery Zone and the Restored Estuary and by the Softened

Edge/Environmental Restoration Area of the Restoration Area portion of the project. The Bradenton Riverwalk project

will be maintained in perpetuity by the City of Bradenton.

BenefitsWithin sixteen weeks, a Wetland and Bioswale to Tidal Marsh ($590,000) will be developed at Rossi Park along the

Riverwalk and will expand existing stormwater facilities while creating an opportunity to educate visitors about

stormwater and water conservation. The wetland and bioswale system will feature a boardwalk and trail system around

the perimeter with shaded seating areas. Native landscape plantings will be used in the wetland and bioswale to help

filter the stormwater runoff. Educational and interpretive signage will be placed around the trail system and will be used

to explain processes such as hydrologic cycle and habitat creation. Prior to development in this area, there was a

tributary that emptied into the Manatee River near Rossi Park. The intent of creating the wetland and bioswale in this

area is to gesture back to the historic landscape and hydrologic patterns while improving water quality. Within twelve

weeks, a Tidal Discovery Marsh ($225,000) will be developed along the Manatee River near Rossi Park. The seawall

in the area of the tidal discovery marsh will be removed or softened and the landscape will be sloped towards the river

to allow water to flow into the area. Tidal markers of varying height will be placed within the discovery marsh area to

educate visitors on the tidal processes of the river. Different markers will be covered up or exposed as the depth of the

river rises and lowers. The tidal markers can represent seasonal high and low water levels as well as historic drought

or flood levels. Educational signage will be placed near gathering areas that will help explain the tidal markers and

natural process of the river¿s fluctuation in water depth. Along the eastern portion of the Riverwalk, a riverbank

Restoration Area ($300,000) will be developed within twelve weeks. The seawall in this area will be removed or

softened and the area will be replanted with native vegetation. The area will feature an outdoor classroom with exhibits

and signage to educate visitors about the restoration process. A boardwalk or trail through the landscape restoration

will feature shaded seating areas and additional educational signage. Throughout the Riverwalk, within tweleve weeks,

Bioswales ($100,000) are anticipated to be used to treat stormwater runoff, will be integrated into the overall


W338

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - City of Bradenton -

Bradenton Riverwalk Restorationlandscape design, and will feature native plant material that is used to help filter the runoff and educational signage.

Costs

The total project cost is estimated to be $1,215,000 for FY2012, with the Bradenton Downtown Development Authority

and the District each contributing half ($607,500). The District share is from the Manisota Basin Board. District funds



Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 612,326 0 0 0 612,326 0


District

City of Bradenton 607,500 0 0 0 607,500 0

$1,219,826 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Draft Agreement Sent to Management Services 8/19/11

Agreement Sent to Cooperator 10/14/11

Agreement Fully Executed 12/30/11

Procurement and Finance Accountability 2/28/12

Wetland and Bioswale to Tidal Marsh (Element 1) 5/31/12

Tidal Discovery Marsh (Element 2) 6/29/12

Restoration Area (Element 3) 7/31/12

Bioswales (Element 4) 8/31/12

Agreement Expiration 7/26/13

Status As Of:


W348

Terra Ceia Isles Ecosystem Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Florida Department of Environmental ProtectionCooperator(s)

Project Manager HENNINGSEN, BRANDT

DALSIS, MIKETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Terra Ceia Aquatic and Park Preserves habitat enhancement and restoration project, a SWIM initiative, is located

in the southeastern reaches of Tampa Bay (Manatee County). This large, multi-phased project is being cooperatively

implemented with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP). Currently, the project involves 2,308

acres of publicly owned land (Terra Ceia Isles and the Peanut Lake parcel, with an additional 2,900 acres included in

the District's five year acquisition plan. Accordingly, this project has the potential of encompassing at least 5,200 acres

and will require multiple years of funding, planning, and implementation. Project updates focus primarily on just the

1,745 acre Terra Ceia Isles parcel, although updates will be given on progress within Peanut Lake lands and

concerning additional land purchases and potential future phases. It is anticipated that the majority of this project will

be performed by private contractors.

BenefitsThis project will be important in meeting management plan goals of SWIM and the Tampa Bay Estuary Program

(TBEP). The current project involves the enhancement, restoration, and management of an estimated 700 acres of

various habitats typical of coastal ecosystems (i.e., habitat mosaics): estuarine and freshwater wetlands, transitional

habitats, and uplands. Salinity gradients and low salinity habitats will be emphasized to improve fisheries production.

Accordingly, the project will provide valuable habitats for Tampa Bay fisheries and other coastal species. Portions of

this are true restoration in that sections of the site historically were bay bottom and intertidal wetlands that were filled to

create a proposed finger-fill subdivision. In addition, strides to meet bay water quality goals of both SWIM and TBEP

will be addressed via improved stormwater treatment. Improved habitat values and the addition of habitat acreages will

provide opportunities for many differing species of coastal wildlife, inclusive of commercial and sportfishing species,

bird populations, a host of invertebrate species (crabs, shrimp, oysters, etc.), and small mammals.

Costs

Total cost estimate for Terra Ceia Isles is $9,400,000 and is being budgeted over multiple fiscal years. Proposed

FY2011 funds ($956,307) are for construction of additional project phases and will include staff salaries, travel, and

central garage. Traditionally, District funds have been split 50/50 between the Manasota Basin Board and State SWIM

Fund, but State SWIM funds are not available for FY2011. District FY2012 funds shown in the table include staff

salaries. Future phases associated with additional land acquisition will require future funding.





(National) Estuary Program. Since 1950, about 50 percent of the bay's natural shoreline and 40 percent of its

seagrass acreage were lost as a result of physical destruction and water quality impairment. This resulted in a decline

in the aesthetic, recreational, and commercial value of the bay, as well as a loss of habitat for native plants and

animals.


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Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 3,600,329 2,150,000 (748,423) 1,191,960 26,621 980,171

041 Florida Forever/SOR/P2000 216,189 0 0 216,189 0 0


Ecosystem Trust - Terra Ceia Habitat

Rstr (SWIM)

2,312,500 0 0 2,312,500 0 0

Nat'l Fish & Wildlife - Terra Ceia

(SWIM)

300,000 0 0 300,000 0 0

NOAA - Terra Ceia 2,000,000 0 0 2,000,000 0 0

State Trust Funds (SWIM) (417,558) 0 (748,424) 330,866 0 0

State Trust Funds (SWIM) - Prior 2006 1,276,234 0 0 1,276,234 0 0


$9,297,963 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project Milestones30% 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 6/15/08 12/31/08 12/15/08

Upland Restoration Phase 6Complete upland restoration/begin maintenance 5/31/11

Upland Restoration Phase 7Draft/release RFB for Upland Restoration Phase 7 3/31/11


USGS and USF staff have completed the Frog Creek Hydrodynamic Modeling Study, evaluating if proposed 1-3 creek

offline intertidal lagoons would deleteriously affect the existing salinity regime of the creek. Project data and conclusions

were profiled in a presentation by USF-USGS, with the final draft report submitted to SWIM and FDEP during December

2010. Study results indicate that construction of three offline lagoons along Frog Creek could increase creek salinities by

an average of 1-2 parts-per-thousand; after discussions with FDEP staff, it has been decided to not construct the three

offline lagoons; accordingly, the three areas will be restored as coastal uplands. Upland Phase 5 contractor

(Environmental Aquatic Control, Inc.) continues to perform quarterly site maintenance (1.75 years remain); the site offers

challenges to meet concerning the abundant nuisance and non-native plant populations. FDEP currently is using an

alternative road route vs a section of Drunkard Lane that tends to become virtually impassable during rainy season.

SWIM will monitor how successful the alternate route is for regular passage by vehicles. FDEP is partnering with

SWFWMD Land Resources and has reactivated hog control for the site; feral hog populations have been significantly

growing over the last year, the hogs inflicting troublesome damage to restored upland and wetland habitats. FDEP

continued to address their plans for the revamped Bishop Harbor Boat ramp and are still in permitting. During February,


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the contractor for the Phase 6 upland restoration completed removal of non-native vegetation from 158 acres and will

now begin native plant installation (predominantly pine flatwoods with scattered hardwood hammock). SWIM staff are

preparing a Request for Bid for the final phase of upland restoration for the Terra Ceia site ("Phase 7"), a phase which

may involve up to an estimated 150 acres of coastal uplands. Lastly, future phases of Terra Ceia restoration include two

additional public tracts ("Huber" and "Frog Creek Borrow Pit" tracts); a Request for Proposal is being prepared soliciting

for an environmental consultant to assist SWIM staff with the design and permitting of the new project. ACTION TO

DATE: On-time; Phase 5 upland restoration contract awarded and construction complete (in maintenance phase now).

Clearing of all non-native plants for the Phase 6 Upland Habitat Restoration is complete.


W358

Restoration - Tom Bennett Park Habitat Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Manatee CountyCooperator(s)

Project Manager POWERS, STEPHANIE

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is in response to a request from Manatee County to restore and enhance approximately 75 acres of

intertidal and freshwater wetland and upland habitat along the Manatee River. Tom Bennett Park is a 180-acre site that

was purchased in 2003 by Manatee County and the Florida Communities Trust. The project plan targets the

restoration of degraded salt marsh habitat and associated coastal maritime forest on adjacent hummocks through

minor regrading, nuisance and exotic species eradication, and supplemental plantings. The creation of freshwater,

ephemeral wetlands throughout the property is also anticipated. The County will be the lead agency for the project.

BenefitsUpon completion, the project will provide significant benefits to habitat and water quality. The County also plans to

provide passive recreational and educational opportunities to the public.

Costs

The total project cost is approximately $4.4 million, which includes $3.9 million for land acquisition. The County

contributed $1.5 million for the land purchase and has budgeted $260,000 for design and construction. The District's

FY2010 contribution is $60,000, of which 50% ($30,000) is from the Manasota Basin Board and 50% ($30,000) is from

State SWIM funds. The remaining $200,000 may come from funds budgeted for construction of the Neal Preserve.

Engineering cost estimates for the Neal Presearve are considerably lower than originally planned and a portion of

these funds are being proposed for reallocation to Tom Bennett Park. District funds shown in the table include staff

salaries.


Since 1950, approximately 50 percent of the bay's natural shoreline has been lost due to development and reduction

in water quality. This resulted in a decline in the aesthetic, recreational, and commercial value of the bay, as well as a

loss of habitat for native plants and animals. The SWIM Plan for Tampa Bay outlines goals to restore habitat

throughout the bay area and reduce pollutant loads entering Tampa Bay. The objectives of this project are consistent

with these goals.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 238,112 0 0 31,885 203,889 2,338




District

Manatee County 260,000 0 0 260,000 0 0

$529,997 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


W358

Restoration - Tom Bennett Park Habitat Restoration


Contract Development and ExecutionReceive Scope of Work from Cooperator 9/16/09 12/4/09

Draft Agreement to Management Services 10/1/09 2/15/10 3/15/10

Agreement Returned from Management Services 10/22/09 7/15/10 8/16/10

Agreement Sent to Cooperator 10/29/09 7/25/10 8/18/10

Signed Agreement Returned from Cooperator 11/30/09 4/15/11

Agreement Fully Executed 12/15/09 4/30/11

Design and Construction PhaseComplete Design and Permitting 2/28/11


Project CloseoutAgreement Expiration 6/30/12


A meeting was held with Manatee County on February 28, 2011, to discuss project agreement, coordination, and

implementation issues. This project is quite advanced in the design and permitting phase, with the County possessing

completed construction plans and all applicable permits. It was determined at the meeting that the project agreement

would continue moving forward for execution. Once an executed agreement is in place, the County will commence

construction by August 1, 2011.


W364

Restoration - Palmetto Estuary

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

PalmettoCooperator(s)

Project Manager DALSIS, MIKE

HAGBERG, JANIETask Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis project is a District initiated cooperative project. Over the past ten years the City of Palmetto purchased 11.75

acres of various coastal habitats near the mouth of the Manatee River. The parcel contains various estuarine habitats

that transition to coastal uplands. The restoration project expanded to include an additional 18 acre park referred to as

"Wayside Park" adjacent to the south and east of the 11.75 acres acquired by the City of Palmetto. This is a

multi-phase project with the 30 acre Phase 1 restoration completed in 2000. The Phase 2 project is an extension of

Phase 1 and will restore an additional 7.86 acres of coastal habitat adjacent and to the north of Phase 1. Habitat

values of the parcel have been severely compromised due to dredge and fill impacts, illegal dumping, untreated

stormwater, and dominance of most of the uplands by non-native vegetation (i.e., Brazilian pepper, Australian pine,

melaleuca). Based on field investigations, portions of the site will require only non-native plant removal/native plant

enhancement, while others will require excavation/regrading to create new/restored open water and intertidal habitats.

The City of Palmetto is interested in partnering with the District on Phase 2 of this coastal restoration project which is

envisioned to enhance coastal uplands and restore intertidal and open water wetlands. The project site will become a

component of the Palmetto Estuary Nature Park to the south.

BenefitsThis project has been and will continue to be important in meeting management goals of SWIM and the Tampa Bay

Estuary Program (TBEP), including multiple phases providing low salinity habitats that create valuable nursery grounds

for breeding. Improved habitat values and the addition of habitat acreages will provide opportunities for many differing

species of coastal wildlife, inclusive of commercial and sportfishing species, bird populations, a host of invertebrate

species (crabs, shrimp, oysters, etc.), reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals. In addition, the site will become a

part of the "Palmetto Estuary Nature Park", an increasingly popular destination for the public to visit for nature activities

(canoeing/kayaking, fishing, bird watching, etc.).

Costs

Total project cost for Phase 1 was $525,000 including land acquisition by the City of Palmetto. The FY2011 budget is

$100,000, with an additional $30,000 being requested from the Manasota Basin Board for FY2012 to complete

construction of Phase 2. District funds shown in table include staff salaries, travel, and central garage charges.





Estuary Program. Since 1950, about 50 percent of the bay's natural shoreline and 40 percent of its seagrass acreage

were lost as a result of physical destruction and water quality impairment. This resulted in a decline in the aesthetic,

recreational, and commercial value of the bay, as well as a loss of habitat for native plants and animals. The 2000

Phase 1 project was the 2001 Environmental Project of the Year as honored by the Future of the Region Awards

program of the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council.


W364

Restoration - Palmetto Estuary


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 220,402 0 0 83,999 32,140 104,263





District

City of Palmetto 375,000 0 0 375,000 0 0

$679,400 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Phase 1 Construction Completion 12/31/00 5/31/00

1. Contract Development and Execution Phase 2Draft agreement sent to Management Services 2/8/11 3/7/11

Agreement returned from Management Services 2/28/11 3/31/11

Agreement sent to Cooperator 3/7/11 4/1/11

Signed agreement returned from Cooperator 3/15/11 5/2/11

Agreement fully executed 5/31/11

2. Project Tasks Phase 2Design and Permitting complete 6/30/11

Construction Commence 8/31/11

Construction Completion 6/30/12


This project represents Phase 2 of a two part series of cooperative projects with the City of Palmetto; the award winning

Phase 1 project was completed in 2000. Phase 2 funding is envisioned to cover permitting and construction costs

associated with this coastal ecosystem restoration project. Agreement with City of Palmetto is currently being reviewed

for final execution. Final design and permitting to be completed by June with construction by District Operations section

anticipated for August 2011.


W394

Restoration - FELTS Preserve Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Manatee County Audubon SocietyCooperator(s)

Project Manager LOPEZ, MANNY

Task Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThis project will restore important habitat and improve water quality functions on the FELTS Preserve which drains into

Terra Ceia Bay and ultimately discharges into Tampa Bay, a District SWIM waterbody. Through the removal of exotic

vegetation and planting of native vegetation, this project will result in restoration and enhancement of up to 5.5 acres of

freshwater wetlands, plus enhancement of 8.5 acres of adjacent uplands located within the 28.5 acre preserve. Much

of the project site has been altered over time, primarily through ditching and draining to create improved pasture for

agricultural purposes. The site is important because the general area is rapidly being converted from agricultural to

residential development and much of the habitat has been fragmented by construction of roads. Vegetative diversity is

relatively low in the existing water features due to the establishment of monocultures by invasive and exotic plants. A

mosaic of diverse habitat types is proposed, including emergent marsh, existing hardwood swamp and hammock and

ponded features.

BenefitsBest management practices will be implemented through planting of emergent and submergent plant species and the

management and control of invasive exotics. Water quality benefits will be achieved and monitored as the enhanced

site will provide for pollutant filtration and nutrient uptake through the creation of the proposed littoral shelves, as well

as buffering against erosion. The project location will also offer exceptional habitat value through the creation of

feeding platforms for wading birds.

Costs

The total cost of the project is $196,900. In FY2006, the District contributed $29,500 shared evenly by SWIM and the

Manasota Basin Board. The FY2006 application requested $40,400 but the Manatee Audubon was unable to acquire

that amount for a match. Earthmoving was accomplished by grants from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and National

Fish & Wildlife Foundation at a cost of $23,070. The FY2008 project cost was $32,600, with the Manatee Audubon

and the District each contributing half ($16,300). The District's share was split between the Manasota Basin Board

($8,150) and State SWIM ($8,150). The FY2009 project cost was $28,700, with Manatee Audubon and the District

each requested to contribute half ($14,350). The District share was split between the Manasota Basin Board ($7,175)

and State SWIM ($7,175). The FY2010 project cost is $18,000 with Manatee Audubon and the District each

contributing half ($9,000). Total funding in the table below includes staff salary, travel and central garage.


The FELTS Preserve, owned by Manatee County Audubon, is located at 4600 24th Avenue, East Palmetto in north

Manatee County within the Manatee River Watershed. A professional management plan has been completed by Ed

Freeman, then with the Nature Conservancy when contracted by Manatee Audubon. The Mana-Teens, Native Plant

Society, Manatee River Garden Club and others have helped to inventory plants on site, control exotic plants by

manual removal and minimal chemical means, and performed additional habitat improvement primarily on the

uplands. Five and one-half wetland acres have been planted and eight and one-half acres of pasture was restored in

FY2008. Chemical and mechanical control for invasive exotic plants has been implemented on approximately 17.5

acres and a monthly maintenance program is underway. Audubon is re-creating littoral areas around the enhanced

ponds by planting some 14,200 plants. Manatee Audubon will guarantee survival of 85% of planted material. In

FY2009, Manatee Audubon did a littoral shelf planting of 3 acres, installed 90 plants in a 17-acre upland area and

continued with exotic control.


W394

Restoration - FELTS Preserve Restoration


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 52,635 0 (3,355) 53,753 0 2,237





District

Manatee County Audubon Society 47,150 0 0 47,150 0 0

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 10,000 0 0 10,000 0 0

Other 58,600 0 0 58,600 0 0

USFWS 12,000 0 0 12,000 0 0

$225,138 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Consultant Agreement Development and ExecutionScope of Work Developed 8/24/09 8/18/09

Scope sent to finance for Purchase Order 8/31/09 12/2/09

2. Project TasksPlantings 8/28/10 6/30/10 4/23/10

Maintenance 9/5/10 11/30/10 9/24/10

3. Close OutFinal Report and Invoice 9/6/10 12/15/10 12/20/10

3. Contract TerminationProject Completion 9/27/10 12/31/10 12/31/10


Project Complete. Manatee County Audubon Society (MCAS) has completed the following elements in accordance with

the tasks outlined in the project plan: 1) Quarterly maintenance of ponds and wetlands (5-7 acres) - control of nuisance

and exotic aquatic plants; 2) Site preparation and hydroseeding of pastures for creation of native meadow habitat (1.25

acres); 3) Site preparation and planting of preserve boundary area (196 trees and shrubs installed). Requests for

reimbursement for work completed in FY2010 were received December 20, 2010 and were reviewed and approved for

payment. Project expenditures were $4,351.25 under budget.The Manatee County Audubon Society did not request

funding for FY2011.


W501

Planning - Charlotte Harbor Protection and Restoration Planning

Project Type SWIM



Charlotte Harbor National Estuary ProgramCooperator(s)


KAUFMAN, KRISTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project provides for the administration and implementation of projects as outlined in the SWIM Plan for Charlotte

Harbor. Administration and implementation includes assessment of implementation progress, a review and refinement

of the Pollutant Load Reduction Goal (PLRG) for the waterbody, periodic SWIM Advisory Committee meetings, new

project development (rationale and justification), development of relevant contracts and Requests for Proposals,

invoicing, project related presentations, field visits, and miscellaneous duties as they arise.

BenefitsThis project's support of the Charlotte Harbor SWIM Plan creates an opportunity for a cohesive effort between the

District, the CHNEP, and other state and local agencies to better implement resource management decisions and

restoration activities. Historically, SWIM projects have been eligible for state matching funds with the state funding 50

percent of the project costs and the District funding the remaining 50 percent. In FY2011, SWIM projects are funded

100 percent by Basin Funds, specifically, the Peace River and/or Manasota Basin Boards, depending on the project

location within the Charlotte Harbor watershed.

Costs

The FY2011 ongoing costs for the Charlotte Harbor SWIM Plan Implementation are funded from the Manasota Basin

and the Peace River Basin Boards. In FY2012, ongoing costs for the Charlotte Harbor SWIM Plan Implementation are

proposed to be funded from the Manasota and Peace River Basin Boards. There are no State SWIM Program funds

available in FY2011 or 2012 .District funds shown in the table include staff salary, travel and central garage.






those water bodies. To date, ten SWIM water bodies in the District have had plans developed and approved by the

state. Several plans have been updated one or more times as required by the Act. The Charlotte Harbor SWIM Plan

was first approved in 1993 and last updated in November 2000. Since the first plan, the District has initiated a number

of restoration and diagnostic assessment projects. Included within these are: 1) implementation of a water quality

monitoring program, 2) development of a pollutant loading model, 3) investigation of a resource-based pollutant load

reduction goal, 4) assessment of toxin levels, 5) identification of cumulative impacts to freshwater inflow reductions, 6)

seagrass mapping efforts, 7) various habitat restoration projects, and 8) involvement in numerous public outreach and

education activities.


W501

Planning - Charlotte Harbor Protection and Restoration Planning


Revenue

020 Peace River Basin 100,476 0 0 89,675 5,636 5,165

021 Manasota Basin 40,872 0 0 30,382 5,484 5,006





$285,239 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. SWIM Plan Critical Project MilestonesNext Update of SWIM Plan 6/1/07 12/31/11


SWIM Plan Update:The last update of the SWIM Plan for Charlotte Harbor became effective in 2000. District staff

coordinated with FDEP staff regarding the review and approval process for SWIM Plans and have developed a mutually

acceptable process for plan review and approval. The latest update is being reviewed by staff. Following staff review, the

plan will be presented to the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (CHNEP) Technical Advisory Committee. In the

meantime, District staff continue to work with the CHNEP, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and local

governments to implement projects in the 2000 Plan. The CHNEP completed an update to the Comprehensive

Conservation and Management Plan in 2008 and this was used as the basis of the SWIM Plan update. Additionally, the

CHNEP has established seagrass targets, and is working on the calculation of nutrient loads and development of

numeric nutrient criteria. The seagrass targets were included in the draft plan and the other elements will be included in

the draft plan as they are completed.


W506

Education - CHEC Charlotte Harbor/Lemon Bay SWIM Watershed

Public Education InitiativeProject Type SWIM



Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center, Charlotte Harbor Environmental CenterCooperator(s)

Project Manager STERNBERGER, VIRGINIA

Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Surface Water Improvement and Management project with the Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center provides

public involvement and water quality education opportunities to 5,000 residents in the Charlotte Harbor/Lemon Bay

watersheds. The program's goal is to foster a sense of stewardship and encourage actions that benefit the watershed

through focused education/outreach programs. The FY2012 program components include a volunteer water

monitoring program (16 stations in Lemon Bay), 24 estuary tours, 24 hiking trips, 40 wading tours, 1 adopt-a-pond

opportunity, 3-day SWIM water school, 15 special events, 12 presentations and distribution of 1,000 Lemon Bay

Watershed DVD and 500 booklets. Effectiveness will be measured by number of participants, number of materials

distributed, pre- and posttests and surveys. Approximately 5,000 Charlotte, DeSoto and Sarasota county residents will

be reached.

BenefitsThe Peace River discharges into Charlotte Harbor, a SWIM priority water body and a designated "estuary of national

significance." The project fosters a sense of stewardship for the Peace River, Charlotte Harbor, Lemon Bay and

related freshwater resources through focused education opportunities for public participation and schools. The

program provides an opportunity for comparison of different areas within the Charlotte Harbor and Lemon Bay

watersheds. These programs are consistent with the District's watershed management and watershed education

initiatives. Education was named as a priority by the Manasota and Peace River basin boards. CHEC has the expertise

and experience to provide quality education in a variety of methods leading to increased knowledge and behavior

modificiation among participants.

Costs

The total proposed cost of the FY2012 project is $79,171, with the District requested to contribute $39,215 (Peace

River $31,372; Manasota $7,843). District funds will pay for materials and program expenses. Each basin's share is

based on anticipated work within that basin. The program is projected to reach 5,000 residents at a cost to the District

of $1.49 per contact hour and $7.84 per person reached. The costs for this program fall within an acceptable range for

public education. The budget lines below include costs for staff to manage the project.


The total cost of the FY2011 project is $79,171, with the District contributing $39,215 (Peace River Basin Board

$31,372, Manasota Basin Board $7,843). District funds will pay for materials and program expenses. Each basin's

share is based on anticipated work within that basin. The program is projected to reach 4,300 residents at a cost to

the District of $9.12 per person. Although the cost per person is relatively high, the cost per contact hour is 38 percent

lower than average reflecting the hands-on and long-term nature of the program. The budget lines below include costs

for staff to manage the project.


W506

Education - CHEC Charlotte Harbor/Lemon Bay SWIM Watershed

Public Education Initiative


Revenue

020 Peace River Basin 169,300 0 (1,783) 108,339 31,372 31,372

021 Manasota Basin 64,327 0 (447) 45,912 9,487 9,375






District

Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center 211,115 0 0 171,159 0 39,956

$620,727 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2008 Budgeted FundsInitiate purchase order 10/1/07 10/31/07 10/31/07

First task report due 12/31/07 12/11/07

Second task report due 3/31/08 3/31/08

Third task report due 6/30/08 6/16/08

Fourth task report due 9/16/08 9/29/08 9/29/08

Project close 11/14/08 3/31/09 3/31/09


First task report 12/31/08 12/29/08

Second task report 3/31/09 3/31/09

Third task report due 6/30/09 6/30/09

Fourth task report due 9/30/09 9/30/09

Project close 11/20/09 11/20/09


First task report due 12/31/09 1/5/10 1/5/10


Third task report 6/30/10 6/30/10

Fourth task report 9/15/10 10/22/10 10/22/10

Project close 9/30/10 2/28/11



Second task report 3/31/11

Third task report 6/30/11

Fourth task report 9/30/11

Project close 11/18/11


ACTION TO DATE: All but one project component is on time. Due to CHEC staff limitations, the web site upload

deliverable has been extended until February. All other FY2010 deliverables have been completed. To date, the following

tasks have been completed on the FY2011 scope of work: 2 speaking sessions (29 participants).


W509

Restoration - Alligator Creek In-Stream Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota County, Sarasota CountyCooperator(s)


PECK, MICHAELTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionSarasota County is developing the Lemon Bay Watershed Management Plan (L610) to protect and improve water

quality and restore natural systems throughout the watershed. The Lemon Bay Plan has identified several in-stream

restoration projects along Alligator Creek and nearby areas to address unstable conveyance systems that are currently

degrading water quality and impacting natural systems. The goal of this project is to achieve improved water quality

and increase natural habitat along Alligator Creek through the combined use of the following methods at several

project locations: (1) Stream bank re-sloping and restoration through removal of exotic vegetation and replanting

appropriate native wetland species of vegetation; (2) Incorporating the low impact design technique of bioswales along

the top of stream banks to reduce the velocity of overland flow of stormwater and protect natural systems; and (3)

Installation of weirs in select locations to provide increased residence time for wetland treatment processes. The

County began preliminary evaluations for several project locations in late FY2009. In FY2010 the County initiated

preliminary designs and permitting for several proposed project elements. Project construction is not anticipated

until June 2011. District funds are requested for construction.

BenefitsThis project will improve surface water quality by reducing sedimentation and erosion by re-sloping the banks and

planting appropriate native vegetation. The installation of weirs at several locations will increase residence time and

thereby provide additional in-stream water quality treatment.

Costs

Originally, the preliminary project construction costs were estimated at $1,000,000. As part of more detailed project

design, project costs have been refined and are now estimated to be $1,907,000. Final construction costs are

pending a request for bids (RFB) scheduled for mid to late FY2011. For FY2010 the District budgeted $150,000 for the

project. The District's FY2010 share is split between the Manasota Basin Board ($75,000) and State SWIM ($75,000)

with an equal match from Sarasota County. For FY2011, the Manasota Basin Board budgeted $300,000 for

construction costs, with an equal match by the County. Based on the revised cost estimates, Sarasota County has

requested $250,000 in additional funding from the District for FY2012 (with and equal County match). Based on the

current status of the project, which includes start of construction in late FY2011 or early FY2012, District staff has

determined that there are sufficient funds currently encumbered to cover the anticipated expenditures. The additional

funds requested for FY2012 are not needed to cover the anticipated requests for reimbursement. District funds shown

in the table include staff salaries, travel and central garage.


W509

Restoration - Alligator Creek In-Stream Restoration


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 992,218 600,000 0 78,714 6,300 307,204




District

Sarasota County 950,000 250,000 0 150,000 250,000 300,000

$2,020,931 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development & ExecutionDevelop Draft Agreement with Sarasota County 10/30/09 3/31/10 3/31/10

Agreement to Contracts Administration 11/25/09 4/5/10 4/19/10

Execution of Agreement by Sarasota County 12/21/09 7/30/10 7/27/10

Execution of Agreement by SWFWMD 1/4/10 8/5/10 8/2/10

Notice to Proceed 1/5/10 8/5/10 8/4/10

2. Design & PermittingSubmit ERP Application 5/25/10 5/25/10

90% Plans Completed 7/30/10 9/30/10 9/20/10

ERP Permit Issued 9/30/10 11/15/10 11/20/10

3. ConstructionBegin Construction 1/10/11 7/25/11

End Construction 8/15/12


The agreement between the District and Sarasota County was fully executed on August 2, 2010 with Notice to Proceed

issued on August 4, 2010. The agreement covers construction of the approved and permitted projects. Design plans and

the ERP permit application have been completed. Permits authorizing project construction were issued in September

2010. Sarasota County is in the process of prioritizing project elements for implementation and has begun preparing bid

documents for a request for bids (RFB) tentatively scheduled for April 2011. The construction phase of the project is not

anticipated to begin until late July early August 2011. Updated construction estimates indicate higher costs for project

implementation than originally estimated. Sarasota County has submitted an application for additional funds through the

FY2012 Cooperative Funding Initiative.


W521

Data - Charlotte Harbor Water Quality Monitoring Program

Project Type SWIM

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Monitoring


Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Charlotte CountyCooperator(s)


SZAFRANIEC, MARYTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is an ongoing SWIM Initiative to monitor water quality in Charlotte Harbor, a SWIM priority waterbody and

designated estuary of national significance. The purpose of the water quality monitoring is to establish a long-term

database of water quality conditions within the estuary to provide essential data for planning and management of

habitat restoration and water quality improvement projects. The data has been utilized on a regular basis to complete

the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program's (CHNEP) triennial review of water quality conditions in the harbor. In

addition, CHNEP is using the data is to develop water quality targets and numeric nutrient criteria for the system that

will be tracked on an annual basis. The District began collecting and analyzing monthly water quality samples from

Charlotte Harbor in 1993. In 2000, the District worked with staff from Charlotte County (County) and the Florida Fish

and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FFWCC) to develop an implementation plan for long-term water quality

monitoring. As a result of these discussions, the District, County, and FFWCC agreed to cooperatively monitor water

quality in Charlotte Harbor. The District and the FFWCC are responsible for collection of 25 samples per month. The

County is responsible for analyzing each sample for 11 water quality parameters, including nutrients, color and

turbidity. The District is responsible for estuarine water quality data compilation, quality assurance/quality control,

updates to a District approved database and upload of the data to the State's STOrage and RETrieval (STORET)

database.

BenefitsThe project created a multi-agency cooperative effort that provides a long-term water quality dataset to assist in

establishing the health of the Charlotte Harbor study area and provide information on changes in water quality.

Costs

The propsed FY2012 budget is $45,900, with the Peace River Basin Board funding $34,425 and the Manasota Basin

Board funding $11,475. The FY2011 project budget is $48,250, which includes additional data management services

for $10,000 that in prior fiscal years had been performed by Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center under W547. The

Peace River Basin Board is funding $36,187.50 and Manasota Basin Boards is funding $12,062.50. District funds



Charlotte Harbor is generally viewed as one of the most productive estuarine systems in southwest Florida. Although it

is appropriately considered a healthy system, problems exist in the areas of hydrologic alterations, water quality

degradation, and habitat loss. The SWIM Plan for Charlotte Harbor focus on management strategies for the Peace

and Myakka Rivers, in addition to Charlotte Harbor proper, to reduce point and non-point source pollution and to

preserve and restore habitat. The objectives of this project are consistent with these strategies. This coordinated effort

involves two separate agreements: 1) an agreement between the District and the County outlining responsibilities of

both parties but does not involve the transfer of funds, and 2) an agreement between the District and the FFWCC

outlining sampling services and reimbursement rates for water quality monitoring.


W521

Data - Charlotte Harbor Water Quality Monitoring Program


Revenue

020 Peace River Basin 264,808 0 (300) 178,626 47,245 39,237

021 Manasota Basin 96,810 0 (100) 60,551 19,214 17,145





$648,847 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesDraft Agreement to Contracts 12/31/00 11/21/00

Basin Board Approval of Agreement 4/30/01 12/13/00

Governing Board Approval of Agreement 4/30/01 12/19/00


First Water Quality Monitoring Event 5/12/01 5/12/01

Notice to Proceed 6/1/01 5/9/01

FFWCC First Amendment to Contracts Management 3/26/04 4/2/04

FFWCC First Amendment Fully Executed 5/31/04 9/27/04

Charlotte County First Amendment Fully Executed 3/30/05 3/30/05

FFWCC Second Amendment to Contract Fully Executed 5/22/07 5/22/07

Charlotte County Second Amendment Fully Executed 3/26/08 4/28/08

1. Critical Project MilestonesFFWCC Third Amendment Fully Executed 6/1/10 6/1/10

FFWCC Second Amendment Expires 11/30/10 11/30/10

Mote Marine Lab Purchase Order Complete 12/13/10 12/13/10

Charlotte County Third Amendment Initiation 12/28/10 1/31/11

Charlotte County Second Amendment Expires 3/31/11

FFWCC Third Amendment Expires 12/31/13


Monthly sampling by FFWCC of 25 stations is ongoing. District staff uploaded data through May 2010 to FDEP STORET

for public access. Mote Marine Laboratory conducted data management and analysis of the FFWCC underwater light

availability data under a purchase order completed December 2010. Mote provided recommendations for: 1) improving

data collection, 2) calculating raw data corrections and conversions; and 3) utilization of the data. A third amendment to

the original agreement with FFWCC to conduct water quality sampling was executed in 2010 and will expire December

2013. A third amendment for the memorandum of understanding between the District and Charlotte County for

continuation of the long term monitoring effort is currently being routed through Contracts. The extended agreement will

commit the District and County to continue sampling and analyzing water quality data through December 2013.


W526

Planning - Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program

Comprehensive Management Plan Development and ImplementationProject Type SWIM



Cooperator(s)


POWERS, STEPHANIE, GARCIA, LIZANNE, KAUFMAN, KRISTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project provides for funding of the Annual Workplan for the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (CHNEP).

The District participates in three main areas. First the District's SWIM program, usually funded by the basin boards

and State, carries out the projects that will address water quality and habitat restoration within the Harbor. Second, the

District has contributed annual funding to the CHNEP since 1997 to carry out the administration and implementation of

projects identified in the CHNEP Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan. And finally, the District

provides staff to sit on the technical, management and policy (Governing or Basin Board member) committees of the

program. The District's annual budget includes funding support to the CHNEP and District staff salaries, travel and

central garage to administer the project, which includes attending board meetings and other workshops and invoicing.

BenefitsThis project's support of the CHNEP creates an opportunity for a cohesive effort between the District, CHNEP and

other state and local agencies to implement resource management decisions and restoration activities. Additionally,

this project provides for leveraging funding between the partners. Projects contained within the CHNEP Annual

Workplan address management issues concerning hydrologic alterations, water quality degradation, and habitat loss

within the Peace and Myakka River watersheds and the Charlotte Harbor estuary.

Costs

The District has provided funding to the CHNEP on an annual basis since 1997. The District's annual funding

commitment for the CHNEP has been $110,000. Prior to FY2011, the District share was split between the Manasota

Basin Board (12.5%) and the Peace River Basin Board (37.5%) and State SWIM funds (50%). In FY2011, the

District's share of $83,750 was funded 33 percent ($27,500) by the Mansota Basin Board and 67 percent ($56,250) by

the Peace River Basin Board. For FY2012, funding is proposed at $83,750 which is shared by the Manasota Basin

Board (33%, $27,500) and the Peace River Basin Board (67%, $56,250). District funds are used to implement projects

outlined in the Annual Workplan. District funds shown in the table include staff salaries.


In 1987, the Florida Legislature established the Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM) Act, having

recognized that water quality and habitat in surface waters through out the state have degraded or were in danger of

being degraded. The Act requires the District to maintain a priority list of waterbodies of regional or statewide

significance within their boundaries. Charlotte Harbor is designated as a priority waterbody. Charlotte Harbor was

identified by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) in 1995 as an estuary of Federal

Significance and subsequently included in the National Estuary Program. As a result of this designation, the Charlotte

Harbor National Estuary Program was established to assist the region in developing a comprehensive plan for the

restoration and protection of Charlotte Harbor. Partners in the CHNEP include the Southwest Florida and South

Florida Water Management Districts, USEPA, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, other state and federal

agencies, and local governments from the watershed. The goals and strategies for the Harbor are identified in the

Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) for Charlotte Harbor which provides guidance to each

entity on their contribution to restore the Harbor. Since 1993, the District has completed several habitat restoration

projects and diagnostic assessments, including seagrass mapping, water quality monitoring, and development of a

pollutant load reduction goal for the Harbor.


W526


Comprehensive Management Plan Development and Implementation


Revenue

020 Peace River Basin 567,382 41,875 0 407,758 59,355 58,394

021 Manasota Basin 239,307 41,875 0 137,508 30,447 29,477






District

CHNEP 1,394,475 0 0 1,307,725 0 86,750

FDEP 225,000 0 0 150,000 0 75,000

Local Government Partners 307,250 0 0 193,750 0 113,500

PRMRWSA 15,000 0 0 10,000 0 5,000

SFWMD 130,000 0 0 80,000 0 50,000

US EPA 2,041,750 0 0 1,441,750 0 600,000

$5,588,330 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2007 Annual Workplan Critical Project MilestonesFY2007 Contract with CHNEP Executed 4/1/07 6/11/07

FY2007 Contract Close Out 12/31/09 7/21/10






FY2010 Contract Closeout 12/31/12


FY2011 Contract Closeout 12/31/13


FY2009 Contract: The FY2009 agreement was executed on December 13, 2009 and expires 12/31/2011. Projects

included fisheries monitoring in Lemon Bay, additional work by Mote Marine Laboratory to evaluate light attenuation by

algae attached to seagrass (epiphytes), setting seagrass targets and finalizing the water quality targets necessary to

maintain seagrass health. District staff participated in the development of the scope of work and subsequent

development of seagrass targets. Final reports for all projects have been received and this contract is closed out.

FY2010 Contract: The FY2010 agreement was executed February 24, 2010 and expires 12/31/2012. Projects include an

update of the triennial status and trends for water quality throughout the Charlotte Harbor watershed, staff support and

the development of estuarine nutrient criteria. District staff approved a line item budget revision to this agreement to

move funds from the triennial status and trends project to the FY2010 existing project to complete development of


W526


Comprehensive Management Plan Development and ImplementationNumeric Nutrient Criteria. Completion of the triennial water quality status and trends will be deferred until the FY2011

agreement. FY2011 Contract: The FY2011 agreement was executed November 19, 2010. Projects included in the

FY2011 agreement are: the development of a Water Atlas for the Charlotte Harbor watershed; staff support; and

completion of the triennial water quality status and trends. District staff attended a kick-off meeting for the Water Atlas

project on October 27, 2010. Management Conference: The Management and Policy Committees met in November

2010. Items on the agenda of interest to the District included several reports completed through the annual work plan,

approval of the approach for development of Numeric Nutrient Criteria, the proposed Lower Myakka River Minimum Flow

and Level and the letter supporting the area-wide Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) being implemented by the

Corps of Engineers. The next meetings of the Management and Policy Committees are in March 2011.


W528

Data - Myakka River Water Quality Monitoring

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


WOLDEN, CATHERINETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is an ongoing SWIM Initiative to monitor the water quality of the Myakka River. In 1996, a SWIM

watershed assessment project for Charlotte Harbor found that in order to make sound management decisions, water

quality monitoring was needed in the Peace and Myakka river basins. The District participated in a multi-agency

cooperative effort to monitor the Myakka River in 1999. It was determined a long term effort was needed to

characterize water quality conditions and pollutant loadings in the river system. The current project began in 2000 and

funding for this project will be used to continue the monthly water quality monitoring program at six United States

Geological Service (USGS) stream stations on the Myakka River. The data from this project will be used in conjunction

with streamflow measurements provided by an existing USGS program to estimate monthly pollutant loading at the six

gauge sites (See W554 & W547). Partners in this project include the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program and

the Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center (CHEC). Currently, CHEC is presenting results of this effort on its website,

www.checflorida.org (See W547).

BenefitsThis data will be used to develop future water quality improvement projects as needed. The project's data is regularly

used to create publications such as, "Water Quality Conditions and Pollutant Loads and Yields in the Peace and

Myakka River Basins" (See W554). Ongoing projects such as the Myakka River Watershed Initiative will benefit from

use of the ongoing long term data set.

Costs

The proposed FY2011 costs for this project will be funded through the Governing Board. The funds are for the

District's Water Quality Monitoring Program (WQMP) staff to collect samples and the District Laboratory to analyze the

samples. District funds shown in the table include staff salaries.


The Myakka River discharges into Charlotte Harbor, a SWIM priority waterbody and a Charlotte Harbor National

Estuary Program (CHNEP) designated "estuary of national significance." Charlotte Harbor is generally viewed as one

of the most productive estuarine systems in Southwest Florida. Although it is appropriately considered a healthy

system, problems exist in the areas of hydrologic alterations, water quality degradation, and habitat loss. The SWIM

Plan for Charlotte Harbor focus on management strategies for the Peace and Myakka Rivers, in addition to Charlotte

Harbor proper, to reduce point and non-point source pollution and to preserve and restore habitat. The objectives of

this project are consistent with these strategies. The District began water quality monitoring projects along the Peace

and Myakka Rivers in 2000 (See W527). Since 2001, the District has also supported sampling in the tidal portions of

the Peace and Myakka Rivers by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FFWCC) (See W521).


W528



Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 114,959 0 0 114,959 0 0





$252,006 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesFirst Sampling Event 10/5/00 10/5/00

1. Critical Project MilestonesFY2008 Monthly Sampling Completed 9/30/08 9/30/08

FY2009 Monthly Sampling Completed 9/30/09 9/30/09

FY2010 Monthly Sampling Completed 9/30/10

Status As Of: June 22, 2010

Water quality sampling is ongoing. Samples have been collected from October 2000 through June 2010. Field data has

been submitted to the laboratory for inclusion into their database through June 2009. For FY2011, these water quality

monitoring activities will be funded through the Governing Board. This is the last status update for this project under this

project number, please see P528 for FY2011 and future project activity information.


W547

Education - CHEC Reporting of Water Quality Data Peace, Myakka,

Charlotte Harbor & Lemon BayProject Type SWIM



Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center, Charlotte Harbor Environmental CenterCooperator(s)

Project Manager SZAFRANIEC, MARY

KAUFMAN, KRISTask Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThis project was in response to a funding request from Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center (CHEC) for on-line

publication of water quality maps and graphs. Water quality data from various sources collected within the Peace River

Basin, Myakka River Basin, Charlotte Harbor, and Lemon Bay were included in the maps. The project involved

mapping and graphing of District Peace and Myakka River basin water quality data on the CHEC website. In FY2005,

the project expanded its coverage to include Sarasota County's Northern Lemon Bay water quality sampling effort,

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) volunteer water quality project, and FDEP Lemon Bay

monitoring network. A FY2009 cooperative funding request was received for continuation of the display of the project's

sixth year of multi-agency monitoring.

BenefitsInformation provided through this project offered technical support for environmental management activities conducted

by the District's SWIM Program, FDEP, the Peace River/ Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority, the Charlotte

Harbor National Estuary Program, and other local and regional organizations. Publication of the data in the STORET

databases and website provided an historical record of the changes in water quality within each system.

Costs

The FY2009 budget is $66,000, with the Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center and the District each contributing half

($33,000). The District share is split between State SWIM ($33,000), the Peace River Basin ($16,500), and the

Manatsota Basin ($4,125). The cost to each basin board is determined by its watershed's (Peace River and Myakka

River watersheds) relative influence on water quality in Charlotte Harbor. District funds shown in the table include staff

salaries. The District and CHEC agreed to reduce the scope of work to only cover the CHEC website display of water

quality mapping and graphing for a total cost of $28,000, with the District and CHEC each contributing half ($14,000).

$10,000 of the remaining funds were used for the data management under a separate purchase order with

Benchmark Labs. The Basin Boards approved the transfer of remaining funds for CHEC's fourth grade education

project.


Since 2003, the CHEC has been presenting the results of these efforts on its web site www.checflorida.org/chec/water

quality, allowing the public and scientists to view the results in terms of both status and trends in water quality. The

cooperative project wa executed through purchase orders and associated scopes of work. The SWIM Plan for

Charlotte Harbor focuses on management strategies for the Peace and Myakka Rivers, in addition to Charlotte Harbor

proper, to reduce point and non-point source pollution and to preserve and restore habitat. The objectives of this

project are consistent with these strategies.


W547


Charlotte Harbor & Lemon Bay


Revenue

020 Peace River Basin 53,742 0 (2,250) 55,992 0 0

021 Manasota Basin 28,101 0 (2,250) 30,351 0 0





District

Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center 145,500 0 0 145,500 0 0

$319,121 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesFY2004 First Quarter Report 12/30/03 12/19/03

Second Quarter Report 3/30/04 3/24/04

Third Quarter Report 6/30/04 12/21/04 12/21/04

Final Report 9/30/04 5/21/05 5/21/05

FY2005 P.O. Open 3/22/05 3/22/05

FY2005 First Quarter Report 5/15/05 6/30/05 6/29/05

Second Quarter Report 8/15/05 9/30/05 9/30/05

Third Quarter Report 10/15/05 11/15/05 11/15/05

Fourth Quarter Report 2/15/06 3/10/06 4/13/06

FY2006 P.O. Open 3/30/06 3/30/06

FY2006 First Quarter Report 5/30/06 5/24/06

Second Quarter Report 8/30/06 8/31/06

Third Quarter and Draft Final Report 11/30/06 4/1/07 3/23/07

Fourth Quarter and Final Report 2/28/07 4/1/07 3/23/07

FY2007 P.O. Open 3/30/07 3/21/07

FY2006 P.O. Final Invoice Paid 5/3/07 5/3/07

FY2007 First Quarter Report 5/30/07 5/3/07

FY2007 Second Quarter Report 8/30/07 6/30/07

FY2007 Third Quarter Report 11/30/07 11/30/07

FY2008 P.O. Open 1/7/08 1/7/08

FY2007 Fourth Quarter Report 2/28/08 2/5/08

FY2008 First Quarter Report 5/30/08 6/30/08 6/30/08

FY2008 Second Quarter Report 8/30/08 1/14/09 2/27/09

FY2008 Third Quarter Report 11/30/08 1/29/09 2/27/09

FY2008 P.O. Terminates 12/31/08 12/31/09 12/31/09

FY2008 Fourth Quarter Report 3/31/09 7/15/09 7/27/09


The FY2009 final scope of work was approved and the purchase order was opened, January 28, 2009. CHEC presented

the results of these efforts on its web site, http://www.checflorida.org. The District and CHEC agreed to reduce the scope

of work to only cover the CHEC website display of water quality mapping and graphing for a total cost of $28,000, with

the District and CHEC each contributing half ($14,000). $10,000 of the remaining funds were used for the data

management under a separate purchase order with Benchmark Labs under project W521. This project is now complete


W547


Charlotte Harbor & Lemon Bayand this current entry will be the last status update.


W552

Study - Sarasota County's Pollutant Model Development

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota CountyCooperator(s)


GARCIA, LIZANNETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project involves developing a pollutant loading model to be used to assess pollutant loading to Sarasota County

surface waters. This project includes the following activities: inventory existing land uses and best management

practices (BMP) facilities by watershed sub-basin and incorporate information within GIS feature classes; inventory

hydrologic input data by watershed sub-basin for model documentation; characterize wet season and dry season

runoff volume input data by watershed sub-basin for model verification; develop models by watershed through

expanding input data with the above criteria; process model results for tabulating wet season and dry season pollutant

loading summary; create model/mapping geodatabase for future County application needs; and perform field sampling

within each bay watershed for use in model validation. The model is expected to discern the portion of water clarity

conditions (chlorophyll, color, and suspended solids) that are caused by human activities rather than those caused by

weather or climatic events.

BenefitsThe pollutant load model will generate monthly loads based on daily rainfall data enabling a correlation to be made

between the monthly loads and the ongoing monthly bay water quality data that can then be used to propose

alternative chlorophyll criteria to the Florida DEP for Sarasota County bays. In addition, this model will provide the

detail and reliability needed for local support of legitimate TMDL program load reductions. Also, as more sampling data

is incorporated, the model will become more reliable to justify (via a cost-benefit analysis) the appropriate project in the

proper location that will provide an improvement in water quality.

Costs

The original total project cost was $1,725,814, with the District's share $862,907 and the County's share $862,907,

funded over two fiscal years FY2006 and FY2007. The District budgeted $431,907 in FY2006 with the Manasota Basin

Board providing $215,954 and the State SWIM fund providing $215,953. Sarasota County provided $431,907 for

FY2006. Funding for FY2007 included $431,000 from the District with the Manasota Basin Board providing $215,500

and the State SWIM fund providing $215,500. For FY2007 Sarasota County was to provide $431,000. However, on

March 2, 2007 the County indicated it wished to withdraw the request for FY2007 funding. The revised total project

cost is now $863,814. FY2007 funds budgeted by the District were released to the basin's budget. The current

agreement funded with FY2006 funds will complete the current project scope. The District funding amounts listed in

the table include staff salaries, travel and central garage charges.


Potential model outputs and design features will be reviewed by the Technical Advisory Committee of the Sarasota

Bay Estuary Program. The model will guide the County's and District's management activities associated with water

quality for the systems noted above. The proposed pollutant loading model can be used in conjunction with outputs

from the existing hydrologic and hydraulic stormwater model to produce event specific pollutant loads.


W552

Study - Sarasota County's Pollutant Model Development


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 447,637 0 0 442,795 0 4,842


Ecosystem Trust Fund - Sarasota Pollut

(SWIM)

200,000 0 0 200,000 0 0



District

Sarasota County 431,907 0 0 431,907 0 0

$1,322,337 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development & ExecutionContract Executed 5/15/06 5/31/06

Notice to Proceed Sent 5/31/06 5/31/06

First Ammendment Approved - Time Extension 6/15/07 6/6/07

2. Critical Project MilestonesDraft Verification Monitoring Plan 12/10/06 2/10/07 1/30/07

Draft Model Design Memorandum 1/10/07 7/15/07 7/15/07

Final Verification Monitoring Plan 3/30/07 7/30/07 7/30/07

Final Model Design Memorandum 4/30/07 9/30/08 10/30/08

Draft Model Operation Manual 10/30/07 1/30/09 1/30/09

Final Functional Model 11/30/07 6/15/09 6/15/09

Final Model Operation Manual/Final Report 12/15/07 5/25/09 6/15/09

No-Cost Time Extension Approved 1/10/09 3/30/09 1/30/09

No-Cost Time Extension Approved 2/5/10 2/12/10

2. Critical Project MilestonesBegin Revised Water Quality Sampling (5 sites) 3/1/10 3/1/10

Complete Revised Water Qulaity Sampling (5 sites) 9/30/10 8/30/10

Project Close-out 7/31/11 4/25/11

Contract Expiration 8/31/11


The model is fully operational and has been used in several applications by the County. Additional storm sampling at 5

sites to develop data suitable for incorporation into the model began in April 2010 (at no additional project cost). The

results of data analyses from samples collected over storm events starting in May and continuing through August 2010

and have been complied into a final report to be appended to the original project report. The monitoring data collected

suggests that in developed areas with grassy swales, the quality of runoff is enhanced by the stormwater treatment

provided by the swales. These findings suggest implementation of low impact development (LID) techniques (such as

grassed swales) provide enhanced water quality treatment. Final invoices are pending review and approval. Project

close-out is anticipated for April 2011.


W558

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Venice Hatchett Creek

Stormwater FacilityProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

City of VeniceCooperator(s)

Project Manager NORTON, NANCY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis multi-year funded project was originally funded in FY2008 by the City of Venice, which is the lead agency for

implementing the stormwater retrofit and habitat restoration goals of this effort. The project is associated with the

implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for the City's Hatchett Creek Basin Master Plan and the

Sarasota County unified local mitigation strategy. This project includes the following tasks: land acquisition, design,

development of construction documents, construction permitting, bidding and contractor selection, and construction

engineering and inspection during construction of the BMPs. In 2007, the City purchased a 1.33 acre parcel at 1155

US 41 Bypass South, to be converted to a stormwater pond to provide additional storage and water quality treatment

for a 16.6 acre drainage area. The BMP will address water quality improvements, stormwater management level of

service deficiencies and natural systems restoration along approximately 200 linear feet of intertidal shoreline of

Hatchett Creek.

BenefitsCompletion of this project improves stormwater quality prior to discharging into Hatchett Creek, restores approximately

200 linear feet of intertidal shoreline, and will provide an increased stormwater management level of service on East

Venice Avenue and neighboring areas.

Costs

The total project cost is $1,850,000, and the requested District share is $300,000 ($150,000 from the Manasota Basin

Board and $150,000 from State SWIM), of which $150,000 was requested in FY2008 for design and construction and

$150,000 in FY2009 for construction. The City of Venice purchased a 1.33 acre parcel in 2007 for $1,250,000 and the

District funds match the City funding for design and construction. District funds shown in the table include staff

salaries.


This project is located within the geographic boundaries of the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program and the

Charlotte Harbor SWIM Plan. Charlotte Harbor is generally viewed as one of the most productive estuarine systems in

Southwest Florida. Although it is appropriately considered a healthy system, problems exist in the areas of hydrologic

alterations, water quality degradation, and habitat loss. The SWIM Plan for Charlotte Harbor focus on management

strategies for the Peace and Myakka Rivers, in addition to Charlotte Harbor proper, to reduce point and non-point

source pollution and to preserve and restore habitat. Charlotte Harbor is a District priority Surface Water Improvement

and Management (SWIM) program waterbody and is considered an "estuary of national significance" with the

establishment of the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (CHNEP). Water quality data and seagrass mapping

efforts suggest that Charlotte Harbor's water quality is not degrading, and its fisheries' habitats are mostly stable.

However, data collected since its SWIM designation in 1993 indicate the system experiences annual algae blooms

that appear to be related to elevated nutrient concentrations. The Hatchett Creek Stormwater Facility project is

consistent with the water quality improvement goals of the District's SWIM Plan for Charlotte Harbor and the Charlotte

Harbor National Estuary Program's CCMP. The City will manage the project and the District project manager must

approve any agreements to accomplish project tasks.


W558

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Venice Hatchett Creek

Stormwater Facility


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 155,811 0 0 152,747 0 3,064





District

City of Venice 1,550,000 0 0 1,550,000 0 0

$1,858,557 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Contract Development and ExecutionDraft Agreement sent to Management Services 1/29/08 2/7/08

Draft Agreement returned from Management Services 2/20/08 3/11/08


Signed Agreement returned from Cooperator 3/27/08 4/11/08



Critical Project MilestonesComplete Design and Permitting 4/25/09 3/20/09

Bidding and Contractor Selection 7/25/09 9/1/09 9/27/09

Building Demolition 9/25/09 1/9/09


Complete Construction 8/25/10 12/31/10 11/23/10

Contract Close-Out 10/25/10 12/31/10 12/31/10

Construction Contract Termination 12/25/10 12/25/10



The City of Venice completed building demolition for the project site in January 2009, 8 months ahead of schedule. The

City completed design and received an environmental resource permit (ERP) from SWFWMD for the proposed work

March 20, 2008. Escalating construction costs delayed project construction while the City requested and received

additional funding from FEMA. On May 27, 2009 the City provided 100% plans to the District. The City combined this

project, Hatchett Creek Stormwater Facility, with L624, Implementation of BMPs-Hatchett Creek, in their request for bids.

Bids were opened November 17, 2009. Bid responses required a public meeting to determine bid award

recommendation. The City issued a notice to proceed to the Contractor on February 23, 2010. The construction contract

allowed 210 days to complete construction. Utility conflicts as storm piping was upgraded and directed to the stormwater

pond took more time than anticipated. The City requested a time extension to complete construction. ACTION TO DATE:

Construction was completed November 23, 2010. The City submitted as-built plans and final invoices for the project in

January 2011. FEMA funding reduced the District's share by $242,405.22.


W601

Planning - Sarasota Bay Protection and Restoration Planning

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota County, Sarasota Bay Estuary Program, Manatee CountyCooperator(s)


KAUFMAN, KRIS, POWERS, STEPHANIETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project provides for the administration and implementation of projects as outlined in the SWIM Plan for Sarasota

Bay. Administration and implementation includes assessment of implementation progress, a review and refinement of

the Pollutant Load Reduction Goal (PLRG) for the waterbody, periodic SWIM Advisory Committee meetings, new

project development (rationale and justification), development of relevant contracts and Requests for Proposals,

invoicing, project related presentations, field visits, and miscellaneous duties as they arise.

BenefitsThis project's support of the Sarasota Bay SWIM Plan creates an opportunity for a cohesive effort between the District,

and other state and local agencies to better implement resource management decisions and restoration activities.

Historically, SWIM projects have been eligible for state matching funds with the state funding 50 percent of the project

costs and the District funding the remaining 50 percent. In FY2011, all projects within the Sarasota Bay SWIM

watershed are funded 100 percent by the Manasota Basin Board as no State SWIM funds will be available.

Costs

The FY2011 ongoing costs for the Sarasota Bay SWIM Implementation are funded 100 percent from the Manasota

Basin. The FY2012 ongoing costs for the Sarasota SWIM Plan Implementation are proposed to be funded 100

percent from the Manasota Basin Board. There are no State SWIM Program funds available in FY2011 or 2012.

On-going costs include staff salary, travel and central garage.







state. Several plans have been updated one or more times as required by the Act. The Sarasota Bay SWIM Plan was

first approved in 1997 and last updated in 2002. Since the first plan, the District has initiated a number of restoration

and diagnostic assessment projects. Included within these are: 1) investigation of toxic loading sources to the Bay, 2)

seagrass mapping 3) habitat restoration, 4) development of stormawater master plans 5) various habitat restoration

projects, 6) construction of artificial reefs and oyster reefs and 7) involvement in numerous public outreach and



W601

Planning - Sarasota Bay Protection and Restoration Planning


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 284,199 0 0 267,269 8,229 8,701





$670,866 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesLast Update of Plan 6/7/97 6/7/97

Initiate Update of Plan 4/1/02 4/1/02

Obtain FDEP Approval of Plan Update 9/2/02 12/20/02

Initiate Next Update of Plan 1/1/09 1/1/12


The last update for the SWIM Plan for Sarasota Bay became effective in December 2002. District staff continue to work

with local governments and the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program (SBEP) to implement projects identified in the 2002 Plan.

Status of activities implemented with the SBEP are provided under project number W612. Additionally, Sarasota County

is working on projects to establish water clarity and other resource management targets for the segments of Sarasota

Bay. In FY2009, Sarasota County submitted cooperative funding applications for Sarasota Bay (W621) and Little

Sarasota Bay (W622) Water Quality Management Plans which will be key in updating the SWIM Plan. These two

projects are scheduled to be complete in 2012. The SBEP has begun its update of the Comprehensive Conservation and

Management Plan (CCMP) for the Bay and this plan should include water quality targets. District staff will participate in

this process and this and the above mentioned projects will be useful in the future update to the SWIM Plan and the

SBEP's CCMP. The next update of the SWIM plan is contingent upon the progress of these projects. Updates for these

projects are included under the individual project numbers. This will be the last update under this write-up until a revised

timeline is developed for the SWIM plan based on the progress of the pending projects.


W602

Restoration - Neal Preserve Environmental Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is in response to a cooperative funding request from Manatee County to restore and enhance habitat on

119 acres of intertidal wetlands and uplands in west central Manatee County. The land was purchased in July 2005 by

Manatee County for $9 million. The proposed restoration will target the creation and enhancement of open water,

intertidal habitats, and coastal uplands. Exotic plants such as Australian Pine and Brazilian Pepper will be removed

and replaced with both planted and naturally recruiting native species. Under the current agreement, the County is

responsible for managing the construction contract and will be responsible for the long-term operation and

maintenance of the site. The District is providing project management overview of construction progress.

BenefitsUpon completion, the project will provide significant benefits to habitat through the removal of exotic plant species and

replanting of native vegetation. Hydrologic alterations will also improve the habitat and water quality of the site and

provide limited stormwater treatment of waters entering Tampa Bay and Sarasota Bay. Because the project site drains

to both Tampa Bay and to Sarasota Bay, this project will benefit both systems.

Costs

The total project cost is $9,650,000. The District's contribution is $650,000, which is being split between the Manasota

Basin Board ($325,000), State SWIM funds ($75,000), and a State Appropriation ($250,000). Manatee County

is matching the District's contribution with $9 million used for the land purchase. District funds will be used for

restoration design and construction of the project. District funds shown in the table include staff salaries.




decline in the aesthetic, recreational, and commercial value of the bay, as well as a loss of habitat for native plants

and animals. The SWIM Plans for Tampa Bay and Sarasota Bay outline goals to restore habitat throughout the bay

areas and reduce pollutant loads entering the bays. The objectives of this project are consistent with these goals.


W602

Restoration - Neal Preserve Environmental Restoration


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 339,132 0 0 332,096 4,330 2,706


Ecosystem Trust Fund - Sarasota Bay

Rstr (SWIM)

250,000 0 0 250,000 0 0




District

Manatee County 9,000,000 0 0 9,000,000 0 0

$9,671,226 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development and ExecutionDraft Agreement to Management Services 5/14/07 7/5/07


Agreement to Cooperator 6/8/07 8/24/07

Signed Agreement from Cooperator 7/9/07 10/23/07



2. Project TasksCompletion of Design and Permitting 10/31/08 1/15/11 1/31/11


2. Project TasksCommence Construction 8/1/11

3. Agreement Expiration DatesContract Expiration 12/31/08 12/31/12


An agreement to extend the expiration date for this project is currently being processed. A meeting was held with the

County on February 28, 2011, to ensure that the project remained on track and was completed within a timely manner.

The County anticipates commencing construction on the project by August 1, 2011, and completing construction by the

end of 2011.


W603

Restoration - Ungarelli Preserve Habitat Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Manatee County, Manatee CountyCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed


intertidal wetland and upland habitat along the Manatee River. The Ungarelli Preserve is a 35-acre site that was

purchased in 2008 by Manatee County. The proposed plan targets the restoration of degraded salt marsh habitat and

associated coastal maritime forest on adjacent hummocks through nuisance and exotic species eradication and

supplemental native plantings. The County will be the lead agency for the project. The District will provide project

management oversight of design and construction progress.

BenefitsUpon completion, the project will provide habitat benefits to local wildlife species. The County also plans to provide

passive recreational and educational opportunities to the public.

Costs

The total project cost is approximately $534,000. The proposed FY2012 funding amount is requested to be $216,905.

The District's FY2010 contribution was $50,000. The County fully funded the land purchase in 2008 and will use the

land as a match to $150,000 of District funding. The remaining funds will be provided from the County's General

Fund. District funding will be used for construction of the project. District funds shown in the table include staff

salaries.


Since 1950, approximately 40 percent of Sarasota Bay's intertidal wetland habitat has been lost due to development

and reduction in water quality. This resulted in a decline in the aesthetic, recreational, and commercial value of the

bay, as well as a loss of habitat for native plants and animals. The SWIM Plans for Sarasota Bay outline goals to

restore habitat throughout the bay areas and reduce pollutant loads entering the bays. The objectives of this project

are consistent with these goals.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 250,108 0 0 26,885 220,885 2,338


Ecosystem Trust Fund - SWIM

Rebudget

25,000 0 0 25,000 0 0



District

Manatee County 266,905 0 0 50,000 116,905 100,000

$543,898 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


W603

Restoration - Ungarelli Preserve Habitat Restoration


Contract Development and ExecutionReceive Scope of Work from Cooperator 9/16/09 10/29/09


Agreement Returned from Management Services 10/22/09 7/22/10 7/26/10




Schedule of ActivitiesDesign and Permitting 9/30/11

Competive Bid/Contractor Procurement 12/31/11

Construction 5/31/12

Interpretive Signage 8/31/12

Final Report 9/30/12

W603 Contract ExpirationProject Close Out 12/31/12


The final iteration of the agreement was submitted to the County on March 1, 2011, for BOCC approval and signature.

The County has received the 90% plan set for the project and is proceeding with acquiring the appropriate permits.


W604

Restoration - Philippi Creek In-Stream Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota




Status Ongoing

DescriptionSarasota County is developing the Roberts Bay North Watershed Management Plan (see L611), to protect and

improve water quality and restore natural systems throughout the watershed. This plan has identified several in-stream

restoration projects along Phillippi Creek (and nearby areas) to address unstable systems that are currently degrading

water quality and impacting natural systems. The goal of this project is to achieve measurable, improved water quality

and increase natural habitat along Phillippi Creek through the combined use of the following methods at five project

locations: 1) stream bank resloping and removal of exotic vegetation and replanting appropriate native species of

vegetation, 2) incorporating the low impact design technique of bioswales along the top of stream banks to reduce the

velocity of overland flow of stormwater and protect natural systems, 3) creating wetland treatment systems to restore

habitat at the confluence of stream branches, 4) constructing sediment sumps to reduce the amount of nutrient

transport associated with unstable systems, and 5) installation of weirs in select locations to provide increased

residence time for wetland treatment processes. The County began preliminary evaluations for several project

locations in late FY2009. In FY2010 the County initiated designs and permitting for several proposed project

elements. Project construction is not anticipated until FY2011. District funds are requested for construction. Current

estimated construction costs are around $1,350,000 but will be further refined during design. Sarasota County

anticipates requesting additional funding to complete construction.

BenefitsUpon implementation, this project will improve surface water quality by reducing sedimentation and erosion through

bank re-sloping and stabilization with appropriate native vegetation. The installation of weirs at several locations will

increase residence time and thereby provide additional in-stream water quality treatment.

Costs

Originally, the preliminary project construction costs were estimated at $1,350,000. As part of more detailed project

design, project costs have been further refined and are currently estimated to be $2,100,000. Final construction costs

are pending a request for bids (RFB) scheduled for FY2011. For FY2010, Sarasota County requested the District

contribute $600,000 with the County originally contributing $400,000. Due to budget constraints, in FY2010 the District

budgeted $150,000 for the project with an equal match from the County. The District's FY2010 share is split between

the Manasota Basin Board ($75,000) and State SWIM ($75,000). For FY2011, the District's Manasota Basin budgeted

$400,000 for project construction with an equal match of $400,000 from Sarasota County. To date, the District and

Sarasota County together have budgeted $1,100,000 for project construction. Based on the revised cost estimates,

Sarasota County has requested $250,000 for FY2012. It is anticipated the County will submit a similar request of

$250,000 for future funding in FY2013. District funds shown in the table include staff salaries and travel charges.







state. Several plans have been updated one or more times as required by the Act. The Sarasota Bay SWIM Plan was

first approved in 1997 and last updated in 2002. Since the first plan, the District has initiated a number of restoration

and diagnostic assessment projects. Included within these are: 1) investigation of toxic loading sources to the Bay, 2)

seagrass mapping 3) habitat restoration, 4) development of stormwater master plans, 5) various habitat restoration

projects, 6) construction of artificial reefs and oyster reefs, and 7) involvement in numerous public outreach and



W604

Restoration - Philippi Creek In-Stream Restoration


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,091,211 600,000 0 77,995 6,156 407,060




District

Sarasota County 1,050,000 250,000 0 150,000 250,000 400,000

$2,219,205 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



Agreement to Contract Administration 11/13/09 4/12/10 4/19/10



Issue Notice to Proceed 12/30/09 8/20/10 8/2/10

2. Project ConstructionBegin Construction 10/1/10 8/31/11

End Construction 11/30/11 10/15/12


Design plans and the ERP permit application have been completed. Permits authorizing project construction were issued

in September 2010. Sarasota County is in the process of prioritizing project elements for implementation and has begun

preparing bid documents for a request for bids (RFB) tentatively scheduled for early summer 2011. The construction

phase of the project is not anticipated to begin until August 2011.Updated construction estimates indicate higher costs for

project implementation than originally estimated. Sarasota County has submitted an application for additional funds

through the FY2012 Cooperative Funding Initiative.


W611

Restoration - Natural Systems - Sarasota Bay Spoil Island

Restoration ProjectProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota County, Sarasota County Watershed ManagementCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project originally proposed to restore degraded habitat on three groups of islands in Sarasota Bay, a SWIM

priority water body. The islands were Bird Colony Islands, Jim Neville Marine Preserve and Palmer Point Park. These

islands have been impacted by spoil deposition from the dredging of the Intracoastal Waterway, and have been

colonized by exotic vegetation consisting mostly of Australian pines and Brazilian peppers. The project proposes to

restore habitat through the removal of exotic vegetation, excavation of tidal channels and excess spoil, planting of

native vegetation and shoreline stabilization. The project at Bird Colony Islands was primarily focused on shoreline

stabilization while the other two projects focused more on comprehensive coastal ecosystem restoration. Due to the

significant construction cost estimate for the Jim Neville Marine Preserve and a shortfall in expected federal funding

the cooperative funding agreement was amended to remove the Jim Neville Preserve Marine Preserve site from this

project. The County is responsible for design and construction of the projects. District funding from prior fiscal years

(FY) has been used for construction of the Bird Colony Islands Project. FY2009 funding will be used for construction of

the Palmer Point Park project.

BenefitsThese projects focus on intertidal hydrologic restoration, removal of exotic vegetation, and re-vegetation with native

plants to increase and improve wildlife habitat. This habitat restoration project is consistent with and specifically

identified in the the Sarasota Bay SWIM Plan, 2002.

Costs

The total project cost is approximately $2.6 million. The District share totals $945,000 with $402,500 from the

Manasota Basin Board, $322,500 from State SWIM and $220,000 in State Appropriations. The county's share totals

$1,608,453, with $637,953 from the county, $300,000 from the West Coast Inland Navigation District, $520,500 from a

Jacksonville Community Foundation Grant and $150,000 from the United State Army Corps of Engineers. Funds

proposed in FY2012 include staff salaries, travel and central garage.




bay, as well as a loss of habitat for native plants and animals. The SWIM Plan for Sarasota Bay outlines goals to




W611


Restoration Project


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 426,812 0 (66,622) 486,833 3,296 3,305


Ecosystem Trust Fund - Sarasota Bay

Impl (SWIM)

120,000 0 0 120,000 0 0

Ecosystem Trust Fund - Sarasota Spoil

(SWIM)

100,000 0 0 100,000 0 0





District

Jacksonville Community Foundation 520,500 0 0 520,500 0 0

Sarasota County 637,953 0 0 637,953 0 0

USACE 150,000 0 0 150,000 0 0

West Coast Inland Navagation District 300,000 0 0 300,000 0 0

$2,529,391 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development and ExecutionDraft agreement sent to Management Services 2/18/05 2/18/05

Draft agreement returned from Management Services 3/11/05 3/11/05





2. Project TasksCompletion of Design and Permitting for Bird Colony Island 10/31/05 10/31/05

Construction complete for Bird Colony Island 3/30/08 2/22/08

Completion of Design and Permitting for Palmer Point Park 9/30/08 1/1/10 12/18/09

Construction complete for Palmer Point Park 5/30/09 10/14/11

Commence Construction of Palmer Point 5/11/11

3. Agreement Expiration DateContract Expiration 12/31/11


Construction at Bird Colony Island commenced in late 2007 and was completed on 2/22/08. The County submitted an

Environmental Resource Permit Application for the Palmer Point Park project on 5/16/08. Issuance of the permit was

delayed by two Requests for Additional Information from the Department of Environmental Protection. This delayed

design of the project. Environmental permits were received in December 2009 at which time the County provided the

District with copies of the 100 percent plans. The County addressed the District's comments and the Request for Bid was

advertised. The County opened the sole received construction bid for the Palmer Point Park Restoration Project on April

7, 2010. After reviewing the bidder's qualifications and examining the proposed contract value, it was determined that the

bid was acceptable. On October 15, 2010 the county issued a Notice of Bid Action. The County was approached by the

US Army Corps of Engineers about the possibility of resuming the previous County/Federal interaction on Spoil Island


W611


Restoration ProjectRestoration under the Federal Section 1135 Program. This requires that the County sign a Project Partnership

Agreement with the Corps to formalize the expectations for cost-sharing. The County has been advised that the Palmer

Point Park Restoration Project can serve as in-kind match for the Corps Agreement, but only if the construction contract

for Palmer Point is issued after the Partnership Agreement is executed. An email dated February 11, 2010 from the

County indicated that the Project Partnership Agreement is not scheduled to go before the board until March 29, 2011.

The County anticipates that the bid award for the project will be presented at the May 10, 2011 board meeting. At that

time, they will be able to establish a reliable date for start of construction. The sole bidder on the project has guaranteed

their bid price through April 11, 2011 and will likely extend that guarantee through May 10, 2011 as time approaches. The

County submitted a request to extend the internal deadlines for commencement and completion of construction for the

Palmer Point Project. The District granted the request to extend the commence construction date to May 11, 2011 and

the complete construction date to October 14, 2011. The agreement between the County and the District expires

December 31, 2011.


W612

Planning - Sarasota Bay Estuary Program Comprehensive

Management Plan Development and ImplementationProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota Bay Estuary ProgramCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project provides funding for the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program (SBEP) as outlined in the Interlocal Agreement

which established the SBEP as a independent special district in 2005. The District participates in three main areas.

First the District's SWIM program carries out the projects that will address water quality and habitat restoration within

the bay. Second, the District, through the Manasota Basin Board and State have contributed annual funding to the

SBEP since 1990 to carry out the administration and implement of projects identified in the SBEP Comprehensive

Conservation and Management Plan. And finally, the District provides staff to sit on the technical, management and

policy (Governing Board member) committees of the program. The District's annual budget includes funding support to

the SBEP and District staff salaries, travel and central garage to administer the project, which includes attending board

meetings and other workshops and invoicing.

BenefitsThis project's support of the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program creates an opportunity for a cohesive effort between the

District, SBEP and other state and local agencies to implement resource management decisions and restoration

activities. Additionally, this project provides for leveraging funding between the partners.

Costs

The District has provided funding to the SBEP on an annual basis since 1990. The District's annual funding

commitment for the SBEP is $133,000. Prior to FY2011, the District share was split between the Manasota Basin

Board (50%, $66,500) and State SWIM (50%, $66,500) funds. In FY2011, the District's share of $133,000 is funded

100 percent by the Manasota Basin Board. In FY2012 the proposed funding is 100% by the Basin Board. District

funds are used to implement projects outlined in the Annual Workplan. District funds in the table include staff salaries,

travel and central garage.


In 1987, the Florida Legislature established the Surface Water Improvement and Management Program. (SWIM) Act

having recognized that water quality and habitat in surface waters through out the state have degraded or in danger of

being degraded. The Act requires the District maintain a priority list of waterbodies of regional or statewide

significance within their boundaries. Sarasota Bay is designated as a priority waterbody. Sarasota Bay was identified

by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 1989 as an estuary of Federal Significance and subsequently

included in the National Estuary Program. As a result of this designation, the Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program

was established in 1989 to assist the region in developing a comprehensive plan for the restoration and protection of

Sarasota Bay. In 2004, the "National" designation was dropped from the program name as a result of the execution of

an interlocal agreement between the program partners. The Interlocal Agreement commits the partners to an annual

funding commitment. Partners in the SBEP include the District, USEPA, Florida Department of Environmental

Protection, Sarasota and Manatee counties, the cities of Sarasota and Bradenton, and the town of Longboat Key. The

goals and strategies for the Bay are identified in the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) for

Sarasota Bay which provides the guidance for each entity on their contribution to restore the Bay. Since 1998, the

District and other partners have completed several habitat restoration projects and diagnostic assessments, including

seagrass mapping, assessment of atmospheric deposition and identification of toxic load sources in the Bay.


W612

Planning - Sarasota Bay Estuary Program Comprehensive

Management Plan Development and Implementation


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 808,153 133,000 0 399,078 138,042 138,033






District

Local Government Partners 1,331,400 0 0 1,168,400 0 163,000

US EPA 3,886,750 0 0 3,086,750 0 800,000

$6,451,978 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2011 Annual Workplan Critical Project MilestonesFY2011 Draft Agreement to Management Services 10/1/10 6/28/10

FY2011 First Payment (1/2 total) 12/1/10 12/14/10

FY2011 Agreement Fully Executed 1/1/11 10/26/10 10/14/10

FY2011 Second/final payment 3/1/11

FY 2011 End of Contract 9/30/11

FY2012 Annual Workplan Critical Project MilestonesFY2012 Agreement to Management Services 6/1/11

FY2012 Agreement Fully Executed 10/1/11

FY2012 First 1/2 Payment 12/1/11

FY2012 Second 1/2 Payment 3/1/12

FY2012 Contract Expiration 9/30/12


FY2011 Annual Workplan: The agreement has been fully executed and the first payment was processed on December

14, 2010. Management Conference: The SBEP Boards and Technical Committees continue to work with its partners to

develop a mechanism for establishing numeric nutrient criteria for the Bay in advance of the effort being conducted by

EPA. This is consistent with work the Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor Estuary Programs are conducting. The SBEP

contracted with a consultant to prepare and submit a document to EPA by June 15, 2010 that documents the methods

the SBEP will be using to develop proposed Numeric Nutrient Criteria. Proposed Numeric Nutrient Criteria were

submitted to EPA in August 2010. The SBEP's consultant is preparing a recommended implementation plan and

downstream protection values which will all be submitted to EPA after January 2011. At the Technical Advisory

Committee meeting on January 14, 2011 the TAC approved the implementation plan and the downstream protection

values documents. At the January Managment Committee meeting, the Committee approved submittal of documents

related to dissolved oxygen, Downstream Protection Values, Tidal Creeks, TN/TP criteria and loading criteria to EPA.


W613

Stormwater Improvements - Water Quality - Sarasota Catfish Creek

Stormwater FacilityProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota



THORNTON, SHELLEYTask Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThis FY2005 project was completed in June 2010 to implement Best Management Practices (BMPs) for the Catfish

Creek Watershed which drains into Sarasota Bay, a District SWIM water body. The Catfish Creek watershed covers

an area of approximately 6.22 square miles and is located in Sarasota County. Implementation of BMPs included

design, development of construction documents, construction permitting, land acquisition, bidding, contractor

selection, construction of the BMPs and construction engineering and inspection. Final implementation included the

construction of one stormwater treatment pond totaling 23.75 acres. The County's prior funding includes the property

purchased by the County for the project. With FY2005 funds and additional funds provided in FY2008 and FY2009,

work on the Implementation of BMPs was completed in March 2010. The constructed facility was transferred to

operational status in June 2010.

BenefitsThe combined pond acreage of the completed facility is sufficiently large that stormwater runoff from approximately

810 acres of watershed will receive adequate treatment to meet design criteria for existing stormwater regulations and

will improve water quality by increasing residence time.

Costs

The original total budget for the project was $10,381,397 which includes land costs of $1,788,129. Project

construction costs were originally estimated at $6,100,000. The In FY2005 the District's budgeted share for

construction was $2,500,000 split 40/60 between the Manasota Basin Board ($1,000,000) and State SWIM

($1,500,000). Sarasota County's share in prior years was $6,229,949 in addition to a FDEP grant for

$504,413. Sarasota County contributed $275,000 to the project in FY2008 with the District providing a matching

contribution shared evenly between the Manasota Basin Board ($137,500) and State SWIM ($137,500). The

County requested the final $275,000 in FY2009 (shared evenly between the Manasota Basin Board ($137,500) and

State SWIM ($137,500) and contributed an equal amount. Project construction was completed in June 2010 under

budget. A total of $914,042.80 was returned to the basin budget. The total District funding reflected in the table below

includes staff salary, travel and central garage costs.


W613


Stormwater Facility


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 937,519 0 (365,617) 1,299,637 0 3,499



State Trust Funds (SWIM) - Prior 2006 1,500,000 0 0 1,500,000 0 0

WMLTF (SWIM) - Prior Year Funds (545,692) 0 (548,426) 2,734 0 0


District

Florida Department of Environmental

Protection

504,413 0 0 504,413 0 0

Sarasota County 6,779,949 0 0 6,779,949 0 0

$9,467,354 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development & ExecutionDraft Agreement for Construction to Management Services 11/19/04 12/19/04


Agreement returned from Executive Review 12/17/04 1/14/05

Agreement to Sarasota County 12/27/04 1/19/05

Execution by District 1/31/05 1/31/05

Sarasota County Approval of Agreement 2/8/05 4/26/05 4/26/05

Draft SWIM Agreement for Construction to Management Services 7/26/05 8/17/05


Agreement returned from Executive Review 9/1/05 9/21/05

Agreement to Sarasota County 9/4/05 9/23/05

Sarasota County Approval of Agreement 11/30/05 11/8/05 11/8/05

Execution by District 12/15/05 12/2/05


2. Contract Development & ExecutionPrepare Amendment for FY2008 Funding 8/28/07 8/28/07

Amendment to County for Approval 11/30/07 1/15/08 1/4/08

Amendment Approved by County 3/1/08 3/11/08 3/18/08

Amendment Approved by District 5/22/08 3/25/08


2. Critical Project MilestonesPermits Issued 3/11/04 7/3/07

Construction Begins 4/30/08 2/28/09 10/1/08

Construction Substantially Completed 1/31/10 9/30/09 12/15/09

As-Builts Received and Approved 4/30/10 9/30/10 8/16/10

Maintenance Plan Received 4/30/10 7/30/10 7/1/10

Final Project Report 4/30/10 9/30/10 8/16/10

3. Close OutContract Termination 5/31/10 1/31/11 9/1/10


Project Completed. All project construction at the Catfish Creek stormwater treatment facility was completed by March


W613


Stormwater Facility2010. Operational Status was granted on June 10, 2010. The Project Maintenance Plan was completed and submitted

along with final signed and sealed as-built drawings and the Project Plan Report. Final invoices for reimbursement were

processed for payment and contract closure scheduled for late September 2010. Project construction was completed

under budget, returning $914,042.80 to the basin budget. ACTIONS-TO-DATE: Project Completed - Project was

completed ahead of schedule and under budget in September 2010.


W616

Restoration - Sarasota Bay Habitat Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota Bay Estuary ProgramCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is in repsonse to a cooperative funding request from the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program (SBEP) for the

restoration and enhancement of several coastal dune/coastal hammock systems in the Sarasota Bay watershed. The

SBEP has developed a comprehensive plan for restoring intertidal and submerged aquatic habitats at 20 locations

throughout Sarasota Bay. This project will help to fund restoration and management plans for several of the locations

in addition to exotic plant species removal and control.

BenefitsThis project provides improved natural systems through habitat enhancement and creation.

Costs

The total estimated project budget is $720,000. The District contributed $240,000 in both the FY2009 and FY2010

funding cycles, which was matched by SBEP Federal and grant funds. District funds shown in the table include staff

salaries.








Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 192,209 0 0 183,942 4,201 4,066





District

Sarasota Bay Estuary Program 365,000 0 0 365,000 0 0

$741,150 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development and ExecutionDraft agreement Sent to Management Services 9/12/07 1/3/08


W616

Restoration - Sarasota Bay Habitat Restoration

Agreement Returned from Management Services 10/3/07 2/20/08

Agreement Sent to Cooperator 10/10/07 2/28/08

Signed Agreement Returned from Cooperator 11/7/07 4/1/08 3/24/08

Agreement Fully Executed 11/21/07 4/15/08 4/7/08

Notice To Proceed 11/27/07 4/30/08 4/9/08

1. Contract Development and ExecutionFirst Amendment to Original Agreement 4/1/09 4/17/09

Contract Expiration 12/31/12


Several recent projects have been implemented using District provided funding, including, the North and South Lido

Habitat Restoration Projects, Herb Dolan Park Shoreline Restoration, and the Honi Hanta Girl Scout Camp Shoreline

Restoration. Additional projects are being chosen for implementation under this agreement with SBEP through the

current SBEP Habitat Master Plan. As they are chosen, District staff will evaluate the projects and objectives to ensure

they coincide with District and SWIM Program goals.


W617

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Coastal Basin Beach

RoadProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is in response to a cooperative funding request from Sarasota County. The project is designed to improve

water quality and reduce street flooding on Beach Road located in the Sarasota Bay Coastal basin. The water quality

in the drainage piping system along Beach Road near Siesta Key Public Beach does not meet water quality standards

and has impacted the Public Beach through a ditch outfall system to the Gulf of Mexico. This project entails the design

and construction of a stormwater treatment system to protect the public health and safety to meet recreational water

quality standards. A feasibility study report was completed in January 2006. The design includes construction of a

linear estuarine lagoon system for stormwater biological treatment, a stormwater vault and pump station with a UV

treatment system to kill bacteria, and either rerouting the treated stormwater discharge to the Grand Canal or pumping

the stormwater discharge via pipeline to a gulf discharge point. The project is expected to improve water quality by

increasing the residence time in the new lagoon system.

BenefitsThe project will be designed to take stormwater runoff that presently discharges across Siesta Key Beach and redirect

it through a water quality treatment marsh and discharge it to either a residential canal system that connects with

Sarasota Bay or pump it through a pipeline to a gulf discharge point. The primary benefits of the project would be

reduced flooding on Beach Road with water quality improvement from biological contamination and natural systems

enhancement.

Costs

The total project cost is $2,227,000. The County had a feasibility study completed in January 2006 at a cost of $77,000

and budgeted $200,000 for design in FY2007, leaving a balance of $1,950,000 estimated to be required for the

construction of the project. Sarasota County contributed $487,500 to the project in FY2008 while the District provided

a matching contribution shared evenly between the Manasota Basin Board ($243,750) and State SWIM ($243,750).

The County requested the remaining funding in FY2009, with the County and the District each contributing half

($487,500). Since the County could not commit to spending all of the funding in FY2009, they contributed half of the

requested amount or $243,750 in FY2009 and the District contributed $243,750 split evening between the Manasota

Basin Board ($121,875) and State SWIM ($121,875). The FY2010 project cost is $487,500 with the District and the

County each contributing half ($243,750). District funds shown in the table include staff salaries.


This regional initiative conforms with, and furthers, the implementation of the Sarasota Bay's CCMP, SWFWMD's

Southern Coastal Watershed CWM Plan, and Sarasota County's Comprehensive Plan.


W617

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Coastal Basin Beach

Road


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 495,219 0 0 494,136 0 1,083





District

Sarasota County 1,252,000 0 0 1,252,000 0 0

$2,241,352 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Implementation of BMPs for Coastal Basin Beach RoadDraft Contract and Scope of Work 9/30/07 7/25/07

Contract Executed by the County 11/30/07 12/18/07 12/18/07

Application for FY2009 Funding 12/10/07 12/7/07

Contract Executed by the District 12/31/07 3/6/08


Commence Design and Permitting 3/30/08 3/30/08

Complete Design and Permitting 3/30/09 12/1/08


Complete Construction 4/30/11 3/2/12

Final Report and As-Builts 12/31/11 3/31/12



The original design has been completed and the permit has been issued; however, there is significant opposition to the

project among citizens living near the proposed stormwater system outfall on Grande Canal. The County is addressing

this through both public education and investigation into alternate outfall locations, which has caused a delay in the

project. The County has completed design of an alternate Gulf discharge option for the treated stormwater generated by

the proposed system. The Nationwide 12 permit from the Army Corp of Engineers for an alternate Gulf discharge

pipeline for the proposed stormwater system has been received, and the CCCL permit is completed save for the

demonstration of comprehensive plan consistency. That demonstration will be provided if a variance to the local Gulf

Beach Setback Line can be obtained from the County Commission Board on March 30, 2011. District and County staff

met on February 24, 2011 to discuss the project timeline. County staff feels they will not complete the project by the

contract termination date of March 31, 2012, and will require an extension to the agreement. Following the Sarasota

County Comission Board meeting, the County will have direction on which outfall location to use, and the project

construction schedule will be reassessed.


W619

Restoration - Perico Preserve Environmental Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed


intertidal wetlands and uplands in west central Manatee County. The land was purchased in June 2007 by Manatee

County for $6 million. The proposed restoration will target the creation and enhancement of open water, intertidal, and

coastal upland habitats. Exotic plants such as Australian Pine and Brazilian Pepper will be removed and replaced with

both planted and naturally recruiting native species.

BenefitsUpon completion, the project will provide significant benefits to habitat through the removal of exotic species and

replanting of native vegetation. Improved hydrologic conditions will also improve the habitat and water quality of the site

and provide limited stormwater treatment of waters entering both Tampa Bay and Sarasota Bay. Because the project

site drains to both Tampa Bay and Sarasota Bay, this project will benefit both systems.

Costs

The total project cost is $8,000,000. The FY2012 proposed project cost is $600,000. Manatee County is matching the

District's contribution with the $6 million used for land purchase. District funds for FY2009 ($452,372), which were

contributed by the Manasota Basin Board (50%) and State SWIM(50%), are being used for the design, permitting, and

construction of the first phase of the project. The FY12 and future funds, if approved, will be used for the construction

of additional project phases. District funds shown in the table include staff salaries.








Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,836,052 1,000,000 0 229,098 604,290 2,664





District

Manatee County 6,000,000 0 0 6,000,000 0 0

$8,065,149 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


W619

Restoration - Perico Preserve Environmental Restoration


1. Contract Development and ExecutionDraft agreement sent to Management Services 10/31/08 3/16/09 5/13/09

Draft agreement returned from Management Services 11/21/08 9/14/09


Signed Agreement returned from Cooperator 12/26/08 10/26/09



2. Project TasksDesign and Permitting Complete 12/31/09 8/1/11


3. Agreement Expiration DateContract Expiration 12/31/11


The County is behind schedule on this project due to a number of internal issues. The District met with the County on

February 28, 2011, to discuss the project and ideas for reestablishing a feasible project schedule. District staff suggested

that the County created a phased approach for this project. The County's consultant is reviewing project information in an

attempt to design and permit a portion of the property within the next several months. Construction of this initial phase is

anticipated to begin prior to the end of 2011. The County will be requesting an amendment to the agreement to extend

the expiration date of the agreement to allow for the construction of additional phases.


W620

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Pelican Cove Stormwater

ProjectProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota County, Pelican CoveCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is in response to a FY2009 cooperative funding request from Pelican Cove Condominium Association.

Pelican Cove is a Sarasota County Neighborhood Environment Stewardship Team (NEST) community which has

begun to retrofit stormwater BMPs in the 1970's property. This project involves the design and construction of berms to

redirect the flow of stormwater runoff into detention areas and swales designed to reduce the amount of flow and

pollutants entering Little Sarasota Bay by as much as 80% to 90%. The project will provide treatment for stormwater

from approximately 20 acres of Pelican Cove Condominiums. Maintenance will be provided by Pelican Cove

Condominium Association which has a staff of over 40 grounds and maintenance employees. Additional

funding requested in FY2011 will provide longer stormwater retention times by diverting some of the stormwater runoff

to an existing stormwater pond located at an adjacent development.

BenefitsThe stormwater treatment system will redirect stormwater runoff from approximately 20 acres of the site, reducing

nutrients and sediments that currently flow untreated to Little Sarasota Bay.

Costs

The total project cost is $45,000. The FY2009 project cost is $35,000, with the Pelican Cove Condominium

Association and the District each contributing half ($17,500). The District share is split between the Manasota Basin

Board ($8,750) and State SWIM ($8,750). In FY2011, the Association requested additional funding, increasing the

project budget by $10,000, with the Pelican Cove Condominium Association and the District each contributing half

($5,000). The District portion is funded by the Manasota Basin Board. District funds shown in the table includes staff

salaries.








W620

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Pelican Cove Stormwater

Project


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 18,977 0 0 9,955 0 9,022





District

Pelican Cove Condominiums 22,500 0 0 17,500 0 5,000

$51,431 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Contract Development and ExecutionDraft Agreement Sent to Management Services 9/2/08 9/9/08

Draft Agreement Returned from Management Services 9/23/08 12/18/08





Critical Project MilestonesComplete Project Design and Permitting 12/31/09 4/8/10 4/8/10




The Pelican Cove Condominium Association provided a Scope of Work in August 2008 and a preliminary draft

Agreement for the project was sent to both Sarasota County and the Association in September 2008. The final

agreement was forwarded to Sarasota County for signatures in December 2008. In lieu of entering into the tri-party

agreement, the County Water Resource Manager stated that the County ordinance, Stormwater Conveyance

Maintenance, provides for the County to enforce maintenance of private stormwater drainage systems. The revised

Agreement between Pelican Cove and the District was executed May 22, 2009 and Notice to Proceed was issued June

8, 2009. After Pelican Cove contracted with a consultant to design the project, another opportunity to treat more

stormwater flow was identified. The Association requested an extension of four months to complete design to increase

treatment volume and submitted a FY2011 cooperative funding request for an additional $5,000. The Consultant

submitted the permit applications for this project and 100% plans in April 2010. The Association executed a Construction

agreement effective October 7, 2010. Construction began October 25, 2010. An agreement amendment adding the

additional FY2011 funding was returned to the District for execution December 16, 2010. Construction is complete and

the Engineer of Record will provide project certification by end of February, 2011. ACTION TO DATE: The District is

waiting for copies of the record drawings and final request for reimbursement.


W621

Planning - Little Sarasota Bay Water Quality Management Plan

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota County Watershed Management, Sarasota CountyCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project will develop a water quality management plan for Little Sarasota Bay that includes the Little Sarasota Bay,

Elligraw Bayou, Holiday Bayou, Clower Creek, Catfish Creek, North Creek, South Creek and direct runoff to the bay

from Siesta Key and Casey Key. The plan will focus on water resource issues such as restoration of historic or more

natural hydrologic regimes in the basin, and improvements to water quality and habitat. Through this plan, the County

and District will work with the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program and its partners to develop water quality and habitat

restoration goals and identify projects that will assist in meeting these goals. The plan will include short term and long

term projects for improvements that may include wastewater reuse, stormwater reuse, smart growth, revised land

development standards, sediment control, wetland or floodplain restoration, flood level abatement, aquifer protection,

and restoration of natural flow regimes. The County will post deliverables and reports on the Sarasota County Water

Atlas website. Additionally, the plan will identify the monitoring needed to evaluate the progress made toward meeting

the established goals.

BenefitsDevelopment of this plan will assist the District in its update of the SWIM Plan for Sarasota Bay by developing pollutant

load reduction goals and specific projects to meet those goals. Implementation of the plan by Sarasota County and

others will result in protecting and restoring water quality and natural systems within the watershed of Little Sarasota

Bay.

Costs

The total estimated cost for the development of the Water Quality Management Plan is $600,000. This multi-year

funded project is funded over three fiscal years beginning in FY2009. The FY2009 and FY2010 total costs were

$400,000 with the District and Sarasota each contributing one-half ($200,000). The District's FY2009 and FY2010

share is split evenly between the Manasota Basin Board ($100,000) and State SWIM funds ($100,000).

Sarasota County requested and the Manasota Basin Board included $100,000 in its FY2011 budget to match

$100,000 by the County. FY2009 funds are for compiling and evaluating all existing studies, models and data,

identifying pollutant sources and development of a data collection plan. FY2010 funds are for modeling watershed

pollutant loads and evaluating alternatives, and FY2011 funds are for completing a draft and final plan. Funds

proposed in FY2012 include staff salaries, travel and central garage.








W621

Planning - Little Sarasota Bay Water Quality Management Plan


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 230,078 0 0 110,795 11,987 107,296





District

Sarasota County 300,000 0 0 200,000 0 100,000

$640,872 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Cooperator Contract Development and ExecutionDraft Agreement sent to Management Services 10/1/08 1/29/09



Signed Agreement Returned from Cooperator 10/29/08 3/13/09 3/20/09

Agreement Fully Executed 11/7/08 3/16/09 3/27/09

2. Project TasksCompile and evaluate existing data, identify projects, outline final report 6/1/11 7/1/12

Final Report 6/1/12 12/15/12

3. Cooperative Agreement ExpirationAgreement Expiration 12/31/12


The cooperative funding agreement was fully executed in March 2009. A kick-off meeting with the County was held May

5, 2009. At the meeting, the selection of a consultant to conduct the study and a timeline was discussed. The County

issued the Request for Professional Services for this project in November 2009 and a ranking meeting was held on

January 7, 2010 to develop the ranked list for presentation to the County Commission. County and District staff

negotiated fees and the Scope of Work with the consultant. A final scope and fee was approved by the District and

County staff in August 2010. However, due to delays on the County's end, the agreement was not scheduled until the

November 30, 2010 Board of County Commissioners meeting for approval. This delayed the project and the County has

requested revisions to the schedule. These revisions were approved by the District's project manager on December 20,

2010 and are reflected in the milestones section of this writeup. A kick-off meeting for the project is scheduled for

January 7, 2011 and a watershed tour was held January 31, 2011. The consultant has completed the Plan outline and

begun work on the watershed characterization chapter.


W622

Planning - Sarasota Bay Water Quality Management Plan

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota County Watershed Management, Sarasota CountyCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project will develop a water quality management plan for Sarasota Bay that includes the watersheds within

Sarasota County for Sarasota Bay, Hudson Bayou, Whitaker Bayou, Lido Key, and direct runoff to the bay. The plan

will focus on water resource issues such as restoration of historic or more natural hydrologic regimes in the basin, and

improvements to water quality and habitat. Through this plan, the County and District will work with the Sarasota Bay

Estuary Program and its partners to develop water quality and habitat restoration goals and identify projects that will

assist in meeting these goals. The plan will include short term and long term projects for improvements that may

include wastewater reuse, stormwater reuse, smart growth, revised land development standards, sediment control,

wetland or floodplain restoration, flood level abatement, aquifer protection, and restoration of natural flow regimes. The

County will post deliverables and reports on the Sarasota County Water Atlas website. Additionally, the plan will

identify the monitoring needed to evaluate the progress made toward meeting the established goals.

BenefitsDevelopment of this plan will assist the District in its update of the SWIM Plan for Sarasota Bay by developing pollutant

load reduction goals and specific projects to meet those goals. Implementation of the plan by Sarasota County and

others will result in protecting and restoring water quality and natural systems within the watershed of Sarasota Bay.

Costs

The total estimated cost for the development of the Water Quality Management Plan is $600,000. This multi-year

funded project is funded over three fiscal years beginning in FY2009. The FY2009 and FY2010 total costs were

$400,000 with the District and Sarasota each contributing one-half ($200,000). The District's FY2009 and FY2010

share is split evenly between the Manasota Basin Board ($100,000) and State SWIM funds

($100,000). Sarasota County requested and the Manasota Basin Board included $100,000 in its FY2011 budget to

match $100,000 budgeted by the County. FY2009 funds are for compiling and evaluating all existing studies, models

and data, identifying pollutant sources and development of a data collection plan. FY2010 funds are for modeling

watershed pollutant loads and evaluating alternatives, and FY2011 funds are for completing and draft and final plan.

Funds proposed in FY2012 include staff salaries, travel and central garage.








W622

Planning - Sarasota Bay Water Quality Management Plan


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 230,078 0 0 110,795 11,987 107,296





District

Sarasota County 300,000 0 0 200,000 0 100,000

$640,872 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Cooperator Contract Development and ExecutionDraft Agreement sent to Management Services 10/1/08 1/29/09





2. Project TasksCompile evaluate existing data, identify projects 6/1/11 4/1/12

Final Report 6/29/12 9/1/12

3. Cooperative Agreement ExpirationAgreement Expiration 12/31/12


The agreement was fully executed in March 2009. A kick-off meeting with the County was held May 5, 2009. The District

and County staff prepared a Request for Professional Services and it is was advertised December 22, 2009 and eight

proposals were received. The ranking committee (which the District project manager participated in) met on March 8,

2010 to rank the proposals. A final Scope and Fee was provided by the consultant on June 22, 2010. The agreement

with the consultant was approved by the Board of County Commissioners in July 2010. Due to the lengthy process for

securing a consultant, the County requested a revision to internal deadlines for completion of preliminary tasks. The

District's project manager approved this request and the new deadlines are reflected in the milestones section of this

write-up. The kick-off meeting with the consultant and the County was held on September 28, 2010 and a watershed tour

was held on October 11, 2010. A District communications staff member and the District's project manager met with the

County Project manager and the County's Communications staff on October 19, 2010 to brainstorm ways to get the

community more involved in development of the plan. District Communications staff sent various information to the

County as a follow-up to the meeting. The consultant has completed a report outline, draft watershed characterization

and bibliography. The first progress meeting was held January 11, 2011.


W623

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Holmes Beach

Stormwater RetrofitProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Holmes Beach, Holmes BeachCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis project is in response to a cooperative funding request from the City of Holmes Beach. The project will impact two

drainage basins within the City of Holmes Beach totaling approximately 107 acres. Both basins have a total of 16

outfall locations that discharge into the finger canals within the City, which discharge into Sarasota Bay. The objective

of this project is to reduce pollutants being received by Sarasota Bay by improving the water quality discharge to the

bay and reduce flooding within the basins. The project includes the construction of multiple small retention areas

throughout the basin. Additional improvements will include reconstruction of the city owned land to accommodate

shallow grassed swales and installation of new baffle box structures at each outfall location. The swales and retention

areas provide treatment of stormwater through percolation and evaporation. Treated stormwater will discharge into the

bay through the new baffle structures which provide additional treatment through sedimentation, filtration and

skimming.

BenefitsThis project will improve the water quality and flood protection by removing pollutants and increasing storage and

conveyance capacity. The stormwater filtration devices being proposed will provide suspended solids removal from

stormwater runoff that previously discharged directly into the canal/bay system. The project is anticipated to reduce

TSS by 80%.

Costs

The total project budget is $1,026,000, with the City and the District each contributing half ($513,000). The FY2010

project cost is $253,230 with the City contributing $171,000 and the District contributing $82,230. The District's

FY2010 share is split between the Manasota Basin Board ($41,115) and State SWIM ($41,115). The FY2011 project

budget is $346,270 with the City contributing $171,000 and the District contributing $175,270. The District's FY2011

share is funded by the Manasota Basin Board. The FY2012 project budget is $426,500 with the City contributing

$171,000 and the District contributing $255,500. The District's FY2012 share is funded by the Manasota Basin Board.



The State of Florida has designated Sarasota Bay as an OFW. In 1997, a Sarasota Bay Surface Water Improvement

and Management (SWIM) Plan was created to outline a series of research and/or restoration projects that will allow

for the preservation and continued restoration of the health of Sarasota Bay. The goals of the SWIM plan include

improvement of water transparency in Sarasota Bay to decrease the quantity and increase the quality of stormwater

runoff to Sarasota Bay, to restore shoreline habitats in Sarasota Bay and to continue monitoring programs in Sarasota

Bay. This project will help to accomplish those objectives and increase the overall health, welfare and safety of the

residents living within these basins.


W623

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Holmes Beach

Stormwater Retrofit


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 486,862 0 0 43,499 265,123 178,240



Rebudget

41,115 0 0 41,115 0 0



District

City of Holmes Beach 513,000 0 0 171,000 171,000 171,000

$1,043,360 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Design and Permitting Completion 11/30/10 3/8/11

Commence Construction 3/31/11


As-Built Drawings and Final Report 6/30/12


Design is 100% complete and was resubmitted to Sarasota Regulatory and the USACOE on February 16, 2011 in

response to requests for additional information. The construction bid has been advertised and the Pre-Bid Meeting is on

February 28, 2011. The City's consultant has been working closely with the permitting agencies and is confident in

getting permit approval in time to meet the commence construction date of March 31, 2011. The original scope of this

project included the construction of a new retention area at the southwest intersection of 62nd Street and Flotilla Drive.

However, after receiving survey data and reviewing the existing conditions at that location, it has been determined that it

is not a feasible site for a retention area as the topography is higher than much of the surrounding area. Multiple other

retention areas and swales throughout the basin are being provided, which will meet the intent of the project in providing

treatment and attenuation for stormwater runoff.


W624

Restoration - Red Bug Slough Restoration

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is in response to a cooperative funding request from Sarasota County. Sarasota County and SWFWMD

are jointly developing the Roberts Bay North Watershed Management Plan which has identified the Red Bug Slough

Restoration project to improve water quality and restore habitat in the watershed. This project was also identified in the

2002 Sarasota Bay SWIM Plan to improve the quality of stormwater runoff to Sarasota Bay. Red Bug Slough is a

tributary to Philippi Creek, which eventually discharges to Roberts Bay, and is part of the larger Sarasota Bay system.

The Red Bug Slough basin is 600 acres and includes a series of four interconnected lakes: West Clark Lake, East

Clark Lake, Mirror Lake and Red Bug Slough Lake. There are four proposed restoration components identified for

design that will partially restore a historical wetland, enhance native plant communities, and improve the quality of

water entering Phillippi Creek and ultimately Sarasota Bay.

BenefitsThe project will create additional storage within the watershed and, thereby, provide an improved level of service for

flooding. The project will also provide improved water quality treatment by increasing residence times and providing

additional biological treatment through restoration of historical marshes and creation of new wetland systems within

Red Bug Sough. This will improve the quality of water entering Phillippi Creek and ultimately Sarasota Bay, and will

have a positive impact on waterbodies on the TMDL verified list for the Sarasota Bay Group 3 segments, including

Roberts Bay for nutrients and Chl (a); and Phillippi Creek for coliform bacteria.

Costs

The total project budget is $1,000,000, of which the County and the District are each funding half ($500,000). Sarasota

County has budgeted $250,000 for FY2010 and $250,000 for FY2011. The District budgeted $400,000 for FY2010.

The District's FY2010 share is split between the Manasota Basin Board ($200,000) and State SWIM ($200,000). The

District's FY2011 budget includes $100,000, which is funded by the Manasota Basin Board. District funds shown in the

table include staff salaries.








W624

Restoration - Red Bug Slough Restoration


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 314,977 0 0 202,384 9,623 102,970



Rebudget

200,000 0 0 200,000 0 0



District

Sarasota County 500,000 0 0 250,000 0 250,000

$1,017,360 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Design and Permitting Completion 12/31/10 11/17/11



As-Builts and Final Project Report 12/31/13


The County has requested approval to extend the task deadlines due to an extended comment period on the 30% plans,

prolonged negotiations with the consultant for Phase II mostly due to a contract issue with funding, time spent identifying

the appropriate methodology for nutrient load reduction calculations associated with the wetland enhancement sites, and

a change of the consultant¿s project manager. The consultant has completed 30% design plans and the modeling effort,

and is currently working toward 90% design plans.


W625

Restoration - Runaway Bay - Shoreline Restoration

Project Type SWIM

AORs Strategic InitiativesNatural Systems Minimum Flows and Level Establishment and Monitoring

Basin(s) Manasota

Runaway Bay Condominium AssociationCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is in response to a FY2010 Cooperative Funding request from Runaway Bay Condominium Association.

Runaway Bay is a waterfront condominium association located between Gulf Drive North and Sarasota Bay. The

objective of this project is to restore approximately 900 linear feet of shoreline. This project will also reduce pollutants

being received by Sarasota Bay. Through the years, this shoreline has experienced serious erosion which has

negatively impacted the habitat and wetland function. Best Management Practices will be implemented to remove

non-permitted structures and sea walls, restore the shoreline and improve water quality. Runaway Bay will be

responsible for ongoing maintenance once the project is completed.

BenefitsImplementation of restoration practices on the Runaway Bay Condominium's 900 linear feet of Sarasota Bay shoreline

will restore shoreline habitat and improve water quality.

Costs

The total project budget is $80,000, with Runaway Bay Condominium Association and the District each contributing

half ($40,000). The District's share is split between the Manasota Basin Board ($20,000) and State SWIM ($20,000).






restore habitat throughout the bay area and reduce pollutant loads entering the bay. The objectives of this project are

consistent with these goals.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 24,587 0 0 21,516 0 3,071




District

Runaway Bay Condominium

Association

40,000 0 0 40,000 0 0

$86,103 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



W625

Restoration - Runaway Bay - Shoreline Restoration

Contract Development and ExecutionDraft Agreement to Management Services 12/31/09 1/20/10






ProjectNotice to Proceed to Consultant 5/31/10 5/31/10





The project agreement was executed June 13, 2010. The Consultant provided 30% and 60% design plans for review in

June and July 2010. Permit review for the project and the draft 100% plans and specifications were provided for review

and comment August 10, 2010. Delays in acquiring the Consultant and finalizing the Cooperative Funding Agreement

resulted in the Association requesting a revision of milestone dates for commencement and completion of construction.

The Association advertised for construction bids in August and awarded the project to the low bidder September 30,

2010. The Contractor mobilized on site in October 2010 and completed construction in December 2010. Runaway Bay

Condominium Association is working on a long-term maintenance agreement with the Nursery that supplied and planted

the shoreline plants to insure their success. ACTION TO DATE: The District is waiting for final invoices and record

drawings to close out the project.


W626

Restoration - Blackburn Point Park Addition Project

Project Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota




Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis cooperative funding project is to enhance stormwater treatment in the park by adding Low Impact Development

(LID) techniques for stormwater treatment where feasible, including permeable pavers, porous concrete, and

biofiltration. Sarasota County purchased Blackburn Point Park Addition to meet the needs of the County's

Comprehensive Plan objectives for public water access, open space, and recreational opportunities. Blackburn Point

Park Addition is a 10.94 acre parcel located at 477 Blackburn Point Road in Osprey, Florida and is the primary

landward access to Casey Key. The eastern portion of the park will provide boat launch access to Blackburn Bay and

the western portion will provide boat launch access to Little Sarasota Bay (SWIM designated waterbody). Park

development and construction of permanent recreational facilities will require implementation of a stormwater

treatment system. Stormwater management is challenging in this area because of its proximity to bay

waters which may require treatment of additional volumes to safeguard nearby bay waters. District funding will be used

to cost-share in stormwater treatment enhancements over and above what is needed to meet permitting

requirements.

BenefitsThe project will be designed to enhance stormwater treatment through implementation of Low Impact Development

(LID) techniques. Water quality treatment will be enhanced through a series of LID techniques that will be compatible

with the park setting and require less structural components.

Costs

The estimated total project cost is $540,000. For FY2010 the District has budgeted $100,000 for the project with an

equal match from Sarasota County. The District's FY2010 share is split between the Manasota Basin Board ($50,000)

and State SWIM ($50,000). For FY2011, the Manasota Basin Board budgeted $170,000 for construction of LID

elements with an equal match from Sarasota County. District funds shown in the table include staff salaries, travel

and central garage.


Economic feasibility and permittability: All aspects of the final design will require extensive permitting. The District will

require an Environmental Resource Permit and may require a Water Use Permit. The District may claim jurisdiction

over any wetlands or other surface waters that may be found on site and the Army Corps of Engineers will be copied

for concurrent review. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will require water and sewer permits

and will be coordinated with Sarasota County and the Health Department. A Generic Permit for Stormwater Discharge

from Large and Small Construction Activities is required in accordance with DEP regulations. Several public

workshops regarding the park's development have been held and the input was utilized in the creation of the concept

plan to date. The Sarasota County Development Review Committee provided comments on the concept plan on April

7, 2008 and will review the project development plans.


W626

Restoration - Blackburn Point Park Addition Project


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 233,041 0 0 52,995 6,263 173,783




District

Sarasota County 270,000 0 0 100,000 0 170,000

$556,035 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



Agreement to Contracts Administration 10/30/09 3/30/10 4/20/10


Agreement Executed by SWFWMD 12/21/09 9/20/10 10/12/10


2. ConstructionConstruction Start 1/25/10 6/15/11



The agreement between the District and Sarasota County for the project was fully executed on October 12, 2010. The

agreement is for the construction of approved project elements which include several Low Impact Development features

to be used as part of the design for stormwater treatment. Project design has continued with 90% plans completed and

the joint ERP application has been submitted for regulatory review. Upon receipt of approved permits and completion of

100% plans, bid preparation and solicitation will be initiated by Sarasota County. Bid award and construction had been

scheduled to begin in June 2011, but at this time it remains uncertain. Approval of an amendment (to the agreement) to

add FY2011 funding for the project is on-hold pending receipt of updated information from Sarasota County regarding the

readiness for the project to make use of the funds in FY2011. District funds for the project will be used to cost-share in

the implementation of LID elements that enhance stormwater treatment beyond the permitting requirements.


W627

Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Bradenton Beach

Stormwater RetrofitsProject Type SWIM


Basin(s) Manasota

Bradenton Beach, Bradenton BeachCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis project is in response to the FY2010 Cooperative Funding request by the City of Bradenton Beach to design,

permit and construct stormwater retrofit best management practices within five sub basins that discharge to Sarasota

Bay. The sub basins are delineated as; Avenue A between 24th Street and 25th Street comprising 17.5 acres, Gulf

Drive Basin at Runaway Bay and Avenue B comprising 24.2 acres, Bay Drive South from 3rd Street South to 5th

Street South draining 11.09 acres, First Street North to Bridge Street comprising 11.11 acres and Bay Drive North

between 12th Street North and 10th Street North comprising 6.5 acres. The objectives of the project include improving

water quality, providing shoreline stabilization, enhancing shoreline functions, and reducing flooding. Best

management practices will be implemented to stabilize the shoreline and protect existing mangroves. Project limits

include reconstruction of the city owned land for the construction of shallow grassed swales with outfall pipes. The

swales will provide treatment of stormwater through percolation and evaporation. The baffle structures will be installed

at outfall locations to provide additional treatment. The shoreline will be repaired and restored to enhance the quality

and function of the existing wetlands habitat. The City of Bradenton Beach will be responsible for ongoing maintenance

and will perform monitoring at each outfall location to establish the treatment effectiveness.

BenefitsThe project is anticipated to reduce total suspended solids (TSS) by approximately 15,000 pounds per year (80%

reduction) with implementation of the BMPs proposed in this project.

Costs

The total estimated project cost is $3,120,650 with the District and City each contributing half ($1,560,325). In FY2010,

the total budget is $200,000, with the City of Bradenton Beach and the District each contributing half ($100,000). The

District's share was split between the Manasota Basin Board ($50,000) and State SWIM ($50,000). The FY2011 total

budget amount is $200,000, with the City of Bradenton Beach and the District each contributing half ($100,000). In

FY2011, the District's share is being funded entirely by the Manasota Basin Board. The proposed FY2012

budget request is $294,000 with the City of Bradenton Beach and the District each contributing half ($147,000).

Additional funds for design and construction, totaling $1,213,325 each, will be budgeted in future fiscal years. District

funds shown in the table include staff salaries.





restore habitat throughout the bay area and reduce pollutant loads entering the bay. The objectives of this project are

consistent with these goals.


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Stormwater Improvement - Water Quality - Bradenton Beach

Stormwater Retrofits


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,522,726 1,213,325 0 52,449 151,981 104,971




District

City of Bradenton Beach 1,560,325 1,213,325 0 100,000 147,000 100,000

$3,135,499 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Contract Development and ExecutionDraft Agreement to Management Services 12/17/09 12/17/09






ProjectEffective Date 11/30/09 11/30/09


Project Phase 1Contractor Notice to Proceed 10/31/10 11/2/10


Project Phase 2Contractor Notice to Proceed 10/31/11


Project Phase 3Commence Construction 10/31/12



The City scheduled a pre-application meeting with SWFWMD in January 2010. The agreement was sent to the City of

Bradenton Beach for execution on February 11, 2010. It was presented to the City Council in April 2010 and fully

executed May 20, 2010. The Consultant completed design for Phase 1 and Phase 2 in August and the City held a public

meeting to inform local residents of their intentions on August 23, 2010. Project bids were received on October 25, 2010.

The low bid for both phases was higher than the 2010 City budget so the City negotiated with the low bidder to phase the

construction over 2 years. The construction contract was awarded on November 2, 2010. ACTION TO DATE:

Coordination with other work in the project area and material delivery postponed immediate mobilization on site. Material

delivery and construction mobilization will begin the week of February 28, 2011. The delay will not impact project

completion in April 2011.


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WMP - Manatee - Braden River

Project Type Basin Initiatives

AORs Strategic InitiativesFlood Protection Floodplain Management

Basin(s) Manasota

City of Bradenton, Sarasota County, Manatee CountyCooperator(s)

Project Manager NGUYEN, NAM

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis multi-year funded project is to perform the 1) Topographic Information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, and 3)

Watershed Management Plan elements of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the BRADEN

RIVER Watershed beginning at the Bill Evers Reservoir dam and progressing upstream in southwestern Manatee

County. The watershed occupies approximately 59.0 square miles within southern Manatee County and ultimately

discharges into Manatee River and Tampa Bay, a SWIM waterbody. The WMP will address watershed issues of rapid

growth, flood damage, and water supply. Residential development is occurring in the upper portions of the watershed

where Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood level information is suspect. In addition, competition for

the surface water resource has increased as a result of residential development within the watershed. Surface water

runoff is currently used as a potable supply for the City of Bradenton via the Bill Evers Reservoir. In the future, surface

water use will be expanded through the use of stormwater as a non-potable source for irrigation of new residential

developments.

BenefitsThe WMP provides a method to evaluate the capacity of a watershed to protect, enhance, and restore water quality

and natural systems, while achieving flood protection. The information developed provides the science for the District's

Resource Management and Environmental Resource Permitting (ERP). It assists local governments: 1) With their land

management responsibilities by establishing a level of service and developing Best Management Practices (BMPs) to

address level of service deficiencies and 2) Provides a Geodatabase and projected results from watershed model

simulations for floodplain management and water quality management .

Costs

The current budget amount for this project is $1.279 million, of which the District's share is $654,000 funded by the

Manasota Basin. Manatee County is contributing $379,700, Sarasota County is contributing $89,200, and the City of

Bradenton is contributing $156,100. Prior FY2009 funding included $200,000 with the Manasota Basin funding

$114,500 and revenue of $69,800 from Manatee County and $15,700 from Sarasota County. Prior FY2005 funding

included $110,000 with the Manasota Basin funded $55,000 and revenue of $31,600 from Manatee County, $7,500

from Sarasota County, and $15,900 from the City of Bradenton. Prior FY2004 funding included $280,500 with revenue

of $157,300 from Manatee County, $33,000 from Sarasota County, and $90,200 from the City of Bradenton. Prior

FY2003 funding included $484,500 with the Manasota Basin funded $280,500 and revenue of $121,000 from Manatee

County, $33,000 from Sarasota County, and $50,000 from the City of Bradenton. Prior FY2002 funding included

$204,000 with the Manasota Basin funded $204,000. When each element is completed the project budget may

require refinement based on the information gathered. The District funding amounts shown in the table include staff

salaries.


A WMP includes five major elements: 1) Topographic Information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, 3) Watershed

Management Plan, 4) Implementation of Best Management Practices, and 5) Maintenance of Watershed Parameters

and Models. Implementing elements of the WMP with local governments is one of the Comprehensive Watershed

Management (CWM) initiative strategies and one of the District's Strategic Priorities. A cooperative funding revenue

agreement with Manatee County, Sarasota County, and the City of Bradenton has been executed as a multi-year

funded project. District staff is managing the project and has entered into a consultant services agreement to

accomplish project tasks. As part of the project, a surface water capacity assessment will be performed concurrently

with the Watershed Management Plan to evaluate surface water management policies and their effect on existing

users, water quantity, and water quality. Future cooperative funding requests and agreements will be required for

establishment of LOS, the analysis of BMP alternatives, the Implementation of BMPs, and Maintenance of Watershed

Parameters and Models.


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Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 859,246 0 0 840,975 9,583 8,688


Bradenton - WMPlan Braden River

(B074)

156,100 0 0 156,100 0 0

Manatee - WMPlan Braden River

(B074)

379,683 0 0 379,683 0 0

Sarasota - WMPlan Braden River

(B074)

89,217 0 0 89,217 0 0

$1,484,246 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesRecognition of District, Basin Board, City & County on reports 12/17/02

2. Cooperative AgreementCoop Agreement Executed by Manatee County 5/30/02 12/17/02

Coop Executed by Sarasota County 5/30/02 3/11/03

Coop Executed by City of Bradenton 5/30/02 3/17/03

Coop Executed by the District 7/30/02 4/23/03

Execute Amendment #1 to Cooperative Agmt 1/30/05 1/27/05

Execute Expired Coop. Agreement 2003REV0020-A 1/31/07 3/7/07

Execute Expired Coop. Agreement 2003REV0020-B 1/31/08 7/9/08

Execute new Coop. Agrmt. (2003REV0020-C) 2/26/10 3/15/10

Cooperative Agmt Close-out 9/30/11

2. Cooperative AgreementExecute new Coop. Agrmt. (2003REV0020-D) 1/31/11

3. Consultant Services AgreementExecute new Consultant Agrmt. (03CONC00015-B) 6/15/09 6/15/09

3. Consultant Services AgreementExecuted Consultant Agmt 7/20/03 7/21/03


Commence Element 1, Digital Topographic Information 7/21/03 7/21/03

Commence Element 2, Watershed Evaluation 7/21/03 7/21/03

Complete Element 1, Digital Topographic Information 5/11/04 7/1/05

Execute Amendment #1 to Consultant Agmt 12/29/04 12/29/04

Complete Element 2, Watershed Evaluation 1/21/05 7/21/06

Commence Element 3, Watershed Management Plan 1/21/05 12/15/04

Execute Expired Consultant Agmt (03CONC00015-A) 9/21/06 8/29/06

Execute Amendment #1 to Expired Consultant Agmt (03CONC00015-A) 1/31/08 1/28/08

Complete Element 3, Watershed Management Plan 5/31/11

Consultant Agmt Close-out 5/31/11


A Request for Proposals was advertised on October 4, 2002 to perform the Braden River Watershed Management

Program from which 8 responses were received. Singhofen and Associates (SAI) was chosen as the top consultant and

board recommendation to negotiate and enter into a contract with SAI. The Cooperative Funding Agreement between the

District, the City of Bradenton, and Manatee and Sarasota Counties was executed on April 23, 2003. The First

Amendment to the Revenue Agreement to include additional FY2005 funds was executed on January 27, 2005.

Likewise, the amendment to the Consultant Services Agreement with Singhofen and Associates (SAI) was executed and


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was effective as of December 1, 2004. The consultant services agreement has been amended to extend the contract

termination date and revise the project schedule. The cooperative agreement has, likewise, been amended to extend the

contract termination date to December 31, 2007. SAI's Work Order #2 was executed on February 11, 2004. Work Order

#2 tasks include a detailed watershed reconnaissance, the development of a Digital Terrain Model that represents the

current watershed conditions, and a subbasin and watershed connectivity inventory in GIS database format. SAI has

completed all the deliverables for Work Order #2, which includes recent color orthophotographs, digital topographic

information, GIS geodatabase of field reconnaissance/secondary survey data to date (40% effort), and supporting

documentation for the selection of storm events for model calibration and verification. Work Order #3 with SAI, to

complete the Watershed Evaluation element and begin development of the Watershed Management Plan, has been

executed. Notice to Proceed on Work Order #3 was effective as of December 15, 2004. Work Order #4 for the Phase 1

survey effort was executed on March 28, 2006. All task and deliverables under Work Order #4 are completed. SAI has

completed the draft final Watershed Evaluation report under Work Order #3 and additional staff comments are being

addressed. Work Order #5 for the surface water resource assessment has been executed and is currently in progress.

The consultant team has prepared a spreadsheet water budget to quantify the amount of water entering the Bill Evers

Reservoir and will serve as an input to the water quality model that is currently being calibrated. This model and

associated write-up have been transmitted to the District and local cooperators for review and comments. The draft

report on the water quality modeling effort is still being completed by the sub-consultant. The consultant is currently

developing a refined schedule and budget to complete remaining tasks. Both schedule and budget are contingent upon

collecting field measurements for remaining cross sections and hydraulic features. Two additional work orders will be

developed to complete the project--first for the remaining survey/field measurements and the second to complete the

Watershed Management Plan. SAI has selected a survey firm and is currently developing the detail scope of work,

including how the information will be delivered. Both the consultant services agreement and the cooperative agreement

for this project will need to be amended because it does not appear that the project will be completed by the end of

December 2007. The surface water resource assessment final reports (quantity & quality) are being reviewed by District

staff and cooperators. Work Order #6 is currently being developed to complete the remaining survey/field measurements

(Phase 2). The cooperative agreement and consultant services agreement have been finalized for execution, to extend

from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2008. The surface water resource assessment (SWRA) final reports review

comments from District staff and cooperators are being addressed by the consultants. The cooperative agreement is

being routed to the cooperators for execution to extend from December 31, 2007 to January 31, 2009. The consultant

services agreement has been executed by the District on January 28, 2008. The consultant has developed a refined

schedule and budget to complete remaining tasks. Two additional work orders will be developed to complete the project-

-first for the public notification, limited public meetings with large property owners or consultant firms, and watershed

parameterization and the second to finish out the Watershed Management Plan. An additional funding of $220,000 has

been requested for FY2009 to complete the project. This cost is associated with the increased survey costs, significantly

more structures in watershed than anticipated and costs to cover public involvement not in original scope. District staff is

currently developing a letter asking the cooperators for their participation in contributing to the requested additional

funding. The consultants are near completion with the SWRA final reports, addressing comments from the District and

the cooperators. Work Order #6 - Phase 2 of the survey/field measurements has been executed and the consultant has

been given notice to proceed, May 28, 2008. The requested additional funding for FY2009 to complete the project has

been refined from $220,000 to $200,000. This additional amount will be shared among Manatee County, Sarasota

County and the District. City of Bradenton is unable to contribute and their portion of contribution will be splitted among

the remaining 3 sources. The cooperative agreement to extend the expiration date to January 31, 2009 has been

executed on July 9, 2008. The SWRA water quality report has been finalized. The water quantity portion is being updated

by the consultant. The consultant is near completion with WO#6, Phase 2 of the survey. Work Order #7, deliverable 1

was submitted to the District on July 14, 2008. The District provided comments to the consultant on December 9, 2008.

The consultant is currently evaluating the inclusion of the hydraulic features for some of the 192 small ponds, where

construction drawings do exist. The consultant will provide to the District a GIS layer summarizing the findings. A new

cooperative agreement, extending the termination date to September 30, 2010, has been sent to the cooperators for

signatures. Likewise, a new consultant agreement, extending the termination date to June 30, 2010, has been sent to

SAI for signature. The SWRA final reports - Quantity & Quality have been sent to the cooperators. The final deliverable

for survey phase 2, WO#6 has been submitted to the District on May 14, 2009. The new cooperative agreement is still

being routed for signatures. It's currently with Sarasota County. The new consultant agreement with SAI has been

executed on 6/15/09. The last deliverable for WO#7 has been submitted to the District and the District has completed the

review. SAI is addressing the District's comments at the moment and a GoTo meeting will be set up to discuss the

results. SAI and the District will begin coordination for WO#8 to finish the remaining tasks of the project. The new

cooperative agreement is being routed to the City of Bradenton for signature. SAI has submitted WO#8, Deliverable #1

on 12/23/09. District staff is reviewing the deliverable. Review comments from the 12/23/09 submittal were sent off to

SAI. SAI has made some revisions to the model parameters. District will be having a GoTo meeting with SAI on 6/24/10

to address the other comments. The new cooperative agreement is being routed to all parties for execution. The


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agreement will extend the expiration date to September 30, 2011. SAI estimated WO#8, deliverable 2 to be submitted

September 21, 2010. Current Status: SAI submitted WO#8, deliverable 2 on 10/14/10. District's Engineering and

Sarasota Regulation staff are currently reviewing the deliverable.


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Abandoned Well Plugging Program (QWIP) Manasota Basin



Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Northwest Hillsborough, Pinellas-Anclote River, Peace River,

Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager STOVER, KEVIN

Task Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionPursuant to F.S. Ch. 373.206, any abandoned artesian well having a detrimental impact on the District's water

resources must be properly plugged. The District's Quality of Water Improvement Program (QWIP) provides funding

assistance to landowners to come into compliance with the statute. To increase landowner cooperation and the

number of abandoned artesian wells plugged annually, without increasing staff levels, the District's Governing Board

has allocated matching funds to augment the Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Northwest Hillsborough,

Pinellas-Anclote River, Peace River, and Manasota Basins QWIP budget to maintain the Funding Assistance Initiative

since January 1, 1994. The Funding Assistance Initiative was designed to reimburse landowners up to 100 percent of

the cost to have their abandoned artesian wells plugged, with a maximum District reimbursement of $5,000 per well

and $15,000 annually per landowner. This incentive has increased landowner cooperation and the number of wells

plugged annually. Under the 50/50 cost sharing program, QWIP plugged an average of 50 wells per year. Under the

Funding Assistance Initiative, the QWIP has reimbursed an average of approximately 200 wells per year.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 3,306,436 0 (66,494) 2,076,404 650,304 646,222

011 Alafia River Basin 633,615 0 29,850 603,765 0 0

013 Hillsborough River Basin 219,022 0 3,664 215,358 0 0


016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 110,826 0 (1,623) 112,449 0 0

020 Peace River Basin 1,032,619 0 17,471 1,015,148 0 0

021 Manasota Basin 1,705,747 0 (8,486) 1,694,233 10,000 10,000

$7,144,883 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


This project is now complete for Basin Funding involving well plugging reimbursements. See District Governing Board

tab for On-going QWIP information for Manasota Basin status.


B131

Education - Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Water Conservation

Programs (CHAMP & WATERPRO)Project Type Basin Initiatives

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementWater Supply Conservation

Basin(s) General Fund (District), Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Coastal Rivers, Pinellas-Anclote River,


Cooperator(s)

Project Manager ALTMAN, MELISSA

ALTMAN, MELISSATask Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Basin Initiative (BI) project provides education to hotel/motel management and guests with the goal of reducing

water use. The District provides printed materials to all participating properties to assist owners/managers in

determining ways to save water through their properties' operational processes, including, but not limited to, a towel

and linen reuse program. To build on the success of Water CHAMP, the District created the Water Program for

Restaurant Outreach (Water PRO) to promote water conservation in restaurants. The CHAMP coordinator promotes

the program through the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, partnerships with utility companies, direct mail

and site visits to association members and independent restaurants. Materials include a button for wait staff to wear

declaring that the restaurant serves water only upon request, information tabletop displays, children's coloring sheets,

coasters and bathroom mirror cling stickers promoting water conservation to be placed on bathroom mirrors. Both

Water CHAMP and PRO are measured for effectiveness by number of participating properties. In addition, Water

CHAMP has proven its success by conducting two water audits on participating properties in 2003 and 2008.

BenefitsWater CHAMP provides the tools and education needed to help hotel/motel staff and guests learn to conserve water.

This program measures the effectiveness of this education effort via actual water savings. A five-year program water

audit was conducted in cooperation with 16 utility companies to determine the program's level of water savings. The

audit compared water consumption of 115 Water CHAMP participants before the program's implementation in 2002 to

the amount used in 2007. The Districtwide audit showed that participants saved an average of 17 gallons of water per

occupied room per day. Based on the audit results and occupancy rates, it is projected that more than 186 million

gallons of water was saved by participating properties in 2010. In addition to water savings, this program has

successfully prompted a change in water-use behavior as well as increased knowledge and awareness of the need for

water conservation to protect the water resources.

Costs

The total proposed cost for the FY2012 program is $35,338 (District $3,606; Alafia River $2,222; Hillsborough River

$7,556; Coastal Rivers $2,788; Pinellas-Anclote River $7,306; Withlacoochee River $2,285; Peace River $4,784;

Manasota $4,791). The large budget reduction from the FY2011 total cost of $90,436 to the FY2012 total cost of

$35,338 is attributed to a reduction in printing costs and in the amount of salary being attributed to the project. The

program coordinator's position has changed from contractor to a full-time equivalent position that includes additional

responsibilities. Costs for staff to manage the project are reflected in the budget lines below. District funds are used for

CHAMP/PRO properties in the Green Swamp Basin. Funds will be used to pay for travel, printed materials and costs

to educate the audience and promote the programs through advertising, workshops, tradeshows, professional

memberships, etc. The dollar amount allocated per basin is based on anticipated work within that basin. Based on the

average number of guests exposed to the program, the estimated per person cost for the program is less than $.01.

As the program grows, the cost per person decreases. Based on the FY2008 program audit, the cost benefit for the

project, using the total cost amortized over five years, is $0.47 per thousand gallons of water.


The total cost for the FY2011 program is $90,436 (District $7,436; Alafia River $5,370; Hillsborough River $18,593;

Coastal Rivers $6,994; Pinellas-Anclote River $19,906; Withlacoochee River $6,048; Peace River $13,858; Manasota

$12,231). The District has supported this project since FY2002. Survey results show a 96 percent approval rating from

hotel/motel guests.


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Education - Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Water Conservation

Programs (CHAMP & WATERPRO)


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 24,394 0 (5,296) 15,956 6,298 7,436

011 Alafia River Basin 33,015 0 (1,150) 24,420 4,375 5,370

013 Hillsborough River Basin 83,424 0 (3,705) 54,521 14,015 18,593


015 Coastal Rivers Basin 41,191 0 (1,871) 30,588 5,480 6,994

016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 252,761 0 (3,692) 222,782 13,765 19,906

019 Withlacoochee River Basin 37,090 0 (2,101) 28,705 4,438 6,048


021 Manasota Basin 117,244 0 (5,535) 101,451 9,097 12,231


Tampa - Water CHAMP (B131) 5,000 0 0 5,000 0 0

$738,913 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Program begins in Pinellas 6/10/02 6/10/02

Program begins in Hillsborough 6/1/03 6/1/03

Program begins in Citrus and Hernando 9/15/04 11/10/04 11/10/04

Program begins in Manasota 10/1/04 10/1/04

Program begins in Peace River 10/1/05 10/1/05

Pilot continuing education program in Pinellas 9/1/06 8/1/08

300th property signs up 6/29/07 6/29/07

Education pilot program evaluation complete 1/31/08 4/1/10

Water PRO developed 5/15/08 5/15/08

400th property signs up 6/26/08 6/26/08

Districtwide water audit 12/31/08 10/31/08 10/31/08

Pilot restaurant conservation kit in Hillsborough 3/16/09 7/31/09 7/28/09

200th restaurant signs up 9/1/09 5/15/09

Restaurant conservation kit evaluation complete 11/1/09 6/30/10 6/30/10

300th restaurant signs up 12/31/09 12/31/10

FY2010Water CHAMP and Water PRO receive service marks. 8/4/10 8/4/10


Water CHAMP: ACTION TO DATE: On time. (1) Water CHAMP and Water PRO were awarded service marks by the

state of Florida. (2) Currently, Water CHAMP has 453 participants, representing more than 49 percent of all the hotels

and 68 percent of all available rooms in the District. Basin updates are as follows: Pinellas-Anclote River Basin has

approximately 322 properties; 133 are CHAMP properties. Hillsborough River and Alafia River basins have

approximately 186 properties; 124 are CHAMP properties. Coastal Rivers and Withlacoochee River basins have

approximately 89 properties; 59 are CHAMP properties. Manasota Basin has approximately 186 properties; 77 are

CHAMP properties. Peace River Basin has approximately 144 properties; 60 are CHAMP properties. Water PRO: Water

PRO, an extension of the Water CHAMP program that promotes water conservation in restaurants, began in May 2008.

The program coordinator promotes the program through the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association, partnerships

with utility companies, direct mail and site visits to individual restaurants. (4) Currently, there are 281 restaurants

participating in Water PRO. Letters were mailed to all Water CHAMP and Water PRO participants informing them of the

service mark and providing guidelines to use the program names and logos with the superscript SM.


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Data - IFAS Data Network - FL Auto Weather Network (FAWN) Data &

EducationProject Type Basin Initiatives

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Supply Conservation



University of FloridaCooperator(s)

Project Manager LEWELLING, BILL

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe FAWN project started in 1997 and the District's involvement with the project started in 2003. This project collects

and distributes weather and climatic data, and has an educational component to teach the public how to use the data

to conserve water. Funding for the project was distributed over several years and is needed to continue data collection

and dissemination. In FY2009 FAWN is planning additional weather schools, fact sheets and enhanced irrigation

management tools. These elements will help conserve water and reduce fertilizer leaching.

BenefitsIncrease the growers' knowledge and provide climatic data to help them reduce water use. The amount of water saved

will be a function of the number of acres planted and their water use, which will change annually based on market and

climatic conditions. Estimated savings are in excess of one billion gallons of water and $500,000 per hour. Therefore

during a cold winter where growers could use cold protection five (5) to ten (10) nights, annual savings could be as

much as ten billion gallons of water and $5 million to producers. Few winters require no cold protection, and it would be

reasonable to assume this management tool would average saving five billion gallons of water and $2.5 million

annually. The key to realizing these water use savings is educating the public through schools, written material, trade

shows, etc. In addition to collecting the data, FAWN information is used for workshops and other public events to help

teach the public the significance of weather and climatic data for water conservation and how to use the data. An

in-depth weather school is held annually. FAWN has developed a youth training curriculum. In FY2008-2009 FAWN

will enhance its urban program, develop more educational components and add new weather tools.

Costs

The FY2008 budget includes $100,000 for the FAWN project. Half this funding ($50,000) will come from general

revenue and the remaining amount will be divided evenly between the eight Basin Boards with each budgeting $6,250.


The Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN) has been a successful, on-going, multi Agency (IFAS, FDAC,

SFWMD, SJRWMD, and Industry) project with about a $500,000 annual budget. They are asking for continued

funding in FY2008. The other cooperators have not yet determined their level of continued support for FAWN.

FAWN's weather data has been used by local Emergency Management personal to supplement the District's and

other sources' climatic data. The project was first funded by the Peace River Basin Board and later expanded to the

Manasota Basin Board. This proposal is to expand the project into the Hillsborough River, Alafia and Withlacoochee

Basin Boards. FAWN has recently received new commitments for additional funds from FDACS, SFWMD and

SJRWMD. FAWN was created in 1997 with a legislative appropriation to the University of Florida, Institute of Food

and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS). These funds were used to create infrastructure and to establish 11 weather sites

that were incorporated with a small UF/IFAS network of five sites in Central Florida. Over the next few years there is a

plan to expand FAWN's network to 33 sites. In 2002 additional funding was obtained from the Florida Division of

Emergency Management to complete the system and in 2003 the Peace River Basin Board recognized the

significance of FAWN and provided a $5,000 grant. A year later the Peace River and the Manasota Basin Boards

entered into a three-year agreement to provide FAWN with $15,000 per year. These funds were to help continue

FAWN's data collection efforts and to expand the program's educational components. That same year FDACS,

SJRWMD and SFWMD approved funds for FAWN. Currently there are 10 FAWN sites within the District located at:

Arcadia, Balm, Bradenton, Bronson, Brooksville, Dover, Frostproof, Lake Alfred, Ona and Sebring. In addition there

are several sites surrounding the District that provide useful information to the citizens of the District. Current and

historical climatic data from these sites, and FAWN irrigation tools, can be accessed on the web at:

http://fawn.ifas.ufl.edu/. The FAWN program was developed to provide real time weather information to help Florida

citizens make informed weather related decisions. This information is used to help conserve water and protect

Florida's natural systems. Irrigators use FAWN data to help determine when and how much to water. Also, FAWN

data is used to assist individuals to determine when to turn off irrigation systems used for cold protection. Urban and

agricultural chemical applicators use FAWN to help make decisions relative to the application of chemicals and

fertilizer. FAWN has been expanded to provide on-line water/irrigation management tools that require weather inputs.


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Data - IFAS Data Network - FL Auto Weather Network (FAWN) Data &

EducationExamples of these tools include insect and disease control, cold protection, irrigation, nutrient management and many

more. The District's Agricultural Advisory Committee has expressed their support for the FAWN program. In addition

to the current tools, FAWN is working with University of Florida scientists to develop others. Some of the studies

already funded by the District will be used to enhance the FAWN program. For example, the Wet Bulb Irrigation Cut

Off management tool has been able to allow strawberry, citrus, fern, vegetable, ornamental growers and home owners

determine when it is safe to shut off irrigation systems used for cold protection.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 1,188,829 700,000 0 287,500 101,329 100,000

011 Alafia River Basin 23,437 0 0 23,437 0 0

013 Hillsborough River Basin 23,438 0 0 23,438 0 0


015 Coastal Rivers Basin 23,438 0 0 23,438 0 0

016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 23,437 0 0 23,437 0 0

019 Withlacoochee River Basin 23,438 0 0 23,438 0 0

020 Peace River Basin 38,437 0 0 38,437 0 0

021 Manasota Basin 38,438 0 0 38,438 0 0

$1,406,329 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2007 Governing Board Notification 1/2/07 1/1/07

Basin Board Notification 1/3/07 1/3/07

FY2006 Project Ends 3/1/07 3/1/07

FY2007 Data Collection 12/1/07 12/1/07

FY2007 Completion Report 2/27/08 3/1/08

FY2007 Project Ends 2/28/08 7/31/08 7/31/08

FY2008 Contract to Cooperator 3/1/08 2/26/08

FY2007 No Cost Time Extension 3/31/08 3/31/08

FY2009 Contract to Cooperator 10/1/08 10/1/08

FY2008 Data Collection 12/31/08 12/31/08

FY2008 Project Ends 2/28/09 8/31/09

FY2009 Data Collection Ends 12/31/09 9/30/10

FY2009 Completion Report 2/1/10 8/31/10

Status As Of: October 13, 2010

Waiting for completion reports.


B183

WMP - Sarasota County Model Review



Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager MCCLUNG, GORDON

Task Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThis FY2004 Basin Initiative project is to determine the validity of 17 of Sarasota County's watershed models for

possible incorporation into the District's ERP review process in evaluating off-site adverse impacts from proposed

developments. The model reviews are being conducted through the District's Watershed Management Program

(WMP) to determine whether the 17 watershed models have sufficient resolution and accuracy to be used by the

District as best available information in its Environmental Resource Permit (ERP) review process. The models must

have sufficient resolution and accuracy to project differences in flows and water surface elevations under pre- and

post- development conditions. No detailed review is to be performed to determine errors and omissions regarding data

development. The following watershed models are being reviewed: Little Sarasota (including Matheny Creek, Elligraw

Bayou, Clower Creek, Holiday Bayou, Catfish Creek, North Creek, and South Creek), Sarasota ( including Hudson

Bayou and Whitaker Bayou), Dona/Roberts (including Curry Creek, Shakett Creek, Fox Creek, Cow Pen Slough, and

Hatchett Creek), and Lemon (including Woodmere Creek, Forked Creek, Alligator Creek, Gottfried Creek, and Ainger

Creek). If a model receives a satisfactory review, it will be recommended for acceptance by the District. If a

satisfactory review is not obtained, then the model will be recommended for updating to correct the deficiencies

identified in the review report. Funding in FY2004 completes the project.

BenefitsThe model reviews provide information on accuracy and level of detail of the Sarasota County watershed plans and

suitability of the information for ERP permitting. The project also provides information in support of an associated

project to update the Sarasota County Watershed Management Plans (see project L019).

Costs

The total budgeted amount for this project is $500,000, provided in FY2004. The District is funding the entire amount

through the Manasota Basin Board. Similar funding was provided by the Manasota Basin Board in FY2003 for the

Phillippi Creek Watershed Model Review (B127). The District funding amounts shown in the table include staff

salaries.


Sarasota County has developed the watershed models to evaluate the effectiveness of their stormwater management

infrastructure, and develop capital improvements that prevent off-site adverse impact, and to review proposed

development projects that are 35 acres or greater in size, with respect to off-site flood impacts. The County

incorporates the revised parameters (i.e., conveyance, storage changes, and runoff alterations) into the watershed

models to verify that no off-site adverse impacts will occur, and maintains the watershed parameters to update the

models. In addition to the County's review, the District independently, through the Environmental Resource Permit

(ERP) process, reviews proposed land use alterations and stormwater alterations using different criteria to

demonstrate that there are no changes in the pre- and post-peak runoff rates, and that crucial 100-year floodplain

storage is not diminished. This project is a Basin Initiative managed by District staff.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 507,246 0 0 507,246 0 0

$507,246 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


B183

WMP - Sarasota County Model Review


1. Critical Project MilestonesRecognition of District and Basin Board on reports 8/12/03

Manasota Basin Board Approval of Assignments 8/12/03 8/12/03

Assign Watershed Models to "Short Listed" Firms 8/20/03 8/20/03

Governing Board Approval of Assignments 8/26/03 8/26/03

Begin Consultant Contracts and Fee Negotiations 9/10/03 9/10/03

Execute Consultant Contracts 3/5/04 3/8/04

Draft Report Submittal (for all watersheds) 11/23/04 9/30/05

Final Submittal of Deliverables (for all watersheds) 3/31/05 6/29/07

Complete Project 1/3/06 6/29/07 6/29/07


All final reports have been received.


B229

IFAS Research - Water Needs, etc of Bahiadwarf to Other Grasses



Basin(s) Hillsborough River, Peace River, Manasota


Project Manager SCOTT, KATHY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis multi-agency, multi-year research project will investigate a potentially viable drought tolerant alternative to current

popular grass varieties, and will ensure the new variety, called "Bahiadwarf," is cultivated such that it will be

marketable within the turfgrass industry. This project, with the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural

Sciences taking the lead, will investigate and document the drought tolerance of the Bahiadwarf under field conditions.

IFAS will compare the Bahiadwarf to the industry standard St. Augustine grass and wildtype Bahiagrass. To further

enhance the Bahiadwarf, additional transgenic Bahiagrass lines with an improved drought stress response will be

generated and compared to St. Augustine grass and wildtype Bahiagrass. In the second and third year of the project,

IFAS will evaluate water use efficiency, turf quality, mowing requirement and persistence under different irrigation

regimes.

BenefitsResults from this project can be used to reduce and conserve urban turf irrigation, agricultural pasture and sod

production water use. Reduced irrigation will reduce the runoff potential and water quality impacts. The District will use

results from this project in its conservation, planning and regulation programs.

Costs

This multi-agency, 3-year project will cost $317,500. Part of the project cost ($160,000) has been budgeted by a

Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research (CPBR - http://www.cpbr.org) grant. The remaining funds ($157,500)

have been divided evenly between the Hillsborough River, Manasota and Peace River Basin Boards so that each have

budgeted $13,125 each year for FY2006, FY2007, FY2008 and FY2009.


Lawn and landscape is one of the largest permitted and actual uses of water in the District. Most of this water is used

for turf grass irrigation. It is estimated that about 50% of per capita use is for exterior irrigation. As growth in the

District continues the demand for lawn irrigation will too. In addition, sod production and the associated water use will

also increase. Part of the project's funding will come from the Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research (CPBR -

http://www.cpbr.org). Overall project costs have been reduced because of the ability to leverage previous CPBR and

USDA grants that funded the initial research. Bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum Flugge) is a low input, drought tolerant

and disease resistant warm season turfgrass used for residential lawns, pastures and along highways in the

Southeastern US. However turf quality of currently available Bahiagrass cultivars is poor, due to prolific seedhead

production, open growth habit and light green color. Recent laboratory research has developed a generation of

transgenic Bahiagrass (Bahiadwarf) over-expressing a gibberellic acid catabolizing enzyme (GACE) for improved turf

characteristics and reduced mowing requirement. Bahiadwarf prototypes have displayed characteristics such as

denser growth habit, reduced seed head production and reduced mowing requirement, that make this plant more

attractive for public use. A recently funded USDA project has added multiple drought stress protective genes to the

Bahiadwarf, enhancing the plant's environmental friendliness.


B229

IFAS Research - Water Needs, etc of Bahiadwarf to Other Grasses


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 918 0 0 0 918 0



021 Manasota Basin 52,500 0 0 52,500 0 0


District

CPBR 160,000 0 0 160,000 0 0

$318,418 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Agreement to Contracts 8/1/05 8/1/05


District Executes Agreement 12/1/05 12/1/05



Governing Board Notification 2/1/06 2/1/06

Year 1. Data Collection 12/1/06 12/1/06



Completion Report 9/1/09 11/1/11

Project Ends 1/1/10 1/31/12


Work on the original scope of work is ~95% complete; a new Bahiagrass has been developed. However, the developers

were not able to get a patent, and could therefore not get it marketed and used. The agreement was extended to May

2011 to give the cooperator additional time to alter existing Bahiagrass so that it is more marketable and results in a

usable product that provides the expected benefit to the District. In March 2011, the completion date for the final

deliverable was further extended to allow for the data collection during an additional growing season. The final report will

be provided in November 2011, and describe the future potential for these benefits.


B238

IFAS Research - Crop Coefficients & Water Use for Peppers in

SWFWMDProject Type Basin Initiatives


Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Withlacoochee River, Peace River, Manasota


Project Manager LUCHTE, MARK

LYNCH, CAROL, MANUEL, LORI, MCLEOD, PATTY, KATHERINA, JUNETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionPeppers are one of the major row crops grown in the District and in some regions, second only to tomatoes. The

actual amount of water these crops use is based on soils, growing season and climatic conditions. To improve the

crops' water use efficiency and to help conserve water, it is important for the grower and the District to know exactly

how much water the crops require. This lysimeter study will determine how much water pepper plants in Southwest

Florida need, determine crop coefficients and an irrigation schedule to help growers.

BenefitsCurrently there are over 8,000 acres directly permitted for pepper production and an additional 17,000 acres that might

be in a rotation with pepper. These sites are permitted for about 16.5 Mgd (27 Mgd for rotational sites). The number of

acres planted and their water use will change annually based on market and climatic conditions. Assuming that results

from this project will help reduce 10% of that water, the savings could be about 1.7 Mgd. Added benefits to this project

include a potential reduction in pollutant loading and information for AGMOD.

Costs

This two-year project will cost $135,000. These costs will be divided between the five basin boards that have the most

acres permitted for pepper production. Project costs have been prorated between the Alafia (49%), Hillsborough River

(19%), Manasota (15%), Peace River (8%) and the Withlacoochee River (9%) Basin Boards. Basin Board funds will

be budgeted in FY2007, FY2008 and FY2009. Alafia River will budget $21,891, Hillsborough River will budget $8,514,

Manasota will budget $4,257, Peace River will budget $3,649 and the Withlacoochee River will budget $6,689 each

year.


Currently, the District and the growers use water use values developed outside of Florida. Although these values

seem to be reasonable, local crop coefficients could help enhance irrigation scheduling and reduce water use. In

addition, the crop coefficients will help decrease the transport of nutrients into the ground and surface water. Water

use within the District is expected to increase by 2020. It is anticipated that a large portion of this increased demand

will be met by water conservation. Since agricultural water use accounts for the largest fraction of the total permitted

water amount in the District, efforts are needed to develop methods to help this water use sector reduce their water

use.


Revenue





021 Manasota Basin 12,771 0 0 12,771 0 0

$135,000 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


B238

IFAS Research - Crop Coefficients & Water Use for Peppers in

SWFWMD









Year 3. Data Collection 12/1/10

Project Ends 12/31/11


4/30/10 - 8/15/2006 - Develop agreement. 12/4/2006 - Reviewed draft scope of work. 2/28/2007 - Processing agreement.

5/1/2007 - Agreement in legal for review. 7/6/2007 - Waiting for IFAS to execute the Agreement. 8/31/2007 - Notice to

Proceed has been issued to IFAS. 11/1/2007 - - Data collection continuing as planned. 1/9/2007 - Data collection

continuing as planned. 2/29/2008 - Data collection continuing as planned. 5/1/2008 - Data collection continuing as

planned. 7/1/2008 - Dormant for summer. 9/1/2008 - Field preparation for new growing season. 11/1/2008 - Data

collection, project continuing as planned 12/17/2008 - Data collection, project continuing as planned 3/6/2009 - Data

collection, project continuing as planned. 4/20/2009 - Data collection, project continuing as planned. 4/20/2009 - Data

collection, project continuing as planned. 6/10/2009 - Data collection, project continuing as planned 12/22/2009 -

Dormant for winter. 4/30/10 - Data collection project continuing as planned. 6/22/2010- Data collection project continuing

as planned. 10/2010 - Data collection project continuing as planned


B239

IFAS Research - Water Needs for Genetically Altered Lantana

CameraProject Type Basin Initiatives


Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Peace River, Manasota


Project Manager COOPER, RANDY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionA large amount of water is permitted for nursery and landscape irrigation. With the increase of urban development it is

anticipated that the overall permitted amount for these uses will also increase. To reduce water use for landscape

irrigation and to conserve water, the District has been promoting Florida Friendly principles. One of the first and most

important principles of this practice is the selection and use of drought-tolerant plants (Koske and Owings). The intent

of this project is to develop a drought tolerant variety of Lantana camara; and determining its water needs for nursery

production and urban landscapes.

BenefitsIt is estimated that each year Florida nurseries sell as many as 40 million Lantana plants to other states, of those

plants about 5 million are grown within the District. The number of acres planted and their water use will change

annually based on market and climatic conditions. To quantify an estimated water savings from this project lets

assume one Lantana plant covers 12 square feet (3 ft x 4 ft) and the proposed Lantana plants will save 150 gallons of

water a year, thus these plants could save as much as 750 million gallons of water a year for this District.

Costs

This three-year project will cost $112,790. Currently over 80% of the District's permitted container nursery production

occurs within the jurisdictional region of four basin boards. Funding for this project is prorated between them (Alafia

River (22%), Manasota (22%), Hillsborough River (28%) and Peace River (28%)) boards. The Nursery industry has

provided $12,890 for this project and the Alafia Basin Board will budget $7,350, Hillsborough River will budget $9,350,

Manasota will budget $7,350 and the Peace River will budget $9,350 in FY2007; and $33, 250 (Alafia River - $7,315,

22% , Manasota - $7,315, 22%, Hillsborough River $9,310, 28% and Peace River $9,310, 28%) in both FY2008 and

FY2009.


In the past the industry has provided seed money to start this project and they are supportive of this proposal. Drought

tolerant plants develop various mechanisms that allow them to survive droughts, and stay green while producing

flowers without much water. Lantana depressa and Lantana involucrata are some of the best drought tolerant plants

available and are among the few plants recommended for desert landscaping in Arizona (City of Tucson; Hedding;

Master gardeners of the University of Arizona Pima County Extension Services). In addition they have been used

widely in many other states such as California (UC Sacramento County Extension) and Nevada (Southern Nevada

Water Authority) for landscape water conservation. Lantana depressa and Lantana involucrate are not widely used in

Florida.Several lantana species exist in Florida. Lantana depressa and Lantana involucrata provide year-round color,

use little irrigation, have excellent salt tolerance (Beaulieu), attracts butterflies (Schaefer et al., 2002) and

hummingbirds (Beaulieu), and have limited fertilization and pesticide requirements (Beaulieu; Owings, 2004), which

helps to reduce pollutant loading. Because of these attributes, Lantana depressa and Lantana involucrata, are

recommended for water saving in Florida landscapes (South Florida Water Management District). However, adoption

of these species of Lantana has been poor because they do not have appealing growth habits and flower colors.

Homeowners, nurseryman and landscapers prefer growing Lantana camara. This species of Lantana offers a

spectrum of long-lasting colors and is widely used in the U.S. (Koske and Owings; Russ, 2004). In Florida, Lantana

camara varieties produce abundance of viable pollen and hybridize with Florida's native species, Lantana depressa,

contaminating the native species' gene pool. Consequently, they have been listed as a Category I invasive species by

the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council (http://www.fleppc.org/). Category I invasive species are defined as invasive

exotics that are altering native plant communities by displacing native species, changing community structures or

ecological functions, or hybridizing with natives. IFAS, FDACS and other entities do not recommend producing or

growing Category I invasive species plants. Genetic sterilization of Lantana camara could control its invasiveness,

thus protecting Florida's native species and ecosystems. Also, it will allow it to be used widely in public and residential

landscapes for water conservation and butterfly attraction. Thus conserving water and reducing pollutant loading into

the state's water resources. This project will develop a variety of Florida Friendly sterile Lantana camara plants. In

addition it will determine the plants water requirements for nursery and landscape irrigation.


B239

IFAS Research - Water Needs for Genetically Altered Lantana

Camera


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 2,121 0 0 0 2,121 0




021 Manasota Basin 22,015 0 0 22,015 0 0


District

FNGLA 12,890 0 0 12,890 0 0

$115,061 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding











Completion Report 10/1/10

Project Ends 1/31/11


4/30/10 - 8/15/2006 - Agreement to Contracts. 10/12/2006 - Agreement sent to cooperator for review and execution.

11/2/2006 - Cooperator executes agreement. 11/8/2006 - NOP sent to cooperator. 12/4/2006 - Reviewed task report.

2/28/2007 - Project continuing as planned. 5/1/2007 - Reviewed task report, project continuing as planned. 7/6/2007 -

Site visit project continuing as planned. 8/31/2007 - Reviewed task report, project continuing as planned. 11/1/2007 -

Data collection continuing as planned 1/2/2008 - Reviewed task completion report, project continuing as designed.

2/29/2008 - Data collection continuing as planned. 5/1/2008 - Data collection continuing as planned. 7/1/2008 - Review

task report, project continuing as planned. 9/1/2008 - Data collection continuing as planned. 11/1/2008 - Data collection

continuing as planned. 12/17/2008 - Data collection continuing as planned. 3/6/2009 - Data collection, project continuing

as planned. 4/20/2009 - Data collection, project continuing as planned. 6/10/2009 - Modified scope of work to reduce

irrigation application rates. 9/1/2009 - Data collection, project continuing as planned. 12/22/2009 - Data collection, project

continuing as planned. 4/30/10 - Reviewed task completion report, project continuing as planned. 6/22/2010 - Reviewed

task completion report, project continuing as planned. 10/2010 - Reviewed task completion report and started to process

no cost time extension.


B240

IFAS Research - Water Needs in Poly-Mulched & MBr Fumigation

Alternatives -Tomatoes & PeppersProject Type Basin Initiatives


Basin(s) Alafia River, Peace River, Manasota


Project Manager WHEALTON, JEFF

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionTomato and pepper producers use methyl bromide (MBr) to fumigate their beds before production. About 50 to 95% of

the MBr that is injected in to the soil can eventually enter the atmosphere and damage the earth's ozone layer. EPA's

Clean Air Act (Amendments of 1990) requires that MBr and other similar chemicals be phased out. The loss of MBr

has a major impact on the production practices of tomato and pepper producers in our District and can cause an

increase in their water use. This project will provide the water use information needed to address this change in

technology.

BenefitsWater use information from this project will be used by growers to save water and in the District's conservation,

planning and permitting programs. This will help preserve ground water, reduce off-site discharge of pesticides and

nutrients and flooding and improve water quality. Currently there are about 152,000 acres in the District that are

permitted for the production of tomatoes and peppers. These sites are permitted for about 335 Mgd. The number of

acres planted and their water use will change annually based on market and climatic conditions. Assuming that results

from this project will help reduce at a minimum 5% of the permitted water, the savings would be about 17 Mgd.

Costs

This project will cost $150,000. About 98% of the permitted tomato and pepper production is divided between three

basin boards. Project costs have been prorated between the Alafia (22%), Manasota (67%), and Peace River (11%)

Basin Boards. Funds will be budgeted in FY2007 and FY2008, Alafia will budget $33,500, Manasota will budget

$11,000 and the Peace River will budget $5,500 each year.


Tomato and pepper production relies on a relatively large quantity of water to provide the necessary soil moisture to

establish, grow and harvest both crops. These commodities are grown with either seepage or seepage plus drip

irrigation. Both systems require constant irrigation to maintain the water table relatively shallow during crop

establishment, which reduces the soil storage, increases the risks of flooding, off-site discharge and nutrient leaching.

A quick calculation of the irrigation volumes required to produce one acre of tomato indicates that between 4 and 6

ac-inches per acre of water are used to establish and maintain the crop with seepage irrigation. Most existing

recommendations for tomato and pepper production were generated when MBr was a viable option for bed

fumigation. Also, relatively inexpensive low density-polyethylene mulch (LDPE) was used and current environmental

regulations about water run-off and nutrient leaching were not always considered in research projects. Current

production practices have changed considerably since past water and production requirements were developed. This

project will look at the new technology and changes in growing practices. The University of Florida and the State of

Florida have started a vigorous campaign to address the phase out of MBr and the development of Best Management

Practices (BMP). Within that context, the use of new developments in fumigation techniques and mulch materials that

tend to reduce water use makes sense. Current MBr alternatives, such as 1,3-dichloropropene + chloropicrin (1,3-D +

Pic; Telone C-35) and methyl iodide (MI; Midas), have poor efficacy against soil borne pests when applied in saturated

soils, as it was customary for MBr, because these molecules can bind more tightly to water molecules than MBr.

Another reason that justifies exploring reduced water irrigation programs is the use of higher retentive mulch films

(virtually impermeable (VIF) and metalized films). These mulches retain more moisture in the planting beds than

previous materials, which adds another component to fumigant and water management in tomato and pepper

production. No defendable scientific research has been conducted in Florida to reduce water irrigation volumes for

tomato and pepper by combining the lower water requirement of new fumigants and the higher water retention of new

mulch films. This project will determine the effect of varying water management regimes on tomato and pepper

production, and assess the effect of high retentive mulches and MBr alternatives on the water volumes necessary for

tomato and pepper irrigation.


B240

IFAS Research - Water Needs in Poly-Mulched & MBr Fumigation

Alternatives -Tomatoes & Peppers


Revenue



021 Manasota Basin 33,000 0 0 33,000 0 0

$150,000 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding










Completion Report - Estimated 6/1/09 6/30/10

Project Ends 10/31/09 11/30/10

Year 3. Data Collection 12/1/09 1/1/10 12/22/09


4/30/10 - 8/15/2006 - Agreement to Contracts. 10/12/2006 - Agreement is being reviewed by Legal. 11/8/2006 - Sent

notice to proceed. 12/4/2006 - Field preparation. 2/28/2007 - Data collection project continuing as planned. 5/1/2007 -

Data collection project continuing as planned. 7/6/2007 - Dormant for summer. 8/31/2007 - Reviewed task completion

report. Project continuing as designed. 11/1/2007- Data collection project continuing as planned. 1/2/2008 - Field

preparation for next season. 2/29/2008 - Data collection continuing as planned. 5/1/2008 - Data collection continuing as

planned. 7/1/2008 - Dormant for summer. 9/1/2009 Field preparation for new season. 11/1/2008 - Data collection, project

continuing as planned. 12/1/2008 - Data collection, project continuing as planned 2/23/09 - Execute no cost time

extension. 4/20/2009 - Data collection, project continuing as planned 6/10/2009 - Project dormant for summer. 9/1/2009 -

Starting last season. 12/22/2009 - Field preperation for next season. 4/30/10 - Reviewed task 7 completion report.

6/22/2010 - Project continuing as planned. 10/2010 Waiting for completion report.


B246

FFL - Water Star Developers Outreach



Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Coastal Rivers, Pinellas-Anclote River, Withlacoochee River,


Cooperator(s)

Project Manager DURELL, SYLVIA

Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Basin Initiative (BI) project, the Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM (FFL) Water Star Developers Outreach Program,

will promote implementation of indoor and outdoor water conservation primarily for the Florida Water StarSM (FWS)

program through education to members of the building industry, landscape professionals, government employees and

green building groups. Effectiveness will be measured by the number of professional landscapers, irrigation system

installers and government staff who are educated about FWS and the number of professionals who incorporate FWS

criteria in their projects. Education will be accomplished through one-on-one outreach, site visits, trainings and

promotion of the program's benefits at meetings of industry groups and local governments.

BenefitsIf funded, the program will continue to educate members of the building industry, landscape professionals, government

employees and green building groups on the water conservation and water quality protection benefits of environmental

landscaping best management practices, especially as part of the FWS program criteria. The specialist will also

support FFL coordinators with outreach to builders and developers in their individual counties.

Costs

The total proposed cost of the FY2012 program is $69,553 (Alafia River $6,673; Hillsborough River $14,287; Coastal

Rivers $7,569; Pinellas-Anclote River $13,839; Withlacoochee River $6,673; Peace River $10,256; Manasota

$10,256). This reflects an approximate 37% reduction from FY2011. The reduction in costs is a result of scaling back

the number of the specialist's hours allocated to the project. Funding is requested to provide for project coordination,

program expenses and travel expenses for outreach to all basins. The dollar amount allocated for each contributing

basin is based on population. The budget lines below include costs for staff to manage the project.


The total cost of the FY2011 program is $77,500 (Alafia River $5,425; Hillsborough River $18,600; Coastal Rivers

$6,975; Pinellas-Anclote River $17,825; Withlacoochee River $5,425; Peace River $11,625; Manasota $11,625).

FY2011 is the fourth year of funding for this outreach. Education is based on the FWS criteria and landscape best

management practices, which reference the nine principles of the FFL program of the University of Florida/Institute of

Food and Agricultural Sciences.


B246



Revenue




015 Coastal Rivers Basin 45,062 0 0 31,591 4,881 8,590


019 Withlacoochee River Basin 41,046 0 0 29,845 4,161 7,040


021 Manasota Basin 73,695 0 0 53,371 7,084 13,240

$497,831 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2008Purchase order created 3/1/08 3/3/08




Fourth task report 6/30/08 6/30/08

Fifth task report 7/31/08 7/31/08

Sixth task report 8/31/08 8/31/08

Seventh task report 9/30/08 9/30/08

Eighth task report 10/31/08 10/31/08

Ninth task report 11/30/08 11/28/08

Tenth task report 12/31/08 12/31/08

Eleventh task report 1/30/09 1/30/09

Twelfth task report 2/27/09 2/27/09

Project ends 2/28/10 2/28/09

FY2009Purchase order created 3/1/09 3/13/09 3/13/09









Purchase order extended 10/12/09 10/12/09











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Twelfth task report 10/5/10 10/5/10






Fifth task report 3/4/11

Sixth task report 4/5/11

Seventh task report 5/6/11

Eighth task report 6/6/11

Ninth task report 7/6/11

Tenth task report 8/5/11

Eleventh task report 9/6/11

Twelfth task report 10/7/11


ACTION TO DATE: On time. Among other efforts, Angela Maraj, the FFLTM Water Star Developers Outreach specialist

(1) Provided information to the project engineering team for Babcock Ranch on how incorporation of the FWS residential

and community criteria can help reduce overall water use, which led to the engineers stating they would recommend

FWS to the developer. (2) Continued discussion with Sarasota County on potential FWS commercial projects including

Urfer Park and other county parks. (3) Conducted landscape plan reviews and feedback for the Heritage project in Citrus

County that aided the project in becoming FWS Gold certified. (4) Conducted preliminary review of landscape plans

review for Hulbert Homes in Polk County and Sage Homes in Charlotte County. (5) Provided workshop to 20 attendees

at the Marion County Extension office. The workshop was approved for contractor CEUs by Marion County government

for landscaping ordinance requirements. As a result of the training, a builder, a remodeler and a county professional

building her own home expressed interest in certification of their projects. (6) Conducted a final review of the Sarasota

County Water Efficient Landscape ordinance in preparation for submission to the county commissioners. The proposed

code amendments are a combination of recent changes to the Florida Statutes and changes proposed by the Working

Group based upon DEP guidance, publications, the FWSG criteria, Leadership In Energy and Environmental Design

(LEED) certification, and professional experience. (7) Presented a training to representatives from ten landscape

companies and condominium associations at Gasparilla Island in Charlotte County.


B256

IFAS Research - Feasibility of Low-Cost Automated Irrigation Pump

ControllersProject Type Basin Initiatives




Project Manager STINGHEN, GIO

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionAgriculture is the largest permitted water use in the District and citrus production is the largest of those permitted uses.

Over 366MGD are permitted for citrus irrigation and most of that water use is in the SWUCA. This project will help

citrus growers reduce their water use by developing tools to automate and improve irrigation scheduling. These tools

can be used by the District's FARMS program to further expand their conservation efforts. Although citrus acres have

been on the decline it seems to have reached a stabilizing point. With the increase in the recent price of citrus the

District might even see an increase in the number of acres. The permitted acres for citrus is still relatively high and

even a minor reduction in water use or fertilizer application could have a significant impact on the District's water

resources. The proposed project will investigate the use of new low-cost automatic irrigation pump controllers with

wireless remote monitoring and control. This low cost system (<$1,000) will enable growers to optimize the irrigation

scheduling and remotely manage over 100 acres. In addition the project will develop and compare new and improved

irrigation scheduling tools for citrus trees, particularly for automated systems. In the past the District has funded

several citrus irrigation projects. With the introduction on new technology some of the old information is no longer

applicable and some of the information needs to be incorporated into new technology. Where applicable this project

will build on past projects and use new technology to help reduce water and fertilizer use.

BenefitsThe actual water savings will depend on acres planted climatic and growing conditions. Assuming a 1% savings this

would amount to about a 3.7 million gallons per day reduction of ground water in an area of water use concern. The

reduced water use would make more water available for other uses and reduce the amount of funds that need to be

invested in alternative water supplies. An added benefit to this project will be that improved irrigation would improve

fertilizer use, which will reduce the amount of nutrients available to runoff and pollute the District's water bodies. Also

the project's information will provide the FARMs program with another tool to help reduce ground water use.

Costs

This will be a four year project and the total cost will be $150,000. Project costs are divided between four Basin Boards

based on the percent water permitted for citrus production within their watersheds. The following is the annual cost

break down by Basin Board: Alafia $4,500, Hillsborough River $4,000, Peace River $38,500 and Manasota $3,000 for

FY2008, FY2009 and FY2010.


Improved irrigation scheduling can conserve large volumes of water. Since current irrigation scheduling tools are

unreliable, growers are prone to over-irrigate to eliminate any risk of drought stress. Manually operated irrigation

systems are not adaptable to more efficient frequent, small irrigations or night-time irrigations due to logistics, conflicts

in schedules, and the inconvenience factor. Irrigation durations are most often rounded up, rather than down, even

after accounting for all these factors. Probability of rainfall is almost never considered and some irrigation systems are

even run during rain events. Over-irrigation and nutrient leaching consequently deplete and degrade our limited water

resources. The high cost of commercially available automatic control systems has, unfortunately, prevented their

widespread acceptance and use. Since often less than 100 acres are supplied per pump, quite commonly a grower

will have multiple well pumps to automate in a citrus grove. At a cost to automate of more than $20,000 per pump, the

financial burden is prohibitive, even with cost sharing. In addition, commercial automatic controllers have a limited

ability to interface with available soil moisture sensors or with more advanced scheduling tools such as simulation

models. Without adequate inputs, the full potential of automatic controllers cannot be realized. There is a great need

to develop low-cost automatic irrigation pump controllers to reliably schedule irrigation.


B256

IFAS Research - Feasibility of Low-Cost Automated Irrigation Pump

Controllers


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 51,446 0 0 50,000 1,446 0




021 Manasota Basin 6,000 0 0 6,000 0 0

$151,446 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Agreement To Contracts 10/1/07 8/30/07

Agreement To IFAS 10/15/07 10/15/07

Notice To Proceed 12/31/07 12/31/07

Data Collection Yr. 1 12/31/08 12/18/08

Data Collection Yr 2 12/31/09 12/22/09

Data Collection Yr. 3 12/31/10

Grower's Field Day 12/15/11


Agreement Ends 12/31/12


4/30/10 - 8/31/2007 - Reviewed final scope of work. 11/1/2007 - Agreement mailed to cooperator for review and

execution. 1/2/2008 - Notice to proceed sent to IFAS 3/7/2008 - Mobilizing equipment. 5/1/2008 - Reviewed task I report.

Project continuing as planned. 7/1/2008 - Data collection project continuing as planned. 9/1/2008 - Data collection project

continuing as planned. 11/1/2008 - Data collection project continuing as planned. 12/17/2008 - Data collection project

continuing as planned 3/6/2009 - Data collection project continuing as planned. 4/20/2009 - Data collection project

continuing as planned 6/10/2009 - Data collection project continuing as planned. 12/22/2009 - Data collection project

continuing as planned. 4/30/10 - Data collection project continuing as planned. 6/22/2010 - Data collection project

continuing as planned. 10/2010 - Data collection project continuing as planned


B264

IFAS Research - Citrus Irrigation & Nutrient Mgt. to Improve Earlier

Growth & ProdProject Type Basin Initiatives




Project Manager BRUMBAUGH, DAVID

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionDue to Citrus Greening, Canker and labor issues the industry has had the University develop different techniques for

economical production of citrus in Florida. On of the most promising techniques, which includes high density planting

of smaller trees, was developed in Spain and commercialized in South Africa, Australia and California. This project will

develop irrigation and nutrient management recommendations for this new method of production to help conserve

water and reduce nutirent loading. Although recent citrus acres have declined District wide, it is still the largest

permitted agricultural water use. Also, with the decline in development and recent price increases, more citrus growers

are planning to expand their operations; therefore, it is important to help find ways for citrus producers to conserve

water. This water conservation project will utilize information developed in Spain and commercialized in South Africa,

Australia and California. The University will investigate and develop new cultural technology including changes to plant

density, nutrient and irrigation management. Plants will be grown with an intensive fertigation management technique

that is designed to provide essentially a non-limiting environment to those roots. This new fertilizer program will require

changes to existing irrigation management programs.

BenefitsCitrus production is the largest agricultural land use in the District. This project will help citrus producers conserve

water and reduce pollutant loading for fertilizer leaching. In addition, the information could be used by the District's

FARMS program to help design better BMP cost share systems. The amount of water saved will be a function of the

number of acres planted and their water use, which will change annually based on market and climatic conditions.

Costs

The project costs have been reduced from $182,500 to $122,300 because some of the ridge elements were removed.


Yield fundamentally drives profit for Florida citrus growers and is thus the key element to a grower's financial success.

Yield is tied directly to tree density and growth rate and is a simple function of numbers of trees and the related total

canopy volume over the unit area. Research over the last several decades has proven that growth of young trees and

productivity of both young and mature trees benefit from high frequency low volume irrigation. Improved tree growth

from intensive irrigation management could reduce the time required from planting to economic breakeven production,

thus provide management options in light of current devastating diseases such as Canker and Huanglongbing (citrus

greening). Florida growers have adopted Best Management Practices (BMPs) that reduce nutrient leaching by limiting

the amount of fertilizer that can be applied, and the time of year when fertilizer can be applied. These BMPs are based

on research under low-intensity management systems. However, production systems that combine grove design and

irrigation management to increase yield and grove operational efficiency have not been studied. High density plantings

of sweet oranges on low-vigor rootstocks have known advantages, but their long-term behavior and changes in the

functional relationship of tree density, growth rate, and yield over time are not well understood. The central hypothesis

of this project is improved and consistent early yields, with increased tree density on low vigor trees and/or improved

irrigation/nutrient management systems that would provide proactive management options in light of current

devastating diseases such as Canker and Huanglongbing (citrus greening). Growers normally achieve their expected

return on investment within 15 to 20 years of planting. If those goals would occur sooner (e.g., 10 to 12 years) through

increased early yields, the grower would benefit even if the grove declines over time due to the diseases mentioned

above and must be replanted. By knowing how to irrigate and manage their irrigation with this new method of

production, the grower would conserve water and reduce the amount of fertilizer thats being leached from the plant

root zone while maintaining an economical viable crop.


B264

IFAS Research - Citrus Irrigation & Nutrient Mgt. to Improve Earlier

Growth & Prod


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 100,270 12,800 0 36,500 14,470 36,500




021 Manasota Basin 2,079 0 0 2,079 0 0

$136,770 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Develop Contract 10/1/08 10/1/08


No Cost Amendment 3/1/09 3/1/09

Year 1 - Data Collection 12/30/09 12/22/09

Year 2 - Data Collection 12/30/10


Growers Field Day 7/31/12

Journal Publication 7/31/12



Contract Ends 6/30/14


Project research is underway.


B265

IFAS Research - Optimizing Irrigation to Conserve Water for Shade

Tree ProductionProject Type Basin Initiatives


Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Withlacoochee River, Peace River, Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThere are over 5,000 acres of nursery production in the central part of the District and typically they are permitted for

about 1.7 million gallons of water per acre. With the increase of urban development, it is anticipated that the number of

nursery acres will increase and landscape water use will too. This project will investigate ways to reduce nursery and

landscape irrigation by studying the relationships between moderate water stress, photosynthesis and shoot growth of

trees. The goal of the project is to develop irrigation management strategies that take advantage of gas exchange

properties occurring at moderate water stress. These strategies would be linked to the ongoing projects modeling tree

water use based on ETo, further increasing the level of irrigation precision of non-production situations beyond that

which will come from the ETo projects. Plant growth is a two stage process. First, new cells are produced by

meristematic tissues. Second, these cells enlarge. The first phase mainly requires new cellular components which are

derived from photosynthesis and absorbed minerals. The principal requirement for the second phase of growth, cell

enlargement, is hydrostatic (turgor) pressure. Plant water status, mainly as it affects cell turgor pressure, is the primary

driving force in this second phase. In pecans, nearly all leaf expansion occurred at night (Anderson, 1989). This is the

time when water stress in plants is the lowest, and water status and turgor pressure are the highest. This is

hypothesized as the primary reason cyclic irrigation of containerized plants accelerates growth, in that it results in

higher turgor pressures during the night by making more water available in the root ball late in the day. While this

information on leaf expansion was reported in the scientific literature over 10 years ago, it was never pursued much

further and will be investigated in this project.

BenefitsInformation from this project will help nursery producers, commercial landscapers and homeowners reduce water use.

The amount of water saved will be a function of the number of acres planted and their water use, which will change

annually based on market and climatic conditions. Assuming an annual 5% water savings from only nursery

production, there would be a total of about 1.9 mgd savings on permitted water use. In addition, information form this

project can be used by the District's FARMS program to help promote water conservation.

Costs

This four year project will cost the District a total of $83,875. Funding for this project is prorated between five Basin

Boards (Peace River - 23%, Hillsborough River 22%, Alafia - 18%, Manasota 18% and Withlacoochee 11%) based on

the number of permits for nursery production in their watershed. In FY2009, FY2010, FY2011, and FY2012 the Basin

Boards will budget each year: Peace River $5,159, Hillsborough River $5,008, Alafia River $4,103, Manasota $4,103

and Withlacoochee River $2,595.


Recently, data collection of a project at MREC supported by the Southwest Florida WMD, Horticultural Research

Institute and others quantified the daily water use of live oak and red maple to 7-inch calipers, and Nellie R. Stevens

holly to 5-inch calipers. Preliminary modeling of red maple reported a high correlation of predicted and actual water

loss based on a algorithm incorporating reference evapotranspiration (ETo) and trunk cross sectional area just below

the first major branch (Beeson, 2007). A project with a similar goal using D.D. Blanchard magnolia, Aliee, Chinese elm

and slash pine is currently in the second year. Maximum plant growth occurs when transpiration is maximum because

transpiration and photosynthesis are tightly linked. Reductions in stomata aperture reduce the flow of carbon dioxide

into leaves and water out of leaves. However, for the limited number of tree species studied, slight to moderate

reductions in stomatal aperture cause no to small reductions in photosynthesis, but resulted in relatively large

reductions in transpiration. Thus under moderate water stress, trees and woody plants, in general, tend become more

water efficient with little reduction in photosynthesis (Noble, 1999).


B265

IFAS Research - Optimizing Irrigation to Conserve Water for Shade

Tree Production


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 65,028 0 0 20,969 23,090 20,969





021 Manasota Basin 4,103 0 0 4,103 0 0

$85,997 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Develop Agreement 10/17/08 10/6/08


Year I Data Collection 12/31/10

Year 2 Data Collection 12/31/11

Year 3 Data Collection 12/31/12


Agreement Ends 8/31/14


4/30/10 - 11/1/2008 - Contract sent to IFAS. 12/17/2008 - Waiting for University to return executed Agreement. 4/20/2009

- Data Collection continuing as planned. 6/10/2009 - Reviewed task completion report. 9/1/2009 - Tree growth is behind,

will need to modify project deliverable dates. 9/23/2009 - First Amendment processed to extend deliverable timeframes.

12/22/2009 - Data collection project continuing as designed. 4/30/10 - Data collection project continuing as planned

6/22/2010 - Project continuing as planned. 10/2010 - Data collection project continuing as planned.


B273

MFL Research - Pilot Streamflow Reductions to Measure Effects of

MFL 15% Reduction CriteriaProject Type Basin Initiatives




Cooperator(s)

Project Manager MORALES, JON

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionTo further validate existing stream Minimum Flows and Levels (MFL) methodology consistent with peer review

recommendation. A frequent focus of criticism of the MFL methodology applied by the District to rivers and estuaries

is the use of a 15 percent habitat loss criterion as a threshold for assessing "significant harm." Quoting from the peer

review of the Braden River MFL, the panel noted:

" The draft report describes the metrics used to define the limit at which further withdrawals would be significantly

harmful to the water resources or ecology of the area as stated in Florida statutes. The authors note that significant

harm was not defined in statute. The District chose to interpret significant harm as the loss of flows associated with

fish passage and maximization of stream bottom habitat with the least amount of flow and quantifiable reductions in

habitat. Overall, this is a reasonable approach from an ecological perspective and likely satisfies the intent of the

statute. The authors state that, [in] general, instream flow analysts consider a loss of more than 15% habitat, as

compared to undisturbed or current conditions, to be a significant impact on that population or assemblage. The

authors further note, in our opinion, correctly, that there are few `bright lines which can be relied upon to judge when

`significant harm occurs. Rather loss of habitat in many cases occurs incrementally as flow decline, often without a

clear inflection point or threshold. Nevertheless, the 15% habitat loss criterion remains one of the least rigorous, most

subjective aspects of the District's approach to setting MFLs. Justification for this threshold is based on common

professional practice in interpreting the results of PHABSIM analyses (Gore at al. 2002), a review of relevant literature

where reported percentage changes ranged from 10 to 33%, and on previous peer reviews that found the 15%

threshold to be reasonable and prudent, especially given the absence of clear guidance in the statute or in the

scientific literature on levels of change that would constitute significant harm (e.g., Shaw et al. 2005). The draft upper

Braden report continues the District's practice of using a 15% change in habitat availability as the threshold for defining

significant harm and now applies this threshold broadly to include both spatial and temporal loss of habitat or

connectivity. The Panel again acknowledges that the use of this criterion is rational and pragmatic, but also recognizes

that the specific value of 15% is subjective and has only modest validation or support from the primary literature. . . . .

More importantly, however, is the need for the District to commit the resources necessary to validate the presumption,

that a 15% decrease in spatial or temporal habitat availability or a 15% increase in violations of the low-flow threshold,

does not cause significant harm. "

This project represents the best means for validating the effect that a given flow reduction has on available habitat and

the biota of a stream segment. District staff proposes to locate an acceptable stream segment in order to conduct

controlled diversions from a defined stream segment in order to evaluate the impact that a range of flow and habitat

reductions has on the biota (e.g., fishes, macroinvertebrates) and water resource values. It is envisioned that such a

project will require a number of years to complete (possibly a decade), and an annual commitment of significant

resources to accomplish.

BenefitsIf implemented, this project will provide as definitive a test of the 15 percent habitat loss criterion as is practical under

field conditions, and the results will be widely applicable to stream assessments and the development of environmental

flows though out the country.

Costs

Funding in FY2010 is currently for $150,000 to be funded by the Governing Board. A small amount has been

budgeted for parts and supplies and travel. Total requested funding for FY2011 is $150,000.00.


B273

MFL Research - Pilot Streamflow Reductions to Measure Effects of

MFL 15% Reduction Criteria


Revenue









021 Manasota Basin 9,375 0 0 9,375 0 0

$719,649 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Pre-Diversion Baseline MonitoringFish Community Assessment - Year 1 6/1/11

PHABSIM Field Data Collection 6/1/11

Habitat Suitability Curve Development - Fish and Invertebrates 6/1/11

Community Metabolism Assessment 6/1/11

Riparian Vegetation Assessment and Recruitment 6/1/11

Macrophyte Community and Biomass Assessment - Year 1 6/1/11

Periphyton Community Assessment - Year 1 6/1/11

Stream Condition Index/Macroinvertebrate Assessments 10/1/11

Water Chemistry 10/1/11

Flow and Stage Monitoring - Year 1 10/1/11

Instream and Woody Habitat Assessments 10/1/11

Fish Community Assessment - Year 2 6/1/12

Macrophyte Community and Biomass Assessment - Year 2 6/1/12

Periphyton Community Assessment - Year 2 6/1/12

2. Permit Application for Long-Term Manipulation StudyERP Permit from DEP 12/1/13

ERP Permit from US Army Corps of Engineers 12/1/13


This project is now activated coinciding with the 2011 fiscal year. Staff is still developing project milestones. From an

operational standpoint, staff have narrowed a field site (Gum Springs) for the execution of this project. Current activity

related to this project is mapping of the entire field site for placement of potential experimental and control sites.

Currently, baseline assessment studies are underway to avail of the 150K budget for the first year. Staff has honed in on

using a passive swing/board design as a water control structure and is seeking engineering support for this. Final

adoption of this design would also pave the way for getting the necessary environmental resource permits issued by

Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A meeting with Florida DEP

scheduled last July 2009 was receptive to the issuance of an Environmental Resource Permit (ERP) based on certain

conditions. Similar favorable responses regarding the issuance of an ERP was also received from U.S. Army Corp of

Engineers when the project was described to them in a January 2010 meeting. All budgeted monies have already been

encumbered for FY2010 and second year data collections are currently ongoing.


B274

Data - SWUCA - Salt Water Intrusion Monitoring Network With Data

Collected by Permit HoldersProject Type Basin Initiatives

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementWater Supply Alternative Water Supply

Basin(s) General Fund (District), Alafia River, Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager KRAFT, CAROL

STARKS, ROBERTATask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Salt Water Intrusion Monitoring Network (SWIMN) was developed in an effort to work closely with Water Use

Permit (WUP) holders along the coastal areas of the Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA), who have wells

that are identified through groundwater modeling efforts to be most at risk for salt-water intrusion. A water quality

baseline for the wells is established through a sampling assessment of current chloride, sulfate, dissolved solids, and

electrical conductivity concentrations. After the baseline assessment, the wells are sampled by the permittees for

electrical conductivity at regular intervals, using District supplied conductivity meters. This provides an early warning

for WUP holders to plan for alternative supplies, alternative use of the land, or to take advantage of the District's

backplugging, Facilitating Agricultural Resource Management Systems (FARMS) program, and Cooperative Funding

Initiative to attempt to mitigate the problem.

BenefitsThis project monitors groundwater quality data and works closely with WUP holders to help determine the degree of

salt-water intrusion experienced by the permittee in an effort to help mitigate potential impacts.

Costs

The FY2011 project cost is $60,225, with the District's General Fund contributing approx.half ($31,348). The remaining

funds will be split between the Alafia River Basin (approx. 20 percent; $8,924) and Manasota Basin (approx. 30

percent; $19,953). This project is expected to be ongoing. District funds shown include staff salaries, parts and

supplies, and equipment (non-capital outlay).


The SWIMN was established in order to track water quality in WUP well sites along the coastal areas of the SWUCA

that were predicted through modeling efforts to be at risk for salt-water intrusion. Approximately 190 WUP wells have

been identified by District modeling efforts to be at varying degrees of risk of salt-water intrusion. These wells have

been prioritized according to their degree of risk. Sampling of the wells predicted to be at the greatest risk has already

been conducted. The remaining wells will be sampled and WUP holders that agree to participate will be supplied with

training and equipment (conductivity meters) to periodically check water quality in their wells. All data collected is

analyzed for local trends, and WUP holders are informed of negative trends in their water quality. If it is determined

that a WUP holder is experiencing salt-water intrusion to the degree that groundwater in the wells is no longer suitable

for its intended use, the permittee can explore management actions available through the District, in an attempt to

mitigate the problem.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 83,080 0 0 61,013 0 22,067

011 Alafia River Basin 32,229 0 0 21,510 0 10,719

021 Manasota Basin 56,676 0 0 39,504 0 17,172

$171,985 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


B274

Data - SWUCA - Salt Water Intrusion Monitoring Network With Data

Collected by Permit Holders


Kick-Off Meeting 8/28/08 8/28/08

Project status meeting 2/23/10 2/23/10

Complete Baseline Sampling of Candidate Wells 9/30/11

Provide conductivity meter training and support to select well owners 9/30/11


Reviews of associated WUPs and subsequent sampling of wells are currently ongoing. Staff is also currently evaluating

operation and training for conductivity meters for associated WUP holders. Conductivity meter training and subsequent

result reporting has been established with three WUP holders.ACTION-TO-DATE: On-time


B277

Education - Florida Water Star Program - Builder Conservation

EducationProject Type Basin Initiatives




Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Basin Iniative (BI) project, Florida Water StarSM (FWS), is a certification program that provides incentives to

builders and developers to encourage indoor and outdoor water efficiency and water quality protection. FWS was

originated by the St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD). SJRWMD's original program, now known as

FWS Silver, was used as a base for this District to create a higher-tier version. The SFWMD also promotes the FWS

program. The FWS Gold, Silver and Commercial and Institutional programs are promoted in this District. They

are designed to increase the knowledge level of the building industry about water efficient building practices and to

provide educational resources and incentives to make these practices common to the marketplace. The FWS rating

system is integrated into the landscape evaluation component of the Florida Green Building Coalition's (FGBC)

certification program and has consistency with national green building programs such as the Leadership in Energy and

Environmental Design (LEED) by the U.S. Green Building Council and ENERGY STAR® from the Environmental

Protection Agency. As of Feb. 24, 77 properties have been certified by the District. If funded, this will be the fourth year

of the FWS program. Effectiveness will be measured by the number of properties certified and the number of

participants in trainings. Water savings data will also be collected when possible.

BenefitsThe program's objectives are to increase the knowledge level of efficient indoor and outdoor water use and to provide

educational resources and incentives to promote water conservation practices. Up to 50 percent of typical household's

water is used outside the home and inefficient or incorrectly installed irrigation can waste thousands of gallons of water

each month. Indoors, a leaking toilet can waste more than 200 gallons in a single day. The FWS program criteria

provide guidelines to follow that will positively impact water resources when the program is successfully implemented.

By providing an incentive for builders, developers and homeowners that encourages them to incorporate best

management practices, the District realizes water savings and water quality protection. Changes in

behavior occur when a builder signs a contract with the District to build houses according to the FWS criteria, and

agrees thereafter to include water conserving elements into future projects. Owners of new FWS properties receive the

benefits of the indoor and outdoor water-conserving elements of the program and can promote the certification as a

marketing edge at time of resale. The program's close partnership with the FGBC resulted in the FWS Gold outdoor

water conservation criteria being incorporated into the FGBC standards.

Costs

The total proposed cost of the FY2012 program is $110,667, with the District contributing $55,380 and the Basin

Boards contributing $55,287 (Alafia River $3,876; Hillsborough River $13,252; Coastal Rivers $4,982; Pinellas-Anclote

River $12,707; Withlacoochee River $3,876; Peace River $8,295; Manasota $8,299). Overall program costs have

decreased slightly since FY2011. The dollar amount allocated per contributing basin is based on population. Funding

provides for salary and travel for a project coordinator to manage the program, support for education outreach and

contractual services related to the delivery of the program. The budget lines below include costs for staff to manage

the project.


The total cost of the FY2011 program is $111,556, with the District contributing $55,698 and the Basin Boards

contributing $55,858 (Alafia River $3,919; Hillsborough River $13,386; Coastal Rivers $5,035; Pinellas-Anclote River

$12,839; Withlacoochee River $3,919; Peace River $8,375; Manasota $8,385). FY2011 is the third year of funding for

the FWS program.


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Education


Revenue


011 Alafia River Basin 19,184 0 (337) 9,553 4,966 5,002



015 Coastal Rivers Basin 21,275 0 (512) 11,520 5,918 4,349

016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 50,806 0 (1,284) 26,799 12,583 12,708

019 Withlacoochee River Basin 20,145 0 (373) 10,550 4,966 5,002


021 Manasota Basin 34,906 0 (666) 17,931 8,781 8,860

$436,981 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2009Request for quotes issued 10/15/08 10/15/08

Purchase order/scope of work created 11/15/08 11/12/08



FWS/FWSG certifier training 1/16/09 1/16/09



First home kick-off event 3/25/09 3/25/09


Second house certified 4/17/09 4/17/09

Sixth task report 4/30/09 5/4/09 5/4/09




Third house certified 8/18/09 8/18/09



Twelfth task report 10/30/09 11/5/09 11/5/09

Project complete 10/31/09 12/15/09 12/15/09

FY2010First task report 12/4/09 12/4/09




Fifth task report 4/5/10 4/8/10 4/8/10









B277


EducationFirst task report 11/5/10 11/5/10




Fifth task report 3/4/11

Sixth task report 5/5/11

Seventh task report 5/6/11

Eight task report 6/6/11

Ninth task report 7/6/11

Tenth task report 8/5/11

Eleventh task report 9/6/11

Twelfth task report 10/7/11


ACTION TO DATE: On time. On 3/25/2009, a model home in the Glencairn Cottages community in Dunedin (Pinellas

County) was the first house to be certified at the gold level in the District and the state. As of February 24, 2011, 77

properties have been certified by this District. This includes the first two Residential Silver properties in Marion County's

On Top of the World Communities. Agreements: Builders who intend to incorporate FWS criteria in current or future

projects sign nonbinding participation agreements with the District. To date, 23 agreements have been signed,

representing approximately 518 homes and 3 commercial properties. Education: (1) A "Designing for Florida Water

StarSM Projects" workshop held on Jan. 12 at the Marion County Extension office in Ocala attracted 20 landscape and

irrigation professionals. (2) A meeting of the statewide FWS Technical Advisory Committee was held Feb. 8. (3) Staff

presented to the Hernando County Cattleman's Alliance on Feb. 26. Certifications: (1) The Habitat for Humanity for East

and Central Pasco County agreed to incorporate FWS into its "Women Build Week" home construction. The project's

groundbreaking ceremony took place on Feb. 26. Governing Board chair Ron Oakley and Withlacoochee River Basin

Board member, Candy Nathe attended. (2) The District's Tampa Service Office Building Two was certified on February

15 to the Commercial and Institutional criteria. This is the first District building to achieve FWS certification and the first in

any of the water management districts. The achievement will be recognized at the June Governing board meeting. (3) A

Citrus County builder in the Heritage community has signed an agreement to build all future homes to the FWS

residential criteria. The first home has been certified and a celebratory event is planned for March 10. (4) Florida Home

Partnership, Inc. will include FWS certification for all its homes in its newest subdivision, Bayou Pass in Hillsborough

County. Water savings: Kyra InfoTech in Lakeland was the first commercial property certified in the District. The City of

Lakeland's water utility has tracked water used by the office building since it was certified on March 11, 2010, and

recently produced a report that compares water use of this FWS property to a similar commercial property nearby. Over

a period of 10 months, the FWS property used 7,000 gallons of water compared to the similar property, which used

29,000 gallons.


B310

WMP - Maintenance, Updates, As Needed Peer Review and Outreach

- ManateeProject Type Basin Initiatives


Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


MCCLUNG, GORDON, HAMMOND, MARK, BROWN, GWEN, WEVER, DONNATask Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis is a basin initiative to fund the Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models element of the District's

Watershed Management Program (WMP) in Manatee County. This process will be applied to watersheds where the

parameters and model(s) were developed or updated based on the District's Guideline documents and where

parameters from Environmental Resource Permitting (ERP) submittals can be converted to the District's GIS system

until a model is developed. Funding will be required each year to continue maintenance. With proposed funding the

work of capturing watershed parameter changes resulting from approved ERPs, and updates to topographic, soils and

land use information will continue throughout the District. The funding will also support the peer review and public

outreach process on the preliminary floodplain results, and presenting the results to Governing Board for approval.

BenefitsA WMP provides a method to evaluate the capacity of a watershed to protect, enhance, and restore water quality and

natural systems, while achieving flood protection. The information developed assists local governments with their land


address level of service deficiencies. In addition, the information provides the District with the best available

information to evaluate adverse impacts and mitigation of floodplain impacts for proposed ERPs. The most up to date

information about the watershed will be available through the continuous maintenance of watershed parameters in the

GIS database: as ERP permits are approved, new information is provided to the District through aerial topographic

mapping and the public review and comment period. If a watershed model has not been developed, the maintenance

of parameters in the GIS processes the information in a format that will save time and funding when the watershed is

modeled.

Costs

FY2012 funding includes $40,000 from Governing Board and $40,000 from Manasota Basin Board. There is no

revenue from Manatee County. Prior FY2011 funding included $60,872 from Governing Board and $60,872 from

Manasota Basin Board. Prior FY2010 funding included $67,635 from Governing Board and $67,635 from Manasota

Basin Board. The budget is based on the projected number of approved ERP permits and the average development

area within each Basin. Local government matching funds are equally matched by Governing Board and Basin Board

funds. The Governing Board is also providing funds specifically to address public meetings and unforeseen issues

with projecting the floodplains to be used in the FEMA mapping process. The projected annual funding amount for

Manatee County ranges from $200,000 to $250,000. The District funding amounts shown in the table includes staff

salaries.




and Models. Implementing elements of the WMP with local governments is one of the District's Strategic Priorities.

After the Topographic Information, Watershed Evaluation and Management Plan elements are completed; the

watershed parameters and models require continuous maintenance to simulate the watershed's characteristics as the

land form changes. The watershed's parameters change with the continued growth experienced in the District. If

continued maintenance of the models is not performed, the watershed parameters and model will no longer represent

the system. This limits their value in the areas of ERP and flood protection programs. A revenue agreement will be

developed with each community contributing funds towards maintenance. The District will manage the project and

enter into purchase orders and agreements to accomplish project tasks. Future funding will be required each fiscal

year to continue maintenance of watershed parameters and models. In the future those local governments with the

technical abilities to perform the maintenance activities will be encouraged to manage this effort. The District will

provide funding assistance to communities that can and those that cannot provide matching funds. Matching funds will

be requested from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for this basin initiative. Failure to provide

ongoing maintenance will diminish the return on the investment the District has made in their respective Watershed

Management Plans.


B310


- Manatee


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 201,470 0 0 67,635 72,963 60,872

$387,345 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding

Status As Of:


B315


- SarasotaProject Type Basin Initiatives


Basin(s) General Fund (District), Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager TURNER, DAWN

WEVER, DONNA, MCCLUNG, GORDONTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis is a basin initiative to fund the Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models element of the District's

Watershed Management Program (WMP) in Sarasota County. This process will be applied to watersheds where the

parameters and model(s) were developed or updated based on the District's Guidelines and Specifications (G&S) and

where parameters from Environmental Resource Permitting (ERP) submittals can be converted to the District's GIS

system until a model is developed. Funding will be required each year to continue maintenance. With proposed

funding the work of capturing watershed parameter changes resulting from approved ERPs, and updates to

topographic, soils and land use information will continue throughout the District. The funding will also support the peer

review and public outreach process on the preliminary floodplain results, and presenting the results to Governing

Board for approval.

BenefitsA WMP provides a method to evaluate the capacity of a watershed to protect, enhance, and restore water quality and

natural systems, while achieving flood protection. The information developed assists local governments with their land


address level of service deficiencies. The information also provides the District with the best available information to

evaluate adverse impacts and mitigation of floodplain impacts for proposed ERPs. In addition, as ERP permits are

approved, new information is provided to the District through aerial topographic mapping and the public review and

comment period. If a watershed model has not been developed, the maintenance of parameters in the GIS processes

will allow the ERP information to be captured in a format that will save time and funding when the watershed is

modeled. As a result, the most up to date information about the watershed will be available in the District's GIS

database.

Costs

The budget is based on the projected number of approved ERP permits and the average development area within

each Basin. The Governing Board is also providing funds specifically to address public meetings and unforeseen

issues with projecting the floodplains to be used in the FEMA mapping process. For FY2010 the funding distribution

for Sarasota county is as follows: Governing Board $64,420; and Manasota Basin $64,420. For FY2011 the funding

distribution for Sarasota county is as follows: Governing Board $57,978; and Manasota Basin $57,978. Future funding

represents an annual cost to continue maintenance.





After the Topographic Information, Watershed Evaluation and Management Plan elements are completed; the

watershed parameters and models require continuous maintenance to simulate the watershed's characteristics as the

land form changes. The watershed's parameters change with the continued growth experienced in the District. If

continued maintenance of the models is not performed, the watershed parameters and model will no longer represent

the system. This limits their value in supporting the District's Resource Regulation and flood protection programs.

A revenue agreement will be developed with each community contributing funds towards maintenance. The District

will manage the project and enter into purchase orders and agreements to accomplish project tasks. Future funding

will be required each fiscal year to continue maintenance of watershed parameters and models. In the future those

local governments with the technical abilities to perform the maintenance activities will be encouraged to manage this

effort. The District will provide funding assistance to communities that can manage maintenance; and accept

cooperative funding from those that cannot. Matching funds will also be requested from the Federal Emergency

Management Agency (FEMA) for this basin initiative. Failure to provide ongoing maintenance will diminish the return

on the investment the District has made in their respective Watershed Management Plans.


B315


- Sarasota


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 199,802 0 0 69,356 66,184 64,262

$347,866 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Sarasota Co. Maintenance: Previously performed under B206. B315 funds will be used to update Watershed

Management Plans for the Hudson Bayou, Whitaker Bayou, Roberts Bay, Alligator Creek, Island of Venice, and Big

Slough watersheds. Project funds may also being used to perform Peer and Public review of the models, and generate

Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMS). The County has requested that model results for 7 certified County

watershed models be presented to the public for review and comment prior to use in the generation of DFIRMs. The

County also requested the District prepare the materials needed to present the model results at the public meetings.

B315 and B300 funds may be used to cover these costs. Refinements are being made to some of the certified models,

and results may need to be re-mapped. Gaps and overlaps between modeled areas are being addressed, and transition

zones and unnumbered Zone A areas are being delineated within the certified County model areas. FY2011 funds may

also be used to cover these costs.


B620

Mapping & GIS Spatial Data Management


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Supply Regional Water Supply PlanningWater Quality Water Quality MonitoringFlood Protection Floodplain ManagementNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and Monitoring



Cooperator(s)

Project Manager DICKS, STEVE

DICKS, STEVETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis is a continuing initiative with the goal of providing Geographic Information System (GIS), aerial photo

interpretation and photogrammetric mapping services to support Governing and Basin Board activities. GIS support

includes the input, management, analysis and distribution of spatial data, the design and implementation of databases,

software training and map production. Aerial photo interpretation includes land use and cover mapping in support of

land acquisition, Surface Water Improvement and Management (SWIM), engineering, planning and environmental

studies. Photogrammetric support includes the mapping of topographic information, collection of aerial photographs

and satellite imagery and the production of digital orthophotographs. This program also supports the distribution of

data to the public and routine maintenance activities. The annual budget includes administrative costs for salaries,

travel, training, plotting and photographic supplies, maps and other data purchases, etc.

BenefitsMapping and GIS has been a continuing activity since 1987 and is required to support the District's GIS, digital

orthophoto, aerial mapping and other data collection, maintenance and management activities. The District's GIS

database is an integral component of planning, engineering, regulatory, and land acquisition and management

activities. In a rapidly growing area such as the District, continued maintenance and expansion is needed for the GIS

database to meet new demands and is required to protect the historical investment in the system. The data are

currently accessed by over 450 District staff using the ArcGIS software, and serves as the foundation for the Water

Management and Land Resources Information Systems. Additionally, the data collected by the Mapping and GIS

Section are viewable and downloadable from the District's Internet web site.

Costs

In addition to salaries, plotting or printing supplies, office supplies and travel or training the approved FY2011 budget

for the Governing Board funding includes: Administrative Assistant Contractor ($30,633), GIS Programming

Contractor ($220,000), Parcel Updates $48,000). Funding in the Basin Boards is for salaries only.


B620

Mapping & GIS Spatial Data Management


Revenue







019 Withlacoochee River Basin 108,542 0 0 66,654 11,633 30,255


021 Manasota Basin 114,502 0 0 72,614 11,633 30,255

$3,634,268 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


The following are major activities for FY2011Transfer GIS Contractor Funds to IRD and Fill Position 10/30/10

Issue work order for parcel update. 12/30/10


Mapping and GIS is an ongoing support activity and to date there were no unforeseen expenditures or activities in

FY2011. The section will continue supporting ad hoc requests for GIS data as well as conducting routine data

maintenance activities. Significant activities recently completed or underway include:

Staff has successfully coordinated its FY2011 Parcel Mapping efforts with the other water management districts. This will

result in a more consistent database that covers the entire state. The new dataset will also be available to state and

federal agencies to support emergency response activities.

Mapping and GIS has completed the initial version of the Waterbody Names Database. The database will be integrated

with the federal Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) were applicable.

Staff in the process of moving all imagery data from the Oracle database servers to the ESRI Image Server environment.

This will reduce the load on the Oracle servers and improve business continuity efforts.

ACCELERATE FLORIDA ACTION-TO-DATE: On-Time. The GIS and WMIS Contract Programming Funds ($440,000)

have been transferred to the Information Resources Department and have been encumbered to a private firm to provide

onsite GIS programming Services.


B630

Field Operations - Basin 21 Maintenance of District Works





Cooperator(s)

Project Manager HAGBERG, JEFFREY

HANGE, ADAM, HINKLE, RANDYTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionAnnual field maintenance activities for this basin are generally for maintenance of well sites which include mowing,

painting, tree trimming, fence installation and repair. Various types of well sites include groundwater sampling wells,

data collection wells, and rainfall wells/gauges. Additional requirements at well sites includes erosion and access road

stabilization and maintenance. These maintenance areas are District owned, but were not acquired using Save Our

Rivers (SOR), P2000, and Forever Florida funds. In the Manasota Basin, costs are primarily for maintenance activities

at 24 well sites.

BenefitsKeeping well sites maintained for Hydrologic Data and Resource Data crews to collect data easily and in a safe

manner. In addition, maintenance requirements at well sites include materials for road stabilization and fencing repairs.

Costs

The budget includes salaries, central garage charges, rental equipment, parts, supplies, landfill disposal fees, land

maintenance materials (limerock, shell, rock, fill), and fencing repairs.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 6,078,169 0 127,000 4,949,751 512,730 488,688

011 Alafia River Basin 778,459 0 125,000 470,636 105,678 77,145

013 Hillsborough River Basin 4,890,744 0 600,000 3,474,676 394,761 421,307



016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 1,372,044 0 0 974,842 197,602 199,600

019 Withlacoochee River Basin 1,606,297 0 107,000 1,168,108 183,743 147,446

020 Peace River Basin 2,184,387 0 347,000 1,541,046 152,172 144,169

021 Manasota Basin 370,677 0 0 291,922 42,870 35,885

$18,124,399 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Field Operations crews have mowed and maintained well and data collection sites as needed during this reporting

period.


B733

FFL - Manatee County



Basin(s) Manasota

Manatee County Cooperative Extension ServiceCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Basin Initiative (BI) project will provide specific education on Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM (FFL) in Manatee

County to these targeted audiences in FY2012: (1) School students and teachers will receive information on their

personal connection to watersheds; (2) Residents will be offered workshops, presentations, event displays and a

county-wide event a variety of water and conservation topics, additional demonstration landscape sites will be planted

at highly visible locations so that the public has an opportunity to view efficient irrigation, mulching, and landscaping

best management practices; and the landscape assistance program will continue its in-office consultations with

homeowners (3) Homeowner associations boards and members will be offered programs on the FFL principles and

how the principles can be integrated into association maintenance practices; (4) Civic organizations members will

receive educational presentations that focus on one water conservation and stormwater runoff; (5) Professional

landscape architects and contractors will be reached through the Green Industry's FFL Best Management Practices

trainings and be offered educational workshops that provide CEUs; (6) Manatee County government staff will be

supported in the implementation of FFL in building projects (7) Builders and developers will be provided landscape and

irrigation plans review. In addition, the coordinator will provide assistance to the Florida Water StarSM program.

Effectiveness will be measured by the number of participants in workshops, one-on-one interactions, and school visits;

potential exposure to electronic media; and distribution of printed education materials.

BenefitsIn past years, approximately 21,400 people have received education annually at presentations, workshops, classes

and exhibits and through one-on-one interactions and printed education materials distribution. In

addition, approximately 1 million people have been exposed each year to information through mass media outlets,

such as newspaper articles, web media and county government television programming. Education will increase

knowledge and promote behavior change related to conservation of water and protection of water quality and natural

systems.

Costs

The total proposed cost of the FY2012 program is $110,000, with the District requested to contribute

$50,000 (Manasota). Program costs have remained stable since FY2009. District funds support the salary and

benefits for the coordinator. The program is expected to reach 17,500 Manatee County residents at a cost to the

District of approximately $2.33 per person. The budget line below includes costs for staff to manage the project.


The total cost of the FY2011 program is $110,000, with the District contributing $50,000 (Manasota). The District has

funded this program since 2007. Education is based on the nine FFL principles that were created by the University of

Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS): Right Plant, Right Place, Water Efficiently, Fertilize

Appropriately, Mulch, Attract Wildlife, Manage Yard Pests Responsibly, Recycle, Reduce Stormwater Runoff and

Protect the Waterfront. The following outreach was accomplished by the Manatee County FFL coordinator Michele

Atkinson in FY2010: 127 workshops/presentations attracting 2,155 people; 4,408 individual contacts; 15 contacts

attributable to District messaging; 284 contacts with members and boards of homeowner associations; 232

building/green industries/FWS contacts; 33 programs reaching 987 youth; 9,441 pieces of educational literature

distributed; 11,881 impressions created from published newsletter articles and 3.6 million impressions created from

published newspaper articles; 184,098 website visits and 715 hours contributed by volunteers.


B733



Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 104,930 0 0 0 52,508 52,422


District

Manatee County 60,000 0 0 0 0 60,000

$164,930 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding




Second advisory committee meeting 4/14/08 4/14/08


Third advisory committee 7/21/08 7/21/08


Fourth advisory committee meeting 9/18/08 10/15/08 10/15/08


Project complete 9/30/08 9/30/08





Third advisory committee meeting 7/14/09 7/14/09








Third advisory committee 7/20/10 7/20/10




FY2011Create purchase order 10/1/10 10/11/10 10/11/10

First advisory committee meeting 10/28/10 10/28/10

Meeting with project manager 12/14/10 12/14/10


Second advisory committee meeting 2/15/11


Third advisory committee meeting 5/17/11


Fourth advisory committee meeting 9/20/11

Project complete 9/30/11



B733




ACTION TO DATE: On time. The following outreach was accomplished by the Manatee County FFL coordinator Michele

Atkinson in the first task period of FY2011: 7 events for 88 homeowners and civic organization members; 5 events for 90

board members and residents of community/homeowners associations; 5 events for 872 youth; 5 events for 98

landscape/irrigation professionals; 96 individual contacts; 3 contacts attributable to District messaging; 1 yard

recognition; 3 exhibits attracting 300 people; 3,686 pieces of educational literature distributed; 5 newspaper/newsletter

articles creating 167,208 potential impressions; 52,677 website visits and 111 hours contributed by 45 volunteers.


B735

FFL - Sarasota County



Basin(s) Manasota

Sarasota County Extension ServiceCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Basin Initiative (BI) project will provide specific education on Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM (FFL) in Sarasota

County to these targeted audiences in FY2012: (1) Homeowners will learn about rain barrels, cisterns, composting,

proper plant selection and installation; how to manage their irrigation systems and to check if their rain sensors are

working; how to make seasonal irrigation time clock adjustments, when to cap irrigation heads in areas with mature

plants and how to install micro-irrigation. (2) Staff/associates in retail plant nurseries will be educated on the basics of

FFL, irrigation system management and the use of rain barrels and cisterns. (3) Garden club and plant society

members will learn the basics of FFL and how to use rain barrels and cisterns. (4) Youth will learn about stormwater

runoff through demonstrations with the Enviroscape Nonpoint Source Pollution Model and the benefits of using rain

barrels, cisterns and compost. In addition, the coordinator will provide assistance to the Florida Water StarSM

program. Effectiveness will be measured by the number of participants in workshops, one-on-one interactions, and

school visits; potential exposure to electronic media; and distribution of printed education materials.

BenefitsIn past years, approximately 27,000 people have received education annually at presentations, workshops and exhibits

or through one-on-one interactions and printed materials distribution. In addition, 588,000 potential impressions were

created through a broadcast on local government television. Education increases knowledge and promotes behavior

change in landscaping practices resulting in conservation of water and protection of water quality and natural systems.

Costs

The total proposed cost of the FY2012 program is $115,600, with the District requested to contribute $50,000

(Manasota). Program costs have remained stable since FY2010. District funds support salary, benefits and

professional training for the coordinator. The Sarasota Bay Estuary Program has committed $10,000 toward program

materials. The program is expected to reach 28,000 Sarasota County residents at a cost to the District of

approximately $1.79 per resident. The budget lines below include costs for staff to manage the project.


The total cost of the FY2011 program is $115,600, with the District contributing $50,000 (Manasota). The Sarasota

Bay Estuary Program provided $10,000 toward program materials. Education is based on the nine FFL principles that

were created by the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS): Right Plant, Right

Place, Water Efficiently, Fertilize Appropriately, Mulch, Attract Wildlife, Manage Yard Pests Responsibly, Recycle,

Reduce Stormwater Runoff and Protect the Waterfront. The following outreach was accomplished in FY2010: 68

workshops/educational events with 871 attendees; 1,769 contacts via telephone, email and office visits; 83 contacts

attributable to District messaging; 9 information booths in retail centers attracting 770 people; 10,553 website visits; 3

events for 7 youth; 22 yard recognitions; 588,000 impressions through a media event, 23,667 pieces of printed

educational materials distributed, and 529 hours donated by volunteers.


B735



Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 103,268 0 0 0 51,653 51,615


District

Sarasota Bay Estuary Program 10,000 0 0 0 0 10,000

Sarasota County 55,000 0 0 0 0 55,000

$168,268 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



First advisory committee meeting 1/21/10 1/21/10




Third advisory committee meeting 7/15/10 7/15/10




First project manager meeting 12/9/10 12/9/10



Second project manager meeting 6/14/11


Project complete 9/30/11



ACTION TO DATE: On time. The following outreach was accomplished by Sarasota County FFL coordinator Angela

Antonucci in first task period of FY2011: 22 programs for 198 homeowners, 6 programs for 105 retail associates, 2

programs for 49 garden club and social club members, 5 programs for 93 youth, 1 training for 18 master gardeners, 273

telephone, email and mail contacts, 6 yard recognitions, 8 exhibits attracting 421 people, 18 airings of the FFL DVD

resulting in 147,814 potential impressions each airing, 1,981 webpage viewers, 13,067 pieces of educational materials

distributed, and 165 hours contributed by 18 volunteers. In addition, the coordinator hosted a FWS workshop and 11

people took advantage of the new outreach effort -- Homeowners Irrigation Tune-up. Tune-up participants are guided

through the Florida Yard Checklist, given a hands-on training of their irrigation timers and educated on which irrigation

heads near established plants can be capped.


P259

Education - Youth Water Resources Education Program


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality MonitoringWater Supply ConservationNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and MonitoringFlood Protection Floodplain Management



Cooperator(s)


TORRUSIO, MARY, KUSHMER, KAYLIE, UNSER, SALLYTask Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Basin Initiative proposes funding for a variety of water resources education programs to county school districts,

private schools, homeschool groups and nonformal educators. Program components will consist of teacher training

workshops, grants for classroom projects, field trips, online curriculum tools and publications for students and

educators. Teacher workshops will be conducted by District staff and/or educators who have been trained by District

staff. Workshops will include information about the District and the basins, as well as basic hydrology and water

management issues. Training sessions will provide teachers with background information, materials, experiences and

opportunities to explore topics of importance in the basin. Participants will evaluate the effectiveness of teacher

workshops, providing another method of improving performance. The Splash! school grant program would provide

funds to teachers for classroom projects on water quality, water conservation, alternative sources, water supply or

watersheds. The proposed program's goal is to provide hands-on water education that teaches students about their

local watersheds and the freshwater resources within them. Classroom projects will be designed to increase

knowledge and understanding of the impacts of human activities on the water resources in their basin and to effect

behavior change in regard to water resources conservation and protection. Outcomes will be assessed

through teacher/student contact hours learning about water resources, pre- and post-assessment scores, sample

student work generated from the project, video or photographic documentation, and final reports by teachers and

representative students. Grant recipients are required to participate in annual sharing days, which provide an

opportunity for school grant participants to showcase their projects and provide model programs for other teachers

who would like to implement water projects in their classrooms. Publications and online curriculum tools will provide

teachers and students with a variety of educational resources including student newsletters and curricula with

accompanying teacher's guides, watershed excursions, coloring activity sheets, posters, bookmarks, the Classroom

Water Conservation Challenge and World Water Monitoring Day activities. The District also provides kits and boxes

specific to water conservation (the grades K-3 Water Conservation Kit) and watersheds (the grades K-3 Watershed

Resource Box and the grades 3-5 Watershed Education Resources Box) that teach students about the importance of

water conservation and healthy watersheds, while meeting Sunshine State Standards and preparing students for the

Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. Each of these resources includes a big book, several smaller books, a

teacher's guide and other tools and materials used for role-playing and demonstrations. Each county has received kits

and boxes for circulation, and these materials are available through the Splash! school grant program.

BenefitsThe proposed Youth Water Resources Education program continues to help the District meet its mission by providing

students, teachers and families with classroom materials and opportunities for hands-on learning experiences that

equip them to make informed decisions about water resources. Throughout coordination of the District's youth

education program, strong partnerships have been developed throughout public school districts, private schools,

homeschool networks, science centers, museums and organizations, colleges and universities, state departments

(FDOE and FDEP), local governments, girl and boy scout groups, boys and girls clubs, environmental education

providers as well as numerous environmental education centers.

Costs

The proposed FY2012 budget for youth education totals $904,753. Funding is shared among the basins as follows:

Alafia River $58,813; Hillsborough River $189,350; Coastal Rivers $59,088; Pinellas-Anclote River $255,963;

Withlacoochee River $59,113; Peace River $195,363; Manasota $87,063. The General Fund provides an

additional $11,400 in funding support. Based on numbers reached in FY2010 through programs, outreach, teacher

workshops and school grants, this program is projected to reach approximately 502,000 students and teachers, which

is 62 percent of the students and teachers in the District (817,644) at a cost of $1.83 per person in FY2012. Budget

lines below include costs for staff to manage the projects.


P259



The FY2011 budget for youth education totals $906,000. Funding is shared among the basins as follows: Alafia River

$58,900; Hillsborough River $189,650; Coastal Rivers $59,200; Pinellas-Anclote River $256,250; Withlacoochee River

$59,200; Peace River $195,550; Manasota $87,250. The General Fund provides an additional $12,000 in funding

support. Staff reached a total of 355,053 students and educators in FY2010 through programs, school grants and

outreach. A total of 184 school grants were completed, impacting more than 99,218 students. Due to budgetary

constraints, Hillsborough County Water Resource Services cancelled the $50,000 it originally planned to use to

supplement Splash! school grants in Hillsborough County schools due to budgetary constraints. Water resources

education program agreements with 13 separate school boards impacted more than 38,514 students and teachers.

The 25 teacher workshops involved 469 teachers who will reach more than 27,438 students per year. More than

702,619 pieces of youth education materials were distributed to students and teachers throughout the District.


Revenue



013 Hillsborough River Basin 1,666,066 0 (12,562) 1,263,418 208,012 207,198



016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 3,207,470 0 (4,197) 2,660,136 274,472 277,059


020 Peace River Basin 1,913,798 0 (30,385) 1,511,506 213,838 218,839

021 Manasota Basin 973,455 0 (19,765) 775,135 103,851 114,234


Hillsborough - Youth & Water Rstr Edu

(P259)

50,000 0 0 50,000 0 0

$10,889,619 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2009 Budgeted FundsProgram commence for school board agreements 8/1/08 8/1/08

Mini-grants selected 10/15/08 10/10/08

Mini-grant projects complete 5/30/09 5/29/09

School board agreement program complete 7/30/09 7/30/09

Final reports submitted to District 8/30/09 8/30/09

FY2010 Budgeted FundsProgram commence for school board agreements 8/3/09 8/28/09 8/28/09

Splash! school grants selected 10/16/09 10/16/09

Splash! school grant projects complete 5/29/10 5/28/10

School board agreement program complete 7/30/10 7/30/10

Final reports submitted to District 8/31/10 8/26/10

FY2011 Budgeted FundsSchool board education programs commence 9/10/10 9/10/10

Splash! school grants selected 10/15/10 10/15/10

Splash! school grant projects complete 5/31/11

School board education programs complete 8/31/11


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ACTION TO DATE: On time. Outreach: (1) The youth outreach specialist visited seven schools in January, teaching

approximately 950 students and 385 educators. (2) Staff helped judge the 2011 Sarasota County Regional Science,

Engineering and Technology Fair on Jan. 25. Projects focused on environmental science and botany. Splash! School

Grants: (1) There have been 206 Splash! school grants awarded for the 2010-2011 school year. (2) Fifty Splash! school

grant calendars have been mailed to each of the 12 schools featured in the 2010-11 calendar. Teacher Training: (1) A

Great Water OdysseySM workshop was held on Jan. 3 for 64 Citrus County teachers from Forest Ridge Elementary

School. The six-hour workshop was facilitated by Youth Education staff at the Best Western Citrus Hills Lodge. (2) This

fiscal year, 128 teachers have been trained in two workshops. School Board Coordination: (1) Youth Education staff have

been coordinating with land resources staff and Sumter County School District staff to gain school district participation in

the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the Wildlife Foundation of Florida (WFF) initiative to

develop a youth center at Flying Eagle Preserve in Citrus County. As a result of this coordination, the Land Resources

Department director made a presentation about the FWC/WFF initiative to the Sumter County School Board on Feb. 1.

(2) As part of the continuing "Get Outside!" campaign, youth education and land resources staff are coordinating two field

trips with Sumter County School District personnel, scheduled for Feb. 25 and March 9. The field trips will take place at

the District's Lake Panasoffkee property and will educate 135 seventh- and ninth-grade students about District lands,

watersheds and water resources. Program Evaluation: The youth education program is undergoing a three-year program

evaluation to determine the effectiveness and use of its current offerings and to guide decisions concerning future

efforts. Five schools are being selected for a comprehensive case study to examine the effectiveness of the Splash!

school grants program, to determine the level of awareness about the District's educational resources and how these

resources are currently being used by teachers. The comprehensive evaluation conducted by an outside evaluator will

conclude in FY2011. Publications: Approximately 241,457 youth publications have been distributed during fiscal year

2011. More than 82,843 youth education materials have been distributed during calendar year 2011.


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Education - Public Water Resource Education Program


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementFlood Protection Floodplain ManagementWater Supply ConservationNatural Systems Natural Systems Conservation and Restoration



Cooperator(s)

Project Manager PUTNAM, BETH

HARROUN, AMY, ROE, MELISSA, ALTMAN, MELISSA, DURELL, SYLVIA, STERNBERGER,

VIRGINIA

Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis Basin Initiative is proposed to provide funding for several projects designed to inform and educate the public

about the importance of managing and protecting the water resources. All programs align directly with one or more of

the District's areas of responsibilities, with the District's Strategic Plan and with Basin Board priorities. The District's

broad range of public education programs and materials reflect the variety of backgrounds and interests of the

District's residents and visitors. Some projects would be implemented Districtwide with support from all Basin Boards,

while some are proposed to be basin-specific and supported only by the Basin Board(s) that will benefit from the

project(s). Districtwide programs include: (1) Community Education Grants, (2) educational material development and

distribution, (3) surveys and other research/evaluation measures, (4) translation services for Spanish materials, and

(4) special events including the "Get Outside!" campaign. Basin-specific programs reflect differing priorities as well as

unique opportunities. Categories of basin-specific projects are (1) watershed/ water quality education programs; (2)

Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM education "start-up" programs; (3) partnerships with local environmental education

centers, nonprofits and others; and (4) the College Conservation program. Funding for a public service advertising

campaign has been removed from the FY2012 budget. Staff's ongoing review during the budget development process

may result in additonal reductions.

BenefitsThe proposed programs benefit the District through an increase in awareness and understanding of water

management and water resource issues, as well as an increase in behaviors that conserve and protect the District's

water resources and watersheds. Partnerships with local groups and organizations allow the District to leverage

resources and extend reach.

Costs

The total proposed cost of the FY2012 education program is $731,380 and is budgeted as follows: Governing Board

($297,003), Alafia River ($27,010), Hillsborough River ($106,976), Coastal Rivers ($29,499), Pinellas-Anclote River

($108,942), Withlacoochee River ($41,939), Peace River ($76,461), Manasota ($43,550). This 55% budget reduction

reflects the removal of $902,100 for a scheduled public service advertising campaign in FY2012. If a drought

messaging campaign is needed, staff will request contingency funds from the Governing Board. Major budget

categories proposed for FY2012 within this basin initiative are (1) Community Education Grants--$236,623, (2)

educational material development and distribution--$180,680, (3) surveys and other research/evaluation measures-

-$132,650, (4) translation services for Spanish materials--$5,000, and (4) special events including the "Get Outside!"

campaign--$87,766. Categories of basin-specific projects are (1) watershed/ water quality education programs-

-$75,751--including Lakes Education Action Drive's Watershed Education to Polk County, Tampa Bay Estuary

Program's pet waste education program and two decision-maker workshops; (2) Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM

education "start-up" programs in Levy ($4,000) and DeSoto ($2,000) counties; (3) partnerships with local

environmental education/science centers--MOSI IMAX messaging $30,000; and (4) the College Conserveration

program $7,000. Based on the total number of people reached through the public education materials and programs in

FY2010 (1.8 million people), the cost/benefit ratio for the remaining amount budgeted for public education in FY2012 is

approximately $0.41 per person. Budget lines below include costs for staff to manage the projects.


Funding for public education is budgeted within the basins for FY2011 as follows: Alafia River -- $52,223; Hillsborough

River -- $195,417; Coastal Rivers -- $62,056; Pinellas-Anclote River -- $184,035; Withlacoochee River -- $66,096;

Peace River -- $129,099; Manasota -- $95,289. In addition, the Governing Board contributes $933,212 to

support public education efforts, $525,000 of which is allocated to public service advertising. Basin Board and General

Fund contributions in FY2011 for public service advertising total $902,010. The cost/benefit of those reached via


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public service advertising is measured in impressions and is projected to cost the District less than eight hundredths of

a cent per impression. P268 funds support a variety of education and outreach efforts Districtwide. Based on the total

number of people reached through the public education materials and programs in FY2009 (1.8 million people), the

cost/benefit ratio for the remaining amount budgeted for public education in FY2011 is approximately $0.45 per

person. Budget lines below include costs for staff to manage the projects.


Revenue


011 Alafia River Basin 726,922 0 2,423 618,285 41,168 65,046

013 Hillsborough River Basin 1,977,098 0 10,754 1,614,153 131,327 220,864

014 Northwest Hillsborough Basin 600,036 0 8,400 591,636 0 0


016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 3,357,541 0 (15,024) 3,020,746 140,718 211,101



021 Manasota Basin 1,187,315 0 (10,706) 1,020,377 67,205 110,439

$17,565,492 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Barrier and Benefit SurveySurvey instrument one written 5/1/08 6/19/08

Survey one results 5/30/08 7/20/08 7/18/08

Survey instrument two written 6/20/08 9/15/08 10/24/08

Survey two results 7/18/08 11/20/08 12/18/08

Survey instrument three written 8/8/08 1/15/09 1/15/09

Survey three results 8/29/08 4/30/09 4/30/09

CBSM education intervention plans complete 9/26/08 4/30/09 6/16/09

FY2009 Community Education Grant ActivitiesApplication deadline 8/22/08 8/22/08

Basin Board Education Committee input 11/21/08 11/21/08

Announcement of allocations to CE Grant recipients 1/23/09 1/12/09 1/12/09

Basin Boards informed of grant allocations 2/13/09 1/22/09 2/22/09

Grant-recipient required workshops 2/27/09 2/27/09

End of projects' work period 7/31/09 7/31/09

Final reports due 7/31/09 8/31/09 8/31/09

Requests for reimbursements 8/31/09 8/31/09 8/31/09

FY2009 Media MessagingFall media buy 10/14/08 10/14/08

Spring plan developed 11/30/08 11/30/08

Fall media buy final report 12/30/08 12/30/08

Winter media buy 1/5/09 1/5/09

Spring media buy 3/1/09 3/1/09

Summer media buy plan 4/28/09 4/28/09

Summer media buy 5/17/09 5/15/09

Media buy final report 6/1/09 7/31/09 7/31/09

FY2010 Community Education Grant Activities


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Application deadline 8/21/09 8/21/09

Basin Board Education Committee input 11/20/09 11/20/09

Announcement of allocations to CE Grant recipients 1/22/10 1/11/10 1/11/10

Basin Boards informed of grant allocations 2/12/10 2/12/10

Grant-recipient required workshops 2/23/10 2/25/10 2/25/10

End of projects' work period 7/31/10 7/31/10

Requests for reimbursements 8/31/10 8/31/10

Final reports due 8/31/10 8/31/10

FY2010 Media MessagingWinter media buy plan 10/30/09 11/6/09 11/6/09

Winter media buy 1/4/10 11/30/09 11/30/09

Winter media buy final report 4/30/10 4/30/10

FY2010 Media ResearchPO Opened 10/1/09 10/1/09

Pretest Survey 11/22/09 11/22/09

Post test 4/5/10 4/5/10

Focus Groups 8/30/10 7/1/10 7/1/10

Final Report 9/27/10 9/30/10

FY2011 Community Education Grant ActivitiesApplication deadline 8/20/10 8/20/10

Basin Board Committee input 11/18/10 11/18/10

Announcement of allocations to CEG recipients 1/10/11 1/10/11

Basin Boards informed of grant allocations 2/2/11 2/3/11 2/3/11

Grant recipient required workshops 2/14/11 2/14/11

End of projects' work period 7/31/11

Final reports due 8/31/11

Requests for reimbursement 8/31/11

FY2011 LE/AD Polk County Watershed Education ProjectWater resources conference 10/29/10 10/12/10

Fall newsletter 11/30/10 11/30/10

Winter newsletter 2/28/11 2/28/11

Project EAGLE lake cleanup 4/29/11

Pet waste station bag replacement 4/29/11

Spring newsletter 5/31/11

Lakes Appreciation Celebration and Cleanup 7/31/11

Summer newsletter 8/31/11

Final report and project close 9/30/11

Cardboard Boat Challenge and Lakeshore Festival 9/30/11

Living at the Lake classes 9/30/11

Lakeside display signs 9/30/11

FY2011 Public Service AdvertisingRFP for Media Buyer Sent 8/27/10 8/27/10

Production company PO Opened 9/10/10 9/10/10

How To Videos Completed 10/22/10 10/22/10

Media Buyer PO Opened 11/1/10 11/1/10

TV Ads Produced 11/30/10 12/15/10 12/15/10

Print advertising produced 12/3/10 1/7/11 1/7/11

Spring Media Buy Plan Complete 2/1/11 1/19/11

Spring Media Buy Begins 2/15/11 2/14/11 2/14/11

Spring Media Buy Ends 5/16/11

Spring Media Buy Final Report Complete 7/15/11

FY2011 Public Service Advertising - ResearchResearch consultant PO opened 9/15/10 9/15/10

Pretest survey conducted 1/14/11 1/14/11

Posttest survey conducted 5/31/11

Focus groups 8/5/11


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Final research report received 9/30/11

Pilot Irrigation ProjectFinish focus group research 9/30/07 9/30/07

Take test meter readings of pilot neighborhoods 9/30/07 10/24/07

Finish survey research 2/28/08 5/1/08 6/9/08

Develop pilot project plans 5/31/08 9/30/08 10/6/08

Begin pilot project in designated neighborhoods 7/1/08 12/1/08 12/1/08

Take meter read #1 7/31/08 12/30/08 12/30/08

Take meter read #2 8/31/08 1/31/09 2/9/09

Take meter read #3 9/30/08 3/20/09 4/10/09

Evaluate pilot program based on meter readings 10/15/08 10/15/10 7/30/10

Begin phase two with needed revisions 1/1/09 7/1/09 7/1/09

Take meter read #1 1/31/09 7/31/09 7/31/09

Take meter read #2 2/28/09 8/31/09 9/15/09

Take meter read #3 3/30/09 9/30/09 12/10/09

Pilot end date 3/31/09 9/30/10 7/30/10

WWIPP Phase IIConduct campaign with pretest 7/31/09 9/30/09 10/1/09

Evaluate program impact with posttest 6/30/10 10/31/10 10/31/10

Final report and fact sheet due 8/31/10 3/31/11


Community Education Grants (CEG): The FY2011 CEG program received 46 applications Districtwide, requesting

$203,490. Staff has approved funding for 29 projects, totaling $120,471. In February, Basin Boards were informed of

funded projects and grant implementation meetings were held. The grant implementation period runs from March

through July 2011. Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM Education (FFL): (1) The second annual Landscape Challenge is

planned for March 17, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., at District Headquarters. The event promotes water conservation and

encourages landscape BMPs in Florida's nursery and landscape industry. Teams compete for the title of Ruling Water

Champions. The four challenge stations at the event will be The Spin on Bugs (manage yard pests responsibly), Happy

Plants (right plant, right place), Fertilizer Course (fertilize appropriately) and Water It Right (efficient irrigation). (2) The

Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program coordinated a FFL workshop on Jan. 22 at the Turner Center in Arcadia. The

program attracted 80 people. "Get Outside!" Campaign: In the campaign's second year, a series of smaller events will be

held on District properties in conjunction with special environmental holidays. The first event in honor of Florida Arbor

Day was held on Jan. 21 at the District's Lake Panasoffkee property. Approximately 30 people attended the event and

helped to plant more than 300 trees. Two guided hiking events were held during February in conjunction with Florida

Hiking Trails Month. The first event on Feb. 12 attracted more than 30 hikers to the District's Green Swamp West Tract.

The second event, at the Oak Ridge Equestrian Area on Feb. 19, had 20 people in attendance. Advertising: The FY2011

campaign features appropriate fertilizer use. The advertising consists of TV, radio and print ads. Media relations and

public outreach components include news releases and retail and special event outreach. Educational materials

developed for the campaign include a tip card, a fertilizer guide and a webpage housing seven how to videos. The

campaign runs mid-February through mid-May 2011.Research: (1) The advertising pre-campaign survey, which

contained questions on both fertilizer use and water conservation, was conducted through Jan. 21. A final report on the

findings was submitted to the District on Feb 21. A post-campaign draft survey is expected from the vendor for review on

March 18. (2) The Irrigation Literacy Evaluation, Phase II: Water-Wise Irrigation Practices and Perceptions Campaign:

University of Florida reviewed survey data it collected in Pinellas County during Phase I. Survey results indicated that

homeowners had a general misunderstanding of irrigation scheduling and seasonal plant water needs. During the Phase

II campaign, an online newsletter was distributed to homeowners that provided information about watering restrictions,

irrigation scheduling guidelines and water conservation. Post-campaign survey results showed that 93 percent of Phase

II participants plan to use irrigation scheduling as opposed to 69 percent of Phase I survey participants. Post-campaign

survey results also indicated that the greatest increases in knowledge were for understanding of irrigation zone locations

and sprinkler head types. Watershed/Water Quality Education: (1) A Five-Year Water Quality Education Plan has been

approved and will guide future programs. The majority of District watershed education efforts exist through the

Cooperative Funding and Basin Initiative partnerships. These efforts will continue and evolve based on direction provided

by the District to our partners. In addition to results achieved through these projects with partners, the District will

coordinate a comprehensive campaign that promotes the District's priority issues, programs and resources. (2)The

Lakes Education/Action Drive printed and mailed its winter newsletter to a mailing list of 1,200. The newsletter featured

the District's fertilizer campaign and new Do-It-Yourself Guide to Florida-Friendly Fertilizing. Special Events:

Approximately 2,275 people visited the District's educational booths at the Tampa Bay Black Heritage Festival and the

Manatee Viewing Center's 25th Anniversary event, both held Jan. 15-16. In February, staff represented the District at the


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Florida Pioneer Museum's Farm Festival and Quilt Show in the Withlacoochee River Basin and at the Cortez Commercial

Fishing Festival in the Manasota Basin. District staff interacted with 1,015 people at these two events. Every Drop Counts

College Conservation Program: The District is piloting a new water conservation education program to college students

at University of South Florida (USF). The program is running from January through April 2011. To enhance its outreach

efforts, the District has enlisted the help of a student environmental group and USF's Office of Sustainability. The

program includes the placement of a number of posters and decals throughout the campus, a 111-gallon water jug

sculpture representing the average amount of water used each day per person in the region, special event

representation, a water conservation pledge, a Facebook page and a 30-second water conservation video competition. A

pre-campaign survey was conducted to establish a benchmark for any behavior or attitude change as measured by the

post-campaign survey. The video competition is scheduled to begin March 7 and run through March 28.


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AORs Strategic InitiativesNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and MonitoringWater Quality Water Quality Monitoring


Cooperator(s)

Project Manager WOLDEN, CATHERINE

RIALS, MARK, STARKS, ROBERTATask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is an ongoing initiative to monitor the water quality of the Myakka River. In 1996, a SWIM watershed

assessment project for Charlotte Harbor found that in order to make sound management decisions, water quality

monitoring was needed in the Peace and Myakka river basins. The District participated in a multi-agency cooperative

effort to monitor the Myakka River in 1999. It was determined a long term effort was needed to characterize water

quality conditions and pollutant loadings in the river system. The data from this project will be used in conjunction with

streamflow measurements provided by an existing USGS program to estimate monthly pollutant loading at the six

gauge sites (See W554 & W547).

BenefitsThe Myakka River water quality network will be used to determine the quality of water at flow-gaged rivers and streams

of the District for Pollutant Load Reduction Goals and Total Maximum Daily Load development. These data will be

used to establish baseline water quality conditions for the rivers and streams, which will then be used to determine

water quality concerns and develop solutions for improvements. Ongoing projects such as the Myakka River

Watershed Initiative will benefit from use of the ongoing long term data set.

Costs

Tasks and funding defined under this project include salaries for water quality sample collection, report

generation, and laboratory analysis, as well as associated parts and supplies.


The Myakka River discharges into Charlotte Harbor, a SWIM priority waterbody and a Charlotte Harbor National

Estuary Program (CHNEP) designated "estuary of national significance." Charlotte Harbor is generally viewed as one

of the most productive estuarine systems in Southwest Florida. Although it is appropriately considered a healthy

system, problems exist in the areas of hydrologic alterations, water quality degradation, and habitat loss. The SWIM

Plan for Charlotte Harbor focus on management strategies for the Peace and Myakka Rivers, in addition to Charlotte

Harbor proper, to reduce point and non-point source pollution and to preserve and restore habitat. The objectives of

this project are consistent with these strategies. The District began water quality monitoring projects along the Peace

and Myakka Rivers in 2000 (See W527 and W528). Since 2001, the District has also supported sampling in the tidal

portions of the Peace and Myakka Rivers by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FFWCC) (See

W521).


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 38,939 0 0 0 0 38,939

021 Manasota Basin 746 0 0 0 746 0

$39,685 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



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Fourth quarter sampling complete, FY2010(monthly collection) 9/10/10 9/9/10

First quarter sampling complete, FY2011(monthly collection) 12/10/10 12/8/10

Second quarter sampling complete, FY2011(monthly collection) 3/11/11


Water quality sampling is ongoing. Samples are collected monthly at five surface water stations by the Water Quality

Monitoring Program. Sampling for the first quarter of FY2011 was completed on December 8, 2010. Field data through

December 2010 have been compiled and submitted to the District lab for merging with the lab data and QA/QC checks

within the Environmental Data Management System (EDMS). A summary report including the P528 monthly monitored

stations is currently being compiled by the WQMP section and a draft is expected to be completed in FY2011.


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Restoration - Lake Hancock Design, Permit & Mitigation to Raise

Lake Nearly 1.5'Project Type WS&R Dev.

AORs Strategic InitiativesNatural Systems Minimum Flows and Levels Recovery

Basin(s) General Fund (District), Alafia River, Peace River, Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager DOWNING, HARRY

BLASCHKA, STEVEN, SMITH, RANDY, LETASI, SCOTT, HILL, CHERYLTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Lake Hancock Lake Level Modification Project is part of the proposed strategy for achieving minimum flows and

levels recovery for the upper Peace River established by the District. The goal of the Lake Level Modification Project is

to store water by raising the control elevation of the existing outflow structure on Lake Hancock and to slowly release

the water during the dry season to help meet the minimum flow requirements in the upper Peace River between

Bartow and Zolfo Springs. Historically, Lake Hancock fluctuated more than a foot higher than it has during the past

several decades. The project proposes to increase the normal operating level from 98.7 feet to 100.0 feet National

Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) by modifying the P-11 outfall structure. See H009 (Lake Hancock Outfall Structure

P-11 Modification) for a description of that project. This proposed project will further the District's recent efforts to

restore minimum flows in the upper Peace River, which is a major component of the District's SWUCA Recovery Plan.

As such, it is funded as a Water Supply and Resource Development (WSRD) project.

BenefitsRaising the normal operating water level of Lake Hancock to 100.0 feet NGVD will provide the storage to increase the

number of days the upper Peace River will meet minimum flows. This includes providing up to 25 cfs for sink losses

within the river. It was also determined that raising of the operating level along with other District projects will help

restore wetland function for several hundred acres of contiguous lands to Lake Hancock.

Costs

This is a multi-year funded project. Funding for this project is shared by the Governing Board (50 percent), Peace

River Basin Board (25 percent), Alafia River Basin Board (12.5 percent) and Manasota Basin Board (12.5 percent).

Basin Board funding percentages are based on Alafia, Manasota, and Peace Basin impacts to the loss of flows from

the upper Peace River Watershed from ground-water withdrawals. As of 2010, the District has budgeted $8,942,000 of

which $1,600,000 is from State Appropriations, Ecosystem Trust Fund and Water Protection and Sustainability Trust

Fund. For continued funding of future project steps, District staff is requesting $3,000,000 in FY2011 for implementing

the project, broken down as follows: Governing Board $1,500,000, Peace River Basin Board $750,000, Manasota and

Alafia River Boards each $375,000. The funding is for design, permitting, and construction of drainage improvement

projects necessary to raise the operating level of the Lake to 100 feet NGVD. Land costs are not included.

In additional to H008, $2,500,000 was funded in FY2003 and another $2,500,000 in FY2009 through field

operations (Project H009) for the replacement of the P-11 structure.


This project is being conducted in 3 Steps: Step (1) provided the preliminary evaluations and incremental probable

costs for raising the normal high operating levels of Lake Hancock to 99.5, 100.0, and the target 100.5 feet from the

current level of 98.7 feet. Step (1) is complete with a recommended target level up to 100.0 feet. The results of Step 1

were presented to the boards with a staff recommendation for moving forward with Step (2) of the project in October

2004. Step (2) involves the generation of the detailed information necessary to submit a complete Conceptual

Environmental Resource Permit (ERP) Application, and to specifically identify impacts to private lands for acquisition

and other mitigation needs (environmental, facilities, etc). Major components of the Conceptual ERP include: pre and

post condition analysis; private property, dwelling, environmental, and infrastructure mitigation; outfall structure

operation characteristics; and an anticipated fluctuation schedule for the Lake. Step (2) is complete and the

Conceptual ERP was received on June 14, 2007. Step (3) is the implementation of the mitigation components as

specified in the Conceptual ERP. The Project will be coordinated with H014 which will look at improving water quality

released from the lake.


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Lake Nearly 1.5'


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 4,727,454 0 (759,254) 3,909,068 17,448 1,560,192

011 Alafia River Basin 1,192,274 0 (187,500) 983,996 4,555 391,223


021 Manasota Basin 1,189,186 0 (187,500) 980,908 4,555 391,223


Ecosystem Trust Fund - Lk Hancock Lk

Level

1,050,000 0 0 1,050,000 0 0

State Approp - WRAP - Prior Year

Funds

1,750,000 0 1,500,000 250,000 0 0

Water Protection & Sust T.F. (Surface

Wtr Rstr)

300,000 0 0 300,000 0 0

$12,738,897 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Step (1) Preliminary Evaluation1. Preliminary Identification of Potentially Affected Parcels 10/30/02 10/30/02

2. Advertise Request for Proposals 12/20/02 12/20/02

3. Select and Approve Consulting Firm 12/30/02 12/30/02

4. Develop Project Scope of Work 12/30/02 2/27/03

5. Begin Contract Negotiations 2/27/03 3/15/03

6. Enter into Contract 5/23/03 5/14/03

7. Provide Preliminary Results 4/28/04 6/15/04

8. Board Action for Step (2) 9/27/04 10/26/04

2. Step(2) Preliminary Design and Conceptual Permitting1. Amend Contract with BCI, Inc. for Conceptual Permitting 11/3/04 11/3/04

2. Permitting of NCLF Phase III Expansion 3/29/05 3/29/05

3. NCLF Evaluation for Project Effects 3/31/05 12/20/05

4. Develop Project Mitigation Strategies 6/30/05 12/30/05

5. Approve Mitigation Strategies 8/30/05 7/25/06

6. Submit CERP Application 10/14/05 8/31/06

7. Obtain CERP 3/31/06 6/14/07

8. Board Authorization of Project 9/25/07 9/25/07

9. USACE Notice of Intent 9/26/07 12/12/07

3. Step (3) P-11 Design and Construction1. Post P-11 Request For Proposals 3/31/08 2/8/08

2. Select P-11 Engineering Firm 6/30/08 6/6/08

3. Execute Agreement - P-11 Engineering Firm 8/31/08 10/8/08

4. Notice to Proceed - P-11 Engineering Firm 9/15/08 10/29/08

5. 30% P-11 Design Completion (Conceptual) 3/8/09 3/20/09 3/20/09

6. 60% P-11 Design Completion 7/8/09 10/1/09 7/20/09

7. Submit P-11 Environmental Resource Permit 8/1/09 10/30/09 1/29/10

8. 90% P-11 Design Completion 10/8/09 11/30/09 11/24/09

9. Final P-11 Design Completion 1/8/10 4/30/10 5/24/10

10. Post P-11 Request For Bids 2/15/10 5/14/10 8/6/10

11. Select P-11 Lowest Responsive Bidder 5/15/10 5/31/11

12. Execute Agreement - P-11 Construction Contractor 6/30/10 7/29/11

13. Notice to Proceed - P-11 Construction Contractor 7/1/10 8/31/11


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Lake Nearly 1.5'14. P-11 Construction Commences 8/1/10 9/30/11

15. P-11 Construction Completion 12/31/12

3. Step (3) Cemetery Drainage Improvements1. Complete Design Alternative Analysis 3/31/10 7/13/10

2. Submit Environmental Resource Permit 10/29/10 1/31/11

3. Complete Design Plans & Specifications 11/30/10 2/28/11

4. Begin Construction 2/28/11 6/1/11

5. Complete Construction 8/31/11 11/30/11

3. Step (3) Jacque Lee Lane & HWY 5401. Complete Design Alternative Analysis 8/2/10 8/31/10 8/12/10




5. Complete Construction 12/30/11

3. Step (3) Lake Lena Run1. Complete Design Alternative Analysis 8/31/10 2/15/11




5. Complete Construction 12/30/11

3. Step (3) OFP Flow Way1. Complete Design Alternative Analysis 8/31/10 3/31/11




3. Step (3) Parkway Pond Modification1. Submittal of FDOT Permits 11/19/07 3/31/10 7/16/10

2. Complete Design 5/31/10 7/16/10

3. Submit Environmental Resource Permit Modification to FDEP 6/30/10 5/26/10

4. Post Request for Bids 11/30/10 5/2/11

5. Award Contract & Notice to Proceed 2/15/11 6/1/11




Status History: The Preliminary Evaluation Report (Step 1) for Lake Hancock by BCI, Inc., is complete and was

approved by the Governing Board in October 2004 for initiating preliminary design and conceptual permitting to raise the

lake operating level from 98.7 to 100.0 feet (Step 2). With the approval of the Governing Board (October 26, 2004),

District staff amended the contract and entered into a Work Order with BCI Engineers and Scientists, Inc. to begin Step

(2) of the project on November 3, 2004. The Governing Board at their January 24, 2006 meeting authorized staff to

submit a conceptual ERP application to the FDEP and the United States Army Corps of Engineers to raise the control

elevation up to 100 feet NGVD to help meet the low flow requirements of the upper Peace River, upon reaching

agreement through a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Polk County. The Board authorized staff to develop a

MOA with Polk County for the Lake Level Modification Project. With the approval of the MOA by the District at the July

2006 meeting, a Conceptual ERP application was submitted to FDEP on August 31, 2006 for permitting. A Conceptual

ERP was received from FDEP on June 14, 2007. The USACE Public Notice of Intent to permit was completed in

December 2007 and approval was later received in April 2008. District staff have met with affected property owners in

August and September, 2007 to discuss (1) project effects, (2) whether their property would be needed to implement the

project, and (3) Board meetings and schedules. The District has contracted the engineering consulting firm DMK &

Associates to design the new Lake Hancock Outfall Structure (P-11). DMK has completed the P-11 design plans and the

District has received an ERP to construct the new P-11 structure from FDEP which was issued on March 2, 2010.

Current Status: Land Resources is currently negotiating with private land owners and purchasing their properties when

successful negotiations are achieved. District staff is currently working on FDOT permits for Highway 540 and the Polk

Parkway, and has contracted with BCI, Engineers and Scientists, Inc. to implement (Step 3), the design, permitting, and

development of construction documents for mitigation required upstream of the P-11 Structure. Eight (8) bids for the

construction of the P-11 Structure were received in October 2010, however all of the bids were rejected by the District

and the project will be rebid at a later date. ACTION-TO-DATE: On-time, this project already has an accelerated

schedule and District staff will continue to make sure the project tasks are being completed on schedule.


H009

Lake Hancock Outfall Structure P-11 Replacement To Raise Lake

Nearly 1.5'Project Type WS&R Dev.


Basin(s) General Fund (District), Alafia River, Peace River, Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager LETASI, SCOTT

LETASI, SCOTT, SMITH, RANDY, BARTLETT, MIKE, GANUN, JIMTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionFunding under Project H009 is provided for the replacement of the Lake Hancock P-11 Water Control Structure. This

project is directly related to Project H008, Lake Hancock Lake Level Modification. Project H009 is contingent on the

successful completion of Project H008 in 3 steps: Step (1) provide the preliminary evaluations and incremental

probable costs for raising the normal high operating levels of Lake Hancock to 99.5, 100.0, and the target 100.5 feet

from the current level of 98.7 feet. Step (1) is complete with a recommended target level up to 100.0 feet. The results

of Step 1 were presented to the boards with a staff recommendation for moving forward with Step (2) of the project in

October 2004. Step (2) involves the generation of the detailed information necessary to submit a complete Conceptual

Environmental Resource Permit (ERP) Application, and to specifically identify impacts to private lands for acquisition

and other mitigation needs (environmental, facilities, etc). Major components of the Conceptual ERP include: pre and

post condition analysis; private property, dwelling, environmental, and infrastructure mitigation; outfall structure

operation characteristics; and an anticipated fluctuation schedule for the Lake. Step (3) is the implementation of the

mitigation components as specified in the Conceptual ERP. Costs for design, ERPs, and construction for

environmental and infrastructure mitigation requirements have not been determined. Once these steps have been

completed, construction documents will be completed for the replacement of Structure P-11 and the District will post a

request for bids. Funding for this project is shared by the Governing Board (50 percent), Peace River Basin Board (25

percent), Alafia River Basin Board (12.5 percent) and Manasota Basin Board (12.5 percent). Basin Board funding

percentages are based on Alafia, Manasota, and Peace Basin impacts to the loss of flows in the Upper Peace River

Watershed from ground-water withdrawals.

BenefitsRaising the normal operating water level of Lake Hancock to 100.0 feet NGVD will provide the storage to increase the

number of days the upper Peace River will meet the minimum flows from 70 percent to 87 percent and provide up to

25 cfs of recharge to the Upper Floridan aquifer through sinks. It was also determined that raising of the operating level

along with other District projects will help restore wetland function for several hundred acres of contiguous lands to

Lake Hancock. Project H009 will involve the actual replacement of the present control structure to achieve these goals.

Costs

The probable cost are projected to be a total of $5,000,000 for this structural replacement project. This cost does not

include any land acquisition costs. Funds encumbered under Project H009 were approved in FY2003 in the amount of

$2,500,000 and an additional $2,500,000 was approved in the FY2009 for implementing the structure replacement

project. The FY2009 funds are from the West Central Florida Water Restoration Action Plan FY2009 State funds. The

FY2003 and FY2009 funds do not include any land acquisition cost.


H009

Lake Hancock Outfall Structure P-11 Replacement To Raise Lake

Nearly 1.5'


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 2,016,645 0 750,000 1,252,473 14,172 0

011 Alafia River Basin 379,367 0 62,500 313,325 3,542 0

020 Peace River Basin 1,007,911 0 375,000 625,825 7,086 0

021 Manasota Basin 379,367 0 62,500 313,325 3,542 0


Water Protection & Sust T.F.

(Alternative Wtr)

1,000,000 0 0 0 0 1,000,000

$4,783,290 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Status History: See Project H008 for a detailed history on the project. The milestones and updates will be provided for

this project once an agreement has been executed between the District and the Construction Contractor. As described in

the project description steps 1 and 2 have been completed. The engineering consulting firm DMK & Associates has been

contracted to design the new Lake Hancock Outfall Structure (P-11). The design has been completed and the District

received 8 bids for construction. Current Status: The project is currenlty on hold until the project can be rebid. Project

Milestones will be followed as part of project H008 until an agreement has been executed between the District and a

Construction Contractor.


H015

FARMS - Wells With Poor Water Quality in the SWUCA

Back-Plugging ProgramProject Type WS&R Dev.



Cooperator(s)

Project Manager BRUMBAUGH, DAVID

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionPunta Gorda's in-stream drinking water reservoir is sustained by Class I surface water bodies comprised of the Shell

and Prairie Creek watersheds. In 2000, the City of Punta Gorda contacted FDEP and the District with concerns for

declining water quality trends observed in the reservoir. Investigations indicated that irrigation pumping from deep

wells was a primary source adversely impacting the watersheds through degraded agricultural runoff, ultimately

leading to a decline in water quality of the Punta Gorda reservoir downstream. In 2002, the Back-Plug Program was

initiated primarily to improve water quality in the watershed systems of the SWUCA. The back-plug program was

included in the Facilitating Agricultural Resources Management Systems (FARMS) Program in 2005.

BenefitsWell back-plugs may become a procedure recommended for agricultural growers wanting to significantly improve crop

yields by decreasing highly mineralized sources of groundwater used for irrigation, and to mitigate potential impacts to

public surface water supplies.

Costs

Qualifying landowners are reimbursed up to a maximum of $6,500 per well for back-plug procedures, with final

amounts of reimbursement determined by borehole dimensions of the back-plugged interval. The Shell, Prairie, and

Joshua Creek (SPJC) watersheds are considered priority areas for this program.


A brochure and webpage is available from SWFWMD summarizing the FARMS Back-Plug Program.


Revenue




021 Manasota Basin 54,780 0 0 44,388 3,808 6,584

$1,499,223 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


A total of 68 wells have been back-plugged in the SWUCA overall to date, with 50 of these wells located in the SPJC

priority watersheds. Analytical results for samples collected from the 50 back-plugged wells in the SPJC area indicated

conductivity, total dissolved solids (TDS) and chloride were decreased by 47%, 48% and 66%, respectively, with

pumping yields reduced by 23% as a result of back-plugging procedures. For the 18 wells in the SWUCA (outside of the

SPJC area), seven wells were back-plugged in the Peace River watershed, six in the Alafia River watershed, three in the

Manatee River watershed, one in the Myakka River watershed, and one in the Horse Creek watershed. Analytical results

for all back-plugged wells combined in the SWUCA indicated conductivity, TDS and chloride were decreased by 46%,

46% and 62%, respectively. Combined SWUCA pumping yields were reduced by 24% as a result of back-plugging

procedures. Routine monitoring results of select back-plugged wells have indicated sustained improvements to the

quality of groundwater used for irrigation purposes.


H017

FARMS - Facilitating Agricultural Resource Management Systems

Project Type WS&R Dev.

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementWater Supply Alternative Water Supply



Cooperator(s)

Project Manager ESTES, CAROLE

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Facilitating Agricultural Resource Management Systems (FARMS) Program is an agricultural Best Management

Practice (BMP) cost-share reimbursement program. The program is a public/private partnership developed by the

District and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS). The purpose of the FARMS

initiative is to provide an incentive to the agricultural community, within the District, to implement agricultural BMPs that

will provide resource benefits that include water quality improvement; reduced Upper Floridan aquifer withdrawals;

and/or conserve, restore, or augment the area's water resources and ecology. FARMS is intended to assist in the

implementation of the District's Regional Water Supply Plan.

BenefitsThe goal for the FARMS Program is to offset 40 mgd of ground water within the District by 2025. Ground water use

reductions not only benefit the Upper Floridan aquifer but also can improve surface water quality in areas where

ground water is highly mineralized. According to the District's Water Management Information System (WMIS), there

are 6,395 permitted agricultural permits in the District, with a combined permitted annual average daily ground water

quantity of 699,485,000 gpd. Since actual use of permitted quantities is dependent on hydrologic conditions, one of the

main goals of the FARMS program is to provide cost-share that helps reduce ground water use, regardless of

hydrologic conditions. Therefore, FARMS projects not only offset ground water use with surface water but also try to

increase the overall efficiency of irrigation water use. Each project's performance is tracked to determine its

effectiveness. To date, total ground water offset accomplished through the FARMS Program by District funding has

cost $1.40 per 1000 gallons.

Costs

From the inception of the FARMS Program through FY2009 a total of $18,299,146 has been spent on FARMS

projects with $7,778,096, or 42.5 percent coming from the farming participants and $10,521,050, or 57.5 percent, from

public funding through the FARMS budget. Public funding sources for total project reimbursement is as follows: Basin

Boards - 10.6 percent, Governing Board - 11.5 percent, State Appropriations - 28.9 percent, and FDACS - 6.5 percent.

Cost-share project expenditures to date and projected through FY2011 is as follows: Fund 010 General Fund -

$4,572,711; Fund 011 Alafia river BAsin - $571,459; Fund 013 Hhillsborough River Basin - $1,024,131; Fund 015

Coastal Rivers BAsin - $2,403; Fund 019 Withlacoochee River Basin - $167,795; Fund 020 Peace River Basin -

$1,803,573; Fund 021 Manasota Basin - $1,482,944; FDACS - $1,198,721; Ecosystem Trust Fund - $1,833,591; State

Approp-WRAP - $14,085; Applicant Contribution - $3,086,014; for a total expenditure of $15,757,427.


FARMS also funds a limited amount of non-project related outreach activities and data collection efforts in support of

the Program. These include: IFAS Flatwood Citrus BMP Implementation. The District will provide $50,000 to this

project for three years for a total of $150,000. This is an outreach effort by IFAS that furthers the goals of FARMS

Program in the SPJC watersheds, in addition to growers within Manatee, Hardee, Sarasota, DeSoto, and Charlotte

Counties IFAS Row Crop BMP Implementation. The District will provide $50,000 to this project for two years, and

$55,000 in the final year for a total of $155,000. This is also an outreach effort by IFAS that furthers the goals of

FARMS Program in Hillsborough, Manatee, Hardee, Sarasota, DeSoto, and Charlotte Counties. Finally for the Upper

Myakka Surface-Water Quality Monitoring Network - funding for the deployment of data sondes at seven USGS gage

sites in the UMRW has been approved. The network will assist in better understanding agricultural impacts on Flatford

Swamp and in determining the effectiveness of FARMS projects.


H017

FARMS - Facilitating Agricultural Resource Management Systems


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 6,891,544 0 (3,047,352) 5,240,865 2,877,439 1,820,592

011 Alafia River Basin 1,410,794 0 (342,150) 412,097 1,038,035 302,812

013 Hillsborough River Basin 1,396,091 0 (86,008) 220,115 437,210 824,774

015 Coastal Rivers Basin 5,954 0 0 0 3,551 2,403


020 Peace River Basin 2,716,751 0 (1,542,845) 2,639,602 1,096,911 523,083

021 Manasota Basin 1,574,825 0 114,755 1,364,366 42,055 53,649


DACS - FARMS (H017) 1,198,721 0 (218,695) 1,417,416 0 0

Ecosystem Trust Fund - FARMS 1,313,541 0 (3,686,459) 5,000,000 0 0


Funds

231,587 0 (1,168,413) 1,400,000 0 0


District

Applicant Contribution 3,086,014 0 0 3,086,014 0 0

$20,114,686 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


The FARMS Program has 100 ongoing Board Approved projects in six of the District's nine Basins. Projected offset from

the board approved projects is 15,636,268 gallons per day (gpd). Peace River Basin The Peace River Basin has 57

board approved ongoing FARMS projects with a projected offset of 9,723,290 gpd. Of the 57 projects in this Basin, 39

are operational. Six projects are under construction in this basin, and twelve more are in the contracting process. The

Peace River Basin includes the Shell, Prairie, and Joshua Creek (SPJC) watershed, which is one of two priority areas

designated for the FARMS Program. Thirty six of the 57 projects, including twenty six of the operational projects, are

within the SPJC Priority area. Manasota Basin The Manasota Basin has fourteen board approved projects with a

projected offset of 4,358,450 gpd. Of the fourteen projects in the Manasota Basin, nine are now operational, one is under

construction and four are in the contracting process. The Manasota Basin includes the other FARMS priority area, the

Upper Myakka River Watershed. Seven of the fourteen projects are in the Upper Myakka River Watershed priority area,

including six of the operational projects. Hillsborough River Basin The Hilllsborough River Basin has six board

approved FARMS Projects with projected offsets of 496,583 gpd. Three projects are now operational and the other three

projects are in the contracting process. Green Swamp Basin FARMS has three projects in the basin. One project is

operational, one os under construction, and the other project is in the contracting process. Alafia River Basin The Alafia

Basin has sixteen board approved projects with projected offsets of 1,013,240 gpd. Six projects are operational and the

rest are in the contracting phase. Withlacoochee River Basin. The Withlacoochee River Basin has four board approved

projects with projected offsets of 37,135 gpd. Two projects are newly operational and the other two are in the contracting

process. FARMS is also providing partial funding for four regional projects. These projects are being coordinated through

the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Three projects will help implement BMP programs for

citrus growers and row crop farmers and the other is the Mini-FARMS program, which is described in greater detail under

project number H529.


H024

Identify Other Surface Water Storage and Release Options to Meet

Peace River MFLsProject Type WS&R Dev.



Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project involves the identification and evaluation of potential water resource development projects in the upper

Peace River watershed above Zolfo Springs. The vehicle to accomplish this is the District's Watershed Management

Program (WMP). The project includes performing the 1) Topographic Information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, and 3)

Watershed Management Plan elements of the WMP. Work on the Topographic Information, Watershed Evaluation,

and Watershed Management Plan tasks for the area contributing flow to the river between the confluence with the

Peace Creek Canal and the Highway 640 bridge crossing in Homeland are nearing completion. A potential surface

water storage area adjacent to the river will also be evaluated. Watershed Evaluation tasks will be performed for the

area contributing flow to the river between the Highway 640 bridge crossing in Homeland and Zolfo Springs. These

tasks include the collection of hydrologic and hydraulic information for both the existing condition and the committed

future condition reflected in approved reclamation plans. Future funding will be needed to complete the Topographic

Information, Watershed Evaluation, and Watershed Management Plan tasks for the area between Homeland and

Zolfo Springs. Preferred Best Management Practices (BMPs) will be further developed through the Implementation of

BMPs process under separate activity codes, and will require additional funding.

BenefitsThe water resource development projects that are ultimately selected for implementation will enhance low flows, water

quality, and natural systems within the upper Peace River.

Costs

The anticipated project cost is $2,760,000. For FY2010, $250,000 of project funding is appropriated in the following

Basin budgets: Governing Board ($125,000), Peace River Basin ($62,500), Alafia River Basin ($31,250), and the

Manasota Basin ($31,250). However, the project will be discontinued after current work order assignments are

completed. All of the FY2010 funds will be returned to the respective Basin budgets. Howeer, this will not be

reflected in the Funding section until after the new fiscal year begins on October 1, 2010. For FY2009, $250,000 was

appropriated in the following budgets: Governing Board ($125,000), Peace River Basin ($62,500), Alafia River Basin

($31,250), and the Manasota Basin ($31,250). $41,142 of the FY2009 funds were used to obtain LiDAR for an area

within the river floodplain that was inundated when the original LiDAR data was obtained. The remaining FY2009

funds were used for the technical evaluation of suitable water storage areas adjacent to the Peace River, and to

optimize design opportunities for MFL recovery. For FY2008, $250,000 was appropriated in the following budgets:

Governing Board ($125,000), Peace River Basin ($62,500), Alafia River Basin ($31,250), and the Manasota Basin

($31,250). $200,000 was used for an evaluation of a potential surface water storage area. The remaining $50,000 of

FY2008 funds were allowed to lapse. For FY2007, $250,000 was appropriated in the following budgets: Governing

Board ($125,000), Peace River Basin ($62,500), Alafia River Basin ($31,250), and the Manasota Basin ($31,250). In

FY2007, $250,000 in revenue will be received from state appropriations and distributed as follows: Governing Board

($125,000), Peace River Basin ($62,500), Alafia River Basin ($31,250), and the Manasota Basin ($31,250).For

FY2006, $250,000 was appropriated in the following budgets: Governing Board ($125,000), Peace River Basin

($62,500), Alafia River Basin ($31,250), and the Manasota Basin ($31,250). In FY2006, $250,000 in revenue will be

received from Water Protection and Sustainability Trust Fund and distributed as follows: Governing Board ($125,000),

Peace River Basin ($62,500), Alafia River Basin ($31,250), and the Manasota Basin ($31,250). For FY2005, $500,000

was appropriated in the following budgets: Governing Board ($250,000), Peace River Basin ($125,000), Alafia River

Basin ($62,500), and the Manasota Basin ($62,500). In 2005, an additional $360,000 was transferred to this project for

design and permitting of an above grade surface water reservoir. However, these funds were liquidated in

FY2010. For FY2004, $150,000 was appropriated in the Governing Board budget. The District funding amounts shown

in the table include staff salaries.


The WMP includes five major elements: 1) Topographic Information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, 3) Watershed




H024


Peace River MFLsManagement (CWM) initiative strategies and one of the District's Strategic Priorities. In 2002, the District completed

the technical work necessary for establishing minimum flows in the upper Peace River, and the first draft of the Peace

River Cumulative Impacts Analysis Report. The Upper Peace River Watershed has been heavily impacted by mining,

development activities, and groundwater withdrawals. Proposed minimum "low" flows are currently not being met at

the Bartow and Ft. Meade gage sites. The District has developed the Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA)

Recovery Strategy that proposes concepts for development of water resource projects. Two of the concepts are

storage of wet season rainfall in surface water reservoirs for later release during periods of low or no flow; and the

hydraulic optimization of areas impacted by mining, including the reconnection of closed basin areas. Two projects,

the Upper Peace River Minimum Flow Enhancement project (H004), and the Old Lands Phosphate project (H011),

were initiated in FY2003 to accomplish similar goals. The Upper Peace River Minimum Flow Enhancement project

included funding for a feasibility analysis, and design and permitting of a surface water reservoir on reclaimed mine

land. The District evaluated a reservoir site located on the east side of the Peace River just south of County Highway

640, and began the land acquisition process. The property owner rejected the District's offer for purchase, which

terminated the efforts for this site. As part of the Old Lands Phosphate project, District staff identified other potential

reservoir locations, and areas that no longer contribute runoff to the river as a result of mining activities that could be

hydraulically reconnected. Both of these projects are consistent with the Upper Peace River Resource Development

project. Projects H004 and H011 were discontinued as individual projects, and incorporated into the Upper Peace

River Resource Development project. Alternative reservoir sites are being evaluated, and District staff are collecting

available information from property owners, mine companies, FDEP Bureau of Mine Reclamation, and others. FY2004

funds were used to complete elements of a Watershed Evaluation to identify the connectivity of the Upper Peace

River system from the confluence of Saddle Creek and Peace Creek, south to Zolfo Springs. Work Order #1 tasks

focused on the identification of system connectivity through phosphate lands located between the confluence of

Saddle Creek and Peace Creek, and Zolfo Springs. The First Amendment was executed to expand the scope of work

to complete the Watershed Evaluation tasks for the area above County Highway 640 at Homeland, and encumber

FY2005 funds. The Second Amendment was executed to prepare a Watershed Management Plan for the area that

contributes flow to the River between the confluence of Saddle Creek and the Peace Creek Canal, and Homeland;

and encumber FY2006 funds. The Watershed Management Plan element will include a water resource assessment

and an alternative analysis that will include a cost/benefit evaluation of potential water resource development projects.

A Third Amendment was executed to extend the contract expiration date from December 31, 2008 to December 31,

2009. A second Agreement was developed to encumber FY2007 funds to perform Watershed Management Program

elements for the area contributing flow to the river between the Highway 640 bridge crossing at Homeland, and Zolfo

Springs. Future funding will be needed to complete the Watershed Management Plan for the area between Homeland

and Zolfo Springs. When each task is completed the project budget will be refined based on the information

developed. The District is cooperating with FEMA to modernize the flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs) in Polk County.

Information developed with this project will be used to update the FIRMs representing this watershed.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 922,613 0 (424,200) 1,346,813 0 0

011 Alafia River Basin 185,266 0 (105,064) 290,330 0 0

020 Peace River Basin 354,953 0 (210,126) 565,079 0 0

021 Manasota Basin 196,472 0 (105,065) 301,537 0 0


Ecosystem Trust Fund - Upper Peace

Rvr Rstr

250,000 0 0 250,000 0 0


Wtr Rstr)

250,000 0 0 250,000 0 0

$2,159,304 Total:

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Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


H024


Peace River MFLs


1. Original AgreementDraft Original Agreement to Management Services 7/26/04 8/24/04

Draft Original Agreement returned from Management Services 8/26/04 8/25/04

Execute Original Agreement (First Agreement) 9/17/04 9/30/04

Notice to Proceed - Work Order #1 9/24/04 10/22/04

Submittal of Final Report related to Work Order #1 4/22/05 4/22/05

Execute Contract Amendment 1 to the First Agreement 9/21/05 9/21/05

Recognition of the SWFWMD, Peace, Alafia & Manasota Basin Bds. will be

provided on all reports

10/31/05 12/31/10

Notice to Proceed - Work Order #2 for geotechnical testing 11/30/05 1/9/06

Notice to Proceed - Work Order #3 (Watershed Evaluation) 11/30/05 11/17/05


Notice to Proceed - Work Order #4 (Feasibility of Alternatives) 5/19/06 5/19/06

Execute Contract Amendment 2 6/2/06 7/24/06


Notice to Proceed - Work Order #5 for geotechnical testing 7/28/06 7/28/06

Contract Expiration - Original Agreement 7/29/06 12/31/10


Notice to Proceed - Work Order #6 Watershed Mgt. Plan 10/31/06 10/25/06

Submittal of Final Report related to Task 2.2.7.1 of Work Order #4 12/22/06 2/21/07



Notice to Proceed - Work Order #7 (Summary Report) 7/20/07 7/20/07


Notice to Proceed - Work Order #8 (Sinkhole Survey) 10/31/07 12/14/07

Submittal of Final Deliverables related to Work Order #8 1/31/08 6/10/08

Notice to Proceed - Work Order #9 (Survey) 5/31/08 5/15/09


1. Original AgreementFinal Deliverables WO#9 (Survey) 8/31/08 10/24/08

Notice to Proceed - Work Order #10 (Additional Field Reconnaissance) 11/10/08 11/10/08

Final Deliverables WO#10 (Additional Field Reconnaissance) 3/10/09 12/31/10 9/2/09

2. Second AgreementDraft Second Agreement to Management Services 12/1/06 5/29/07

Draft Second Agreement returned from Management Services 1/1/07 6/7/07

Execute Second Agreement - Zolfo Springs 1/31/07 7/11/07

Notice to Proceed - Zolfo Springs Work Order #1 2/9/07 7/20/07

Submittal of Final Report - Zolfo Springs WO #1 2/9/08 12/31/10

Contract Expiration - Second Agreement (Zolfo Springs) 1/31/09 12/31/10


After current work order assignments are completed, this project will be discontinued. However, the District will continue

to work with cooperators to prepare Watershed Management Plans for areas contributing to the Upper Peace River,

which will include Best Management Practices (BMP) Alternative Analyses. If BMPs are identified that could enhance the

resource, future funding may be requested for Implementation of BMPs. Status of Agreements and Work Orders: An

Agreement was executed with HDR to further evaluate CS-11 as a potential surface water reservoir to enhance low flows

in the upper Peace River. Tasks involved probable design criteria and conceptual cost estimates on rehabilitation of

CS-11 to a reservoir along with assisting staff with negotiations on the possible purchase of the property from the current

owner. The evaluation will build upon the feasibility assessment performed by Ardaman and Associates as part of the

Surface Water Resource Assessment Inventory and Approach Development task. Ardaman and Associates will continue

to develop the Upper Peace River Watershed Management Plan. Hydrologic and hydraulic data collected as part of the

Upper Peace River Resource Development project is also being used in the development of the Peace River Integrated

Model (P687). The Agreement (#04CON00047) with Ardaman was executed on September 30, 2004. Project tasks

focus on the area above Homeland. As part of the Watershed Management Plan, Ardaman conducted geotechnical

testing and surface water modeling to evaluate potential reservoir sites. The Ardaman evaluations indicate CS-11 could

be modified to function as a surface water reservoir. The tasks associated with Work Orders #1, #2, #3, #5, #7, #8, & #9


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Peace River MFLshave been completed, and associated final deliverables have been approved. Tasks related to Work Orders #4, #6, &

#10 are on-going. A draft of the first of 3 reports related to Work Order #4 was received on January 26, 2007. Staff

reviewed the draft, and provided comments to the consultant on January 30, 2007. Data collection for Work Order #6 has

been completed. The final report related to Work Order #6 was due on November 30, 2008. However a time extension

was granted until December 31, 2009. Work Order #7 was issued on July 20, 2007 for the preparation of a summary

report to consolidate recent geotechnical and engineering evaluation information regarding the feasibility of using CS-11

as a water storage area for MFL recovery. The water discharged back into the river will need to be of sufficient quantity to

overcome the influence of sinkholes in and adjacent to the streambed in order to meet MFLs in the upper river. A draft

summary report was received in August 2007. Comments were provided to the consultant. Final version of the WO#7

summary report received May 27, 2009. Work Order #8 was executed on December 14, 2007 to survey sinkhole areas

to determine if low flows can be redirected around the sinkhole features, and to identify the hydraulic control elevation in

the streambed that may be backing water up into these features. An evaluation of the survey data will be conducted as

part of the SWUCA Recovery - Upper Peace Karst Berms (H064) project. Please refer to the PIMS entry for H064 for

further information on that project. Work Order #9 was developed to collect survey data for several cross-sections and

bridge crossings within the upper Peace River and two of its tributaries, Bear Branch and Six Mile Creek. Notice to

Proceed was issued on May 15, 2008. Notice to Proceed for Work Order #10 was issued on November 10, 2008. Work

Order #10 includes the collection of additional survey information within the City of Bartow for areas that discharge to the

Peace River. This work has been completed. The Fourth Amendment to Agreement 04CON00062 was executed to add

$243,500 in FEMA funds for tasks related to the delineation of the 100 year floodplain for the Upper Peace River above

Homeland, and to perform peerand public review of the model results. Notice to Proceed for Work Order #11 was issued

on January 28, 2010 to perform the floodplain analysis and delineation tasks using the FEMA funds. A second consultant

services agreement (#07CC0000062) was developed to focus on the area contributing flow to the river between

Homeland and Zolfo Springs. The Second Agreement was executed on July 11, 2007. Work Order #1 was issued

against the Second Agreement on July 20, 2007; and involves the completion of Watershed Evaluation tasks for the area

between Homeland and Zolfo Springs. Status History: The first contract, (#04CON00047), currently encumbers $150,000

of FY2004 funds, $500,000 of FY2005 funds, and $500,000 of FY2006 funds. The Second Agreement,

(#07CC0000062), encumbers $500,000 of FY2007 funds. $200,000 in FY2008 funding was used to retain HDR to further

evaluation the use of CS-11. The remaining $50,000 in FY2008 funds was liquidated. $250,000 was budgeted in

FY2009. $360,000 of H004 Upper Peace River Minimum Flow Enhancement project funds were transferred to this

project to retain a consultant to perform detailed geotechnical analyses, obtain topographic information, prepare

cost/benefit analyses, prepare preliminary and final design plans, and obtain permits needed to construct a reservoir.

The H004 funds were previously Board encumbered. The amount shown in the Prior Funding column of the funding table

has been revised to reflect the funds transferred from the H004 project. Tasks associated with the Ardaman Work

Orders #1, #2, #3, #5, #7, #8, #9, and #10 have been completed, and associated final deliverables have been approved.

Tasks related to Ardaman Work Orders #4, #6, and #11 are on-going. The draft watershed model and GIS deliverables

were received on July 1, 2010, and are being reviewed by District staff. As of this writing, the following has been

expended: $1,104,404 has been invoiced and paid in accordance with the Original Agreement with Ardaman; $467,767

has been invoiced and paid in accordance with the Second Agreement with Ardaman; and $41,142 has been expended

to obtain additional LiDAR data. Of the $250,000 in FY2009 funding, $15,000 will be used to retain a consultant to

provide technical support in responding to questions on the conceptual design for CS-11; $41,142 will be used to obtain

topographic information for an area that was inundated when the LiDAR data was obtained. An additional $3,350 was

added to the HDR contract to finish technical support for CS-11 land negotiations and $10,000 was added as

contingency in case any new issues arise.


H048

WMP - Myakka River Watershed Initiative



Basin(s) General Fund (District), Peace River, Manasota

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager MORRIS, LISANN

ARNOLD, DAVE, SZAFRANIEC, MARY, STARKS, ROBERTA, RIALS, MARKTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Myakka River Watershed is approximately 600 square miles in size and spans about 66 miles from Myakka Head

to its outfall in Charlotte Harbor. It includes portions of several counties including Hardee, Desoto and Charlotte with

the majority of the watershed located in Manatee and Sarasota counties. The 34-mile segment of the Myakka River in

Sarasota County has been designated a Wild and Scenic River by the State of Florida and, together with the estuarine

portions of the river, it is designated an Outstanding Florida Water by the Florida Department of Environmental

Protection. The river is the second largest source of freshwater inflow for Charlotte Harbor, which is generally viewed

as one of the most productive estuaries in Southwest Florida and is a SWIM waterbody. This initiative is a

comprehensive project that will illustrate the effects of land use conversions and alterations and evaluate best

management practices (BMPs) for restoration alternatives. The objective of this initiative is to restore water quality,

natural system, and floodplain impacts in the watershed in ways that can also provide a benefit to water supplies in the

Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA). The Topographic Information, Watershed Evaluation, and Watershed

Management Plan elements of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) are included in this initiative.

This effort will build upon existing data and analyses as well as the Sarasota County Lower Myakka Watershed

Management Plan (K487), and the City of North Port Big Slough Watershed Management Plan (K883). Evaluation will

also be performed on existing and proposed activities within the watershed to address long-term water resource

issues.

BenefitsThe initiative will determine how alterations have affected these systems, evaluate potential water resource impacts

from land use changes, and provide some alternatives to better manage the water resource within the Myakka River

watershed.

Costs

The estimated cost for the WMP portion of the initiative is approximately $4.9 million that includes ad valorum and

state funding. Costs for FY2012 are only staff salaries and water quality monitoring lab costs. Funding History: At its

February 21, 2006 meeting, the Governing Board transfered funds ($500,000) from the Water Supply and Resource

Development reserves to hire consultants to obtain digital topographic information using LiDAR in eastern Manatee

County ($380,000) and to initiate the water budget analysis for the Upper Myakka watershed ($120,000). The FY2007

funding ($2 million) continued the Upper Myakka water budget, the Watershed Evaluation for the entire watershed,

and initiate the Watershed Management Plan element within the Upper Myakka. The $2 million FY2007 budget was

funded as follows: $575,000 from the Governing Board, $517,500 from the Manasota Basin Board, $57,500 from the

Peace River Basin Board, and $850,000 from state appropriations. In FY2008, $1.77 million was budgeted to

complete the Watershed Evaluation element, continue the Watershed Management Plan element. The FY2008

funding was divided as follows: $635,000 from the Governing Board, $571,500 from the Manasota Basin Board,

$63,500 from the Peace River Basin Board, and $500,000 from the state funding. The funding distribution is

Governing Board (50%), Manasota Basin Board (45%) and Peace River Basin Board (5%). Contracting for

independent, peer review of the Water Budget for the Upper Myakka ($45,000) and the purchase of the necessary

software licenses for the MikeSHE model were accomplished with FY2008 funds. The remaining $765,000 in funding

is being used to complete the Watershed Management Plan through the Alternatives Analysis. Because this project

was able to secure state funding for FY2009 in the amount of $1,000,000, additional funds were not needed. Ad

valorum funding budgeted in previous fiscal years was used to match the state grant, though approximately $39,700

has been budgeted for water quality monitoring lab costs since 2009. When each element is completed, the project

budget and scope may require refinement based on the information gathered. The District funding amounts shown in

the table include staff salaries. Future funding will be required for implementation of selected BMPs.




and Models. Implementing elements of the WMP is one of the Comprehensive Watershed Management (CWM)


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initiative strategies and one of the District's strategic priorities. Funding was requested to continue the Watershed

Management Plan including: GIS data base development, watershed parameterization, computer modeling, floodplain

analysis, and alternative analysis of BMPs within the Upper Myakka. Objectives of the initiative include: 1) ensuring an

adequate supply of the water resource, 2) providing flood protection, 3) protecting and enhancing water quality and

preventing the further degradation of the water resource, and 4) preserving, protecting and restoring natural systems.


Revenue



021 Manasota Basin 1,255,250 0 0 1,200,341 26,180 28,729


Ecosystem Trust Fund - Myakka Rvr

W/S Init

2,350,000 0 0 2,350,000 0 0

$5,667,179 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Aerial Mapping ServicesExecute Work Order for Aerial Topographic Mapping 2/24/06 2/24/06

Complete Aerial Topographic Mapping 10/31/06 1/30/06 3/22/07

3. WMP Consulting ServicesExecute Consultant Services Agreement 11/13/06 12/4/06

Complete Work Order #1 5/8/07 5/8/07





3. WMP Consulting ServicesComplete Work Order #6 3/3/08 3/31/08



Execute Amendment 1 5/22/09 5/22/09

3.WMP Consulting ServicesExecute Work Order #9 9/9/08 9/9/08

Execute Work Order #10 1/31/09 3/31/09 4/10/09

Complete Work Order #9 4/30/09 9/30/09 9/30/09

4. WMP Consulting ServicesSAI Agreement Termination 10/31/10 12/31/12

WMP Consulting ServicesExecute Work Order #13-Jones Edmunds 4/24/09 7/10/09

Execute Work Order #12-Singhofen 4/24/09 7/10/09

Complete Work Order #11 8/31/09 9/30/09 10/2/09

Execute Work Order #15 10/26/09 10/26/09

Execute Work Order #16 11/17/09 11/17/09



Complete Work Order #17 1/31/11


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Complete Work Order #15 2/11/11

WMP Consulting Services-DewberryExecute Work Order #14 4/24/09 8/17/09

WMP Consulting Services-TerrainExecute Work Order #17 2/9/10 2/24/10


Status History: At the February 21, 2006 Governing Board Meeting, a transfer of funds ($500,000) from the Water

Supply and Resource Development reserves was approved to hire consultants to obtain LiDAR in eastern Manatee

County ($380,000) and to initiate the water budget analysis for the Upper Myakka watershed ($120,000). The notice to

proceed for the LiDAR work order was executed on February 24, 2006. The Request for Proposals to perform the

Watershed Management Program elements was posted on May 19, 2006. Oral presentations of the three respondents

were given on July 25, 2006. Singhofen & Associates, Inc. (SAI) was selected and approved on August 8, 2006. The SAI

agreement was executed on December 4, 2006. Copies of the executed agreement were transmitted to Manatee

County, City of North Port, Sarasota County, and PRMRWSA. A kick-off meeting was held with the Myakka River

stakeholders on February 14, 2007, to present the project and collect information from staff with projects, knowledge,

and/or data within the watershed. Work began on June 12, 2007, to develop the Upper Myakka River water budget

model. The digital topographic information element was the first item completed geospatially referencing existing survey

data throughout the watershed, historic land use mapping, and identification of model-specific features for the

geodatabase. Imagery (late 1940s and early 1950s) is being utilized for historic land use mapping in the water budget

analysis. Coordination efforts were prevalant with the H063 PRMRWSA Source Feasibility study in early 2008. The

kick-off meeting for the the peer review of the Upper Myakka Water Budget Model was held March 20, 2008. The peer

review document was received in early July 2008 and comments addressed. In an effort to accelerate the project, staff

was able to initiate water quality monitoring for a major portion of the Class 3 constituents, along with coordination efforts

with potential users and updates to the GIS database as a result of state funding from FY2009. This requires an

amendment to the current SAI agreement increasing the funding amount by $276,000 to cover the updated database

efforts and increased coordination efforts. The District's Chemistry Lab and Water Quality Monitoring Program sections

are managing the water quality monitoring element. The consultant was delayed because of waiting to utilize the recent

Sarasota County Lidar before proceeding. The consultant team presented removal scenarios of excess water from

Flatford Swamp and screening for potential uses at a meeting April 30, 2009. Watershed Evaluation work orders were

delayed as coordination efforts are worked through at the District. Consultant has completed a preliminary alternatives

analysis in the Tatum Sawgrass area of the watershed. The consultant has started development of the hydraulic event

modeling for the river as well as several tributary sub-watersheds that will assist with future permitting of best

management practices to address alterations within the study area. A presentation was given to FDEP's Myakka River

Coordinating Council on January 22, 2010. Consultant presented preliminary alternatives to District staff for Flatford

Swamp hydrologic restoration on February 18, 2010. Anticipating Watershed Management Plan tasks will not be

completed by contract completion date in January 2011 because of questions on LiDAR processing. A no cost time

amendment was executed in November 2010. Flatford Swamp Restoration element will be evaluated under H089 while

remainder of Watershed Management Program tasks will continue under H048. Review meeting was held on terrain

modifications on October 19, 2010. Most of the terrain changes will require minor revisions based on the project

objectives of evaluation of major alterations on the Myakka River mainstem and no floodplain mapping.Current Status:

Consultant is has finalized the engineering terrain after extensive discussions on how to fix LiDAR issues. Staff and

consultant are developing a work order for the watershed management plan tasks that will include hydraulic modeling

and testing of scenarios on some mitigation effects on major alterations such as Blackburn Canal. Work Order 18 was

executed on February 15, 2011 that included survey work for the watershed management plan tasks. For an update on

the Flatford Hydrologic Restoration please see H089.


H051

Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 2 - PRMRWSA

Facility to North PortProject Type WS&R Dev.



Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Auth., Peace River/Manasota Regional Water

Supply Auth.

Cooperator(s)

Project Manager FERGUSON, JOHN

ARMSTRONG, BRIANTask Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThe Regional Integrated Loop System project is a series of transmission pipelines that will be developed to regionally

transfer and deliver water from existing and future alternative supplies to demand centers within the Peace River

Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority's (Authority) four-county region. The Phase 2 Interconnect project is a

component of the Regional Integrated Loop System that will provide needed regional transmission capacity between

the Peace River Water Treatment Plant (WTP) and the City of North Port. The transmission line will be a 36-inch to

42-inch diameter pipeline extending approximately 7 miles from the Peace River Facility, generally along the existing

36-inch regional transmission main (RTM) corridor to Serris Boulevard, where it will interconnect with the City of North

Port's transmission/distribution system. In addition to serving the City of North Port, Phase 2 provides back-up

capacity to the existing 36-inch RTM and comprises a critical segment for the extension of future loop system

sub-phases to the City of North Port's Myakkahatchee Creek WTP, the Englewood Water District (Phase 2B),

and Sarasota County's Carlton WTP (Phase 2A). The design transmission capacity is 13 mgd.

BenefitsThis initial segment of the Phase 2 Interconnect will allow the City of North Port to receive additional water from the

Authority's recently expanded Peace River WTP. The City currently requires this project to transmit the quantities of

water they are contracted to purchase from the Authority in FY2012. Development of additional segments will further

integrate regional resources; maximize surface water for public supply; provide rotational capacity and the ability to rest

sources; provide for reserve capacity for emergency transfers; provide alternatives to the development of groundwater

in the Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA); and better match supply, demand and financial investment on a

regional basis. The use of alternative sources with the maximization of surface water for public supply is consistent

with the District's Regional Water Supply Plan.

Costs

The original cost estimate in the funding agreement is $15,400,000; however, the consultant's cost opinion at 100

percent design is $19,200,000, which would increase the requested District share from $7,700,000 to $9,600,000.

District ad valorem funding in FY2010 and FY2011 was: Governing Board $3,808,493; Manasota Basin Board

$2,780,199; and Peace River Basin Board $627,672 - for a total of $7,216,364. FY2008 Water Protection and

Sustainability Trust Funds (WPSTF) were transferred to the project in FY2011 in the amount of $166,031. The

WPSTF is applied to construction costs only and equally reduces the Authority and District shares. District shares of

the WPSTF are: Governing Board $41,508; Manasota Basin Board $30,301; and Peace River Basin Board $11,207.

The funding request for FY2012 to meet the increased cost is: Governing Board $950,000; Manasota Basin Board

$693,500; and Peace River Basin Board $657,121 - for a total of $2,300,621. Funding is recommended for FY2012,

however the requested shares likely be adjusted in April 2011 after construction is bid.

The future funds identified for the project are contingent upon approval of such amounts by the District Governing

Board and Basin Boards in the annual budgets.

The District budgeted funds in FY2007 and FY2008; however, those funds lapsed at the end of their fiscal years

because the project was postponed. The lapsed funds are represented below under "Prior Funding" and "Cumulative

Transfers." A remaining $3,015 in staff time from this period is still reflected in the total funding below.


The Integrated Loop System Feasibility/Routing Study was issued by the Authority in June 2006. The

Feasibility/Routing Study identified the preferred loop pipeline routing, environmental impacts, major connection

points, preliminary pipe sizing, proposed schedule of project phasing, and time frames for construction. The study's

recommended Phase 2 route connects the Peace River WTP with the Myakkahatchee Creek WTP and then branches

into two segments: one segment loops northwest to Sarasota County's Carlton WTP, and the other segment runs

southwest connecting to public water systems of the Englewood Water District and the City of Venice. In June 2007,

the Authority contracted King Engineering for Phase 2 project design services. In August 2007, the Authority Board

approved Work Order No. 1 and issued a notice to proceed. In December 2007, the Preliminary Design Report for


H051


Facility to North PortPhase 2 was released. In May 2008, the project was postponed in favor of an alternate connection between North

Port's system near the Snover Waterway and the existing regional line connecting the Carlton and Peace River

WTPs. As a result, the District reallocated the FY2007 and FY2008 funds toward other projects. After

much negotiation between North Port, Sarasota County, and the Authority over shared capacities, the Snover

Waterway connection was considered insufficient to meet all the partners' combined future needs. In November

2008, the Authority revised a shorter version of the Phase 2 project, which calls for a segment between the Peace

River WTP and North Port's Serris Boulevard connection. The pipeline would increase capacity to the City and retain

the greater transmission capacity needed for future Phase 2 segments.

The project is scheduled for completion by June 25, 2012. The City is currently exceeding their 1.192 mgd annual

average capacity entitlement in the existing pipeline from the Peace River Facility. The same pipeline also serves

Charlotte County Utilities. The City requires an additional 1.758 mgd transmission capacity by 2011, and a total of

3.20 mgd transmission capacity by 2014. The City of North Port, Charlotte County, and the Authority entered into a

three-party interlocal agreement on June 3, 2009, for the temporary shared use of an existing water main from the

Shell Creek WTP until Phase 2 is completed. Also on June 3, 2009, the interlocal agreement for construction of the

Phase 2 was executed. The Authority executed Work Order No. 2 on September 2, 2009, for the project coordination,

BODR, final design, permitting, and bidding award services of the Phase 2 Interconnect. The Authority held a project

kick-off meeting on October 22, 2009. District staff received the final Basis of Design Report on April 23, 2010. The

cooperative funding agreement was executed on May 11, 2010.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 4,768,464 0 (2,003,200) 3,506,446 953,435 2,311,783

020 Peace River Basin 1,290,846 0 (542,001) 743,638 660,132 429,077

021 Manasota Basin 3,480,581 0 (1,462,001) 1,964,691 694,869 2,283,022



(Alternative Wtr)

166,031 0 0 0 0 166,031


District

PRMRWSA 10,000,000 0 0 1,700,000 4,100,000 4,200,000

$19,705,922 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Final Basis of Design Report 4/15/10 4/22/11

Submit Bid Documents 1/28/11 3/1/11 3/3/11

Complete Property Acquisition 1/28/11 6/1/11

Complete Permitting 1/28/11 6/1/11


Substaintial Completion 4/30/12 8/1/12

Initiate Acceptance Testing 5/1/12 8/6/12

Project Completion 6/25/12 9/30/12

Funding Agreement Expires 6/30/13


The Phase 2 final design is complete. Eight construction contractors were prequalified by the Authority on December 16,

2010. Construction bidding was advertised on March 3, 2011. A few construction easements for replacing culverts along

the route are still under negotiation.The Authority submitted a request to revise project schedule timelines on March 2,


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Facility to North Port2011 based on the current pace of activity. The request extends task deadlines generally by two to five months.The

Authority continues to negotiate with Charlotte County over a service connection at the southwestern end of the

interconnect that extends into the County. It is expected that Charlotte County will contribute funding to the Authority for

this segment.The Authority has submitted a FY2012 funding request showing a Phase 2 total project cost re-estimated at

$19.2 million, which increases the District's cooperative funding share by $1.9 million over the District's current funding

agreement. Staff anticipate drafting an amendment to the funding agreement after construction bids are received and a

realized cost is evident.Accelerate Florida Action To Date: On time. The Authority has been notified of the Accelerate

Florida Program.


H052

Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 3a - Carlton Facility

to Cow Pen SloughProject Type WS&R Dev.




Supply Auth.

Cooperator(s)



Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Regional Integrated Loop System Program is a series of transmission pipelines that will be developed to regionally


Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority's (Authority) four-county region. This project, Phase 3A, is for the

construction of a pipeline from Sarasota County's Carlton Water Treatment Facility westward across the Myakka

River, then northward along Cow Pen Slough where it will connect to an existing county utility line. Eventually the

interconnect will extend northward into Manatee County once all phases have been completed.

BenefitsDevelopment of this project will further integrate regional resources; maximize surface water for public supply; provide

rotational capacity and the ability to rest sources; provide for reserve capacity for emergency transfers; provide

alternatives to the development of groundwater in the Southern Water Use Caution Area; and better match supply,

demand and financial investment on a regional basis.

Costs

The total cost for Phase 3A has been revised by amendment from $42,570,000 to $27,484,240 (eligible costs) due to

a realized construction bid that was much lower than anticipated. The Authority currently estimates the total cost,

including land acquisitions and other non-eligible expenses, to be approximately $33,100,000.

The current District funding to date (FY2007 through FY2011, including the amendment reduction and WPSTF

adjustments) is $13,825,135 and is divided as: Governing Board $6,829,553 (50%); Manasota Basin

Board $4,985,573 (36.5%); Peace River Basin Board $1,843,979 (13.5%); and $166,031 in FY2008

WPSTF transferred to the project in FY2011. The WPSTF funds are for construction only and equally reduce both the

District and Authority shares.

The funding section below does not reflect a $5,339,220 liquidation of funds in July 2010 based on the amendment

reduction, nor a $71,809 lapse from the General Fund and Manasota Basin ($41,508 and $30,301 respectively) to

balance shares replaced by WPSTF funds in October 2010.

District shares are fully encumbered. District funding will be used for the design and construction of the pipeline, and

for additional storage and pumping at the Carlton WTP.

The Authority submitted a FY2012 cooperative funding application for this project. The application was intended to

represent future funding for a new Phase 3B which does not require funds in FY 2012. No additional funding

is necessary for Phase 3A and the FY 2012 request was withdrawn. District staff advised the Authority to apply for

future loop system phases with a separate application for the year funding is desired.


This project is to provide potable water service to areas of northern Sarasota County and Manatee County. Phase 3A

is the initial segment in the overall Integrated Regional Loop System Phases 3 and 4. Subsequent interconnect

expansions (Loop System Phases 3B, 4A and 4B) will connect to the surface water treatment facility on Lake Manatee

and a treatment plant on University Parkway, and will allow regional water delivery service to communities in Sarasota

and Manatee counties. Total cost for the entire Phase 3 and 4 program is estimated at $145,100,000 based on the

Authority's CIP schedule dated March 2010. Major components of Phase 3A include above-ground storage, a

pumping station and approximately 9 miles of 48-inch diameter transmission pipeline.

The pipeline route is generally from the Carlton Water Treatment Plant (WTP) westward across the Myakka River

following an established utility corridor, west along Laurel Road, north along Knights Trail Road, and parallel along

Cow Pen Slough to a point near the Central County Landfill and State Road 681. Components co-located at the

Carlton WTP would include a pumping station with a 10 mgd capacity and 10 mg of above-ground storage. It is

anticipated that a recently constructed 5 mg above-ground storage tank will be acquired by the Authority. The

transmission capacity of the pipeline will have a minimum design capacity of 37 mgd. Future upgrades to the pumping

station will be needed to reach that capacity. Phase 3A will provide an additional water delivery point to Sarasota

County and the potential for an inter-tie between the Authority's RTS and the City of Venice water system.


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to Cow Pen SloughOn April 2008, District staff received the Preliminary Engineering Basis of Design Report for Phases 3A and 3B. The

cooperative funding agreement between the District and the Authority for Phase 3A was executed on November 10,

2008. The Agreement is back-dated to July 25, 2007, and expires on November 1, 2011. The Interlocal Agreement

between the Authority and Sarasota County was executed on April 1, 2009. On June 3, 2009, the Authority Board

approved a work order for final design services of a new 5 mg storage tank to be located at the Carlton WTP. The

FDEP Myakka Wild and Scenic River permit was acquired on August 5, 2009. The FDEP drinking water construction

permit was acquired on August 24, 2009. The FDOT utility permit was received on July 2, 2009. The USACOE permits

were issued on July 30, 2009. An FDEP environmental resource permit was issued October 10, 2009. The project

design is complete. The Authority selected the low bid contractor at their Board meeting on December 17, 2009, at a

cost of $18,385,256. The construction costs were much lower than anticipated. The construction notice to proceed

was issued on February 19, 2010.

The first amendment to the cooperative funding agreement was executed on July 6, 2010. The amendment updated

the task schedule and project completion deadlines, reduced project funding in accordance to low construction costs,

updated contractual language regarding the reimbursement of funding if project is not completed, and extended the

contract expiration to September 30, 2012. Subsequent to the amended costs, the District liquidated surplus funding in

excess of project shares; $3,812,948 to the General Fund and $1,598,081 to the Manasota Basin.

The final land easements were provided by the City of Venice in September 2010. The City is providing the easements

in return for detailed road work, landscaping, and post-construction restoration at the Myakka River Park on Laurel

Road.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 6,847,995 0 (3,815,948) 10,657,218 3,435 3,290


021 Manasota Basin 4,998,074 0 (1,600,082) 6,593,964 1,369 2,823



(Alternative Wtr)

166,031 0 0 0 0 166,031


District

PR/MRWSA 13,659,107 0 0 13,659,107 0 0

$27,525,034 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Preliminary Design / Basis of Design - Phase 3 7/31/08 3/31/08

Final Design - Phase 3A 3/31/09 10/31/10 10/20/09

Permitting / Property Aquisition - Phase 3A 4/30/09 7/31/10 9/1/10

Commencement of Construction 6/1/09 8/1/10 2/17/10

Substantial Completion of Construction 5/31/10 9/30/11

Project Completion 11/30/10 3/31/12

Contract Expires 11/1/11 9/30/12


Construction is ongoing and on schedule. The majority of piping have been installed along the pipeline route. The

sub-aqueous crossing under the Myakka River is complete. The storage tank is substantially complete, the pump station

is 75 percent complete, and yard piping installations at the Carlton WTP are ongoing. County and Authority staff met on

February 15, 2011 to discuss the operational protocols for the interconnect. Accelerate Florida Update: Notice was sent


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to Cow Pen Sloughto PRMRWSA regarding the Accelerate Florida Initiative. Project is currently under construction and on time with the

amended schedule.


H059

Design & Construction - Bradenton Reservoir Expansion - 580 MG

Offstream ReservoirProject Type WS&R Dev.





Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis is an ongoing cooperative funding project requested by the City of Bradenton to develop an alternative water

supply project that will provide additional storage capacity at the Bill Evers Reservoir and capture excess flow from the

Braden River during the wet season's high flow periods. The project is for the design, permitting and construction of an

upland, offstream storage facility on city-owned property adjacent to the City's water supply reservoir. The proposed

facility will be made of earthen dike construction and includes a raw water intake at the existing reservoir plus pumping

and piping for filling the new storage facility; systems to provide turnover and prevent stratification and stagnation of

water in the new storage facility; and equipment and piping for withdrawing water from the new storage facility.

BenefitsThis project is also consistent with the SWUCA Recovery Plan and the District's Regional Water Supply Plan in

providing supply from an alternative source (surface water). The project will help the City meet their future demands

and has the potential to reduce demand on the Upper Floridian aquifer.

Costs

The total estimated cost for the H059 Raw Water Storage is $17,372,000. The requested District share is $8,686,000

divided between the General fund $4,343,000 (50%) and Manasota Basin $4,343,000 (50%). Water Protection and

Sustainablility Trust Funds (WPSTF) in the amount of $43,541 were transferred into the project. The WPSTF funds

will be split evenly between the District and City, decreasing construction costs accordingly. No funding was requested

for FY2012 because of uncertainy associated with sizing of the new reservoir, 580mg or smaller. The City will ask to

extend the contract end date. When each phase (such as design/permitting) is completed the project budget and

scope and schedule may require refinement based on the information gathered. The future funds identified for the

project are contingent upon approval of such amounts by the District Governing Board and Manasota Basin Board in

their annual budgets.


At their March 2006 meeting, the Governing Board established a policy regarding cooperative funding for potable

water supply projects submitted by local governments in areas served by a water supply authority (WSA). Funding

criteria is dependent on whether or not the local government is a member/customer of the WSA. The City of

Bradenton is located in the service area of the Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority (Authority), but

is not a member of the Authority. The City must coordinate their water supply needs with the Authority so that they are

consistent with regional plans. Affirmative written documentation from the Authority supporting the project must

accompany the City's application. The Authority supplied a written statement in early May 2006 indicating coordination

with the City and consistency of the project with the Authority's regional plan.The City proposed to increase the size of

the reservoir storage area from 580 mg to 755 mg because of the uncertainty of arsenic mobilization and ASR.

Without ASR, the projection for raw water supply capacity must increase to 2.62 mgd to meet demands through 2025.

Because of recent positive results in the ASR project and current economic conditions, the City has indicated they

may return to the original 580 mg storage area.


H059

Design & Construction - Bradenton Reservoir Expansion - 580 MG

Offstream Reservoir


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 4,355,267 1,651,115 0 1,693,893 3,635 1,006,624

021 Manasota Basin 4,356,199 1,651,115 0 1,694,122 3,977 1,006,985



(Alternative Wtr)

43,541 0 43,541 0 0 0


District

City of Bradenton 8,664,230 2,664,230 0 3,994,000 0 2,006,000

$17,419,237 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



Draft Agreement Returned from Management Services 12/31/06 2/17/07 2/7/07

Contract Execution 1/15/07 3/30/07 3/21/07

Topographic Survey 8/31/07 9/25/07 9/4/07

Preliminary Design 10/31/07 11/1/07

Geotechnical Evaluation 2/28/08 3/31/09 4/30/09

Final Design 9/30/08 4/30/11

Construction Permitting 5/31/09 5/31/11

Bidding and Contractor Selection 4/1/10 8/31/11

Observation and Geotech Services During Construction 8/2/10 3/31/13

Construction of Proposed Facilities 8/2/10 3/31/13

Engineering Services During Construction 8/2/10 3/31/13


Status History: Cooperative funding agreement was executed on March 21, 2007 and kick-off meeting was held May 2,

2007 in Bradenton. The consultant completed the survey and preliminary geotechnical exploration tasks and the

Preliminary Design & Engineering Report. The City submitted its FY2009 cooperative funding application with an updated

reservoir size increased to 755 mg to offset the uncertainty of the arsenic mobilization in ASR. Activities completed

during the first quarter of 2008 include preliminary permitting meetings with regulatory staff. The design geotechnical

investigation report is complete. Letter was received requesting line item revisions for tasks with total project cost not to

change. The second permitting meeting was held on July 8, 2009. FDEP requested wetland delineations be checked in

the field by both parties before review of ERP begins. Consultant completed the dam break analysis necessary for the

permit application. A permitting meeting with Manatee County was held Nov. 6, 2009. Delays have occurred because of

negotiations with the FDEP consultant for permitting review and the MOU development between FDEP and the City. The

City approved the second amendment to add FY2010 funds, revise the schedule and increase the project cost. Because

of budgetary constraints and improvements in the ASR testing, the City may return the storage configuration to 580 mg

or possibly smaller depending on the results of the Manatee Estuary MFL. Staff and the City are discussing demand

projections, and the reservoir yield. The CIty is looking into other options besides utilizing the raw water storage reservoir

as a mitigation strategy for the upcoming proposed MFL. Staff updated with the City on the Manatee Estuary MFL on

February 23, 2011. Also upcoming completion dates on tasks were discussed. The County will submit a request to

extend those deadlines and will request through the budget process to extend the contract end date. Also discussed was

the possiblity of utilizing wetland treatment of reclaimed water as an MFL mitigation strategy. ACTION-TO-DATE:

Looking to extend some task deadlines because of Lower Manatee River Estuary MFL requirements.


H069

Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 1A - PRMRWSA

Facility to Charlotte to Punta GordaProject Type WS&R Dev.




Supply Auth.

Cooperator(s)



Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Regional Integrated Loop System project is a series of transmission pipelines that will be developed to regionally


Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority's (Authority) four-county region. Phase 1A of this project connects the

water supply systems of the Authority, Charlotte County and the City of Punta Gorda. Construction of the interconnect

consists of approximately 12 miles of a 24-inch diameter line interconnecting the Shell Creek facility to the Peace River

facility, and includes a sub-aqueous crossing of the lower Peace River. The project will have a minimum design

capacity of 6 mgd.

BenefitsDevelopment of this project will integrate regional resources; maximize surface water for public supply; provide

rotational capacity and the ability to rest sources; provide for reserve capacity for emergency transfers; provide

alternatives to the development of groundwater in the Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA); and better match

supply, demand, and financial investment on a regional basis.

Costs

The total estimated cost for the Phase 1A project is $19,015,000, with the requested District's share being

$12,007,500. The District funding is divided as: Governing Board $6,003,750 (50%); Manasota Basin

Board $4,382,738 (36.5%); and Peace River Basin Board $1,621,012 (13.5%). Ad Valorem shares were budgeted in

FY2008 and funding received from the West-Central Florida Water Restoration Action Plan (WRAP) was applied in

FY2009. The $5,000,000 in WRAP funding was budgeted proportionally between the basins in place of ad valorem

funding.

The Authority submitted a FY2012 funding request for $3,000,000 to cover predicted cost overages. The

overages were resolved in late December 2010 and the project can be completed with the current District

funding. The FY2012 request for funding has been withdrawn.


The Phase 1A pipeline was designed as an alternative to two separately proposed pipelines: Loop System Phase 1

(H050) to interconnect the Peace River and Shell Creek water treatment plants via an extension southward along

US-17, and the Charlotte County Emergency Interconnect (L636) consisting of a sub-aqueous crossing of the Peace

River. Discussions were initiated in 2006 to combine the projects and achieve the benefits of both pipelines. The

revised and expanded pipeline (H069) was approved by both Charlotte County and the Authority Board in June 2006.

This expanded pipeline is designed to bidirectionally transfer up to 6 mgd between the Authority, Charlotte County,

and Punta Gorda. The pipeline will deliver water to four key delivery points in Charlotte County Utility's (CCU)

distribution system and has the potential to tie into CCU's system south of the Peace River.

The Authority Board awarded the design consultant contract for Phase 1A in September 2007 and issued a notice to

proceed on October 17, 2007. The Preliminary Engineering Report was received in February 2008. The cooperative

funding agreement between the District and the Authority was executed in September 2008. The contract period is

back-dated to July 25, 2007, and remains in effect through February 1, 2012. The Basis of Design Report was

received on December 3, 2009.

Charlotte County has already installed and put into service the 0.6 mile-long northernmost segment, which runs from

the DeSoto/Charlotte County border southward to a new shopping center. The Authority intends to purchase this

segment and anticipates the sale transfer to be eligible for funding. South of the Peace River, an approximate 2-mile

segment utilizes the City of Punta Gorda's existing 30-inch transmission main. A pumping station and 0.5 mg of

storage will be located between the Peace River crossing and the Punta Gorda segments.

At the Charlotte County BOCC meeting on October 13, 2009, the County Board denied a formal Authority request to

construct the interconnect within the County, resulting in a three-month project postponement. A settlement

between the County and the Authority was approved in January 2010. The agreement states that the County will not

contribute funding for segments in Punta Gorda, east of the pumping station. Due to this and other


H069

Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 1A - PRMRWSA

Facility to Charlotte to Punta Gordadesign/permitting-related delays, an amendment to the cooperative funding agreement was prepared by the District to

extend the contract expiration date to December 31, 2012. The amendment also extends the task completion

deadlines, and updates contractual language for reimbursement of funds if the project is not completed. The

amendment was executed on July 19, 2010.

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection issued an Environmental Resource Permit for the project on April

5, 2010, allowing the Peace River crossing. On June 2, 2010, the Authority Board awarded the construction contract to

Garney Companies for $15,973,240. On July 29, 2010, the Authority Board approved a construction phase services

work order with the consultant for $1,821,358.

In fall 2010, the Authority developed cost-saving measures to complete the project within the original budget. A variety

of measures were found including owner-direct purchase of materials for tax savings, increased use of directional

drilling at complex intersection crossings to replace iron elbow pipe fittings, use of a shallower trench depth on the

river crossing to reduce construction time, and a reduction of the owner's allowance and mobilization charges. The

Authority approved a construction change order reducing the contract cost to $10,698,587 on December 16, 2010.

The Authority also approved an owner-direct purchase program for materials at $3,410,145. The estimated savings is

$1,864,508


Revenue


020 Peace River Basin 957,129 0 (53,988) 1,006,788 2,953 1,376

021 Manasota Basin 2,570,251 0 (145,967) 2,712,026 1,369 2,823



Funds

5,000,000 0 0 5,000,000 0 0


District

PRMRWSA 7,007,500 0 0 7,007,500 0 0

$19,059,370 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Preliminary Design/Basis of Design 7/31/07 7/31/08 6/1/08

Final Design 6/30/09 10/31/09 12/3/09

Permitting / Property Aquisition 7/31/09 8/31/10

Construction, substantial completion 8/1/11 12/31/11

Contract Expires 2/1/12 12/31/12


Construction of the Phase 1A interconnect has commenced. A limited Notice to Proceed was issued to the construction

contractor on January 3, 2011. The project kick-off meeting was held on March 9, 2011. A few remaining construction

easement agreements are scheduled for appoval at the Authority's April 6, 2011 board meeting at which point the District

expects to resume dispersing pay requests.Accelerate Florida action to date: The Authority is aware of the Accelerate

Florida program. The project is on schedule, based on the amended timeline revisions.


H079

Feasibility - PRMRWSA 3 MGD Brackish Intermediate Aquifer RO

SystemProject Type WS&R Dev.




Supply Auth.

Cooperator(s)


FERGUSON, JOHNTask Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis project is the first step in a process to evaluate the RV Griffin Reserve and Peace River Facility Site (PRF) for

brackish groundwater development and concentrate disposal options. This preliminary investigation will look at the

feasibility and cost estimates for developing a 3 mgd brackish R.O. system at the PRF focusing on the intermediate

aquifer and the uppermost portion of the Floridan Aquifer System. A key component in this project will be the

evaluation of disposal options for reverse osmosis concentrate. This project is the first phase of the Regional

Resource Development Program described below under Additional Info.

BenefitsThe 3 mgd of alternative water supplies will be an initial element in the Regional Resource Development Program.

Completion of this project will assist in achieving the regional resource management and water supply goals within the

four-county area (Manatee, Sarasota, DeSoto and Charlotte) including: maximizing use of surface water for public

supply; providing rotational capacity and the ability to blend and rest sources; providing reserve capacity for emergency

transfers; providing alternatives to the development of groundwater in the Southern Water Use Caution Area

(SWUCA); and optimizing financial investments in water supply infrastructure on a regional basis.

Costs

The estimated cost for this initial preliminary investigation is $1,800,000. The FY2012 funding request is for $300,000

and is divided as follows: Governing Board $150,000; Manasota Basin Board $109,500; and Peace River Basin

Board $40,500. In FY2009 $600,000 was allocated to the project from the West-Central Florida Water Restoration

Action Plan (WRAP) Fund. Proposed funding is split evenly between the Authority, District and WRAP funding. The

District funds were allocated evenly over FY2011 and FY2012. Funding will be used for preliminary design activities

associated with a brackish groundwater source on PRF, RV Griffin Reserve property and injection well exploration.

The future funds identified for the project are contingent upon approval of such amounts by the District Governing

Board and Basin Boards in the annual budgets. Brackish water development is estimated at $12/gallon capital cost.


The Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority (Authority) is comprised of Charlotte, DeSoto, Manatee

and Sarasota counties. In accordance with its Master Water Supply Contract, the Authority is obligated to timely

develop and deliver new water supply sources and facilities to meet the needs of its customers. New supplies will be

a mix of brackish groundwater development at or near existing production facilities, and surface water development

projects in one or more of the following resource areas: Shell/Prairie Creek basin, Cow-Pen Slough/Dona Bay, Upper

Myakka/Flatford areas.To date, the Authority has executed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with DeSoto

County, Sarasota County, and the Englewood Water District to investigate potential partnerships in developing these

and other proposed sources. Costs associated with potential future phases will be determined as these partnerships

develop.


H079

Feasibility - PRMRWSA 3 MGD Brackish Intermediate Aquifer RO

System


Revenue



021 Manasota Basin 240,356 0 0 12,596 113,549 114,211



Funds

600,000 0 0 600,000 0 0


District

PR\MRWSA 600,000 0 0 60,000 373,000 167,000

$1,863,753 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Execute Cooperative Funding Agreement 10/1/10 9/30/10

Consultant Selection 11/3/10 11/3/10

Consultant Contract Award 12/16/10 12/16/10

Notice to Proceed to Consultant 1/3/11 12/16/10

Complete Project 9/30/12


Status History: On November 5, 2008, the options from the H063 Feasibility Study were formally presented to the

Authority board. These options include: 1) three potential reservoir sites in the Upper Myakka Basin and a new surface

water treatment facility, yielding 10 mgd; 2) three potential reservoir sites by Shell and Prairie creeks and expansion of

the existing facility on Shell Creek, for an additional 12 to 20 mgd; 3) the Dona Bay option of diverting water from Cow

Pen Slough to a reservoir on the Venice Minerals site, then transmitting stored water to a surface water treatment

expansion at the Carlton plant, yielding an additional 5 to 15 mgd; and the development of new or existing brackish

groundwater wells to yield an estimated 5-6 mgd. $600,000 in WRAP funds has been budgeted by the District for the

development of the selected project. A funding agreement between the District and Authority was executed in December

2008 to secure these funds. With the current funding, they are looking to do some brackish groundwater exploration after

a consultant is chosen for the next phase. The Authority intends to move forward with a preliminary design/investigation

for brackish water on RV Griffin and the Peace River Facility. Results should determine whether a disposal well for RO

concentrate is feasible in the area. The Authority and the City of Englewood were successful in an agreement to make

idle production capacity available to the Authority if needed closing that MOU. The Punta Gorda MOU expired. A

cooperative funding agreement was approved by the Authority at their September Meeting and executed by the District at

the end of September 2010. The Authority selected the CH2M Hill team as the successful respondent to the Investigation

of Brackish Groundwater Development RFP. The consultant agreement was executed in December 2010 and the

kick-off meeting was held on January 12, 2011.Current Status: The consultant meet with FDEP to discuss options for the

deep exploratory well and required information for the permit on February 3, 2011. A status meeting was held on site at

the Peace River Facility on March 11, 2011. The Authority applied for FY2012 cooperative funding to finish the feasibility

study.


H086

Design & Construction - Manatee's First of Four MARS 10 MG

Reclaimed Storage TankProject Type WS&R Dev.

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Supply Reclaimed Water

Basin(s) Manasota


Project Manager MCGOOKEY, SCOTT

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project will construct the first of four 10 Million Gallon (MG) reclaimed water (RW) storage tanks to support of the

Manatee County Agricultural Reuse System (MARS). MARS is a regional system that consists of the over 21 miles of

transmission lines that interconnect Manatee County's three regional Wastewater Treatment Facilities (WWTF). The

MARS system supplies RW for irrigation of agricultural, residential, and recreational customers, thereby decreasing

dependence on potable groundwater. New residential developments, some with golf courses, have been replacing

agricultural demand and many are planned or under construction along the transmission route. These developments

are potential customers of the MARS System. The MARS system is designed to distribute over 30 mgd. Currently the

County relies on one 3 MG tank at the Spencer Parrish Pumping Station and one 0.75 MG tank at it's North

Wastewater Reclamation Facility to meet peak demand. Wastewater plant peak flows are processed during the

daytime and used primarily at night. This condition requires the county system to have sufficient RW tank storage to

meet the nighttime peak demand. The addition of this 10 MG tank, and the three more planned 10 MG tanks, will

better enable the County's regional RW system to provide for the nightly peak demand events, without compromising

pressure and water quality. This tank will be located at the County's Southwest Wastewater Reclamation Facility.

BenefitsThis 10 MG RW storage tank will better enable the County to accommodate its customer base as it evolves from

purely agriculture to a mix including residential. The storage will assist the county in providing RW for irrigation

purposes throughout its system to its customers during nightly peak demand events, without compromising pressure

and water quality.

Costs

The total project construction costs are estimated to be $4,500,000. The District's share is $2,250,000 or fifty percent,

of which $1,125,000 was budgeted from the Governing Board and $1,125,000 was budgeted from the Manasota Basin

Board in FY2010. The cost benefit cannot be calculated, since the project addresses system storage and efficiency,

and offsets will be associated with future related transmission projects.


The proposed 10 MG Reclaimed Water Storage Tank is an enhancement to the existing MARS. This system reduces

demand for public potable water for irrigation, improves overall utilization of existing SWFWMD water resources and

provides on demand high quality irrigation water for our urban and agricultural customers. MARS is an integral part of

Manatee County water conservation program. The County's overall program includes existing metering and loss

reduction programs, water conservation rate structures, urban and agricultural RW irrigation supply, public education,

SWUCA based level of service for water supply at 110 gpcpd, land development codes requiring non-potable sources

for irrigation in new developments, water supply protection ordinances and the use of aquifer storage and recovery for

potable and potentially reclaim waters.


H086

Design & Construction - Manatee's First of Four MARS 10 MG

Reclaimed Storage Tank


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 1,128,978 0 0 1,126,563 828 1,587

021 Manasota Basin 1,128,978 0 0 1,126,563 828 1,587


District

Manatee County 2,250,000 0 0 2,250,000 0 0

$4,507,956 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Execute CFI Agreement 3/11/10 3/24/10

Award Bid Ground Storage Tank 3/16/10 3/16/10

Start Construction 5/31/10 4/27/10



The agreement with Manatee County was executed on March 24, 2010. Award of the construction contract was given to

Beach Construction Company on April 13, 2010. The Notice to Proceed was issued to Beach Construction Co. effective

April 27, 2010. The pre-construction meeting was held on April 22, 2010 at the Manatee Co. SWWRF. The 10 MG RW

storage tank is under construction. The foundation, sides, and top of the 10 mg tank are complete. Painting of the tank

began in February 2011. Work started on the yard piping in September 2010 and was finalized in February 2011. The

project is scheduled for completion April 27, 2011. The District budgeted $1,125,000 and the Manasota Basin Board

budgeted $1,125,000 in FY2010 for a total District funding commitment of $2,250,000. To date, $1,198,119.26 of the

$2,250,000 has been reimbursed to Manatee County.


H088

Feasibility - Cow Pen Slough Treatability Study and Intermediate

Aquifer Exploration WellProject Type WS&R Dev.





HEYL, MIKETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project includes construction and testing of an intermediate test well and a pilot treatment study to determine the

most technical and economical options for treating surface and groundwater proposed as part of the Dona Bay Water

Supply project. The overall objective of the Dona Bay Water Supply project is to decrease excess freshwater flows to

Dona Bay and provide an alternative source of water within the Southern Water Use Caution Area. This project will

provide the necessary information to determine the feasibility of moving forward with treatment options for

implementation and construction of the Dona Bay Water Supply project.

BenefitsThe Pilot Treatment Study and Intermediate test well will provide technical and economic information on how to best

treat surface water and groundwater sources in the most efficient and effective manner. Actual bench-scale testing of

treatment technologies will benefit future regional water supplies and assist in determining the feasiblity of moving

forward with the second phase of the Dona Bay Water Supply project.

Costs

The total estimated cost for this project is $2,095,000, less than the original budget estimate (approximately $185,000

less) and the District is requested to fund 50 percent ($1,047,500). The District funding will be divided between the

Governing Board (50 percent) and the Manasota Basin Board (50 percent). The funding approved in FY2010 includes

$500,000 from the Governing Board and $250,000 from the Manasota Basin Board, for a total of $750,000 in District

funding. The request for FY2011 for the pilot treatment study/intermediate test will complete the District's funding

share of $297,500. The future funds identified for the project are contingent upon approval of such amounts by the

District Governing Board and the Manasota Basin Board in their annual budgets.


The Dona Bay Watershed Management Plan (DBWMP) was finalized in June 2007 (L493). This project is a portion of

the first phase in an overall plan to reduce excess freshwater flows directed into Dona Bay by the Cow Pen Canal that

was constructed in the late 1960s. Excess freshwater flows have decreased the seasonal salinity concentrations

necessary for estuarine dependent flora and fauna. The plan is to divert, store and transport excess freshwater flows

from Cow Pen Slough prior to discharge into the Dona Bay Estuary, which could provide an alternative water supply in

the SWUCA as well as environmental benefits to the bay. Water from Cow Pen Slough would ultimately be

transported to Sarasota County's Carlton Facility for treatment and distribution. Potential water supply capacity is

estimated in 3, 5, 10, and 15 mgd phases and Sarasota County has already begun design and permitting for other

elements of the larger Dona Bay Water Supply Project such as: West Pinelands restoration, the new weir in Cow Pen

Slough, phased modifications of the Venice Minerals mine to a reservoir, and the conveyance from the new weir to

Venice Minerals. The PRMRWSA provided a letter indicating regional interest in the Pilot Treatment Study Task

making it eligible for Governing Board and Peace River Basin Board funding. Though the Memorandum of

Understanding was extended for two years, Sarasota County and the PRMRWSA continue working through Dona Bay

Project agreement issues.


H088

Feasibility - Cow Pen Slough Treatability Study and Intermediate

Aquifer Exploration Well


Revenue



021 Manasota Basin 592,902 0 0 259,593 8,526 324,783


District

Sarasota County 1,047,500 0 0 1,047,500 0 0

$2,242,453 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Initiate Pilot Treatment Study 6/25/10 10/1/10 10/1/10

MOU agreement with Authority 7/27/10 7/27/12

Execute Cooperative Funding Agreement 8/28/10 8/28/10

Project Management 10/1/10

Initiate Inter. Well Construction & Testing 10/1/10 9/22/10

Raw Water Blending and Desktop Analysis 4/1/12

Data Collection, Review, Sampling, & Analysis 4/1/12

Evaluate Environ. and Permitting Considerations 9/1/12

Outreach 12/1/12

Develop Project Report 12/1/12

Bench and Pilot Scale Testing 12/1/12

Pilot Treatment 12/1/12


The County forwarded the draft Request for Professional Services on December 11, 2009, for review on the Pilot

Treatment Study component for this project. Because two challenges were received on the Request for Services (RFS)

for the Pilot Treatment Study, advertising for consultant services was delayed. Both the Authority and District participated

in the review of the submittals. The Authority provided a letter indicating regional interest in the Pilot Treatment Study

Task making it eligible for Governing Board and Peace River Basin Board funding. The County re-advertised the Pilot

Treatment Study on April 14, 2010. Submittals were received from the consultants on May 13, 2010. Consultant chosen

for the Pilot Treatment Study was Carollo Engineering. Kick-off meeting for the drilling contractor was held on September

22, 2010, at the County offices. Applied Drilling Engineering, Inc. (ADE), has completed the surficial aquifer monitor well

and the Permeable Zone 3 test production well. The kick-off meeting for the treatability study consultant was held on

October 28, 2010. First status meeting for the treatability study was conducted on December 1, 2010. Current Status:

Aquifer Performance Test was completed on test intermediate well. The consultant is developing the report on the

results. On the Treatablity Study, water quality monitoring started on Cow Pen Slough. Two potential sites were identified

for the pilot treatment. Progress meeting was held on February 25, 2011. The consultant has fallen approximately two

months behind schedule. The County and District agreed to see if that time could be made up in FY2011, before

considering a no-cost time extension of the contract.


H089

Restoration - Upper Myakka Flatford Swamp Restoration via Water

Removal to Potential UserProject Type WS&R Dev.



Cooperator(s)


SZAFRANIEC, MARY, ARNOLD, DAVE, STARKS, ROBERTATask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionHydrologic alternations and excess runoff has adversely impacted Flatford Swamp in the upper Myakka watershed.

The project will remove excess flows from Flatford Swamp and some portions of the surrounding area to improve the

natural systems. This project will include feasibility studies, design/permitting and construction of the alternatives

identified from the results of the evaluation from the Myakka River Watershed Initiative (H048). Also included will be

training for District staff on use of the Upper Myakka Water Budget Model (developed under H048) which will be

utilized to track performance of the proposed BMPs after construction. A portion of the FY2010 funding is anticipated

to continue wetland restoration planning and to initiate studies with potential partners to explore the feasibility of taking

the excess water affecting the swamp. Also the Upper Myakka Water Budget model developed under H048 will be

updated to 2011 MikeSHE software.

BenefitsThe Flatford Swamp hydrologic restoration alternative will work to re-establish hydroperiods close to historic levels

estimated by the Upper Myakka Water Budget model and for natural systems restoration. Depending on the potential

end user for the excess water removed from the Flatford Swamp area, the benefits could range from a groundwater

use offset and to recharge the Floridan aquifer near the MIA.

Costs

The estimated cost for the H089 Flatford Swamp Hydrologic Restoration ranges from $48,000,000 to $120,000,000

from early conceptual estimates. District funding in FY2010 is divided as follows: General Fund $400,000; Manasota

Basin $400,000 in the Water Supply and Resource Develoment section and General Fund $75,000; and Manasota

Basin $75,000 in the SWIM section. Alternatives for restoration of Flatford Swamp (H048) is expected to be

completed in early 2011, including some preliminary estimated total costs. Funding for FY2011 is: General Fund

$3,000,000 and Manasota Basin $3,000,000 for a total of $6,000,000. Funds will be used to refine the restoration

alternative analysis; complete feasibility studies with potential end users; and based on the results of these studies,

begin design activities. No additional funds are requested for FY2012.


Work from the Myakka River Watershed Initiative has shown there is no "one" best management practice that will

mitigate problems within the Flatford Swamp. The plan remains to address the issues with a multi-prong adaptive

management approach; but from the evaluations, it is apparent that a larger "workhorse" project is needed to

successfully bring hydroperiods within the swamp back closer to a historic levels. The analysis of the hydrologic

restoration alternatives has been divided into three parts: 1)Withdrawal scenarios from the Flatford Swamp either by

diverting flow before it reaches the swamp or removal from the swamp, 2) Storage for excess water depending on

where the end user of the excess water is located, 3) transmission and water quality treatment to potential users.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 24,304,095 20,750,000 0 479,969 47,462 3,026,664

021 Manasota Basin 24,280,963 20,750,000 0 477,312 27,501 3,026,150

$48,585,058 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


H089

Restoration - Upper Myakka Flatford Swamp Restoration via Water

Removal to Potential User


Execute MOU 12/22/10 12/22/10

WMP Consultant Services-Prelim. DesignDevelop Contract 3/31/10 1/31/11


Work continues to refine preferred alternatives for hydrologic restoration and staff anticipates an agreement being

developed by January 2011 to move forward with some of the feasibility study task. Staff updated the Governing Board

on May 25, 2010, and the Manasota Basin Board on June 16, 2010, on progress of the Flatford Swamp hydrologic

restoration. The Memorandum of Understanding that outlines the development of a scope of work for a feasibility study

to determine Mosaic's potential uses for excess water from Flatford Swamp was finalized and approved by the

Governing Board at the November 2010 meeting. Staff presented on progress of the Flatford Swamp restoration at

Mosaic's Community Advisory Panel (CAP) in Manatee County on November 18, 2010. A meeting with Mosaic to review

the feasibility study scope of work was held on December 13, 2010. Staff has began work on the cooperative funding

agreement between the District and Mosaic. The MOU was executed on December 22, 2010. The contract with

Singhofen and Associates that is currently being routed through the District approval process will include investigation of

permitting activities, additional survey work, of reliability scenarios for the interception of excess flows, of sediment

build-up in the system and continued wetland restoration planning. District staff met with Mosaic on March 2, 2011 to

discuss some concerns they had with the initial draft of the Districts cooperative funding agreement for the feasibility

study.


H093

Design & Construction - Manatee's Second of Four MARS 10 MG

Reclaimed Storage TankProject Type WS&R Dev.





Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis project will design and construct the second of four 10 Million Gallon (MG) reclaimed water (RW) storage tanks in

support of the Manatee County Agricultural Reuse System (MARS). MARS is a regional system that consists of the

over 21 miles of transmission lines that interconnect Manatee County's three regional Wastewater Treatment Facilities

(WWTF). The MARS system supplies RW for irrigation of agricultural, residential, and recreational customers, thereby

decreasing dependence on potable groundwater. New residential developments, some with golf courses, have been

replacing agricultural demand and many are planned or under construction along the transmission route. These

developments are potential customers of the MARS System. The MARS system is designed to distribute over 30 mgd.

Currently the County relies on one 3 MG tank at the Spencer Parrish Pumping Station and one .75 MG tank at its

North Wastewater Reclamation Facility to meet peak demand. Wastewater plant peak flows are processed during the

daytime and used primarily at night. This condition requires the county system to have sufficient tank storage to meet

the nighttime peak demand. The District and County are in the process of constructing the first 10MG RW ground

storage tank (H086) at the Southwest Wastewater Reclamation Facility with FY2010 funding. The addition of this

second 10 MG tank, and two more planned 10 MG tanks, will better enable the County's regional RW system to

provide for the nightly peak demand events, without compromising pressure and water quality. This tank will be located

at the County's Southwest Wastewater Reclamation Facility along with the first tank.

BenefitsThis 10 MG RW storage tank will better enable the County to accommodate its customer base as it evolves from

purely agriculture to a mix of customers, including residential. The storage tank will assist the county in providing RW

for irrigation purposes to its customers during nightly peak demand events, without compromising pressure and water

quality.

Costs

The total project costs are estimated to be $5,000,000. The District's share is fifty percent or $2,500,000, of which

$1,250,000 ($625,000 from the Governing Board and $625,000 from the Manasota Basin Board) were budgeted in

FY2011. The county is requesting $1,250,000 ($625,000 from the Governing Board and $625,000 from the Manasota

Basin Board) in FY2012. The cost benefit cannot be calculated, since the project addresses system storage and

efficiency, and offsets will be associated with future related transmission projects. The total project cost includes

$500,000 for design and $4,500,000 for construction. Future funds identified for the project are contingent upon the

approval by the District in their annual budgets.


The proposed second 10 MG Reclaimed Water Storage Tank Project is an enhancement to the existing

MARS System. This system reduces demand for public potable water for irrigation, improves overall utilization of

existing SWFWMD water resources and provides on demand high quality irrigation water for our urban and

agricultural customers. MARS is an integral part of Manatee County water conservation program. The County's overall

program includes existing metering and loss reduction programs, water conservation rate structures, urban and

agricultural RW irrigation supply, public education, SWUCA based level of service for water supply at 110 gpcpd, land

development codes requiring non-potable sources for irrigation in new developments, water supply protection

ordinances and the use of aquifer storage and recovery for potable and potentially RW.


H093

Design & Construction - Manatee's Second of Four MARS 10 MG

Reclaimed Storage Tank


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 1,253,082 0 0 0 626,566 626,516

021 Manasota Basin 1,254,003 0 0 0 627,487 626,516


District

Manatee County 2,500,000 0 0 0 1,250,000 1,250,000

$5,007,085 Total:

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Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Execute CFI Agreement 5/13/11

Start Design of RW Storage Tank 7/1/11

Complete Design of RW Storage Tank 2/1/12

Start Construction RW Storage Tank 6/1/12

Complete Construction RW Storage Tank 10/1/13


The County submitted the project plan (Exhibit B) of the Cooperative Funding Initiative (CFI) agreement to the District on

October 19, 2010. The District has processed the agreement and on December 20, 2010 sent it to Manatee County for

signature. The County returned the agreement for modifications in January 2011. District staff made the requested

changes and returned the agreement to the County for signature February 2011.


H532

FARMS - CFI USA, Inc. - Venus Citrus Grove



Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe project as proposed by CFI USA, Inc. is to reduce the withdrawal of groundwater through the construction and

operation of a five acre surface water irrigation reservoir. The reduction in groundwater use will benefit the Upper

Floridan aquifer system by replacing Upper Floridan withdrawals with recovered tailwater and surface water. FARMS

project components consist of one surface water irrigation pump station, filtration, and the piping necessary to connect

the surface water reservoir system to the existing irrigation system. The CFI USA Venus II Grove is located in Manatee

County. The property drains into the east fork of the Manatee River. This project will collect and reuse water from the

property and surrounding watershed. The Water Use Permit for this grove authorizes groundwater withdrawals up to

214,400 gallons per day (gpd) for the irrigation of 245 acres of citrus from two Upper Floridan aquifer wells. The

moving annual average indicates that CFI USA, Inc. is currently using 216,668 gpd or 101 percent of its permitted

quantities, but below the permitted drought quantity of 264,600 gpd. The proposed project involves water quantity

BMPs which qualifies for a 50 percent cost-share reimbursement rate under the FARMS Program.

BenefitsFARMS projects calculate a cost benefit based on the term of the proposed contract (generally five years) and

compare it to model farms listed in the Regional Water Supply Plan. Using an estimate of 33 percent savings of

permitted quantities for this phase, or approximately 70,500 gpd, yields a daily cost of $3.13 per thousand gallons of

groundwater reduced over the proposed five-year contract term, and $0.94 per thousand gallons of groundwater

reduced over a thirty-year term. Both projected values for groundwater savings costs are within the guidelines for the

generally accepted average cost savings per thousand gallons for the implementation of improved irrigation techniques

and alternative supply use for flatwood citrus operations.

Costs

Total project costs are estimated at $430,000, with FARMS eligible costs up to a not-to-exceed limit of $180,000 (100

percent of FARMS eligible not to exceed 50 percent of total project costs). Of this amount, $45,000 will be from Fund

010 General Fund, $45,000 will be from the Manasota Basin Board, and $90,000 will be from the Ecosystem Trus

Fund appropriation to FARMS.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 29,924 0 29,924 0 0 0

021 Manasota Basin 29,924 0 29,924 0 0 0


Ecosystem Trust Fund - FARMS 59,847 0 59,847 0 0 0

$119,695 Total:

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Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


CFI - Venus Grove Phase 1/1A project is operational and the actual offset is averaging 122,252 gpd, which is 142.98


H532

FARMS - CFI USA, Inc. - Venus Citrus Grove

percent of the projected offset of 85,500 gpd.

ACTION-TO-DATE: On-Time


H538

FARMS - FFD Land Company, Inc.



Basin(s) Manasota

FFD Land Company, Inc.Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe project as constructed by FFD Land Company was intended to reduce Upper Floridan groundwater withdrawals

through the use of an integrated system that will include a weather station, evapotranspiration sensors, soil moisture

sensors, and automated pump control. FFD's tomato farm is located on the East Fork of the Manatee River, upstream

from Lake Manatee. Lake Manatee is a major source of drinking water for Manatee County. The existing Water Use

Permit (WUP) is divided into Farm 1, Farm 4, and Farm 4A. The pertinent portion of the WUP is Farm 4 and 4A. For

this portion of the property, the WUP authorizes an annual average groundwater withdrawal of 1,989,800 gallons per

day (gpd), for the irrigation of tomatoes. Since 1990, FFD Land Company, Inc. has averaged groundwater withdrawals

of 63 percent of permitted quantities. The project will reduce Upper Floridan groundwater withdrawals and, therefore,

the project qualifies for a 50 percent cost-share reimbursement rate under the FARMS Program.

BenefitsFARMS projects calculate a cost benefit based on the projected offset of Upper Floridan groundwater quantities, total

project cost, and the term of the proposed contract. Using an estimated five percent savings of permitted quantities, or

approximately 94,940 gpd, yields a daily cost of $1.59 per thousand gallons of groundwater reduced over the proposed

five-year contract term, and $0.48 per thousand gallons of groundwater reduced over a thirty-year term. p; Both values

are below the model farm average cost of $1.93 per thousand gallons saved, and within the guidelines for the

generally accepted average cost savings per thousand gallons for the implementation of alternative supplies and

improved irrigation techniques for row crop operations.

Costs

Total project costs were $72,353, with the FARMS eligible reimbursement of $36,676. Of this amount, $9,169 was

from Fund 010 General Fund, $9,169 was from Fund 021 Manasota Basin Board, and $18,338 was from the

Ecosystems Trust Fund appropriation to FARMS.


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 9,942 0 9,942 0 0 0



$39,767 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Project ConstructionContract Execution 1/7/07 1/7/07


Project Contract


H538

FARMS - FFD Land Company, Inc.

Contract Completion 7/31/13


This project became operational in December 2007. The project has offset groundwater pumping by an annual average

of 126,901 gpd or 133.72 percent of the projected offset of 94,900 gpd.

ACTION-TO-DATE: On-time


H583

FARMS - 4-Star Tomato, Inc - Long Creek Farm



Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe project as proposed by 4 Star Tomato is to reduce Upper Floridan aquifer withdrawals and improve natural system

conditions in the UMRW. This will be accomplished through retention of irrigation and stormwater runoff as well as a

seepage interception system along the farm boundary adjacent to Long Creek. FARMS components include culverts

with risers to retain water in a series of six stair-stepped storage areas; approximately 5,700 feet of drainpipe, an

automatically operated pump station, and approximately 5,500 of pressure pipe to convey seepage water to an

up-gradient storage area. In addition, a network of data loggers will record water levels both inside the farm and

outside the seepage interception system to document the efficacy of the project. Long Creek Farm, is a 1,240-acre

farm located adjacent to Long Creek, which drains into the Myakka River north of State Road 70 in eastern Manatee

County. The Water Use Permit (WUP) authorizes an annual average groundwater withdrawal of 920,800 gallons per

day (gpd) to irrigate 651 acres of potatoes and tomatoes. Since September 2006, an average of 90 percent of the

permitted quantities have been used for crop irrigation. The proposed project involves water quantity and natural

systems improvement in the UMRW BMPs which qualifies for a 75 percent cost-share reimbursement rate under the

FARMS Program Rule.


compare it to model farms listed in the Regional Water Supply plan. This project is expected to offset approximately

100,000 gpd in Upper Floridan aquifer quantities which yields a daily cost of $1.57 per thousand gallons of

groundwater reduced over the proposed five-year contract term, and $0.47 per thousand gallons of groundwater

reduced over a thirty-year term. Both values are within the guidelines for the generally accepted average cost savings

per thousand gallons for the implementation of alternative supplies and improved water control for vegetable and row

crop operations.

Costs

Total project costs are estimated at $157,900, with FARMS eligible costs up to a not-to-exceed limit of $102,000. Of

this amount, $10,764 will be from Fund 010 General Fund; $10,765 will be from Fund 021 Manasota Basin Board; and

$80,471 will be from the Ecosystem Trust Fund appropriations to FARMS.


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 10,764 0 10,764 0 0 0



$102,000 Total:

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Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Construction is in progress. ACTION-TO-DATE: On-Time


H597

FARMS - Sun-Fire Nurseries, LLC



Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe primary goal of the project is to reduce the withdrawal of mineralized groundwater by at least 80 percent of current

usage through the construction and operation of a +-2-acre storm water and surface water irrigation reservoir. FARMS

project components consist of two surface water irrigation pump stations, filtration, disinfection, and the piping

necessary to connect the surface water reservoir to the existing greenhouse irrigation system.

FARMS program staff received a project proposal from Sun-Fire Nurseries, LLC, for their 24-acre containerized

nursery located along the western boundary of the Myakka River State Park and a mile north of State Road 72, in

Sarasota County. The nursery grows small landscape vegetation cuttings, known as liners, and irrigates them with

mineralized groundwater that is detrimental to the young potted plants. The facility does not have a Water Use Permit

but the current annual average pumpage is estimated to be about 30,000 gallons per day from a single 4-inch

diameter well open into the Intermediate Aquifer.

BenefitsThe proposed project involves water quantity BMPs which qualifies for a 50 percent cost-share reimbursement rate

under the FARMS Program. Using an estimated 80 percent savings of current groundwater quantities, or

approximately 24,000 gpd yields a daily cost of $4.62 per thousand gallons of groundwater reduced over the proposed

five-year contract term, and $1.39 per thousand gallons of groundwater reduced over a thirty-year term. Both values

are within the guidelines for the generally accepted average cost savings per thousand gallons for the implementation

of alternative supplies and improved irrigation techniques for containerized nursery operations.

Costs

Total project costs are estimated at $176,000. Fiscal year 2005 State Appropriations will be used for one-half of the

reimbursement, with the remainder divided evenly between the Manasota Basin Board and the Governing Board.


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 6,500 0 6,500 0 0 0



$26,000 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Contract has been finalized and Notice-to-Proceed has been sent to Sun-Fire Nurseries.ACTION-TO-DATE: On time


H599

FARMS - C&D Fruit & Vegetable



Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe project as proposed by C & D Fruit and Vegetabe Company, Inc. (C&D) is to reduce the withdrawal of

groundwater through the construction and operation of a 1.87-acre surface water irrigation reservoir that will collect

and reuse water from the property and surrounding watershed. The system will also include two smaller sumps to

direct additional runoff from the site drainage ditch system to the primary surface water reservoir. The reduction in

groundwater use will benefit the Upper Floridan aquifer system by replacing Upper Floridan withdrawals with recovered

tailwater and surface water. FARMS project components consist of two surface water sump pumps, one surface water

irrigation pump station(s), filtration, and the piping necessary to connect the sumps to the surface water reservoir, and

the surface water irrigation reservoir to the existing irrigation system. C&D will be leasing approximately 1,000 acres of

the 3,945-acre property to grow tomatoes or strawberries. The leased property is located two miles south of the Little

Manatee River, in northern Manatee County within the SWUCA. The property drains into the Little Manatee River. The

Water Use Permit authorizes an annual average groundwater withdrawal of 3,048,000 gallons per day (gpd) for the

entire property. This project is designed to supply irrigation for 120 acres of fruit or vegetables requiring approximately

263,000 gpd. Since October 2008, an average of 70 percent of the irrigation quantities was used to irrigate

strawberries and other vegetables on the subject portion of the property. The proposed project involves water quantity

BMPs which qualifies for a 50 percent cost-share reimbursement rate under the FARMS Program.


compare it to model farms listed in the Regional Water Supply plan. Using an estimated 30 percent savings of

permitted quantities, or approximately 82,000 gpd yields a daily cost of $2.60 per thousand gallons of groundwater

reduced over the proposed seven-year contract term, and $1.27 per thousand gallons of groundwater reduced over a

thirty-year term. Both values are within the guidelines for the generally accepted average cost savings per thousand

gallons for the implementation of alternative supplies and improved irrigation techniques for vegetable and row crop

operations.

Costs

Total project costs are estimated at $450,000 with FARMS eligible costs up to a not-to-exceed limit of $ 225,000 (50

percent of total project costs). Of this amount, $56,250 will be funded from Fund 010 General Fund; $56,250 will be

funded from Fund 020 Peace River Basin Board; and $112,500 will be funded through the Ecosystems Trust Fund

appropriations to FARMS.


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 56,250 0 56,250 0 0 0



$225,000 Total:

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Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


H599

FARMS - C&D Fruit & Vegetable


Project ConstructionContract Execution 4/19/10


Project ContractContract Completion 7/31/15


C&D Fruit & Vegetable FARMS project is operational and the actual offset is averaging 783,824 gpd, which is 955.88

percent of the projected offset of 82,000 gpdACTION-TO-DATE: On time


H605

FARMS - WFA Land Company, Reservoir Project



Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe project as proposed by WFA Land Company, Inc. is to reduce the withdrawal of groundwater through the

construction of a surface water pump station to utilize surface water in an existing 13.5-acre tailwater reservoir. The

reduction in groundwater use will benefit Upper Floridan aquifer system by replacing groundwater withdrawals with

recovered tailwater and surface water. FARMS project components consist of a surface water irrigation pump station,

filtration, and the piping necessary to connect the surface water reservoir to the existing irrigation system. WFA Land

Company, Inc., Grove 64 is a 2,140-acre citrus and row crop farm located on the north fork of the Manatee River, in

eastern Manatee County. The property is within the SWUCA and lies along the eastern boundary of the Most Impacted

Area (MIA). This project will collect and reuse water from the property and surrounding watershed. The Water Use

Permit authorizes an annual average groundwater withdrawal of 2,271,000 gallons per day (gpd) to irrigate 2,140

acres of the citrus with under tree spray and tomatoes with drip irrigation. Since May 1992, groundwater use has

averaged 2,352,759 gpd, and while this is more than annual average permitted quantities, it is less than permitted

drought quantities. The proposed project involves water quantity BMPs which qualifies for a 50 percent cost-share

reimbursement rate under the FARMS Program.


compare it to model farms listed in the Regional Water Supply plan. Using an estimated five percent savings of

permitted quantities that are not already being offset with previous phases of work at the WFA Land Company site, or

approximately 105,000 gpd yields a daily cost of $ 0.45 per thousand gallons of groundwater reduced over the

proposed five-year contract term, and $0.14 per thousand gallons of groundwater reduced over a thirty-year term. Both

values are within the guidelines for the generally accepted average cost savings per thousand gallons for the

implementation of alternative supplies and improved irrigation techniques for flatwood citrus or row crop operations.

Costs

Total project costs are estimated at $75,000, with FARMS eligible costs up to a not-to-exceed limit of $37,500 ( 50

percent of total project costs). Of this amount, $9,375 will be funded through Fund 010 General Fund; $9,375 will be

funded through Fund 021 Manasota Basin Board; and $18,750 will be funded through the Ecosystem Trust Fund

appropriations to FARMS.


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 9,375 0 9,375 0 0 0



$37,500 Total:

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Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


H605

FARMS - WFA Land Company, Reservoir Project


The contract with WFA Grove 64 Reservoir has been finalized and a Notice-to-Proceed Letter has been sent to the

grower.

ACTION-TO-DATE: On-time


H615

FARMS - FLM, Inc. - Blossom Grove



Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


ESTES, CAROLETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe project as proposed by FLM, Inc. is to reduce the withdrawal of groundwater in the southern half of the grove

through the construction and operation of two 1.5 acre surface water irrigation reservoirs. The reduction in

groundwater use will benefit the Upper Floridan aquifer system by replacing Upper Floridan aquifer withdrawals with

recovered tailwater, surface water, and reclaimed water. The FARMS project will serve approximately 320-acres and is

projected to offset more than 50 percent of the 208,000 gpd permitted for that portion of the grove. The projected

offset is based solely on reduced groundwater pumping and includes none of the reclaimed water, as it is available

only intermittently and is metered separately. FARMS project components consist of two surface water irrigation pump

stations, filtration, chlorination equipment, and the piping necessary to connect the surface water reservoir to the

existing irrigation system. The project will also include pipeline necessary to direct reclaimed water received from the

neighboring Manatee County Utilities water treatment plant into the western reservoir. This will allow more efficient

utilization of the reclaimed water and allow the reservoir filtration equipment to operate more effectively. FLM's

Blossom Grove is a 1,212¿acre citrus grove located two miles west of Parrish, in Manatee County. The property is

bisected by, and drains into, Buffalo Creek, which flows into Terra Ceia Bay. The Water Use Permit authorizes an

annual average groundwater withdrawal of 835,000 gallons per day (gpd) to irrigate 1,212 acres of citrus with microjet

irrigation. Since May 1991, an average 48 percent of the permitted quantities, or 403,454 gpd, were used to irrigate the

grove. The proposed project involves water quantity BMPs, but qualifies for a 75 percent cost-share reimbursement

rate under the FARMS Program because Upper Floridan aquifer withdrawals will be reduced by more than 50 percent

over the project area.


compare it to model farms listed in the Regional Water Supply plan. Using an estimated 60 percent savings of

permitted groundwater quantities, or approximately 125,000 gpd yields a daily cost of $1.51 per thousand gallons of

groundwater reduced over the proposed 5-year contract term, and $0.45 per thousand gallons of groundwater reduced

over a 30-year term. Both values are within the guidelines for the generally accepted average cost savings per

thousand gallons for the implementation of alternative supplies and improved irrigation techniques for citrus

operations.

Costs

Total project costs are estimated at $300,000, with FARMS eligible costs up to a not-to-exceed limit of $225,000 (75

percent of total project costs). Of this amount, the Manasota Basin is requested to fund $112,500 and the Governing

Board is requested to fund $112,500.


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 90,750 0 90,750 0 0 0

$181,500 Total:

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Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


H615

FARMS - FLM, Inc. - Blossom Grove


A contract is being developed for this project at this time.


K114

Construction - Bradenton ASR System Including Oxygen Removal

StudyProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota


Project Manager ELLISON, DON

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is a continuation of a completed contract that designed, permitted, constructed, and tested a single ASR

well and one storage zone monitoring well. The initial results from the cycle testing determined that mobilization of

arsenic was occurring above the DWS for arsenic. At the time this was discovered the city negotiated with FDEP the

installation of up to three additional monitoring wells to determine if arsenic mobilization was occurring beyond the

property boundary before they could perform two additional cycle tests at the City of Bradenton's Downtown aquifer

storage and recovery (ASR) site under the Target Storage Volume strategy to control arsenic mobilization. In the

process of evaluating all options available to manage the arsenic mobilization it was determined that the TSV concept

wouldn't satisfy FDEP's requirements that a facility couldn't mobilize arsenic at any time or any where during a cycle

test and a different approach was taken. The new approach was to remove dissolved oxygen from the water prior to

injection to eliminate the arsenic mobilization process. At this time it was agreed that if the pretreatment process

solved the problem there would be no need fro additional monitoring well at the site. As a result the installation of the

monitoring well has been on hold pending the outcome of the pretreatment pilot test. The current contract for K114

had funding to perform various system upgrades and maintenance and funds to continue cycle testing. The

pretreatment system that removed dissolved oxygen was constructed under H046. Cycle testing with degassed water

is scheduled to be completed by February 2011. If additional monitoring wells will be required to address FDEP

monitoring requirements; these wells will be approximately 550 feet deep and completed into the aquifer storage zone,

and will be located at various distances. Funding for this project will also be used to update the required well

inventory, and for the performance the remaining cycle tests.

BenefitsThis project is expected to provide 1.5 mgd potable supply during a typical 100 day dry season which is needed to help

the city provide a more reliable source of water during periods of low flow in Braden River. The information from this

project will also support the Districts efforts to find methods to minimize arsenic mobilization in the aquifer during ASR

activities.

Costs

The total cost for all prior and ongoing project work is $2,454,643 ($1,227,321 each) and is contained in two separate

contracts. The first contract was completed in October 2005 and covered the construction and testing of an ASR well

and monitoring well for a total contract amount of $1,625,000 ($812,500 each). There was $136,779.99 left at the end

of the contract. The second contract was initiated in FY 2007 and covers the construction of up to three new

monitoring wells and continuation of cycle testing through FY2010 for a total amount of $1,059,250 ($529,625 each).

With the allocation of $101,650 from the Water Protection Sustainability Trust Fund Program, the City's and District's

equal shares of the second contract have been reduced to $478,800 each.


The scope of work for the first contract to construct and test an ASR well at the Downtown Booster Station site has

been completed and all submittals have been received. Arsenic concentrations exceeding the drinking water standard

(DWS) were observed in the monitoring well 200 feet away at the end of the cycle test 6. This new data indicates that

the arsenic standard would be exceeded at the property line 75 feet away. In response to the arsenic mobilization

issue at this site the City, FDEP, and District have been developing strategies to address the issue. Part of the

strategy developed was to install additional monitoring wells and to continue cycle testing to demonstrate that the

arsenic issue is limited in extent and not posing a threat to the aquifer. The strategy was, at the time consistent with

guidance received from the FDEP indicating that as long as the arsenic concentrations were below the DWS at the

property boundary, the site would be eligible for an operational permit. The City submitted a request for FY2007

funding through the District's Cooperative Funding Program to proceed with this additional work. Because of the

urgent need to address the arsenic mobilization issue, the City made a request to the Manasota Basin Board at it's

April 2006 meeting to transfer $550,000 in FY2006 funds from the City's ASR project at the Evers Reservoir (L513) for

use in this project. The request was approved by the Basin Board at it's April meeting and the City has thus withdrawn

their FY2007 cooperative funding application. The District and City have executed the contract for this additional


K114


Studytesting. Since that time the FDEP has changed their position on permitting ASR facilities with the arsenic issue and is

now indicating that any site with arsenic anywhere that exceeds the DWS would not be permitted for operational use.

The only option at this time is to explore pre-treatment of the injection water to produce compatible water qualities

between the injectant and the native water in the aquifer. Recognizing this requirement, the District approached the

City with a request to participate in a pre-treatment study to remove dissolved oxygen and other oxidants from the

injection water which are suspected of being the primary causes of the arsenic mobilization. The property line

monitoring well(s) will still be necessary, but it is contingent on the implementation of the pre-treatment option. The

scope of work for the pre-treatment option has been developed by the City and bids have been awarded for

construction under a separate contract. The city received their UIC permit renewal and consent order in October 2008.

Installation of the degasification system was completed in September 2008 and the performance test of the degas

system was completed in September and October. The degas system performed as designed and passed the final

inspection. In October the city continued recovery of water from the ASR well to remove any remaining arsenic

mobilized by earlier cycle tests. This over recovery effort was successful at returning arsenic concentrations to less

than 5.0 ug/l; this is approximately the natural background concentration for arsenic in the aquifer. Injection of the first

de-oxygenated water into the aquifer began on December 2, 2008 at approximately 1.0 mgd. The system had to be

shut down after two weeks of operation due to a ruptured degasification chamber which has since been replaced. The

dry conditions have left the city with very little extra water for cycle testing at this time and cycle testing is being

postponed until the wet season begins in June 2009. Recovery of the 6 million gallons of degassed water stored in

December 2008 was completed in May 2009. The full scale cycle test (140 mg cycle test) began in August 2009. As a

result preliminary results obtained from water quality sampling during the recharge portion of the test won't be

available until the end of January 2011. The storage portion of the cycle testwill last until September 2010, and the

recovery portion of the test will start in September 2010 and continue through January 2011. We should know by the

end of February 2011 whether degasification is effective at controlling arsenic mobilization.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,147,648 0 448,350 673,920 6,430 18,948



(Alternative Wtr)

101,650 0 101,650 0 0 0


District

City of Bradenton 1,205,345 0 0 1,205,345 0 0

$2,454,643 Total:

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Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesDistrict Recognition/Signage: YES 10/1/00 10/1/00

2. First Contract for ASR well Construction and Cycles 1-6Preparation of Plans and Specs 10/1/00 10/30/02 10/30/02

Permitting 9/1/01 9/30/02 9/30/02

Well Construction 1/1/02 11/20/03 11/20/03

ASR Cycle Testing Through Cycle 6 2/1/02 12/20/04 10/1/05

First Contract Amendment 2/25/02 5/3/02

Final Report 3/28/02 7/20/05 10/1/05

Project Complete 5/27/02 9/20/05 10/1/05

Contract Termination 10/1/02 10/1/05 10/1/05

3. Second Contract (Pending) for Montioring Wells and Additional Cycle Tests


K114


StudyTask 1 Cycle 6a Recovery and Design Equipment Upgrades 6/30/06 6/30/06

Task 2 SZMW-3 Design, Permitting 10/30/06 12/30/09

Request Basin Board Transfer of Funds 12/30/06 12/30/06

Contract Execution 1/30/07 1/24/07

Task 3 SZMW-3 Construction 10/30/07 12/30/09

Task 4 Cycle Test 7 10/30/08 12/20/07

Task 5 Feasibility Study Update 10/30/08

Task 6 SZMW-4 & SZMW-5 Design, Permitting, Construction 5/30/09

Task 7 SZMW-4 and SZMW-5 Construction 10/30/09

Task 8 Cycle Tests 8 and 9 10/30/10

Task 9 Final Report, Application for Operations Permit 10/30/11

Second ContractContract Completion Date 12/30/11


The city is in the final weeks of recovery phase of the cycle test 8. This test pretreated 160mg of injection water prior to

storage by removing dissolved oxygen and chlorine. In December 2010 the city was granted approval to use the

recovered water in the public supply system and the city was successful at adding a disinfection process and meeting the

DWS for use. Arsenic concentrations in the water recovered from cycle test 8 have been consistently below the drinking

water standard and much lower than previous cycle tests with water containing dissolved oxygen. At the time of this

status report the city had recovered approximately 135 mg of water. The test should be complete in February 2011. The

city is preparing an FDEP permit application requesting an operational status and removal of the consent order issued to

them. The city has also been exploring methods to clean the degasification system and is reporting some success at

restoring the majority of the degas system efficiency. Methods to control fouling of the degasification system for future

tests are also being investigated.


K269

Construction - Sarasota County's 1.2 MGD Reclaimed Water ASR

System in North County AreaProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project will design, permit, and construct three 1.2 mgd reclaimed water (RW) aquifer storage and recovery (ASR)

wells with ultra-violet (UV) disinfection. These ASRs will be constructed at the County's Central County Wastewater

Treatment Facility (WWTF). The ASRs will provide wet weather storage for the County's Northern Regional Reuse

System, consisting of four interconnected county WWTF's and a interconnection with the City of Sarasota's Reuse

System.

BenefitsThe project will provide storage of approximately 1,200,000 gpd for 120 days or 144 million gallons per year for each of

three proposed ASR wells for a total of 432 million gallons per year stored. This will yield a flow of approximately

888,000 gpd of reclaimed water to offset existing ground-water withdrawals and potable service and better serve

existing RW users such as Palmer Ranch, Manor Care of Boynton Beach, Plaza Oaks, Silver Oak, and the Hamptons

Development.

Costs

The total project cost is estimated to be $6,443,546, and the District's share is requested to be 50 percent, or

$3,221,773. The Manasota Basin has funded $2,011,743 so far, between FY2000 and FY2007, and the WPSTF

provided $164,864 in FY2006/7, for a total of $2,176,607 already budgeted for the project. The Manasota Basin will

fund $1,127,598 in future years. The cost, amortized at 8 percent over 30 years, is $1.75 per thousand gallons of

traditional water offset. Any additional funds are for staff time. The future funds identified for the project are contingent

upon approval of such amounts by the District Governing and Basin Boards in the annual budget(s).


This is a multi-year project that will expand Sarasota County's RW system by providing wet weather storage for the

interconnected RW systems of the Sarasota County and City of Sarasota. This regional system has five wastewater

treatment plants with a permitted capacity of 18.5 mgd and a reuse flow of 5.4 mgd that are now interconnected. This

wet weather storage will increase the system's efficiency. Cost history: The original project was submitted to the

SWFWMD in 1998 and was approved for multi-year funding beginning in FY2000 and ending in FY2005 with a total

cost of $3,030,000. Following a lengthy hearing resulting in DEP issuing a permit to proceed with construction of the

first of three ASR wells, a first amendment was approved in 2006, which increased the total cost and apportioned the

District's share as follows: Cost Breakout: FY2000 = $100,000 FY2001 = $550,000 FY2002 = $390,000 FY2003 =

$405,000 FY2006 = $311,607 ($286,743 ad valorem $24,864 WPSTF) FY2007 = $420,000 ($280,000 ad valorem

$140,000 WPSTF) FY2010 = $350,000. The County has updated the costs, revised the timeline and also determined

that split flow UV disinfection is needed for this project to ensure that water quality can consistently meet drinking

water standards prior to injection into the aquifer. An added benefit of installing UV disinfection is documented

effectiveness in treating water borne pathogens that are not amenable to chlorine disinfection. The cost of the UV

disinfection system for each well is estimated at $580,000. Of the total project cost of $6,443,546, approximately 83

percent ($5,320,247) is expected to be needed for construction, and the remainder ($1,123,299) for design and

administration.


K269

Construction - Sarasota County's 1.2 MGD Reclaimed Water ASR

System in North County Area


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 3,487,721 1,414,341 286,743 1,782,437 2,589 1,611



(Alternative Wtr)

164,864 0 24,864 140,000 0 0


District

Sarasota County 3,139,341 1,414,341 0 1,725,000 0 0

$6,791,926 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Agreement Executed: 5/10/00 5/10/00

Start Permitting and Design: 5/10/00 5/10/00

Complete Permitting and Design Well #1: 8/1/01 9/17/04

District Recognition/Signage: YES 5/1/02 5/1/02

Start Well # 1 Construction: 5/1/02 9/6/05

Complete Construction Well #1: 12/30/02 4/30/06 4/30/06

Engineering Report Well #1: 7/31/03 7/31/06 7/31/06

Start wellhead & UV construction: 9/30/03 1/31/10

Complete wellhead & UV construction: 12/16/03 9/30/10

Begin Cycle tesing Well # 1: 6/30/04 11/30/10

Start Well # 2 & # 3 Construction: 6/30/04 1/31/11

Complete Construction Well #2 & #3: 12/31/04 6/30/11

Final Invoice: 6/30/05 9/30/12

Project Completion/Termination: 12/31/05 12/31/12


The first RW ASR well system has been designed, permitted, and is under construction. The consultant, PBS&J, is

overseeing the construction. Diversified Well Drilling started on the Storage Zone Monitor Well (SZMW) on September 6,

2005. The SZMW was completed February 28, 2006. The driller has completed the Lower Zone Monitor Well (LZMW)

and the Upper Zone Monitor Well (UZMW). A larger drill rig was mobilized and drilled the ASR test well in February 2006.

Construction of the ASR test was substantially complete by May 31, 2006. PBS&J prepared a final engineering report for

construction and construction testing of the ASR. Design of the Central County Wastewater Treatment Facility

expansion, and the pumps, piping and UV treatment system for the ASR, is complete. The County requested to add UV

disinfection equipment and additional funding for this project in a FY2006 cooperative funding initiative proposal. These

changes were approved by the Basin Board and an amendment was executed on October 9, 2006 to include the

changes in scope and funding. The County and the District have agreed to put this project on hold pending a resolution

to the arsenic issue. The District is involved in studies to look for ways to meet the EPA and DEP water quality

requirements for arsenic. Results from these studies are now scheduled to be available in Spring 2011. Since preliminary

results fom the study were very positive and other aceptable methods are now available, the County has requested to

resume work on the project as of February 16, 2011. The consultant is modifying the FDEP permit and the design. An

Administrative Order will be issued by FDEP with the permit modification. The County will request an amendment to

extend the termination date and adjust the project milestones. To date, the Manasota Basin Board has encumbered

$100,000 in FY2000, $550,000 in FY2001, $390,000 in FY2002, $405,000 in FY2003, $286,743 in FY2006 and $280,000

in FY2007. Water Protection and Sustainability Trust Fund (WPSTF) provided $164,864 for this project in FY2006/7. The

remaining $1,127,598 will be requested in future fiscal years. The County has spent $972,900 in design and construction

costs for this project. To date, the District has reimbursed the County $449,135 from the Manasota Basin and $74,631

from WPSTF funds.


K883

WMP - City of North Port - Big Slough Watershed

Project Type Cooperative Funding



City of North PortCooperator(s)

Project Manager ARNOLD, DAVE

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis is a multi-year funded project to perform the Watershed Evaluation and Watershed Management Plan elements

of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the Big Slough Watershed within the City of North Port.

The project includes detailed study of 60 square miles within the City, and approximate study of the 135 square mile

remainder of the Big Slough watershed to obtain its influence on conveyance of runoff through the City. A Watershed

Management Plan provides a method to evaluate the capacity of a watershed to protect, enhance, and restore water

quality and natural systems, while achieving flood protection. The Watershed Evaluation tasks include the collection of

existing data, development of the geodatabase, Geographical Information System (GIS) processing, field

reconnaissance, and development of preliminary model features. The information is organized as a geodatabase in

the GIS. The Watershed Evaluation establishes the complexity of the watershed and provides a geodatabase that

defines the watershed's natural conveyance and storage features, and stormwater infrastructure. The Watershed

Management Plan tasks include watershed model parameterization, computer modeling, floodplain analysis, peer

review of floodplain results, public notification, public meeting, Governing Board approval of floodplain results, surface

water resource assessment (water quality analysis), establishment of level of service (LOS), and Best Management

Practices (BMP) alternative analysis. FY2003-2006 funding is budgeted to complete the project.

BenefitsThe Watershed Evaluation element is the collection and organization of detailed information such as land elevation,

ditches, culverts and other stormwater management features that affect how water moves within a watershed. The

Watershed Evaluation is the foundation for the Watershed Management Plan, the next element in the Watershed

Management Program. The information developed provides the science for the District's resource management and

Environmental Resource Permitting (ERP) responsibilities. It assists local governments with their land management

responsibilities by identifying the floodplain, establishing a level of service, evaluating BMPs to address level of service

deficiencies, and providing a geodatabase and projected results from watershed model simulations for floodplain

management, and water quality management.

Costs

The total budgeted amount for this project is $1,280,000; the District's share is $640,000 provided by the Manasota

Basin. The City is contributing $640,000. Multi-year funding over FY2003-2006 is budgeted to complete the project.

When each element is completed, the project cost and scope may require refinement based on the information

gathered and unforeseen circumstances. The District funding amount shown in the table includes staff salaries.




and Models. In accordance with Board approval, a cooperative funding revenue agreement with the City of North Port

was developed as a multi-year funded project contingent on the approval of future funding to complete WMP elements

through the WMPlan. This required cooperative funding requests each year in FY2003-2006 to accumulate the

project budget. The District is managing the project and entering into purchase orders and agreements to accomplish

project tasks. Future cooperative funding requests and agreements will be required for Implementation of BMPs, and

the Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models. The District is cooperating with FEMA to modernize the flood

insurance rate maps (FIRMs) in Sarasota County. Information developed with this project will be used to update the

FIRMs representing this watershed.


K883

WMP - City of North Port - Big Slough Watershed


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 682,083 0 0 678,487 1,252 2,344


North Port - Watershed Mgmt Program

(K883)

640,000 0 0 640,000 0 0

$1,322,083 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesDraft Agreement to Management Services 12/15/02 1/16/03




Cooperator Contract Executed 4/15/03 4/29/03

Consultant Contract Executed 10/1/03 7/29/03

Notice to Proceed to Consultant 10/1/03 8/27/03 8/27/03

Watershed Evaluation Commence 10/1/03 8/27/03 8/27/03

Watershed Evaluation Completion 1/1/05 4/1/05 4/19/05

Watershed Plan Commence 1/1/05 4/1/05 4/20/05

Watershed Plan Completion (project complete) 6/1/06 12/31/10

Project Close-out 6/1/07 3/31/11


Status History: The cooperative funding agreement was approved by the Basin and Governing Boards in February 2003,

and executed in April 2003. Since then the agreement has been reviewed and executed by the City and the District.

District staff negotiated a contract with Ardaman and Associates, one of the consultants pre-qualified for performing

watershed plans, for services to be completed with the FY2003-2004 funding. Notice-to-proceed was issued, effective

the date of the project kick-off meeting (08/27/2003). Ardaman and Associates submitted the first set of deliverables,

consisting of annotated base maps, GIS coverages, and summary letter of data collection results in December 2003.

Since then Ardaman and Associates has: (1) completed the watershed field reconnaissance; (2) is continuing to develop

the GIS database and hydrologic and hydraulic inventories; (3) completed the field survey; (3) completed watershed

parameterization and model development. The late delivery of the Sarasota County 2007 LiDAR topographic mapping

caused delays in this project, but Ardaman now has the mapping and is proceeding without delay. Current Status: The

project is complete through the Floodplain Analysis deliverables. Via model maintenance project L315 Ardaman is

working to update the watershed based on topography and land use changes that occurred between the 2004 and 2007

Sarasota County LiDAR mapping dates. This includes the process for QA/QC review, peer review, public

review/comments, and Governing Board approval. After the Governing Board approves the submittal of floodplain results

to FEMA for updating the Sarasota County FIS, Ardaman will make any needed revisions to the Level of Service and

preliminary BMP Analysis deliverables, and proceed with the BMP analysis task. Currently, no-cost time extension

amendments to the cooperative funding and consulting service agreements are being circulated for signature.


L007

WMP - Manatee - Buffalo Canal/Frog Creek Watershed



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Completed


Watershed Management Plan elements of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the BUFFALO

CANAL/FROG CREEK Watershed. The watershed occupies approximately 18.8 square miles in northwestern

Manatee County and discharges into Terra Ceia Bay, an Outstanding Florida Water. The watershed is experiencing

rapid development without the benefits of a detailed Watershed Management Plan.






simulations for floodplain management and water quality management.

Costs

The current budget amount for this project is $400,000, of which the District's share is $200,000 funded by the

Manasota Basin. The County is contributing $200,000. In FY2004, each party funded $50,000 for the project. The

remaining funds were funded in FY2005. When each element is completed the project budget and scope may require

refinement based on the information gathered. The District funding amounts shown in the table include staff salaries.






agreement with Manatee County was developed as a multi-year funded project to complete the WMP elements

through the Watershed Management Plan. The District is managing the project and will enter into purchase orders

and agreements to accomplish project tasks. Future cooperative funding requests and agreements will be required for

a BMP alternative analysis, the Implementation of BMPs, and Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models.

With prior year funding the Topographic Information and Watershed Evaluation should be completed. With FY2005

funding the work on the Watershed Management Plan element began and should be completed. Work on Watershed

Management Plan element includes the following tasks: survey, data management and development of watershed

parameters, GIS processing, computer modeling, floodplain analysis, and establishment of LOS.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 250,733 0 0 242,010 0 8,723


Manatee - Buffalo Canal/Frog Ck W/S

Stdy (L007)

200,000 0 0 200,000 0 0

$450,733 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


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1. Critical Project MilestonesRecognition of District, Basin Board, County on reports 6/4/03

Select Consultant 6/4/03 6/4/03

Draft Coop Agreement to Management Services 7/15/03 7/15/03


Approval of Cooperative Agreement by Manasota Basin Board 8/12/03 8/12/03

Approval of Cooperative Agreement by Governing Board 8/26/03 8/26/03

Begin Negotiations with Consultant (K&S) 8/26/03 8/26/03

Execution of Cooperative Agreement by Manatee County 10/21/03 10/21/03

Execution of Cooperative Agreement by SWFWMD 11/7/03 11/23/03

Consultant Agreement to Management Services 11/26/03 11/26/03

Execution of Agreement by Consultant 1/9/04 1/20/04

Execution of Agreement by SWFWMD 1/30/04 1/30/04

Issue Notice to Proceed to Consultant/ Work Order #1 2/9/04 2/13/04

Terminate Consultant Agreement (K&S) 7/15/05 7/15/05

Execute New Consultant Agreement (JEA) 9/30/05 11/6/06 9/21/05

Issue Notice to Proceed to JEA for Work Order #1 10/31/05 10/28/05

Issue Notice to Proceed to JEA for Work Order #2 11/30/06 12/8/06

Termination of Consultant Agreement 10/31/10 10/31/10

Termination of Cooperative Agreement 12/31/10 12/31/10

1. Critical Project MilestonesExecute Expired Consultant Agreement w/JEA (05CON000119-A) 11/6/06 11/6/06

Execute Expired Cooperative Agreement (04REV0011-A) 1/25/07 1/25/07

Execute First Amendment to Expired Consultant Agreement w/JEA

(05CON000119-A)

1/14/08 1/14/08

Execute First Amendment to Expired Cooperative Agreement (04REV0011-A) 3/20/08 3/20/08

Execute First Amend. to Consultant Agrmt. (05CON000119-B) 10/1/09 9/17/09

Execute New Coop. Agrmt. (04REV0011-C) 2/26/10 6/22/10

2. Watershed Management Program ElementsCommence Element 1, Digital Topographic Information 2/13/04 10/28/05 2/13/04

Commence Element 2, Watershed Evaluation 2/13/04 10/31/05 10/28/05

Complete Element 1, Digital Topographic Information 11/30/05 12/31/06 10/3/06

Commence Element 3, Watershed Management Plan 3/1/06 11/1/07 11/1/07

Complete Element 2, Watershed Evaluation 4/1/06 11/1/07 11/1/07

Complete Element 3, Watershed Management Plan 12/31/10 12/31/10


At their August 2003 meetings, both the Manasota Basin Board and the Governing Board approved the FY2004 budget

for the project, approved the cooperative agreement with Manatee County for $400,000, authorized staff to assign a

consultant and enter into contract negotiations, and authorized the Executive Director to execute the consultant contract

up to the FY2004 budgeted amount ($100,000). The Cooperative Funding Agreement was approved by the BCC on

October 21, 2003, and was executed on November 23, 2003. Keith & Schnars was selected to perform the consultant

services associated with the Buffalo Canal/Frog Creek Watershed Management Program. The agreement and Work

Order #1 with Keith & Schnars were executed on January 30, 2004, and February 11, 2004, respectively. Under the first

work order, Keith and Schnars performed a basic Watershed Evaluation, identified voids in the current topographic

information, and prepared a cost estimate to complete the Topographic Information, Watershed Evaluation, and

Watershed Management Plan elements. Work Order #1 tasks were completed. The consultant services agreement with

Keith & Schnars has been terminated, and staff has negotiated a new agreement with Jones Edmunds & Associates to

complete the project within the original schedule and budget. Agreement with JEA to complete the Watershed Evaluation

and the Watershed Management Plan tasks was executed on September 21, 2005. The first work order with JEA has

been executed to complete the existing watershed feature data evaluation and assembly and 80% of the hydrologic

feature inventory, hydraulic feature inventory, and field reconnaissance. Under this work order JEA will begin tasks that

are not contingent upon the LiDAR deliverables. Additionally, staff executed a work order with one of the District's

approved aerial mapping vendors to develop digital topographic information for the entire watershed using LiDAR. The


L007


watershed was flown in conjunction with the Peace River topographic mapping project (P692). The digital topographic

information has been approved by the District and has been transmitted to JEA to complete this project. Submitted

deliverables for Work Order #1 have been reviewed by staff. An amendment to the JEA agreement has been executed

on November 6, 2006, to revise the project schedule and amend the contract termination date. Additionally, the

cooperative funding agreement has been amended to extend the contract termination date. A second work order with

JEA has been executed to complete the Watershed Evaluation and the Watershed Management Plan. JEA has

submitted the first deliverable, Digital Topographic Information, under Work Order #2 for review. Work Order #2,

Deliverable 1 has been reviewed by District staff. Deliverables 2 & 3, as part of the Watershed Evaluation, are anticipated

to be submitted mid May. Work Order #2, Deliverable 2 has been submitted and is currently under review by District

staff. The remaining tasks under Watershed Evaluation, Work Order #2, Deliverables 3 to 5, were submitted to the

District for review. An update meeting was held with the consultant and Manatee County on November 13, 2007 and

Jones Edmunds showed the project progress thru Watershed Evaluation. Work Order #2, Deliverables 6 and

7-Surveying, has been completed and is currently under review with District staff. The cooperative funding agreement

and the consultant services agreement have been amended to extend the contract termination date from December 31,

2007 to December 31, 2008. District staff has completed the review for Work Order #2, Deliverables 3 thru 7 and

comments have been sent to the consultant to address. Consultant is 90% complete with work pertaining to Work Order

#2, Invoice 8 - Watershed Parameterization. Work Order #2, Invoice 8 - Watershed Parameterization is currently under

review by the District. The District has provided comments to the consultant on Work Order #2, Invoice 8 - Watershed

Parameterization. They are to be addressed in the next submittal. Currently, the consultant is wrapping up the model

development and floodplain delineation tasks. Both tasks are projected to be completed by December 31, 2008. An

extension to the cooperator and consultant agreements is required to complete the Level of Service task, which will

follow the additional tasks of peer review, public notification/meeting, 45-day review and comment period to the project,

as part of a separate agreement. Work Order #2, Invoices 9 & 10 deliverable was submitted on January 10, 2009.

Review comments were discussed with JEA on January 27, 2009. A resubmittal of Work Order #2, Invoices 9 & 10

deliverable was submitted on May 18, 2009. A new cooperator agreement, extending the termination date to December

31, 2009 has been sent to Manatee County for signature. Likewise, a new consultant agreement, extending the

termination date to October 31, 2009 has been sent to JEA and executed on January 29, 2009 by the District. A final

submittal of Work Order #2, Invoice 10 was submitted on August 14, 2009. A discussion of this submittal, along with the

usage of a multi-day storm will be held with the County September 8, 2009. A first amendment to the JEA agreement has

been sent to them for signature, extending the expiration date to October 31, 2010. Likewise, an amendment to the

cooperative agreement will need to be done to extend the expiration date. A purchase order for peer review has been

executed to bring on Engineering & Applied Science, Inc. to conduct peer review of floodplain results. JEA has submitted

WO#6, Invoice #4 deliveralbe on 12/08/09. District staff completed the review and comments were sent back to JEA on

12/21/09. Comments were addressed by JEA on 1/4/10. Peer review presentation to Engineering & Applied Science, Inc.

was completed on 2/11/10. Post-peer review meeting #1 is scheduled for 2/25/10. Peer review comments were given to

JEA and they were addressed on 4/20/2010. An open house to present the preliminary floodplain to the public is planned

for the first week of June 2010. An open house to present the preliminary floodplain to the public was held on 6/15/10.

Comments from the public were sent to JEA to address at the moment. JEA has addressed the public comments.

Revised model & floodplain delineations were submitted 8/12/10. Staff plans to request Governing Board on 9/28/10, as

a consent item, to submit watershed results to FEMA. Current Status: JEA has addressed remaining comments from the

public, peer review consultant and Sarasota Regulation staff. Revised model & floodplain delineations were submitted

10/18/10. Manatee County approved information to develop FIRMs 9/13/10. Governing Board approved authorization to

submit watershed study data to FEMA to develop FIRMs 10/26/10. Level of Service (LOS) report was submitted

10/28/10.


L010

WMP - Manatee - Gamble Creek Watershed



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing


Watershed Management Plan elements of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the GAMBLE

CREEK Watershed. The watershed occupies approximately 56 square miles in northern Manatee County and

discharges into the Manatee River. The watershed is experiencing rapid development without the benefits of a detailed

Watershed Management Plan.






simulations for floodplain management and water quality management.

Costs

The current budget amount for this project is $900,000, of which the District's share is $450,000 funded by the

Manasota Basin. The County is contributing $450,000. Each party funded $125,000, $200,000, and $125,000 for the

project in FY2004, FY2005, and FY2006 respectively. When each element is completed the project budget and scope

of work may be refined based on the information gathered. The District funding amounts shown in the table include

staff salaries.






agreement with Manatee County was developed as a multi-year funded project to complete the WMP elements

through the Watershed Management Plan. The District is managing the project and will enter into purchase orders

and agreements to accomplish project tasks. Future cooperative funding requests and agreements will be required for

a BMP alternative analysis, the Implementation of BMPs, and Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models.

With FY2004 and FY2005 year funding the Topographic Information and Watershed Evaluation should be completed.

With FY2005 funding the work on the Watershed Management Plan element began and should be completed with

FY2006 funds. Work on Watershed Management Plan element will include the following tasks: survey, data

management and development of watershed parameters, GIS processing, computer modeling, floodplain analysis,

and establishment of LOS.


L010



Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 509,191 0 0 495,599 4,869 8,723


Manatee - Gamble Ck W/S Mgmt Plan

(L010)

450,000 0 0 450,000 0 0

$959,191 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesRecognition of District, Basin Board, County on reports 6/4/03 6/4/03



Approval of Cooperative Agreement by Manasota Basin Board 8/12/03 8/12/03

Approval of Cooperative Agreement by Governing Board 8/26/03 8/26/03

Begin Negotiations with Consultant 8/26/03 8/26/03



Consultant Agreement to Management Services 11/26/03 11/26/03

Execution of Agreement by Consultant 2/6/04 2/2/04 2/2/04

Execution of Agreement by SWFWMD 2/13/04 2/18/04

Issue Notice to Proceed to Consultant/ Work Order #1 2/13/04 2/25/04

Requisition to Encumber FY2006 Funds 10/18/05 10/18/05

First Amendment to Consultant Agreement 10/31/05 10/17/05

Execution of Consultant's Work Order #2 by SWFWMD 11/18/05 5/29/07 5/29/07

Execution of Consultant's Work Order #3 by SWFWMD 7/9/07 7/9/07

Execution of Consultant's Work Order #4 by SWFWMD 3/28/08 5/27/08

Termination of Consultant Agreement 5/31/11

Termination of Cooperative Agreement 10/1/11

1. Critical Project MilestonesExecute Expired Consultant Agreement (04CONC00013-A) 3/20/07 3/20/07

Execute Expired Cooperative Agreement (04REV0010-A) 6/14/07 6/14/07

Execute First Amendment to Expired Consultant Agreement (04CONC00013-A) 9/15/08 9/15/08

Execute First Amendment to Expired Cooperative Agreement (04REV0010-A) 12/29/08 12/29/08

Execute Third Amend. to Consultant Agrmt. (04CONC00013-A) 10/1/09 9/17/09

Execute New Coop. Agrmt. (04REV0010-B) 10/1/09 1/14/10

Execute First Amendment to Coop. Agrmt. (04REV0010-B) 11/10/10 11/10/10

2. Watershed Management Program ElementsCommence Element 1, Digital Topographic Information 2/25/04 2/25/04

Commence Element 2, Watershed Evaluation 5/25/04 2/25/04

Complete Element 1, Digital Topographic Information 11/30/05 2/25/06 12/1/07

Complete Element 2, Watershed Evaluation 5/1/06 12/25/06 12/1/07

Commence Element 3, Watershed Management Plan 5/1/06 2/25/07 11/1/07

Complete Element 3, Watershed Management Plan 10/1/11


At their August 2003 meetings, both the Manasota Basin Board and the Governing Board approved the FY2004 budget

for the project, approved the cooperative agreement with Manatee County for $900,000, authorized staff to assign a

consultant and enter into contract negotiations, and authorized the Executive Director to execute the consultant contract

up to the FY2004 budgeted amount ($250,000). The Cooperative Funding Agreement was approved by the BCC on


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October 21, 2003, and was executed on November 23, 2003. PBS&J was selected to perform the consultant services

associated with the Gamble Creek Watershed Management Program. The agreement and Work Order #1 with PBS&J

were executed on February 18, 2004, and February 25, 2004, respectively. Under the first work order, PBS&J performed

a basic Watershed Evaluation, identified voids in the current topographic information, and prepare a cost to complete the

Topographic Information, Watershed Evaluation, and Watershed Management Plan elements. The consultant has

submitted the report on the preliminary evaluation of the watershed and probable costs to complete the first three

elements of the WMP. The First Amendment to the PBS&J's services agreement was executed on October 17, 2005, to

amend the compensation and budget to included approved FY2005 and FY2006 funds. Work Order #2 will complete the

Watershed Evaluation. Work Order #2 was executed on November 18, 2005. Additionally, a work order to develop digital

topographic information for the entire watershed using LiDAR has been executed with 3001, Inc. The watershed was

flown in conjunction with the Peace River topographic mapping project (P692). By doing so, the project realized a

significant cost savings. Aerial mapping deliverables have been approved by Staff. Work Order #3 to collect all remaining

field measurements has been developed, but staff is waiting on supplementary information to be provided by the

consultant. Completion of the Watershed Evaluation and commencement on the Watershed Management Plan have

been delayed due to delays in the digital topographic information development. Both the consultant services agreement

and cooperative agreement are being amended to extend the contract termination date. The agreement with PBS&J has

been extended to October 8, 2008. A project status meeting was held on April 27, 2007 to assess Work Order #2 and set

up Work Order #3. Consultant's field crews have had difficulties gaining access to farm properties to complete field

measurements and therefore delaying the completion of Work Order #2. Work Order #2 will be amended for the work

that could not be done and Work Order #3 will be developed to wrap up the Watershed Evaluation and commence the

Watershed Management Plan. Work Order #3 was executed on 7/9/07. Deliverable 1 of Work Order #3 is anticipated in

September 2007. Work Order #3, Deliverables 1 thru 3, covering the processing of LiDAR data to generate a TIN/DEM,

wrapping up the work for Watershed Evaluation and surveys as part of the Watershed Management Plan has been

delivered to the District for review. District staff is wrapping up the review for Work Order #3, Deliverables 1 thru 3 and

comments will be send to the consultant thereafter. More time was taken for this review is a result of the implemented

increase level of effort to better QA/QC the submittal. The consultant has been instructed to prepare Work Order #4 and

to arrange a project update meeting with Manatee County. A project status meeting with Manatee County was held on

May 14, 2008. Work Order #4 has been signed by the District and a notice to proceed has been given to the consultant,

May 29,2008. Work Order #4, Deliverables 1 thru 3 was delivered to the District on August 22, 2008. A stakeholders

meeting was held on October 8, 2008 at the Manatee County Public Works Department. The 20 largest property owners

and local engineering consultants in the area were invited. The purpose of the meeting was to present our findings from

the work that PBS&J has done thru the Watershed Evaluation element and to get their input based on their knowledge of

the area. Work Order #4, Deliverable 4 was submitted to the District on November 4, 2008. The District's comments for

deliverables 1 thru 4 of Work Order 4 were sent to PBS&J to address. Work Order #4, Deliverable 5 - Calibrated

computer model was submitted to the District on May 1, 2009. The District is currently reviewing the submittal and a

meeting at Manatee County has been set up for May 20, 2009 for the consultant to discuss the model and present the

preliminary floodplain. District & Manatee County comments to Work Order #4, Deliverable 5 were sent to PBS&J on

7/14/09 to address. The District has selected Royal Consulting Services, Inc. to perform the peer review of floodplain

results produced by PBS&J. PBS&J agreement will be modify to reduce by $33,000, to be used for the peer review. A

second amendment to the cooperative agreement is currently being routed for signatures, extending the expiration date

to October 1, 2010. A third amendment to PBS&J agreement is being routed for signatures, reducing the project budget

by $33,000 to be used to hire Royal Consulting Services, Inc. to peer review the floodplain results. District and Manatee

County has provided comments to PBS&J Work Order #4, Deliverable 5. PBS&J is currently addressing those

comments. A new cooperative agreement with Manatee County was executed on 1/14/10, extending the expiration date

to October 1, 2010. A third amendment to PBS&J agreement was executed on 9/17/09. In reviewing PBS&J's WO#4,

Invoice #6 deliverable, District staff has questioned the modeling technique used by PBS&J on certain part of the

watershed. Since then, PBS&J has brought on Streamline Technologies, Inc. to evaluate and give opinion on the

adequacy of the H&H conditions used. A summary report about the findings was completed on January 13, 2010 by

Stremline Technologies, Inc. PBS&J is currently in the process of modifying the data & model to address those

comments. PBS&J is updating the data & model based on comments received from Streamline Technologies, Inc.

PBS&J submitted revised model & floodplain 7/22/10. First amendment to cooperative agreement is currently routed for

execution. Amendment is to extend expiration date to 10/1/11. Current Status: District's Engineering, Sarasota

Regulation and GIS comments for 7/22/10 deliverable were sent to PBSJ on 10/12/10. PBSJ is currently addressing

these comments.


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Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Bradenton - Wares

Creek Bridge ReplacementProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota


Project Manager FRIES, GEORGE

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis is a multi-year funded project to perform the Implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) element of

the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the Wares Creek Watershed. Implementation of BMPs

includes the following tasks: design, development of construction documents, construction permitting, land acquisition,

bidding and contractor selection, construction of the BMPs and construction engineering and inspection. The

watershed is highly urbanized and covers an area of approximately 2.41 square miles (1,546 acres) and is located in

the City of Bradenton and Manatee County. The City of Bradenton is proposing to replace 4 bridges over Wares

Creek. They are the 9th Ave. West, 12th Ave. West, 14th Ave. West, and 17th Ave. West bridges. In addition,

improvements to existing stormwater facilities that discharge into Wares Creek at the 20th Street West Stormwater

Management System will be constructed as part of this project. These BMPs were evaluated as part the City of

Bradenton Comprehensive Stormwater Management Study funded by the City, and selected for implementation in the

BMP alternative analysis. The proposed improvements are also included in the City's Five-Year Capital Improvement

Plan. Prior years funding was provided for topographic surveying, geotechnical investigation, hydraulic and hydrologic

modeling, design of the 4 bridges, construction of the 9th Avenue Bridge, construction of the 12th Avenue Bridge,

design of the 20th Street West Stormwater Management System and to begin construction of the 14th Avenue Bridge.

For FY2011 funding was requested to complete construction of the 14th Avenue Bridge and to begin construction of

the 20th Street West Stormwater Management System.

BenefitsThese BMPs are in conjunction with the $46,000,000 United States Army Corps of Engineer's (USACE) Cedar

Hammock (Wares Creek) Flood Control Channel improvements project, in which the USACE will dredge and widen

the creek to provide an increased level of flood protection. The District is co-funding the Wares Creek project with

Manatee County (K253) to provide one half of the local sponsor's funding obligation. The USACE did not participate in

funding the replacement of the City's bridges or improvements to the City's existing stormwater systems. The bridge

replacements target flood protection on an intermediate conveyance way, and address the local government's level of

service deficiencies by reducing flood levels where the bridges are over topped, homes damaged, and private property

and streets are flooded.

Costs

The projected cost for this project is $7,800,000 of which the District's multi-year share is $3,900,000 and the City's

share is $3,900,000. Funding for this project was provided in the Manasota Basin Board budgets of FY2005 ($50,000);

FY2006 ($200,000); FY2007 ($500,000); FY2008 ($500,000); FY2009 ($500,000); and FY2010 ($500,000) for a total

funding commitment to date of $2,250,000. For FY2011, the City requested $500,000 in cooperative funding and the

City is providing $500,000 in matching funds. The probable construction costs for this project are based on a BMP

alternative analysis developed by the cooperator. When each element is completed the projected may require

refinement based on information gathered and unforeseen circumstances. The District funding amounts shown in the

table includes staff salaries. The future funds identified for the project are contingent upon approval of such amounts

by the District Governing Board and Basin Board in the annual budget(s).



Management Plan, 4) Implementation of BMPs, and 5) Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models.

Implementing elements of the WMP with local governments is one of the District's Strategic Priorities. The WMP

provides a method to evaluate the capacity of a watershed to protect, enhance, and restore water quality and natural

systems while achieving flood protection. A cooperative funding expenditure agreement with the City has been

developed contingent on the approval of future funding to complete the Implementation of BMPs. With FY2005

funding the work on the Implementation of BMPs began and included the following tasks: topographic surveys,

geo-technical investigations, hydrologic and hydraulic investigation and preparation of a preliminary design report. For

FY2006 funding was requested for development of the construction documents and obtaining permits for the four

bridges. For FY2007 funding was requested to begin construction of the 9th Avenue Bridge, for construction


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Creek Bridge Replacementengineering and inspection and for survey, geotechnical investigation and start of design on the 20th Street West

stormwater management system. In FY2008 funding was requested to complete construction of the 9th Avenue West

Bridge. For FY2009, funding was requested to complete construction of the 12th Avenue West Bridge and begin

construction of the 14th Avenue West bridge and for design and geotechnical investigation at the 20th Street West

Stormwater Management System. This project requires a cooperative funding request and ranking each fiscal year

until completed. The City will manage this project, where the District project manager must approve any agreements

to accomplish project tasks.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 2,920,485 650,000 0 2,266,940 2,318 1,227


District

City of Bradenton 3,900,000 650,000 0 2,250,000 500,000 500,000

$6,820,485 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesDistrict logo will be provided on construction signs 12/1/07 5/1/10

2. Cooperator AgreementAgreement to Contracts Administration 8/1/04 10/20/04

Agreement back from Contracts Administration 9/10/04 11/1/04


Notice to Proceed to City 10/2/04 12/29/04

2A. Consultant Services (FY2005 Funding)Consultant Selected (JEA) 3/1/05 11/30/04 11/22/04

Survey & Geotechnical Complete 8/31/05 4/30/05 8/25/05

Hydraulic & Hydrologic Investigation 12/31/05 6/30/06 3/31/06

3. First Amendment (FY2006 Funding)Amendment Executed 9/21/05 9/21/05

FY2006 Funds Encumbered 10/1/05 1/6/06

3A. Consultant Services (FY2006 Funding)Preliminary Plans (4 bridges) 10/1/05 6/12/06

Final Plans & Specifications (9th Ave W & 17th Ave W bridges) 8/31/06

Permitting (9th Ave W & 17th Ave W bridges) 4/1/07

4. Second Amendment (FY2007 Funding)Amendment Executed 10/1/06 8/14/06


4A. Consultant & Construction Services (FY2007 Funding)Hydraulic & Hydrologic Modeling 1/30/07 8/31/08

Final Plans and Specifications for the 9th Ave. Bridge 2/28/07 3/31/10

Permitting for the 9th Ave. Bridge 3/31/07 7/31/09 11/16/09

Bidding & Contr. Selection for 9th Ave. Bridge 5/31/07 6/30/10

Final Plans & Specs for 12th, 14th & 17th Ave. Bridges 5/31/07 12/31/10

Complete Survey, Borings & Design of 20th St. Stormwater Facility

Improvements

6/30/07 12/31/10

Contract award for 9th Ave. Bridge 6/30/07 8/31/10

Commence Construction of 9th Ave. Bridge 9/1/07 10/31/10


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Creek Bridge ReplacementComplete Construction of 9th Ave. Bridge 6/1/10 10/31/11

4B. Third Amendment (FY2008 Funding)Amendment Executed 10/1/07 7/26/08


4C. Fourth Amendment (FY2009 Funding)Amendment Executed 1/31/09 3/27/09


4D. Consultant & Construction Services (FY2009 Funding)Plans & Profiles for 4bridges sufficient to submit for permits 12/31/08

Bidding & Contr. Selection for 12th Ave. Bridge 11/30/10

Contract Award for 12th Ave. Bridge 3/1/11

Commence Construction of 12th Ave. Bridge 5/1/11

4E. Fifth Amendment (FY2010 Funding)Amendment Executed 10/1/09 5/11/10


4F. Consultant & Const. Services (FY2010 Funding)Bidding & Contr. Selection for 20th St. Facilities 7/3/11

Contract Award for 20th St. Facilities 9/30/11

Commence Construction of 20th St. Facilities 11/30/11

Complete Const. of 12th Ave. Bridge 11/30/12

5. Contract CompletionCooperator Agreement Expiration 10/1/07 12/31/13


Status History: The Cooperative Funding Agreement was executed on December 29, 2004. The City contracted with

Jones Edmunds & Associates (JEA) to perform the engineering work on the project. Topographic surveying and

geo-technical work were completed and existing hydraulic & hydrologic data were collected. A pre-application meeting

with Sarasota Regulatory staff was held on April 25, 2007 to discuss the project. The consultant continued work on the

modeling of the creek hydraulics and hydrology. A progress meeting was held at District headquarters on April 28, 2008

to discuss the modeling effort, future cooperative funding, ACOE permitting status and other items. The City's consultant

(JEA) met with the Sarasota Regulatory staff on August 20, 2008 for a second pre-application meeting. The

Environmental Resource Permit (ERP) for the construction of the 9th Avenue West Bridge was issued on November 16,

2009. The ERPs for the remaining 3 bridges were issued on 5/18/2010. District staff has met with the City project

manager and the consultant on several occasions to discuss project status and progress. ACTION-TO-DATE: Delayed.

This project has been delayed partly in response to the delays in the ACOE proceeding with the Wares Creek Dredging

project (K253). The City did work with FDOT to see if Federal stimulus funding was available for this project and it was

not. Receipt of bids for the 9th Avenue Bridge has been delayed for some months as City staff works through other

priority projects. The City is now projecting that bids for the construction of the 9th Avenue West Bridge will be received

in June 2011 and construction will begin in September 2011.


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Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Sarasota - Celery

Field Regional Storage & BMPs in Philippi CreekProject Type Cooperative Funding

AORs Strategic InitiativesFlood Protection Emergency Flood Response

Basin(s) Manasota



PRESTON, MATTTask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing


the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the Phillippi Creek Watershed. The watershed covers an

area of approximately 56 square miles and is located in Sarasota County (County). This BMP will be implemented in

the Celery Fields improvement area and specifically includes construction of additional storage to the existing south

cell of the Celery Fields Regional Stormwater Facility. Implementation of the BMP includes the following tasks:

construction and construction engineering and inspection. The proposed BMP will address level of service

deficiencies. In addition, 120-acres of the southern cell pond of Celery Fields will be excavated to create a wetland

habitat that will provide natural systems benefits.

BenefitsThe project will provide additional storage within the watershed and, thereby, provide an improved level of service.

These improvements will address structure flooding downstream along Phillippi Creek by providing flood protection for

15 homes currently inundated and damaged during a 100-year flood event. Based on an Expected Damages Analysis,

the expected flood damages to be mitigated by the project for a 100-year flood event is approximately $2.17 million.

This project is also expected to improve water quality through increased residence times.

Costs

The total budget for this project is $16,708,221. The FDEP is providing the County with a grant of $10,079,880 toward

the project. The District's original funding contribution for the project was $2,903,060, funded entirely by the Manasota

Basin over fiscal years 2005 -2008. In August 2010, the Manasota Basin Board approved a request from Sarasota

Co. to reduce the basin's funding contribution to $1,829,665. The County's funding contribution is $3,696,560. The

final (actual) project costs are anticipated to be under budget. The District funding amounts shown in the table include

staff salaries, travel and central garage.





Management (CWM) initiative strategies. A WMP provides a method to evaluate the capacity of a watershed to

protect, enhance, and restore water quality and natural systems, while achieving flood protection. This project involves

the Implementation of BMPs which includes design, development of construction documents, construction permitting,

land acquisition, bidding and contractor selection, construction of the BMPs and construction engineering and

inspection. The County is managing the project, and the District project manager must approve any agreements to

accomplish project tasks.


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Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Sarasota - Celery

Field Regional Storage & BMPs in Philippi Creek


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,861,849 0 (1,073,395) 2,929,463 2,463 3,318


District

Florida Department of Environmental

Protection

10,079,880 0 0 10,079,880 0 0

Sarasota County 4,383,560 0 0 4,383,560 0 0

$16,325,289 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development and ExecutionDraft Agreement to Management Services 1/7/04 1/6/05

Negotiate Cooperative Funding Agreement with County 9/27/04 1/3/05


Board of County Commissioners Approval 4/1/05 2/22/05



Draft Amendment to Management Services 12/15/06 5/31/07 7/16/07

Draft Amendment returned from Management Services 1/22/07 6/30/07 8/2/07

Board of County Commissioners Approval 2/28/07 7/30/07 9/25/07

Execute Amendment 3/30/07 8/31/07 10/9/07


2. Critical Project MilestonesAlternatives Analysis Complete 4/30/05 3/4/05

Acquire All Permits, Government Approvals, & Real Property Rights for Project 8/26/05 3/30/09 6/1/09

Complete Design and Permitting 10/11/05 5/30/09 6/10/09




Construction Site Signage RecognizingFunding 12/15/07 9/30/09 12/21/09

3. Project Close OutSubmit As-Builts 2/11/07 7/31/11

Contract Termination 12/31/07 11/30/11


Final excavation and grading of the additional stormwater storage areas has been completed on schedule. Excavated

material stockpiled in several areas has been used in the construction of containment berms and to create the

permanent soil mound. Several water control structures (gates) have been completed and are operational. Planting for

the mitigation and wetland creation areas began in September 2010 was completed in late October. Periodic

maintenance and control of unwanted exotic/nuisance vegetation is on-going. District staff is preparing and amendment

to the current agreement with Sarasota Co. to implement changes in funding allocations for construction engineering and

inspections, as part of reductions to the District's overall funding obligations requested by Sarasota County.

ACTIONS-TO-DATE: On Schedule. Project construction is ongoing and is scheduled for substantial completion in mid

March 2011.


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Interconnects - Longboat Key Backup Potable Water Supply

InterconnectProject Type Cooperative Funding

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Supply Regional Water Supply Planning

Basin(s) Manasota

Longboat KeyCooperator(s)

Project Manager MCBRIDE, TAMERA

Task Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThis project includes the design and construction of a subaqueous crossing of New Pass with approximately 2,400

linear feet of 16-inch diameter potable water pipeline. The original proposal was for a 2,000 linear foot 12-inch pipeline;

however, the pipeline was lengthened and rerouted due to permitting issues. The Town of Longboat Key will connect

to the potable water supply system of the City of Sarasota on City Island from Longboat Key's potable water supply

system on the south side of the key. The project will provide the Town with an unspecified amount of back-up potable

water in the event supplies are not available from the Town's current supplier, Manatee County. It was originally

anticipated that the City would supply the Town in emergency situations only, such as if a natural disaster interrupted

supply from Manatee County. However, the Town now envisions that the City will eventually serve as a back-up

supplier in order to meet the Town's peak demands.

BenefitsThe project will enable the Town of Longboat Key to receive a reliable supply of potable water in the event supplies are

not available from Manatee County.

Costs

The District's share of the project is expected to be $1,000,000. The Manasota Basin Board originally budgeted

$50,000 toward completion of the project in FY2005, and an additional $200,000 was transferred from the Water

Supply and Resource Development fund for a total contribution of $250,000 in FY2005. The basin board budgeted

$250,000 in FY2006, $250,000 in FY2007, and $250,000 in FY2008. A cost benefit cannot be calculated, since no new

water supplies will be developed as a result of the project.


The total eligible cost of the project is $2,000,000, of which design represents $500,000 and construction represents

$1,500,000. The Town will be solely responsible for the upsizing of 3.5 miles of existing 8, 10, and 12-inch water

mains along Gulf of Mexico Drive, and for the pump system and emergency generator upgrades at the south and

mid-key water stations. This $2,200,000 portion of the project is not eligible for funding.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 638,858 0 (378,991) 1,017,849 0 0


District

Longboat Key 6,156,958 0 0 6,156,958 0 0

$6,795,816 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding





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Interconnects - Longboat Key Backup Potable Water Supply

InterconnectContract Execution 4/22/05 6/20/05


Commence Design 4/29/05 6/20/05

Basin Board Notification of Agreement Execution 6/15/05 10/12/05 10/12/05

Signage Erected 7/31/06 12/10/07 4/30/08



Contract Close-out 12/31/08 9/30/10 1/31/11


A total of $1,000,000 has been budgeted for the project through FY2008. Construction began (December 10, 2007). The

first invoice was received in January 2009 and was reviewed by the District's project manager. Additional backup was

requested for the invoice on March 18, 2009. The Longboat Key project manager resubmitted the invoice package and

additional information was requested on December 30, 2009. The invoice was resubmitted April 22, 2010, and the

District project manager has reviewed it. A request for additional information was submitted to the Town to enable

completion of the final payment and a response was received. The final invoice was processed and payment was

received by the cooperator on January 31, 2011. The contract expiration date is March 31, 2010; however, the Town

verified that an extension is not required, because all work under the contract has been completed.

Pipeline Design, Permitting, and Construction The pipeline design and construction is complete.

South Key Station No. 2 Design and Permitting The contractor mobilized on January 12, 2009. Construction on the meter

compound and chemical equipment is complete.

ACTION-TO-DATE: Completed.


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WMP - Manatee - Little Manatee River



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Completed


Watershed Management Plan elements of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the LITTLE

MANATEE RIVER Watershed. The watershed occupies approximately 79.0 square miles within northern Manatee

County and discharges into Tampa Bay, a SWIM waterbody. The watershed is beginning to experience rapid

residential development to the west of Interstate 75 that is expected to expand to the east in the near future.

Topographic information includes the acquisition of data and development of the terrain features in the Geodatabase

to be used in the Watershed Evaluation. The Watershed Evaluation includes collection of existing data, GIS

processing of the terrain features to establish catchments and connectivity, field reconnaissance, refinement of the

terrain features and development of the hydraulic element point features. The Watershed Management Plan element

includes: development of watershed parameters for a specific use, GIS processing, computer modeling, floodplain and

water quality analysis, surface water resource assessment, establishment of LOS, BMP alternative analysis.





address level of service deficiencies. 2) Provides a Geodatabase and projected results from watershed model

simulations for floodplain and water quality management.

Costs

The current budget amount for this project is $1 million, of which the District's share is $500,000 to be funded by the

Manasota Basin. The County will contribute $500,000. Prior FY2007 funding included $500,000 from the Basin's

budget with a revenue from Manatee County for $250,000. Prior FY2008 funding included $500,000 from the Basin's

budget with a revenue from Manatee County for $250,000. Due to the recent tax cuts, Manatee County has notified us

that they are not able to contribute the $250,000 as originally planned for FY2008. When each element is completed

the project budget and scope may require refinement based on the information gathered. The District funding amounts






Management (CWM) initiative strategies and one of the District's Strategic Priorities. The District has been working

with the County for several years through the Watershed Management Program Coordination to develop a five year

implementation schedule by watershed based on their projected funding levels, and funding available from others for

example FEMA or State appropriations. A cooperative funding revenue agreement with Manatee County has been

developed as a multi-year funded project contingent on the approval of future funding to complete the WMP elements

through the Watershed Management Plan. This is a multi-year funded project that will require a cooperative funding

request each fiscal year until completed. If approved, this project will be ranked as a 1A project in future fiscal years.

The District will manage the project and will enter into work orders and agreements to accomplish project tasks.

Future cooperative funding requests and agreements will be required for a BMP alternative analysis, the

Implementation of BMPs, and the Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models.


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Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 99,501 0 (428,702) 519,610 0 8,593


Manatee - WMPlan Little Manatee River

(L604)

71,300 0 (428,700) 500,000 0 0

$170,801 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesRecognition of the SWFWMD, Manasota Basin Board and Manatee County will

be included on all reports

9/29/06


Develop Draft Agreement with Manatee County 11/20/06 11/30/06

Cooperative Funding Agreement to Contract Administration 11/27/06 12/8/06



Begin Negotiations with Consultant 1/30/07 2/8/07

Execution of Consultant Agreement by SWFWMD 9/30/07

Issue Notice to Proceed to Consultant/ Work Order #1 9/30/07


Termination of Cooperative Agreement 3/1/10 3/1/10

Termination of Consultant Agreement 3/1/10


Notice of anticipated funding has been sent to County's project manager. A meeting has been requested to discuss

scope of work and consultant selection. District and Manatee County staff met on October 12, 2006, to discuss the

proposed scope of work and specific project needs. Hillsborough County had developed a model for the watershed that

the District recently reviewed under Project B126. The model and the results of the District's independent review will

serve as the base for the Watershed Management Plan within the Manatee County portion of the watershed. District staff

are currently negotiating with one of its pre-selected vendors to complete aerial topographic mapping for the portions of

the watershed that currently do not have digital topographic information. Boyle Engineering Corp. has been selected as

the consulting firm to perform this project. The Cooperative Funding Agreement was executed on 1/25/2007. Mapping

and GIS staff is putting together a Work Order with Earth Data to begin aerial topographic mapping for portions of the

watershed that currently do not have digital topographic information. District staff will begin talks with Boyle Engineering

and will be putting together a consultant agreement. A Work Order was executed with Earth Data for the aerial

topographic mapping work. District staff initiated communication with Boyle Engineering on 2/8/07 to begin the consultant

services agreement process. A draft consultant services agreement has been sent to Boyle for review. Boyle

Engineering provided Fee Schedule for their team. A consultant agreement is being routed through our contract, legal

sections for review. County's project manager has indicated that due to recent tax cuts they will not be able to contribute

the $250,000 as originally planned for FY2008. District staff has met with County on 8/21/07 to develop a work plan to

move the project forward using only the FY2007 fundings. Boyle Engineering has submitted a project budget for review.

District staff is finishing the consultant services agreement and will be working with the consultant to develop Work Order

#1. The consultant services agreement has been placed on hold by the Department's Director due to the reprioritization

of projects within the department. The LiDAR data acquisition by Earth Data is in its final phase and will be delivered to

the District mid January 2008. The consultant services agreement is still on hold and the consultant has been notified of

the situation. We're still waiting for the delivery of the LiDAR data acquisition by Earth Data. The LiDAR acquisition has

been completed and the data is available for usage as of 04/29/2008. The consultant services agreement with Boyle

Engineering for the watershed management plan will be delay until further notice to enable Manatee County to shift

FY2007 funding contribution to other higher priority projects. It is anticipated that the project will be terminated and any

left over funds will be balance forward. The District is reviewing the project budget to identify how much has been spent

and what the remaining funds are. The District will notify Manatee County once these figures are completed. Current


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Status: The project is terminated. Finance has liquidated $357,402 that was encumbered to the agreement to allow the

dollars to lapse. LiDAR acquisition was the only task that was completed in this project.


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Construction - Palmetto's 1.2 MGD Dry Season Reclaimed Water

ASR SystemProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project consists of the design, construction, permitting, ultraviolet (UV) disinfection, cycle testing, and operational

permitting for a 1.2 mgd reclaimed water (RW) Aquifer Storage Recovery (ASR) well for the City of Palmetto. The ASR

well will be located at the City's Wastewater Treatment Facility (WWTF). This ASR well will help reduce the demands

on potable water supplies and eliminate the need for surface water discharge of excess RW to Terra Ceia Bay.

BenefitsThis RW ASR well will store an estimated 144 million gallons of RW during wet weather periods to help offset future

groundwater supply. The City is projecting a new irrigation demand of 2.2 million gallons per day (mgd) from

approximately 3,696 additional residential units from planned developments by 2010. Reclaimed water flows normally

discharged from the City's WWTF to Terra Ceia Bay will be stored in the ASR well.

Costs

The total project cost is $2,340,000 and the District's share is requested to be $1,134,000. The Manasota Basin

contributed $389,000 in FY2007 and $272,000 in FY2008. The WPSTF contributed $72,000 in FY2007 and $136,000

in FY2008. The Manasota Basin will asked to provide $405,000 in additional funds in FY2011. No cost-benefit is

calculated for this project, as it will be associated with other RW projects this storage will support. The future funds

identified for the project are contingent upon approval of such amounts by the District Governing and Basin Boards in

the annual budget(s).


The City of Palmetto completed a RW ASR feasibility study in October 2005 that recommended the City develop a

RW ASR to provide wet weather storage at the Palmetto WWTF site. The City is prepared to move forward with the

construction and permitting of a test well. If this ASR well is successful, one additional RW ASR well is planned at the

WWTF site. The City has been in communication with Manatee County and the City of Bradenton about the future

development of a regional system and, depending on the results of those communications, this project could ultimately

be an integral part of a more regional system. Of the total project cost of $2,340,000, approximately 79 percent

($1,850,000) is expected to be needed for construction, and the remainder ($490,000) for design and administration.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,085,999 405,000 0 676,799 2,589 1,611



(Alternative Wtr)

208,000 0 0 208,000 0 0


District

City of Palmetto 1,066,000 405,000 0 661,000 0 0

$2,359,999 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


L608

Construction - Palmetto's 1.2 MGD Dry Season Reclaimed Water

ASR System


Draft Agreement to Contract Administration: 9/30/06 9/30/06

Agreement Executed / Notice to Proceed: 11/30/06 1/24/07

Start construction of reclaimed water ASR: 9/1/07 3/5/08

Complete construction of reclaimed water ASR: 8/30/10

Start Cycle Testing: 9/1/10

Complete Cycle Testing & Obtain Operational Permit: 12/31/10

Final Invoice: 4/30/11

Contract Termination: 6/30/11


The agreement with the City was executed on January 24, 2007. The public hearing for the draft FDEP ASR construction

permit was held on January 23, 2007. The FDEP ASR Construction Permit was issued in April 2007. The City of

Palmetto has agreed with the District to construct the Storage Zone Monitor Well (SZMW) / Exploratory Well as the first

well. This will allow us to gather information about the target aquifer, a drinking water aquifer, and a lower aquifer to

determine if it's suitable for ASR development. If that lower zone is not a drinking water aquifer, and it's suitable for ASR,

it may allow us to bypass the arsenic requirements for ASRs in the drinking water aquifers. The consultant has prepared

the bid specifications for the exploratory well and the City advertised the project for bidding to select a driller. The bid

opening occurred on January 9, 2008. Hausinger and Associates Inc. was the lowest bidder. The City approved the

contract with Hausinger and Associates Inc. on February 18, 2008. Construction started March 5, 2008 on the

exploratory well. The pilot hole was drilled to 1040 feet in depth. It was determined by the consultant that the lower zone,

a non USDW zone, is not suitable for ASR development. The decision was made to perform all water quality and

geological tests and back plug this well to a depth of about 520 feet bls. This well was completed and will be the Storage

Zone Monitor Well (SZMW) for this ASR. The ASR will need to be constructed in the Swuannee Limestone aquifer which

is between 400 and 520 feet bls. A technical memorandum on the exploratory/SZMW was completed and submitted to

FDEP in December 2008. The project had been placed on hold pending the results of the District's arsenic pretreatment

study at the City of Bradenton ASR project which is scheduled to be available in Spring 2011. Since preliminary results

fom the study were very positive and other aceptable methods are now available, the City has resumed work on the

project as of February 15, 2011. The consultant is modifying the FDEP permit and the design. An Administrative Order

will be issued by FDEP with the permit modification. The City has requested an amendment to extend the termination

date from June 30, 2011 to June 30, 2015 and adjust the project milestones. A no-cost time extension amendment is

being processed by the District. To date, the District has reimbursed the City $223,809 for it's share of design and

construction of the exploratory/SZMW.


L610

Other Water Resources Planning - Sarasota - Lemon Bay Watershed



Basin(s) Manasota



GARCIA, LIZANNETask Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThe purpose of this project is to develop a comprehensive watershed plan for Lemon Bay. The plan will focus on water

resource issues such as restoration of historic or more natural hydrologic regimes in the basin, improvements to water

quality and habitat restoration. The plan will attempt to identify ways to reduce excess flows into the bay, and thereby

assist in reducing pollutant loads, improving water quality and habitat conditions. The Lemon Bay watershed includes

several localities of concern with regard to documented declining water quality trends: elevated nutrients for Alligator

Creek and Forked Creek, elevated nutrients and low dissolved oxygen levels for Gottfried Creek, and elevated

nutrients from direct run-off to Lemon Bay. These areas of concern suggest a need to develop and implement ways to

reduce nutrient loading from the watershed. An essential element of the project will be updating and fine-resolution

improvements to the current AdICPR flood model.

BenefitsThis regional initiative promotes and furthers the implementation of the Sarasota Bay CCMP, SWFWMD's Southern

Coastal Watershed CWM Plan, and Sarasota County's Comprehensive Plan. The Lemon Bay Watershed

Management Plan will be developed in cooperation with the District, the DEP Lemon Bay Aquatic Preserve Program,

the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program, the Lemon Bay League, the DEP Bureau of Watershed Management,

and all other interested stakeholders.

Costs

The total cost of plan development is $600,000. The District's share is $300,000, and the County's share is $300,000.

The FY2007 budget is $300,000 with the District and County each contributing half ($150,000). For FY2007, the

District's share is split between the Manasota Basin Board ($75,000) and the State's Water Protection and

Sustainability Trust Fund ($75,000). The FY2008 budget is $300,000 with the County and the District each contributing

half ($150,000). The District's FY2008 share is funded entirely by the Manasota Basin Board. The District funding

amounts shown in the table include staff salaries, travel and central garage charges.


The completed plan along with recommendations will be presented to the Board of County Commissioners, and will

include short-term and long-term projects for improvements that may include wastewater reuse, stormwater reuse,

smart growth, revised land development standards, sediment control, wetland or floodplain restoration, flood level

abatement, aquifer protection, and restoration of natural flow regimes. Development of the plan will include formation

of a watershed stakeholders group working through the Neighborhood Environmental Stewardship Team (NEST)

program to encourage public participation in the process.


L610

Other Water Resources Planning - Sarasota - Lemon Bay Watershed


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 228,178 0 (26,258) 249,749 0 4,687



Wtr Rstr)

75,000 0 0 75,000 0 0


District

Sarasota County 300,000 0 0 300,000 0 0

$603,178 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



Cooperative Funding Agreement to Contract Administration 12/15/06 4/20/07 4/20/07

Execution of Cooperative Agreement by Sarasota County 4/15/07 5/31/07 6/26/07



2. Critical Project MilestonesLiterature Search and Review (Draft) 1/30/08 3/30/08 3/30/08

Watershed Characterization (Draft) 3/15/08 5/30/08 6/30/08

Develop / Review Sediment Abatement Projects 6/30/08 6/30/08

Prepare Working Draft of Watershed Plan for Review 7/30/09 8/3/09

Review of Working Draft by Project Team - Completed 9/14/09 7/30/10 8/15/10

Project Complete 8/31/10 8/31/10


Project Completed. The final version of the Lemon Bay Watershed Management Plan was completed in early September

2010. The plan includes a review of water resources issues and conditions throughout the watershed, and their influence

and relationship to conditions in Lemon Bay - the principal focus and prominent resource of interest for the plan. The

watershed plan is organized along the typical major areas of water resource interest: water quality, water supply, natural

systems and flood protection. The plan includes extensive reviews and analyses of existing data (e.g., water quality,

seagrass extent, surface flows, etc.) to determine trends and assess resource conditions and problem areas (e.g.,

nutrient loading, TMDL issues). Findings were used to develop resource management strategies for both protection and

enhancement of conditions within the watershed. The plan includes a series of projects (conceptual design) proposed for

implementation. These include projects aimed at reducing nutrient loads into the bay, and controlling erosion and

sedimentation along tributary creeks. The Lemon Bay plan will be presented to the Sarasota County Board of

Commissioners in the near future.


L611

Other Water Resources Planning - Sarasota - Roberts Bay

WatershedProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



GARCIA, LIZANNE, HEYL, MIKETask Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe purpose of this project is to develop a comprehensive Watershed Plan for Roberts Bay. The plan will focus on

water resources issues such as restoration of historic or more natural hydrologic regimes in Roberts Bay, and

improvements to water quality and habitat restoration. The plan will attempt to identify ways to reduce flow volumes

into the Bay, and thereby assist in reducing pollutant loads and improving water quality. The Roberts Bay watershed

includes two localities of concern with regard to documented declining water quality trends: increasing trends of

historic chlorophyll a levels at Roberts Bay, and elevated nutrient levels based on Trophic State Index (TSI) for West

Clark Lake. Conditions at both of these localities indicate a need to reduce nutrient loading from the watershed. An

essential element of the project will be updating and improving the existing AdICPR flood model and pollutant loading

model.

BenefitsDevelopment of the plan will allow the County to consolidate and update goals and objectives from the District's SWIM

Plan and the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program (SBEP) into one strategy that would include comprehensive monitoring of

water quality and pollutant loads, detailed mapping, flood and pollutant load modeling, and prioritized practical project

proposals to improve water quality, restore natural run-off regimes, provide water supply, and protect natural

resources.

Costs

The total cost for plan development is $600,000. The District's share is $300,000, and the County's share is $300,000.

The FY2007 budget is $300,000, with the District and County each contributing half ($150,000). For FY2007, the

District's share is split between the Manasota Basin Board ($75,000) and the State's Water Protection and

Sustainability Trust Fund ($75,000). The FY2008 budget is $300,000 with the County and the District each contributing

half ($150,000). The District's FY2008 share is funded entirely by the Manasota Basin Board. The District funding

amounts shown in the table include staff salaries, travel and central garage charges.


Development of the plan included formation of a watershed stakeholders group working through the Neighborhood

Environmental Stewardship Team (NEST) program to encourage public participation in the process. The completed

plan will be presented to the Board of County Commissioners for adoption, and will include short-term and long-term

projects for improvements that may include wastewater reuse, stormwater reuse, smart growth, revised land

development standards, sediment control, wetland or floodplain restoration, flood level abatement, aquifer protection,

and restoration of natural flow regimes.


L611

Other Water Resources Planning - Sarasota - Roberts Bay

Watershed


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 254,436 0 0 249,749 0 4,687



Wtr Rstr)

75,000 0 0 75,000 0 0


District

Sarasota County 300,000 0 0 300,000 0 0

$629,436 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



Cooperative Funding Agreement to Contract Administration 12/20/06 5/5/07 5/11/07



Issue Notice To Proceed 3/1/07 7/30/07 7/22/07

2. Critical Project Milestones Literature Search and Review 11/30/07 12/30/07

Watershed Characterization (Draft) 1/10/08 1/15/08

Develop Plan Goals and Objectives (Draft) 1/28/08 5/30/08 5/30/08

Develop / Review Sediment Abatement Plan 6/30/08 6/30/08

Prepare Working Draft Watershed Plan 8/3/09 8/3/09

Review of Working Draft WMP by Project Team - Completed 9/30/09 7/30/10 8/13/10



The final version of the Roberts Bay (North) Watershed Management Plan was completed in late September 2010. The

plan includes a review of water resources issues and conditions throughout the watershed, and their influence and

relationship to conditions in Roberts Bay (North) - the principal focus and prominent resource of interest for the plan. The

watershed plan is organized along the typical major areas of water resource interest: water quality, water supply, natural

systems and flood protection. The plan includes extensive reviews and analyses of existing data (e.g., water quality,

seagrass extent, surface flows, etc.) to determine trends and assess resource conditions and problem areas (e.g.,

nutrient loading, TMDL issues). Findings were used to develop resource management strategies for both protection and

enhancement of conditions within the watershed. The plan includes a series of projects (conceptual design) proposed for

implementation. These include projects aimed at reducing nutrient loads into the bay and controlling erosion and

sedimentation along tributary creeks.The Roberts Bay (North) plan will be presented to the Sarasota County Board of

Commissioners in the near future. Project close out is pending receipt and processing of final invoices. Project close-out

is anticipated in late March 2011.


L614

Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Sarasota - Matheny

CreekProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota


Project Manager SMITH, RANDY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing


the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the Matheny Creek Watershed in Sarasota County.

This project will be implemented in the Siesta Heights improvement area. Intense rainfall combined with inadequate

drainage facilities and high tides cause frequent flooding within the improvement area. The Siesta Heights culvert

system will be enlarged and include grassed swales above the proposed storm drains and a Nutrient Separating Baffle

Box to provide water quality treatment. This project includes construction of the BMP only. The proposed BMP will

address level of service deficiencies and improve water quality.

BenefitsThe project is expected to meet level of service criteria during a 25-year storm event that eliminates structural flooding

of four structures and improves roadway access by improving conveyance. The project is also expected to improve

water quality with increased grassed swale storage and installation of a baffle box sediment trap. According to the

County, the project will provide approximately $833,000 in present-value flood mitigation benefits assuming a 50-year

useful life.

Costs

The original total project cost was anticipated to be $1,100,000, of which the District's share is $425,000 and the

County's share is $675,000. The District appropriated $212,500 in their FY2007 and FY2008 budgets. The District's

share is being funded entirely by the Manasota Basin Board. The project bids came in much lower than expected and

the revised total project cost is $826,419.69. The County received a FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant for the project in

the amount of $373,043.16. The project budget is being refined according to Board Policy 130-4. Because of the

lower than expected bids and the FEMA Grant it is anticipated that the District and County will each contribute

$226,688.27 towards the project. When each task is completed the project budget may require refinement based on

the information gathered. The District funding amounts shown in the table include staff salaries, travel and central

garage charges.


The WMP includes five major elements: 1)Topographic Information, 2)Watershed Evaluation, 3)Watershed

Management Plan, 4)Implementation of BMPs, and 5)Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models.

Implementing elements of the WMP with local governments is one of the Comprehensive Watershed Management

(CWM) initiative strategies. The probable construction cost for this project was based on the BMP alternative analysis

developed by the County in its Matheny Creek Basin Master Plan. The County previously budgeted funds for the

project design, development of construction documents, construction permitting, land acquisition, and bidding and

contractor selection. Work will be performed in current County and Florida Department of Transportation rights-of-way.

A cooperative funding expenditure agreement with County was developed as a multi-year funded project contingent on

the approval of future funding to complete the Implementation of BMPs. The County will manage the project, where

the District project manager must approve any agreements to accomplish project tasks.


L614

Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Sarasota - Matheny

Creek


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 269,973 0 (175,000) 441,494 0 3,479


District

FEMA HMGP 373,043 0 0 373,043 0 0

Sarasota County 675,000 0 0 675,000 0 0

$1,318,016 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development & ExecutionNegotiate Cooperative Funding Agreement with County 10/31/06 1/5/07



Contract sent to County for BOCC Approval 3/14/07 3/14/07

Signed Contract returned from County 4/2/07 4/30/07



2. Critical Project MilestonesComplete Design and Permitting 6/5/07 4/1/09 4/1/09




3. Project Close OutSubmit As-Builts 5/5/09 9/30/10 9/9/10



District staff met with the County on December 29, 2008 to discuss the project status. Design and Permitting were

completed in April 2009. The County received a FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant for $373,043.16 to offset project costs

and the project budget is being refined according to Board Policy 130-4. The construction component of the project was

advertised for bid on August 22, 2009. The project bids came in much lower than expected and the project budget is

being refined accordingly. A pre-bid meeting was held on September 3, 2009. Sarasota County hired EHC, Inc. to do

project construction. A pre-construction meeting was held on December 11, 2009. The first amendment to the agreement

to extend the contract termination date and reduce the project budget was executed on October 4, 2010. Project

construction began December 15, 2009 and is 100% complete. Final payment and project close-out will occur when the

County submits the final deliverables.


L615

Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Sarasota - Alligator

CreekProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis is a multi-year funded project to perform an element of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for

the Implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the Alligator Creek Watershed. The watershed covers

an area of approximately 10.7 square miles and is located in Sarasota County. This project will implement several

improvements in the following areas: 1) Banyan Drive - culverts and pond expansion with wetland plantings, 2)

Briarwood area - upsizing of culverts and outfall pipe, 3) Bal Harbour Drive - stormwater collection system, 4) Venice

East Drive - modify the control structure at Heron Lakes, and 5) Venice East Boulevard - installation of box culvert.

Several of the roadways contiguous to these improvement areas become impassable during the 10, 25, and 100-year

storm events that result in a health and welfare threat to residents by creating changes in traffic flow and emergency

vehicle routing. In addition, the project is expected to improve water quality by installing several Nutrient Separating

Baffle Boxes to reduce non-point source pollutant loads. This project is also expected to improve water quality by

increasing residence time through conversion of the old Briarwood wastewater treatment percolation ponds into

stormwater ponds and by expanding the existing lake system storage capacity. This project includes construction of

the BMP only.

BenefitsThe project is expected to meet level of service criteria during a 25-year storm event, improving roadway access by

increasing conveyance and providing additional storage in the watershed. The project is also expected to improve

water quality by increasing residence times and installing several Nutrient Separating Baffle Boxes to reduce non-point

source pollutant loads. According to the County, the project will provide approximately $2.3 million in present-value

flood mitigation benefits assuming a 50-year useful life.

Costs

The revised project cost is $3,475,000. The District appropriated $750,000 in their FY2007 budget and $375,000 in

their FY2008 budget for a total funding commitment of $1,125,000. The District's share is being funded entirely by the

Manasota Basin Board. The County budgeted $2,345,000 over FY2006, FY2007, and FY2008. When each task is

completed the project budget may require refinement based on the information gathered. The District funding amounts

shown in the table include staff salaries, travel and central garage charges.





(CWM) initiative strategies. The probable construction cost for this project was based on the BMP alternative analysis

developed by the County in its Alligator Creek Basin Master Plan. The County previously budgeted funds for the

project design, development of construction documents, construction permitting, land acquisition, and bidding and

contractor selection. The County will be required to acquire easements in order to implement the BMPs. A cooperative

funding expenditure agreement with County was developed as a multi-year funded project contingent on the approval

of future funding to complete the Implementation of BMP's. The County will manage the project, where the District

project manager must approve any agreements to accomplish project tasks.


L615

Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Sarasota - Alligator

Creek


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,149,296 0 0 1,142,154 3,663 3,479


District

Sarasota County 2,345,000 0 0 2,345,000 0 0

$3,494,296 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development & ExecutionNegotiate Cooperative Funding Agreement with County 10/31/06 1/4/07



Contract sent to County for BOCC approval 3/16/07 3/28/07

Signed Contract returned from County 4/2/07 5/18/07 5/14/07



2. Critical Project MilestonesComplete Design and Permitting - Venice East Dr. 5/17/07 2/1/10

Complete Design and Permitting - Briarwood 5/17/07 5/1/11

Complete Design and Permitting - Banyan Drive 5/17/07 5/1/11

Complete Design and Permitting - Bal Harbour 5/17/07 5/1/11

Complete Design and Permitting - Venice East Blvd. 5/17/07 5/1/11

Commence Construction - Venice East Dr. 10/16/07 3/1/10

Commence Construction - Briarwood 10/16/07 10/1/11

Commence Construction - Bal Harbour 10/16/07 10/1/11

Commence Construction - Venice East Blvd. 10/16/07 10/1/11

Commence Construction - Banyan Drive 10/16/07 10/1/11

3. Project Close OutSubmit As-Builts 10/16/09 12/1/12



The County withdrew its FY2009 funding request because those funds would not be expended until FY2010. District staff

met with the County on December 29, 2008 to discuss the project status. The County requested the remaining $375,000

in FY2010 to complete the project. The County withdrew its FY2010 funding request because those funds would not be

expended until FY2011. The project costs are anticipated to be lower than expected so the County is not going to request

the remaining $375,000. The County is currently trying to resolve unexpected stage rises indicated by the modeling

effort. The County is moving forward with certain elements of the project that are not affected by the modeling issues.

Design and Permitting is complete for the Venice East Drive improvements and construction is 95% complete. Design

and permitting for Banyan Drive and Briarwood area improvements are 95% complete. The Bal Harbour Drive and

Venice East Boulevard portions of the project are on hold because of modeling issues. The first amendment to the

agreement to extend the contract termination date was executed on October 22, 2010.


L624

Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Venice - Hatchett

Creek-Venice Avenue AreaProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



NORTON, NANCYTask Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThis project is to perform the Implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) element of the District's

Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the Hatchett Creek Watershed in Sarasota County. This BMP will be

implemented in the Venice Avenue improvement area. The existing stormwater system on Venice Avenue, U.S. 41

Bypass and Warfield Avenue is undersized and causes flooding of the roadways. Venice Avenue and U.S. 41 Bypass

are evacuation routes and Warfield Avenue is an access road for the City of Venice Utilities Department, a water

treatment plant and area businesses. Extensive flooding causes the closure of the Warfield Avenue and U.S. 41

Bypass intersection 3 to 4 times a year when daily rainfall exceeds 3 inches. The proposed stormwater system will be

designed to handle a 100-year, 24-hour rainfall event. The existing stormwater system on Warfield Avenue will be

enlarged and replaced with new curb inlets, connector pipes and outfall pipes. Two additional curb inlets and

connector pipes will be added at the intersection of U.S. 41 Bypass and Venice Avenue. In addition, stormwater will be

directed to the retention pond at East Venice Avenue and Warfield Avenue. The existing pond may require

modification due to the added water volume being treated. With FY2007 funding the work on the Implementation of

BMPs will begin and includes the following tasks: evaluation, design, development of construction documents,

construction permitting, bidding and contractor selection, and construction of the BMPs.

BenefitsThe project will improve level of service deficiencies by improving conveyance and providing additional storage within

the watershed. The project is also expected to improve water quality by repairing the damaged stormwater pipes that

are seeping sediment into the system and increasing residence times in the storage area.

Costs

The total budget amount for this project is $351,670, of which the District's share is $175,835. The District's share was

funded entirely by the Manasota Basin in FY2007. The City contributed $175,835 over FY2007 and FY2008. The

project was completed under budget with the District contributing $155,865.50. The remaining $19,978.50 that was

budgeted for the project will be returned to the Manasota Basin Board. The District funding amounts shown in the table

include staff salaries, travel and central garage charges.





(CWM) initiative strategies. Future funding to complete the project will be provided by the City that will satisfy its

cooperative funding match requirements. The City will manage the project, where the District project manager must

approve any agreements to accomplish project tasks.


L624

Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Venice - Hatchett

Creek-Venice Avenue Area


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 194,743 0 0 190,242 0 4,501


District

City of Venice 175,835 0 0 175,835 0 0

$370,578 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development & ExecutionNegotiate Cooperative Funding Agreement with City 10/31/06 9/14/06



Contract sent to City for Approval 4/16/07 5/3/07

Signed Contract returned from City 5/14/07 6/4/07



2. Critical Project MilestonesAcquire All Permits, Government Approvals, & Real Property Rights for Project 6/4/08 4/4/08

Complete Design and Permitting 6/4/08 4/4/08




3. Project CloseoutSubmit AsBuilts 2/19/10 2/18/11 2/4/11



This project was delayed due to the City's contract development with their FEMA funding. The City requested a no cost

time extension due to the delay. The City had their pre-bid meeting and received 4 bids. The City selected the lowest

bidder, Kuxhausen Construction Inc. as the contractor. A pre-construction meeting was held on February 23, 2010 where

the contractor was given notice to proceed. Construction was completed December 2010. The City installed larger pipes,

new curb inlets and outfall pipes, and a Continuous Deflection Separator (CDS) unit to address flooding and improve

water quality that discharges to Hatchett Creek. The project was completed under budget with the District contributing

$155,865.50. The remaining $19,978.50 that was budgeted for the project will be returned to the Manasota Basin Board.


L693

Education - Water Education Exhibits at the Glazer Childrens

Museum in TampaProject Type Cooperative Funding

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality MonitoringFlood Protection Floodplain ManagementWater Supply ConservationNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and Monitoring



The Children's Museum of TampaCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe Glazer Children's Museum of Tampa has relocated to a new museum site in Riverfront Park in downtown Tampa.

This multi-year project is part of the City of Tampa's efforts to revitalize the downtown business district. This is the third

and final phase of a project to develop and install water exhibits in the museum. In FY2007, the District funded the

planning and development phase for interactive water exhibits. FY2008 funds paid for detailed specifications,

structural engineering, fabrication of support structure, construction of entrances, partial platform construction and

other expenses related to fabrication. In the conceptual phase, District staff and BBEC members were included in

several planning sessions for the design of the interactive water exhibits to ensure they incorporate the District's

message. The Water's Journey exhibit is a multi-story climbing structure where visitors "become" a drop of water and

move through the exhibit, starting deep within the aquifer, eventually penetrating the surface, which would then

become the watershed, climbing through trees to the upland area. The other District exhibit, originally conceptualized

as a bank, is evolving during the planning process to better reflect research on how children learn from exhibits.

Several concepts are being discussed for the interactive water conservation exhibit. Children would be provided

with the opportunity to make decisions and see the consequences of those decisions. The exhibit would convey the

importance of rainfall to the District's water supply by showing rainfall's effect on aquifer levels. Children would then be

presented with a variety of ways water is used in and around the home. They would be able to make decisions about

using water-conserving practices and watch how individual actions combine to impact the District's water supply. The

FY2009 funding is for exhibit construction and installation. The museum is scheduled to open to the public in late

September 2010.

BenefitsThe exhibits are multidisciplinary and designed to engage diverse learning styles. The museum is projected to draw

100,000 people annually. The interactive water exhibits address three elements of the District's AORs -- water supply,

water quality and natural systems -- in simple, easy-to-understand terms. Additionally, this project targets children ages

0-10 years and accompanying adults. This segment of the population was identified in an independent evaluation of

the District's youth education program as one to which the District needed to expand its reach. This project helps

accomplish this goal.

Costs

The total cost of the project (including building construction and all exhibits throughout the museum) is estimated to be

$20 million. The total contribution from the District, including FY2007, FY2008 and FY2009, is $617,442. In FY2007,

the basins shared $112,500 for the planning and development phase for interactive water exhibits. FY2008 funds were

for detailed specifications, structural engineering, fabrication of support structure, construction of entrances, partial

platform construction and other expenses related to fabrication. FY2009 funds are for completion of the exhibit

fabrication, installation and education program development. Phase 3 FY2009 funding request of $252,471 is

allocated as follows:

Alafia River: 12% $29,968;

Hillsborough River: 27% $68,900;

Northwest Hillsborough: 15% $37,340;

Coastal Rivers: 9% $22,249;

Pinellas-Anclote: 14% $35,396;

Withlacoochee River: 5% $12,821;

Peace River: 8% $20,550;

Manasota: 10% $25,247.

The funding splits for this project are based on cooperator-supplied projections of museum attendance. This project

anticipates reaching 100,000 people per year at a cost (for the total project, all phases) to the District of $6.18 per


L693

Education - Water Education Exhibits at the Glazer Childrens

Museum in Tampaperson. Typical museum exhibits have a 10-year life span. This project, therefore, has the potential to reach 1 million

visitors over a 10-year period at a cost to the District of $0.62 per person. The budget lines below include costs for

staff to manage the project.


Revenue








021 Manasota Basin 58,115 0 0 58,115 0 0


District

Glazer Children's Museum of Tampa 5,522,920 0 0 5,522,920 0 0

Other Funding Sources 19,091,102 0 0 19,091,102 0 0

$25,240,922 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2007 Budgeted FundsFY2007 purchase order opened 4/30/07 4/26/07

Confirmation and layout of exhibits in building 6/30/07 6/30/07

Schematic design and fabrication documents 12/30/07 12/14/07

FY2008 Budgeted FundsFY2008 contract executed 5/15/08 9/15/08 9/10/08

Project meeting with Museum staff and architect 7/6/09 7/6/09

FY2008 components completed 12/31/09 2/26/10 2/26/10

FY2009 Budgeted FundsFY2009 contract executed 9/1/09 10/30/09 11/4/09

Building construction complete 3/1/10 3/26/10 3/26/10

Exhibits installed 7/1/10 9/1/10 9/1/10

FY2009 components completed 8/1/10 12/31/10 12/31/10

Museum grand opening 9/30/10 9/25/10 9/25/10


ACTION TO DATE: Completed. Cooperator requested the performance completion schedules be extended to December

20. The cooperator completed project deliverables by the contract expiration date of December 31, 2010. The final report

and invoice are under review by District staff. The Glazer Children's Museum held its grand opening on September 30.

To date, an estimated 25,000 people have visited the museum.


L867

WMP - Sarasota GIS Dataset Development to Support Stormwater

Assets and ModelingProject Type Cooperative Funding





FITOS, EKATERINA, TURNER, DAWN, DICKS, STEVETask Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionSarasota County Environmental Services is creating and maintaining a comprehensive Geographic Information

System (GIS) database to support surface water modeling and stormwater asset management functions. This project

enhances the quality of the data supporting modeling activities by gathering accurate locations and characteristics of

key stormwater assets. Among many potential applications, these data will aid in the development and management of

watershed management plans through hydrologic model maintenance/updates and point and non-point pollutant

source identification. The funding will be used to enhance the County's current stormwater infrastructure database that

consists of control structures, inlets, pipes, pipelines, ditches, swales and retention/detention ponds. These data will be

used by the County to generate and maintain a common database that will support water quality, hydrologic and

hydraulic models. This database will also be compatible with the District's GIS database standards.

BenefitsDrainage infrastructure is a critical component in the calibration and verification of hydrologic and hydraulic models.

When fully calibrated, these models generate accurate stage-area relationships, allowing County staff to generate

precise floodplain maps needed to estimate flood risks. When paired with topographic data, Sarasota County will be

able to move ahead with Federal Emergency Management Agency Map Modernization efforts. The improved database

will allow the County to initiate proactive flood protection measures that include the rapid assessment and identification

of potential flooding hot spots, and development of complex what-if scenarios. The database will also support water

quality management efforts to ensure fishable and swimable waters. County staff will be better equipped to identify and

model key water monitoring locations within coastal watersheds.

Costs

Costs for FY2009 include $100,000 from the Manasota Basin Board and $150,000 from Sarasota County. The cost of

the project through FY2008 is $306,742. The Manasota Basin Board is contributing $100,000 and Sarasota County is

$206,742. For FY2010, $100,000 has been allocated in the Manasota Basin Board budget, and Sarasota County will

provide $900,000. The future funds identified for the project are contingent upon approval of such amounts by the

Manasota Basin Board in the annual budget. Additional costs are associated with staff time required to manage the

project.


As part of the hydrologic model and for the purposes of this project, horizontal survey data collection refers to

structures such as pump stations, weirs, ponds and wetlands which combine to form part of a drainage infrastructure.

By collecting this information through the means of a horizontal survey the data can be used for more accurate

modeling in the event of severe weather impacts or for planning purposes due to urbanization.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 207,938 0 (100,000) 305,425 0 2,513


District

Sarasota County 1,406,742 0 0 1,406,742 0 0

$1,614,680 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


L867

WMP - Sarasota GIS Dataset Development to Support Stormwater

Assets and Modeling


Phase 2 - FY 2008Contract Execution 12/19/07 9/15/08 9/5/08


Task 1 - Project Initiation Meeting and Field Collection 2/25/08 5/31/08 4/25/08

Task 2 - Field Data Collection 3/15/08 12/31/08

Task 3 - Establish Connectivity and Office QA/QC 3/15/08 1/31/09

Phase 3 - FY 2009Contract Execution 1/15/09 5/30/09


Task 1 - Project Initiation Meeting and Field Collection 1/31/09 1/21/09

Task 2 - Field Data Collection 2/28/09

Task 3 - Establish Connectivity and Office QA/QC 3/31/09

Phase 4 - FY 2010Contract Execution 9/30/10

Notice to Proceed 10/29/10

Task 1 - Project Initiation Meeting & Initiate Field Data Collection 10/29/10

Task 2 - Field Data Collection 7/29/11

Task 3 - Establish Connectivity and Office QA/QC 9/30/11

Status As Of: September 22, 2010

FY2009 - Phase 3: The project has been closed out. FY2010 - Phase 4: County staff notified the District they will not

proceed with signing the FY2010 funding agreement for this project. The project funds have been liquidated, so the funds

can be balanced forward into the Basin Board's FY2011 budget. Corresponding to the discussion at the June 2009,

kickoff meeting between the District and the County. Both parties agreed that the project would reap greater benefits if

efforts for the GIS Dataset collection were coupled with the flood plain mapping and watershed modelling activities.

Hence, the project has been transferred to Engineering Section. Dawn Turner will be the acting project manager

overseeing this project. A draft FY2010 Agreement was provided to County staff for signature. However, County staff

have provided comments regarding current agreement template language. Contracts and Legal staff are reviewing the

comments. If the requested changes are approved, revised agreement documents will be sent to Sarasota County for

signature. Florida Initiative ACTION-TO-DATE comment: FY2009 - Phase 3 project is completed.


L874

Design & Construction - Aqua Utility's Transmission and Pumps to

Service Lakewood RanchProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota

Aqua Utilities Florida, Inc.Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThis project consists of the design and construction of 7,500 feet of 12" reclaimed water transmission line, 16,500 feet

of 20" reclaimed water line, and a pump station to provide reclaimed water to the residential and agricultural areas in

the eastern part of Lakewood Ranch. The reuse transmission main will interconnect the Lakewood Ranch Phase

VII-D Lake, with new residential developments and existing agricultural areas along Loraine Road, south of University

Boulevard, and east along University Boulevard from Loraine Road.

BenefitsThe project will provide approximately 1.15 mgd of reclaimed water to meet the near term residential and agricultural

demands. Residential demand will be 0.57 mgd and agricultural demand 0.58 mgd. At build-out it will provide 1.5 mgd

to meet the irrigation need in this eastern area of Lakewood Ranch. It is projected that 100% of the reuse water will

replace future and existing groundwater demand from the Floridan aquifer.

Costs

The total project cost is estimated to be $3,274,000 and the District's share is $734,800 in FY2008 and $818,500 in

FY2009 for a total of $1,553,300. The WPSTF has budgeted $167,400 in FY2008. The cost, amortized at 8 percent

over 30 years, is $0.53 per 1000 gallon offset. Any additional funds are for staff time.


The agricultural customer is Shreoder Manatee (Water Use Permit 207846.022). Beyond the immediate residential

need, at build-out the project will provide 1.5 mgd of reclaimed water to meet the irrigation need in this eastern area of

Lakewood Ranch. It is projected that 100% of the reclaimed water will replace future and existing groundwater

demand from the Floridan aquifer. Of the $3,274,000 total cost, design is estimated to cost $320,000, and the

remaining $2,954,000 is allocated for construction.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,563,075 0 0 1,563,075 0 0



(Alternative Wtr)

167,400 0 0 167,400 0 0


District

Aqua Utilities 1,553,300 0 0 1,553,300 0 0

$3,283,775 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Begin Design: 11/30/07 12/14/07


L874

Design & Construction - Aqua Utility's Transmission and Pumps to

Service Lakewood Ranch

Execute Agreement: 1/31/08 3/24/08

Complete Design: 9/30/08 9/19/08

Start Construction: 11/30/08 1/5/09

Complete Construction: 11/1/09 8/31/09


The processing of the agreement was initially delayed due to funding considerations concerning WPSTF funds and

acquisition of the required insurance documentation. The agreement with Aqua Utilities was executed on March 24,

2008. DMK Associates was selected to design the project and completed the field study and design work on the

transmission line and pump station. The construction contract was awarded to the low bidder, Woodruff and Sons, Inc..

Construction on the transmission line began in January 2009 and all the 12 inch and 20 inch reuse pipeline was installed

as of April 16, 2009. The concrete pads, pumps and controls were installed by the end of August 2009. The system has

been tested and is complete. The first invoice from Aqua Utilities was submitted July 8, 2009. Additional documentation

was requested for that invoice from Aqua Utilities to allow that invoice to be processed for payment. A complete final

invoice was received by the District on October 25, 2010. District staff received the final required document on December

13, 2010 and has processed the final invoice for payment. The District's entire funding commitment has been

encumbered. The District reimbursed Aqua Utilities a total of $1,217,987.50 for the project. This project is consistent with

Governor Crist's Accelerate Florida Initiative to stimulate Florida's economy. Action-to-date: Completed.


L949

Conservation - Manatee - Low Flow Toilet Rebates



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThis project consists of offering financial incentives to single-family, multi-family, and commercial customers for

replacing conventional toilets with water-conserving equivalents. This project will target the replacement of

approximately 900 conventional toilets with ultra-low volume (ULV) toilets, which use up to 1.6 gallons per flush (gpf).

In addition, approximately 900 low-flow showerheads will be provided to participating customers to replace

conventional showerheads. The project will provide rebates for toilets at $100 per fixture. This proposed project is the

second phase to the Manatee County Indoor Water Conservation Project (L601) funded in FY2007.

BenefitsThis FY2008 project is anticipated to save an estimated 17,250 gallons of water per day or 6,296,250 gallons per year.

Costs

The total project cost is $126,144. The Manasota Basin Board funding share of 50 percent is $63,072 in FY2008.

Manatee County's 50 percent share is $63,072. The cost amortized at 8 percent over 20 years, is $2.07 per thousand

gallons. The savings is calculated using a weighted average due to the varying life expectancies of the different water

saving equipment.


In addition to providing financial assistance for the installation of low flow toilets, a goal of this project is to educate all

program participants on methods of indoor water conservation and proper maintenance practices to ensure low flow

toilets remain a water conservative fixture. Educational materials on flapper replacement and other water conservation

techniques will be disseminated to all program particpants. The county plans to hire a consultant to administer the

project. In regard to low flow showerheads, the county plans to initiate a showerhead exchange or new showerhead

inspection program to verify the replacement of high volume showerheads.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 87,255 0 0 86,498 0 757


District

Manatee County 63,072 0 0 63,072 0 0

$150,327 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Program Implementation 4/1/08 6/30/08

Complete Rebates 6/30/09 3/2/09

Distribution Report 7/30/09 7/9/09

Final Report 9/30/10 6/28/10


L949

Conservation - Manatee - Low Flow Toilet Rebates

Status As Of: July 06, 2010

From April 2009 to May 2009, Manatee County rebated 266 toilets. The District has reimbursed Manatee County

$61,768.50 for this project and has a balance of $1,303.50. Manatee County has completed a total of 1,461 toilet rebates

and exchanged 85 showerheads. The Distribution report for this project was received on July 9, 2009 and the final report

was submitted on June 28, 2010. The estimated project savings is over 8 mg per year. Manatee County has received all

the funds allocated by the District for toilet rebates. The project is now complete.


N084

Design & Construction - City of North Port Reuse Storage Tank and

High Service Pump StationProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota

City of North Port - Public Utilities, City of North PortCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Completed

DescriptionThis project will construct a 2.5 million gallon reclaimed water (RW) storage tank and design and expand the high

service RW pump station by adding a 3.3 mgd pump. This project will improve system pressures, increase peak

demand storage capacity, expand the customer base of the reuse system, and provide a higher level of service to the

customers. The Heron Creek Development (531,300 gallons per day [gpd]) has 2350 Equivalent Residential

Connections and a golf course. The reuse supply contract between the City and Heron Creek is for up to 500,000 gpd

of RW. The City can only provide an average of 200,000 gpd to Heron Creek with the existing system. With the new

tank and high service pump they will be able to provide the additional 300,000 gpd to Heron Creek and provide RW to

additional future customers.

BenefitsThe City plans to increase reuse flows to the Heron Creek Development by approximately 0.3 mgd to provide an offset

of 0.18 mgd of existing and future groundwater use by residential, commercial, and golf course customers. This project

will also provide the infrastructure that will enable the City to serve four additional customers with approximately 1.6

mgd of RW when additional lines are constructed. The project supports the City's Reuse Master Plan and will allow the

City to meet the demands of future growth in the City's service area.

Costs

The total project cost is $2,102,500 and the District's share is requested to be fifty percent or $1,051,250. The City

plans to spend $202,500 in FY2009 and the Manasota Basin Board has budgeted $101,250 which is fifty percent. The

Manasota Basin has been requested to provide $950,000 in additional funds in FY2010. The cost, amortized at 8

percent over 30 years is $3.38 per 1000 gallons offset. The future funds identified for the project are contingent upon

approval of such amounts by the District Governing and Basin Boards in the annual budget(s).


This project is to implement one of the recommendations of the City's Reuse Master Plan, supported and funded by

SWFWMD. The City of North Port's existing WWTP is permitted to provide 1.88 mgd of public access RW to the

customers of the system, which consist primarily of two major golf courses, the new City Complex, the North Port

Skate Park, roadway medians, and several bulk residential users. Growth in North Port has resulted in the need for

two additional WWTPs that will be constructed over the next 5-10 years, the West Villages District (WVID) WWTP

and the Panacea WWTP. Both of these two facilities will be designed to provide public access reclaimed quality water

to the customers in the region. In addition, the existing City's WWTP will be expanded to 7.0 mgd within the next 5

year period; therefore, the permitted capacity will be modified to reflect the new reclaimed water availability. This

project will allow the City to provide future RW service to the following new customers: *The Primary School, Middle

School and High School along Price Boulevard - 0.6 mgd *The Police Training Center on Price Boulevard - 0.1 mgd

*The Sembler Development and Butler Park - 0.7 mgd *Existing Residential and Commercial Areas along Pan

American Boulevard - 0.2 mgd Demands by these new customers will serve to increase RW use by nearly 1.6 million

gallons per day (mgd).


N084

Design & Construction - City of North Port Reuse Storage Tank and

High Service Pump Station


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 936,725 0 (117,577) 1,054,302 0 0


District

City of North Port 1,051,250 0 0 1,051,250 0 0

$1,987,975 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Start Construction Storage Tank 7/1/08 7/1/08

Complete Construction Storage Tank 3/31/09 4/30/09

Start Pump Station Design 3/31/09 4/10/09

Complete Pump Station Design 7/15/09 8/19/09

Start Construction Pump Station 10/1/09 10/1/09

Complete Construction of Pump Station 12/31/09 5/31/10 5/31/10


The District received the project scope of work from the City on December 11, 2008. A draft of the agreement was sent

to the City for review on December 31, 2008. The City's comments have been incorporated into the draft agreement. The

agreement was executed February 19, 2009. The construction of the storage tank started July 1, 2008 and was

completed April 2009. The design of the pump station started April 10, 2009 and was completed August 19, 2009. The

City has the contractor, that is currently upgrading the WWTP, constructing the pump station to reduce costs by

eliminating mobilization and demobilization costs. The pump station was scheduled to start October 1, 2009 and be

complete by December 31, 2009, however, the pump was delayed and was delivered and installed in May 2010. The City

requested the "Complete Construction of the Pump Station" date be changed to May 31, 2010. The City has submitted

the final invoice to the District for processing. The District received the final required documentation for payment on

January 27, 2011 and processed the final payment on January 28, 2011. The District budgeted $101,250 in FY2009 and

$950,000 in FY2010 for a total funding commitment of $1,051,250. The District has reimbursed the City a total of

$933,670.90 for the project. The project is complete.


N107

Conservation - Braden River - Soil Moisture Sensor Pilot



Basin(s) Manasota

Braden River Utilities, Bradenton River UtilitiesCooperator(s)

Project Manager MUSICARO, MELISSA

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe project consists of providing rebates for the installation of up to 400 soil moisture sensor (SMS) devices to control

irrigation for existing and new residential and non-residential customers in the Lakewood Ranch Development. The

project objective is to reduce irrigation water use and conserve water resources. Braden River Utilities (BRU) will

monitor the water use and savings for the participating homes, and compare it to that of non-participating homes as

part of the project evaluation to determine water savings. The project will include rebates of up to $495 for eligible

customers for the installation of SMS systems. The utility will administer the program and implement the following

measures: work with homeowners and businesses to install SMS systems, install master meters on 2 subdivisions

irrigation mains to track water use, and use of the Field Guide to Soil Moisture Sensor Use in Florida. BRU will work

with the local Manatee Extension Service office to conduct follow up inspections for the installed SMS devices.

Manatee County Extension will also monitor and document the condition of the landscapes.

BenefitsThe water savings benefit is to be determined.

Costs

The total project cost is $200,000, and the Manasota Basin Board approved funding in the amount $100,000 in

FY2009. The cost benefit is to be determined.


BRU proposed this project as a means to save water, as well as to evaluate this method of water conservation for

potential implementation in future development in Lakewood Ranch. District and BRU staff have refined project scope

details to ensure information about water use of project participants can be compared to water use of non-participants

to help both BRU and the District make decisions about promoting the use of soil moisture sensors. The number of

project participants may be reduced since the District is solely funding the water meter for monitoring the

non-participating homes.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 107,103 0 0 102,866 1,453 2,784


District

Braden River Utilities 100,000 0 0 100,000 0 0

$207,103 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Draft Agreement to Contracts Administration 8/3/09 8/11/09

Draft Agreement returned from Contracts Administration 9/30/09 9/23/09



N107

Conservation - Braden River - Soil Moisture Sensor Pilot


Sensor Installation Commence 1/31/11

Data Collection Evaluation Complete 3/31/13



The agreement was developed and the District project manager and cooperator finalized the scope of work in July 2009.

At that time, critical elements with the scope of work appeared to have been resolved. The draft scope includes customer

surveys at the completion of the project to gauge customer satisfaction with the devices and the overall project. District

staff asked Braden River Utilities (BRU) to request a letter from Manatee County Extension, with Manatee County

Extension accepting the responsibility of completing certain project tasks. The scope tasks Manatee County Extension

Service with the following: conduct follow-up inspections of landscapes, confirm proper installation of soil moisture

sensors, conduct educational workshop for participants. District staff received the letter mentioned above. The

agreement had not yet been executed due to BRU staff changeover and a more recent request in May 2010 to add an

additional brand of soil moisture sensor device that is not currently in the agreement. District staff had requested the

utility provide a letter explaining how this revision would enhance the project and to provide documented water savings

for this device in the residential sector. In August 2010, BRU decided not to request to add the additional sensor to this

current agreement, and agreed to sign the agreement. The agreement was executed on October 20, 2010.


N115

Conservation - Manatee - Indoor Water Conservation Retrofit

ProgramProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project consists of offering rebates to single-family, multi-family, and commercial customers for replacing

conventional toilets (3.5 gallons per flush or greater) with water-conserving equivalents. This project will replace 900

conventional toilets with ultra-low volume (ULV) toilets, which use up to 1.6 gallons per flush (gpf) or High Efficiency

Toilets (HET's) that use up to 1.28 gpf. The project will provide up to $100 rebates for toilets with a maximum of two

toilets per unit. This proposed project is the third phase to the Manatee County Indoor Water Conservation Project

which was originally funded in FY2007.

BenefitsThis FY2009 project is estimated to save 20,079 gallons per day (gpd), or 7,328,835 gallons per year.

Costs

The total project cost is $126,144. The Manasota Basin Board has funded 50 percent, or $63,072, in FY2009.

Manatee County's share is $63,072. The cost amortized at 8 percent over 20 years, is $1.46 per thousand gallons.

The savings is calculated using a weighted average due to the varying life expectancies of the different water saving

equipment.


Manatee County currently services over 90,000 potable water accounts and anticipates continued growth over the

next 20 years. This program is an indoor conservation component to Manatee County's existing Water Conservation

Incentive Program for the County's retail water customers. The program also addresses the Manatee County Board of

County Commissioner's policies on water conservation and is supported by the Utilities recent development of a

conservation based tiered rate structure for potable water. One year of account-level metered water-use data prior to

and one year of metered water use after the retrofit installation will be collected as the raw data for the final savings

analysis. Manatee County Utilities will provide actual billing data and ensure 100 percent fixture inspection. This

project will also institute an educational program designed to assist customers in long-term maintenance related to

water savings, such as selecting parts for repairs, leak detection and choosing proper replacement flapper models for

their HET or ULV toilets. This effort will ensure the retrofit fixture will remain a water-conserving fixture for its

life-expectancy. Bimonthly status reports will be provided to the District to update project accomplishments.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 73,237 0 0 70,158 761 2,318


District

Manatee County 63,072 0 0 63,072 0 0

$136,309 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



N115

Conservation - Manatee - Indoor Water Conservation Retrofit

ProgramExecute Agreement 5/1/09 5/1/09

Start Rebates 5/18/09 5/15/09

Final Distribution report 8/31/10 6/28/10



The agreement was executed May 1, 2009 and the project started May 15, 2009. The County has issued a total of 1,094

toilet rebates by the end of November 2009. The County has met the agreeded amount of 900 toilet rebates. The County

has continued to process rebates at it's own expense and now has a total of 2096 as of April 2010. The County

reguested it's first reimbursement September 15, 2009. The second and final invoice was processed for payment by the

District on January 28, 2010. The final distribution report was completed June 28, 2010. The final report is scheduled to

be submitted July 2011. To date, the District has reimbursed $62,398.09 of the $63,072 budgeted for this project. There

is a balance of $673.91.


N139

Low Impact Development Manual-Ph IV



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project will expand upon an existing Low Impact Development (LID) manual that was created in 2008 by Sarasota

County. The County requested cooperative funding in FY2010 to add three more sections to the manual. The new

sections will include vegetated filter strips, soil amendments and tree box planters. The Sarasota County

Comprehensive Plan states that the County shall provide design standards for LID measures to mitigate the effect of

impervious surfaces and stormwater pollutants on increased runoff volumes. LID design measures may include, but

are not limited to, bioretention areas, porous pavement, roof gardens, rainwater/stormwater recycling, etc. To initiate

the effort, Sarasota County contracted with the engineering firm of Jones Edmonds and Associates, Inc. (JEA) to

complete an assessment of possible LID techniques that may be effective in Sarasota County. In September 2007, the

assessment was completed and focused on three main categories (1) practices that promote infiltration, (2)

non-structural practices that help minimize or control runoff generation, and (3) practices that promote reuse. The

County has developed a design standards manual specific to the Sarasota County area. The manual was completed in

September 2008 and includes design specifications, construction requirements, potential pollutants to be removed,

and site limitations for four techniques; detention with biofiltration, pervious pavements, stormwater reuse, and

greenroofs. The County is currently expanding the manual by adding two new sections on bioretention for high water

table conditions and cisterns for rainwater harvesting.

BenefitsThe technologies promoted in the manual will reduce potable water use needed to support landscapes by using

cisterns, rain barrels and rain gardens. These technologies will also protect natural systems by reducing the load of

non-point source pollutants and reduce runoff entering receiving waterbodies while promoting recharge to the aquifer.

Costs

The total project cost is $130,000. In FY2010 the Manasota Basin Board will fund $65,000 while the cooperator will

match $65,000. The District funding amounts shown in the table include staff salary, travel and central garage

charges.


The District's Strategic Program Office Department has been involved in the development of the LID manual and has

provided training to District and County staff. The first training was held on December 19, 2008 and the second on

January 30, 2009. The District is currently developing a spreadsheet tool to assist with permitting the LID technologies

included in the manual.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 69,261 0 (5,000) 68,852 2,311 3,098


District

Sarasota County 65,000 0 0 65,000 0 0

$134,261 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


N139

Low Impact Development Manual-Ph IV


1. Contract Development & ExecutionDevelop Scope of Work 8/15/09 8/13/09

Draft Agreement to Cooperator 9/1/09 8/13/09

Execute Contract 10/31/09 3/31/10

2. Project TasksSelect Consultant 1/31/10 10/18/10

Draft Final Report 8/31/11



The cooperator approved the draft agreement in August 2009. The agreement was sent to the cooperator for execution

on December 17, 2009. The agreement was presented to the Sarasota Board of County Commissioners at their

February 2010 meeting for approval. The contract was executed on March 31, 2010. The execution recap was prepared

for the June 2010 Manasota Basin Board meeting. The cooperator advertised its Request For Proposals on July 13,

2010. The cooperator received the proposals on August 12, 2010 and has selected Watermark Engineering Group to

complete the project. The Sarasota Board of County Commissioners approved the agreement between Watermark and

the County on November 30, 2010. The cooperator provided the District project manager with a copy of the executed

agreement with its consultant on December 3, 2010.


N143



AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementWater Supply Alternative Water SupplyNatural Systems Natural Systems Conservation and Restoration

Basin(s) Manasota

Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis Basin Initiative (BI) project will provide specific education on Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM (FFL) in Sarasota

County to these targeted audiences in FY2012: (1) Homeowners will learn about rain barrels, cisterns, composting,

proper plant selection and installation; how to manage their irrigation systems and to check if their rain sensors are

working; how to make seasonal irrigation time clock adjustments, when to cap irrigation heads in areas with mature

plants and how to install micro-irrigation. (2) Staff/associates in retail plant nurseries will be educated on the basics of

FFL, irrigation system management and the use of rain barrels and cisterns. (3) Garden club and plant society

members will learn the basics of FFL and how to use rain barrels and cisterns. (4) Youth will learn about stormwater

runoff through demonstrations with the Enviroscape Nonpoint Source Pollution Model and the benefits of using rain

barrels, cisterns and compost. In addition, the coordinator will provide assistance to the Florida Water StarSM

program. Effectiveness will be measured by the number of participants in workshops, one-on-one interactions, and

school visits; potential exposure to electronic media; and distribution of printed education materials.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 51,586 0 (2,000) 53,586 0 0

$51,586 Total:

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Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding

Status As Of:


N181

Education - SEC Science Curriculum Enhancement Program


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality MonitoringWater Supply ConservationNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and Monitoring

Basin(s) Manasota

Science and Environment Council of SarasotaCooperator(s)

Project Manager TORRUSIO, MARY

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis Cooperative Funding Initiative (CFI) project's goal is to enhance student awareness about local water and

watershed conservation based on science. The components of the project are a teacher workshop to provide tools for

teachers to integrate water-related lessons into their curriculum, in-class instruction and a series of three or six field

trips to SEC member sites. The program is offered to Sarasota County science students in grades 6-12 and geared for

the on-level student. Student participants engage in inquiry-based activities, lessons and interaction with science

professionals and technicians. In-class instruction takes place several days before each field trip and serves as an

orientation to the field trip site, introduction to the lesson and discussion of careers in the field. The goal is that

students, through participating in the program, will understand the importance of preserving and managing our

watershed. While not all will choose science or water-related careers, they will have a better understanding of the role

scientists and water managers play. Evaluation includes student pre- and post-testing, and teacher evaluation forms.

Because the FY2010 project has not met expectations, at its June 16 meeting, the Manasota Basin Board approved

the cooperator's requested changes to the FY2010 project and extended the funding through the 2010-2011 school

year to attract more classroom participation. Since the FY2011 proposed project is based on a model that has not met

expectations, and because the FY2010 funding is being extended into FY2011, staff did not recommend funding the

FY2011 proposal.

BenefitsThe project's goal is to provide comprehensive science education opportunities to Sarasota County students in

grades 6 through 12. The basin has prioritized partnering with science-based organizations and the SEC is a group of

non-profit and government organizations that operate or support conservation and science-based facilities. SEC's

mission is to promote science, conservation and environmental issues in Sarasota County for maintaining and

improving quality of life through education, public outreach, demonstration, information gathering and analysis, and

special projects. By collaborating on projects, the SEC can offer services and provide educational materials that no

one organization can do alone. Through collaboration, the collective knowledge and expertise of all the organizations

allows SEC to strengthen science curriculum. Through this initiative, the focus of curriculum enhancement will be

water-related. The program is based on results of a two-year research study at Booker High School.

Costs

The total FY2010 project cost is $66,800, with the District contributing $33,400 (Manasota). District funding is used to

fund field trips, transportation, teacher workshop stipends, promotion materials, program evaluation and

administration. It is offered to Sarasota County science students in grades 6-12 and geared for the on-level

student.The program is projected to reach 390 students and 14 teachers at a cost to the District of $82.67 per

participant.


The SEC partners/contributors include Aquarian Quest, Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center, Crowley Museum and

Nature Center, Florida West Coast Resource Conservation and Development Council, Friends of Myakka River,

Friends of Oscar Scherer State Park, G.WIZ, Historic Spanish Point, Lemur Conservation Foundation, Marie Selby

Botanical Gardens, Mote Marine Laboratory, New College, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota Bay Estuary

Program, Sarasota Audubon, Sarasota Conservation Foundation, Sarasota County Extension and Florida House

Learning Center and Sarasota County Government.


N181

Education - SEC Science Curriculum Enhancement Program


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 33,400 0 0 33,400 0 0


District

Science & Environmental Council of

Sarasota (SEC)

66,800 0 0 33,400 0 33,400

$100,200 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



Complete lesson plans, activities for pre-visits and field trips 1/29/10 9/30/10

Promote field trip packages to teachers 2/26/10 2/26/10

Schedule field trips 2/26/10 9/30/10

Teacher workshop 3/15/10 9/30/10

Conduct pre-visits and field trips 5/28/10 5/28/10

Student and teacher assessments 5/28/10 5/28/10

Evaluate and refine program 8/16/10 8/16/10

Conduct pre-visits and field trips 10/29/10 9/15/10



ACTION TO DATE: On time with revised timeline. Two classes (85 students) from Laurel Nokomis Middle School

participated in a field trip to Selby Gardens. One class (37 students) from Island Village Montessori School participated in

a field trip to Myakka River State Park and a second trip to Mote Marine Laboratory is scheduled for April. To date, 439

out of a proposed 390 students and 10 out of a proposed 14 teachers have participated in the program.


N188

Mapping - Bradenton - NAVD88 Vertical Control Densification



Basin(s) Manasota


Project Manager OWENS, JIM

Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThe establishment of an accurate and easily accessible vertical control survey network is an important component in

the development of updated Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FEMA FIRM). The

District, in cooperation with the National Geodetic Survey and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, has

completed the Distict-wide vertical control densification. This project further enhances the existing vertical control

network to support FEMA FIRM mapping, topographic data collection and modeling activities. The newly-established

vertical control network allows the District and local governments to transition from the older and less accurate vertical

control survey network known as the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 to the more accurate North American

Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) system. In the City of Bradenton this includes running level loops and establishing

bench marks based on NAVD88 along city roadways. This project enables the surveying community to make an

orderly transition to NAVD88 and will allow the City of Bradenton to be on the same vertical datum as the District and

to comply with the federal surveying and mapping requirements. This project densifies the NAVD88 vertical control in

the City of Bradenton and compliments the District's NAVD88 migration project. The City of Bradenton will coordinate

all vertical control surveying with Manatee County (N151).

BenefitsDensification of benchmarks supports the development of Watershed Management Plans for Polk County thus

contributing to flood protection, natural systems, water quality and water supply. The City of Bradenton participates in

the National Flood Insurance Program administered by FEMA and requires that all finished floor elevations be above

the 100 year floodplain. This project is a key component in meeting this requirement. Also, the establishment and

implementation of the NAVD 1988 enables more accurate elevations and mapping throughout the District, and the

conversion to the modern vertical datum allows the ability to establish accurate and reliable elevations using Global

Positioning System (GPS) technology.

Costs

Total cost for contractual services in FY2010 Cooperative Funding Agreement is $136,600 where the costs are being

split (50%/50%) evenly between the District and the City of Bradenton. Cost to the Manasota Basin Board is $68,300.

The City is the lead for this project, and the District will reimburse the County 50 percent of the contractual services

costs not exceeding $68,300. Additional costs are associated with staff time required to manage the project.


This project will be administered by the City of Bradenton. The vertical control network survey work will be completed

by qualified professional surveying and mapping consultants. All newly-established vertical control network data

produced by this project will be made available through Internet access via LABINS web site and the Manatee County

web site.


N188

Mapping - Bradenton - NAVD88 Vertical Control Densification


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 70,249 0 0 70,249 0 0


District

City of Bradenton 68,300 0 0 68,300 0 0

$138,549 Total:

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Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


150 daysExecute Cooperative Agreement between the County and the District 12/31/09 2/26/10 3/12/10

180 daysExecute Contract with the Consultants 2/1/10 3/26/10 5/14/10

30 daysInitial Project Planning and Develop the Scope of Work 9/1/09 11/9/09

60 daysSubmit cooperative agreement for approval 10/1/09 10/16/09 11/13/09

730 daysFinal deliverables 12/30/11


The City of Bradenton approved and signed the FY2010 Cooperative Funding Agreement on February 24, 2010. The

District executed the agreement on March 12, 2010. The District project manager met with the City of Bradenton staff for

a kick-off meeting on March 31, 2010. The District project manager reviewed and approved the consultant contract as

submitted by the City. The surveying work is in-progress, 100 percent of the field work is complete, the City's Consultant

is preparing the National Geodetic Survey data submittal. Florida Initiative ACTION-TO-DATE comment: project is

proceeding on time.


N218

Design & Construction - Englewood's Additional Reclaimed Water

ASR Well and Pond ExpansionProject Type Cooperative Funding



Englewood Water DistrictCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project will design and construct a supplemental reclaimed water (RW) supply well and modify the intake

structure at the onsite reuse pond at the Englewood Water Reclamation Facility (WRF) to provide additional dry

weather irrigation supplies. RW is produced at the Englewood WRF, which serves portions of Charlotte and Sarasota

counties. Current RW storage includes a 1 MG above ground storage tank, wet weather storage ponds (onsite and

offsite), and a fully permitted ASR system. The ASR well provides 0.5 mgd of RW during peak demand periods and

has become a critical component of the reuse system. Without previous SWFWMD funding assistance for the ASR

program, EWD reuse would not be as efficient and connection of many current customers would not have been

possible. Installing an additional supply well into the ASR storage zone will increase the rate at which stored water can

be recovered during peak demand. An additional well approximately 600 feet in depth is required, along with a pump

and appurtenances to produce an additional 0.5 mgd, or about 15 mg of water during each peak month used.

Re-engineering the onsite wet weather pond will more effectively utilize available storage and freshwater in the surficial

aquifer at the WRF. Lowering the pump intake from the existing pond will provide additional water for irrigation. Reuse

demands during dry weather periods often exceed the available supply. This project will provide additional reuse

supply to existing customers during peak demand periods. These customers include Lemon Bay Golf, Oyster Creek

Golf, and Rotunda West Utilities in Charlotte County and Myakka Pines Golf, Englewood Sports Park, Boca Royale

Golf, and Gran Paradiso Subdivision in Sarasota County.

BenefitsThe project will provide approximately 82,192 gpd of additional reuse supply that will be used evenly between the

identified customers in Charlotte and Sarasota Counties. This project will offset approximately 61,644 gpd. The

cost/benefit ratio for the total estimated project cost of $260,000 averaging 61,644 gpd using an 8% annual interest

rate amortized over 30 years is $1.02/1000 gallons.

Costs

The total cost of the project is estimated at $260,000. Since the benefits are evenly split between customers in the

Peace and Manasota Basins, EWD is requesting $65,000 from each Basin Board for a total of $130,000 (50%) in

FY2010 funding. Design costs are estimated at $60,000 and construction at $200,000.


Without previous SWFWMD funding assistance for the ASR program, EWD reuse would not be as efficient and

connection of many current customers would not have been possible. This project will further increase this efficiency

and help EWD meet existing contracted amounts. EWD won the 2008 FWEA David York Award for small facilities (<

5 mgd), another example of the benefits that the previous funding assistance has had. Reuse demands during dry

weather periods often exceed the available supply. Additional reuse customers have been identified but the ability to

serve these users during peak demand periods will be problematic without additional supplemental sources. With the

lack of available fresh groundwater or surface water EWD is faced with developing alternative supplemental sources.

Supplemental sources currently identified include the following: Installing an additional supply well into the ASR

storage zone to increase the rate at which stored water can be recovered. A well approximately 600 feet in depth is

required, along with a pump and appurtenances to produce an additional 0.5 mgd, or about 15 mg of water during

each peak month used. Re-engineering the onsite wet weather pond to more effectively utilize available storage and

freshwater in the surficial aquifer at the WRF. Lowering the pump intake from the existing pond will provide additional

water for golf course irrigation to Lemon Bay Golf Course, and may allow EWD to add other golf course storage ponds

to be supplied from this pond. EWD advertises and helps enforce the District's watering restrictions, aids in Florida

Friendly education, and have imposed a steep graduated rate structure to discourage high water usage. The EWD

has a policy requiring any new significant development desiring utilities to include a RW irrigation system in its

infrastructure. EWD's reuse customers are conservation minded and only use the water deemed necessary to

adequately maintain the irrigated area.


N218

Design & Construction - Englewood's Additional Reclaimed Water

ASR Well and Pond Expansion


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 72,829 0 0 68,077 2,385 2,367


District

Englewood Water District 130,000 0 0 130,000 0 0

$267,829 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Execute Agreement 11/30/09 11/9/09

Start Design and Permitting 1/29/10 1/8/10

Complete Permitting and Preliminary Design 9/1/10 7/1/10

Start Construction of Intake Structure 12/31/10 12/31/10

Complete Re-engineering Onsite Pond 5/1/11 2/14/11

Complete long-term testing of pond 8/16/11

Start construction of well 12/30/11

Complete Well Installation 3/30/12


The agreement between the District and Englewood Water District (EWD) was executed November 9, 2009. The Task

Order with the consultant, ASRus was executed on the January 8, 2010 by the EWD Board. The design and permitting

kick-off meeting was held on January 29, 2010. As of April 30, 2010, ASRus has prepared the permit application. The

permit application was submitted to FDEP on May 23rd, 2010. FDEP issued the permit revision on August 19, 2010.

ASRus has set up 6 piesometers to evaluate the pond interaction with the surficial aguifer and are currently collecting

data. RW is now supplementing the EWD system. Groundwater levels are being recorded. The new pump was installed

January 21, 2011. Pumping started February 15, 2011 with a flow rate of 200 gpm. Testing has commenced and data is

being gathered. EWD has found that permitting the supplemental well with FDEP is very difficult. Since demands for RW

has decreased due to the bad economy and a difficulty in permitting, the well will not be constructed. The pond

modifications will be completed and the funding for the well will not be used. To date, the District has reimbursed the

EWD $0 of the available $130,000.


N231

Conservation - Manatee - Toilet Rebate Project - Ph IV



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis Ultra Low-Flow Toilet Rebate (ULFT) incentive program is for the County's retail water customers (residential,

multi-family, and commercial). The County currently services over 90,000 potable water accounts and anticipates

continued growth over the next 20 years. The objectives of this rebate program is to reduce water demand and provide

financial incentives for the replacement of an estimated 900 high-flow (3.5 gal/flush or higher) toilets. The program

addresses the Manatee County Board of County Commissioners policies on water conservation and is supported by

the recently increased Water Conservation Rates for potable water use. Any retail water customer who agrees to

replace a 3.5 gal or more toilet with a ultra-low flush (ULF) that uses 1.6 gallons per flush (gpf) or less, will receive a

$100.00 rebate for each toilet (maximum of two (2) toilets per unit). This project will also focus on educating the new

low volume toilet users on the proper maintenance, specifically flappers and leak detection, necessary to ensure that

each toilet remains a water conserving fixture. Rebate payments are subject to the recipient's submittal of the

completed application, documented cost, and will be distributed upon inspection of the completed installation and

verification that the old toilet is ready for disposal.

BenefitsThe estimated total water saving for this project is 21,425 gpd.

Costs

The total cost for this project is estimated to be $126,144. The cost/benefit is $1.62 per k/gallons, assuming a 20-year

life. The County has requested $63,072 (fifty percent) from the Manasota Basin Board in FY2010.


This incentive program is an enhancement to the County's existing Water Conservation Program. The program

includes existing metering and loss reduction programs, water conserving rate structures, urban and agricultural

reclaimed water irrigation supply (with the metering of all users and consumption based billing for all new users),

public education, Florida Friendly based landscape codes, SWUCA based level of service for water supply at 110

gpcpd, land development codes requiring non-potable sources for irrigation in new development, water supply

protection ordinances, and the use of aquifer storage and recovery for both potable and reclaimed water.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 70,038 0 0 66,149 1,522 2,367


District

Manatee County 63,072 0 0 63,072 0 0

$133,110 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Agreement Executed 3/12/10 5/20/10


N231

Conservation - Manatee - Toilet Rebate Project - Ph IV

Begin Rebate Program 5/1/10 5/20/10

Complete Rebate Program 5/31/11



The CFI agreement was executed May 20, 2010. The project began rebates under this project on May 20, 2010. On

June 16, 2010 the County informed the District that it's contractor for the project, Viewtech, has given notice that they will

stop providing the County administrative service for the rebate program. The County is now actively looking for another

contractor to continue the county toilet rebate program. The County issued 314 toilet rebates before the contractor

Viewtech quit. The County's Purchasing Department initiated a Request for Proposal (#10-2833FL) for a new contractor

and anticipates proposals by the end of January 2011. The project was on hold until a new contractor was found and

under contract. The County has located a new contractor named Demetri's Solution to finish the project. The contract

between Demetri's Solution and the County is being finalized as of February 25, 2011. The project should resume in

March 2011. The District has reimbursed the County $20,592 of the $63,072 encumbered by the Manasota Basin Board

for the project.


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Construction - North Port 1.5 MGD Dry Season ASR System -

Includes Oxygen Removal StudyProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota

City of North Port - Public Utilities, City of North Port, City of North PortCooperator(s)

Project Manager KELLEY, MIKE

Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed Coop. Funding Application

Recommendation

Fund as a 1A priority. This FY2012 funding request is for monitoring and pilot testing activities associated with the

District and City of North Port's funded, Aquifer Storage and Recovery well construction and testing. The project has

temporarily delayed construction of the City's degasification system at the ASR site. The delay was requested by the

District to ensure there is adequate time to confirm the performance of the degasification equipment being used for a

pilot project currently underway at the City of Bradenton's ASR site. Results of that project are successful and

recovered water is being used by the utility as source water. The requested funding will be for sampling, testing and

reporting that is required by the FDEP and will also be for pilot testing of de-gas methods. If successful,

implementation of the degasification system will minimize the mobilization of arsenic in the aquifer, provide the City

with the ability to meet regulatory requirements, and enable them to store wet season flow to provide 1.5 mgd of dry

season supply. There is sufficient data to evaluate the project, it is within the Basin Board's statutory authority to fund,

and it is not the result of a permit requirement or other enforcement action.

DescriptionThis project consists of an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Program in the City of North Port to create an

alternative water supply by treating excess wet season flows from Myakkahatchee Creek and storing it in the

mineralized Floridan aquifer. The location is downtown North Port at the water treatment plant. The goal of the project

is to develop a 1.5 million gallon per day dry season supply. FY2008 funding is for Phase V of the project which is for

the installation and testing of a degasification system and for the injection and recovery of treated water, cycle test 4.

Longer duration cycle tests will follow. These cycle tests should determine the effectiveness of removing dissolved

oxygen from injected water on arsenic mobilization in the aquifer and recovered water. Phase V will finish this project.

BenefitsThe goal of this ASR project is to develop a 1.5 million gallons per day (mgd) dry season supply (equivalent to an

annual average of 410,000 mgd). ASR is an effective method of optimizing the supply of water available from the

Myakkahatchee Creek. Combined with the City's allocation from the Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply

Authority (PR/MRWSA), this ASR project has the potential to enable the City of North Port to meet its needs until

approximately 2014.

Costs

The FY2012 funding request for $10,000 is to continue FDEP required sampling and testing of water quality in the

monitor wells and pilot testing of de-gas methods. Cycle testing at the Bradenton ASR site with a membrane de-gas

system has proven successful and recovered water is being used by the water supply utility. The estimated total cost

to conduct Phase V of the project is $639,000 and will be shared by the Manasota Basin Board and the City of North

Port on a 50/50 cost-share basis ($319,500 each). The Basin's contribution will be provided as follows: $75,000

previously approved in the Basin's FY2007 budget; $126,000 that is in the FY2008 budget; and the remaining

$108,500 is in the FY2009 and future budget years. Funding for FY2012 is combined with previous approved funding

to expand Phase V of the project to select a de-gas method and finish cycle test 4 and run additional longer cycle tests

at the City's ASR site. The total cost of the project is approximately $2,000,000 including prior phases I-IV and funding

through FY2010. The Manasota Basin Board and the City of North Port each contributed about $1,000,000.


Phase I determined ASR was the most effective method of optimizing the supply of water available from North Port

Utility's only local source, the Myakkahatchee Creek. The objective of Phase I was to determine the feasibility of ASR

at the North Port water treatment facility, and compare its merits and disadvantages with those of other forms of water

storage, primarily aboveground facilities. During Phase II, the City's consultant designed the ASR well system and

acquired construction and water use permits from the FDEP and the District. They also applied for a Class V injection

well permit from the FDEP. Phase III included construction and testing of the ASR well and monitor wells, and project

report writing. Phase III was initiated July 2001 and is complete. Line item adjustments have been made to Phase III to

change the focus of this ASR project from treated raw water to fully treated potable water ASR. Cycle tests one and

two were included in Phase III. Phase IV of the City's pilot ASR Program includes engineering services, hydrogeologic


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Includes Oxygen Removal Studyfield work, data collection and analysis, laboratory analytical services and completion report to accommodate the third

cycle test as required by the FDEP UIC permit for the project. The third cycle test was not included, as it was not

anticipated to be required by the FDEP at the time the Phase III agreement was finalized. The Phase III agreement is

being extended to 12/31/2005 to allow sufficient time to complete all activities related to finalization of the second cycle

test. Completion of the cycle test was hampered for a couple of reasons. First, the start of the injection portion of the

test was delayed due to a lack of water when the city was providing emergency water supplies to the PR/MRWSA

after Hurricane Charley hit the area in August 2004. The second major reason was the fact that the recovery portion of

the test was halted prematurely when the recovered water, which was directly discharged into Myakkahatchee Creek,

exceeded the standard for arsenic concentration of 50 micrograms/liter (ug/L). The DEP was contacted and the

second cycle test is considered complete. A third cycle test began 8/2/2005 and injected a million gallons per day of

treated water for 75 days which was to remain in storage 30 days. Recovery is delayed due to the construction of a lift

station to pump recovered water to the wastewater treatment plant because initial recovered water is anticipated to

exceed the 50 ug/L arsenic limit. When recovered water quality is below 50 ug/L arsenic the discharge will be to

Myakkahatchee Creek. The recovered water during Cycle Test 3 was all discharged into the sanitary sewer system.

The arsenic levels remained above the maximum contaminate level (10 ug/l) in the recovered water. The FDEP

construction and testing permit is complete for Cycle Tests 4 through 6.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,065,589 0 0 1,044,451 15,648 5,490


District

City of North Port 1,034,070 0 0 1,024,070 10,000 0

$2,099,659 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. PHASE IBoard Approval of Contract 11/24/98 11/24/98

Execute Contract 1/11/99 1/11/99

Feasibility Report Completed 10/28/99 10/28/99


2. PHASE IIBoard Approval of Contract 4/25/00 4/25/00

Board Approval of Contract 6/19/00 6/19/00


3. PHASE IIIBasin Board Approval of Agreement 5/16/01 5/16/01



FDEP Permitting (Construction and Testing) 7/31/01 7/31/01

Well Construction and Testing Completed 8/15/02 3/1/03

ASR Cycle Testing Completed 11/15/03 9/30/05

Final Report 12/31/03 12/31/05 12/31/05


4. PHASE IVBasin Board Approval of Agreement 12/15/03

Governing Board Approval of Agreement 12/15/03


Final Report 12/31/05 12/31/07 12/14/07


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Includes Oxygen Removal StudyContract Termination 12/31/05 12/31/07 12/31/07

FDEP Permit Required ASR Cycle 3 Testing Completed 8/15/06 12/15/06 12/15/06

5. PHASE VCooperative Funding Agreement 3/1/08 3/1/08


A meeting and field trip to the DeLand, FL ASR site was held with the City of North Port Utilities and their consultants.

The DeLand utility is testing a chemical addition method to pre-treat injection water so arsenic will be controlled in the

recovered water. Ongoing tests have shown success at arsenic control but revcovered water is too mineralized to use as

public water supply. A planning meeting will be held this month to determine what methods of de-gas pilot testing will be

run this summer. North Port has the contract amendment for additional monitoring and pilot testing. It went before the

city council in January and be signed and returned. It will modify the budget to allow for more monitoring and change the

completion date to July 1, 2016. Groundwater sampling and testing from monitor wells are ongoing. The water quality

has returned to ambient conditions and the ASR well flow has been shut off. The consultant is working on the

coordination, design review and engineering of the degasification equipment. North Port has submitted a 2012 coop

funding request for $10,000 for monitoring and pilot testing of their ASR well pretreatment system. ACTION-TO-DATE:

Delayed. An information request concerning the Accelerate Florida Program was mailed to the cooperator on October

15, 2008. District follow-up email on January 12, 2009 prompted an email from Jennifer Desrosiers, North Port Business

Manager, January 29, 2009. She sent a spreadsheet of preliminary action plans for projects with District funding. She

stated that she was eager to accelerate North Port projects. Specific to this ASR project she says "This project is being

monitored pursuant to our SWFWMD contract and we are awaiting the results of the pre-treatment study being

conducted at the Bradenton ASR project site to remove dissolved oxygen and other oxidants from the injection water to

mitigate the arsenic problem."


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WMP - Sarasota - Coastal Fringe Areas



Basin(s) Manasota



TURNER, DAWNTask Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a 1-A priority. This project was originally approved by the Manasota Basin Board as a multi-year project to

develop a Watershed Management Plan (WMP) for Sarasota County's Coastal Fringe Watersheds. The request for

funding in FY2011 is to continue to perform the elements of the District's Watershed Management Program.

DescriptionThis multi-year funded project is to perform the: 1) Topographic Information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, and 3)

Watershed Management Plan elements of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for several coastal

watersheds in Sarasota County. Watershed Management Plans will be updated for 1) the North Roberts Bay Coastal

Watershed, 2) the Lemon Bay Coastal Watershed, and 3) portions of the Sarasota Bay, Little Sarasota Bay,

Dona/Roberts Bay Coastal Watersheds. Combined, these Coastal Watershed areas cover approximately 25 square

miles within the County. The only areas excluded from Sarasota's Coastal Fringe are a small portion of the Little

Sarasota Bay Coastal (Vamo Road area) Basin and the Lyons Bay portion of the Dona Bay Coastal Basin, which are

currently being developed under a separate contract. The Coastal Fringe Watershed updates include developing

portions of the Watershed Management Program, as defined by the District, beginning with the North Roberts Bay

Coastal Watershed as Phase 1. The North Roberts Bay Coastal Watershed is approximately 5.9 square miles in the

coastal fringe of the Phillippi Creek and Matheny Creek Basins, including Siesta Key from Midnight Pass to Siesta

Drive. Phase 2 includes the Lemon Bay Coastal Watershed, which is approximately 7.2 square miles, excluding the

area outside of the County. Phase 3 includes portions of the Sarasota Bay, Little Sarasota Bay, Dona/Roberts Bay

Coastal Watersheds. The total area in Phase 3 is approximately 9.2 square miles. These areas currently do not have

the benefit of a Watershed Management Plan.



Resource Management and Environmental Resource Permitting (ERP). It assists local governments: 1) with their land


address level of service deficiencies and 2) by providing a geodatabase and projected results from watershed model

simulations for floodplain management and water quality management through the Total Maximum Daily Loads

(TMDL) process for their National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit requirements.

Costs

The estimated total budget amount for this multi-year project is $1,966,632, of which the District's share is $983,316 to

be funded over several fiscal years. For FY2007, the Manasota Basin Board originally budgeted $500,000 with an

equal match from Sarasota County. However, Sarasota County was only able to fund $246,491 of the original

$500,000. Correspondingly, the District only encumbered $246,491 in FY2007 as part of the cooperative funding

agreement. For FY2008, the Manasota Basin Board budgeted and encumbered $200,000 into the cooperative

agreement. However, because of budget shortfalls, Sarasota County was unable to provide any funding in

FY2008. For FY2009 Sarasota County encumbered $34,422 for project work. The District only budgeted staff time for

FY2009. In FY2010 Sarasota County budgeted $200,00 for project work; the District budgeted $39,031 in FY2010 in

order to reach the same level of funding. For FY2011 the Manasota Basin Board approved $200,000 in funding

with Sarasota County providing an equal match of $200,000. Requests for future funding are anticipated in FY2012.

As each project element is completed the project budget may require refinement based on the information gathered.

The future funds identified for the project are contingent upon approval of such amounts by the Manasota Basin Board

in the annual budget. The District funding amounts shown in the table include staff salaries, travel and central garage

charges.






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WMP - Sarasota - Coastal Fringe Areas

Management (CWM) initiative strategies. Future funding will be required in future years in order to complete

development the Watershed Management Plan for the Sarasota Bay Coastal watershed including: survey, GIS data

base development, watershed parameterization, computer modeling, floodplain analysis, and floodplain delineation,

Level of Service (LOS) determination, and BMP Alternative Analysis. A cooperative funding expenditure agreement

with Sarasota County was developed as a multi-year funded project contingent on the approval of future funding to

complete the WMP elements through the Watershed Management Plan. Sarasota County is the lead manager on

the project, where the District's project manager must approve any agreements with consultants to accomplish

project tasks. Future cooperative funding requests and agreements will be required for the Implementation of BMPs

and the Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 998,407 283,316 (253,509) 750,530 8,525 209,545


District

Sarasota County 983,316 102,402 0 480,914 200,000 200,000

$1,981,723 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Contract Development & ExecutionDevelop Draft Agreement with Sarasota County 12/20/06 5/25/07 7/1/07

Cooperative Agreement to Contract Administration 1/27/07 7/15/07 7/23/07


Execution of Cooperative Agreement by SWFWMD 5/10/07 9/5/07 9/12/07


Phase 1 - North Roberts BayReceive / Review LiDAR Information 2/10/08 8/31/08 10/30/08

Digital Topographic Information - Start 3/10/08 12/31/08 1/7/09

Watershed Evaluation - Begin 5/10/08 2/25/09 2/25/09

Digital Topographic Information - Approved 7/10/08 5/20/10 5/20/10

Watershed Evaluation - Approved 8/10/08 9/30/10 9/30/10

Watershed Management Plan - Begin 9/10/08 8/20/10 9/30/10

Watershed Management Plan - Approved 12/30/08 4/20/11

Phase 2 - Little Sarasota BayWatershed Evaluation - Begin 10/1/10 10/25/10 10/20/10

Watershed Evaluation - Approved 3/30/11

Watershed Management Plan - Begin 6/30/11

Watershed Managemnt Plan - Approved 9/30/11


Currently, for the North Roberts Bay watershed, deliverables for feature inventory, terrain information and other

watershed parameters are complete and have been delivered for review. Minor corrections and other changes have

been forwarded and will be incorporated into revised versions of the deliverables. ERP files (permits) have been

requested for review and developing additional information on features and elevations. Work continues on the watershed

evaluation. Staff evaluated and approved a request to combine several coastal sub-basins (for modeling purposes).

These include areas that are under the primary influence of storm surge events and drain directly to the bay. Work on the

Little Sarasota Bay watershed areas began in FY2011. Revised floodplains and a revised ICPR model for Little Sarasota

Bay have been received as part of the current set of deliverables submitted for review and comment.


N263

WMP - Manatee - Watershed Evaluation (Incl N215)



Basin(s) Manasota

Lynn Townsend & Associates, LLC., Manatee CountyCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a 1-A priority. A senior administrator has provided confirmation that the County and each of the three Cities

will budget the project for FY2012. Completing elements of the District's Watershed Management Program is one of

the District's Strategic Priorities for managing the water resource, and provides information to local governments to

address land use changes and stormwater management within a specific watershed.

DescriptionThis is a multi-year funded project to perform the Watershed Evaluation element of the District's Watershed

Management Program (WMP). The project area is 745 square miles, located in Manatee County. The Watershed

Evaluation element is the collection and organization of detailed information such as land elevation, ditches, culverts

and other stormwater management features that affect how water moves within a watershed. The Watershed

Evaluation tasks include the collection of existing data, development of the geodatabase, Geographical Information

System (GIS) processing, field reconnaissance, and development of preliminary model features. The information is

organized as a geodatabase in the GIS. The Watershed Evaluation establishes the complexity of the watershed and

provides a geodatabase that defines the watershed's natural conveyance and storage features, and stormwater

infrastructure. With FY2012 funding, the collection of existing data and development of the geodatabase tasks of the

Watershed Evaluation will be completed. Future funding may be required to complete the remaining tasks.

BenefitsThe Watershed Evaluation is the foundation for the Watershed Management Plan, the next element in the Watershed

Management Program. Completing elements of the District's Watershed Management Program is one of the District's

Strategic Priorities for managing the water resource, and provides information to local governments to address land

use changes and stormwater management within a specific watershed.

Costs

The projected cost for this project is $820,000, of which the District's share is $410,000 and the cooperators' share is

$410,000. Manatee County will contribute $370,000. City of Anna Maria will contribute $7,500. City of Bradenton

Beach will contribute $7,500. City of Holmes Beach will contribute $25,000. For FY2012, $210,000 is included in the

Basin's budget and the cooperators will contribute $210,000 ($185,000 from Manatee County, $5,000 from City of

Anna Maria, $5,000 from City of Bradenton Beach and $15,000 from City of Holmes Beach) for a total of $420,000.

With FY2012 funding, work on Watershed Evaluation tasks will begin. Future funding will be required for the

remainder of the Watershed Evaluation tasks. Future funds identified for the project are contingent upon approval of

such amounts by the Governing Board and Basin Board in their annual budget. When each task is completed, the

project cost and scope may require refinement based on the information gathered and unforeseen circumstances. The

District funding amount shown in the table includes staff salaries.


The WMP includes five major elements: 1) Topographic information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, 3) Watershed



The District has worked with the County to develop an implementation schedule by watershed based on their

projected funding levels. The District is managing the project entering into agreements and purchase orders to

accomplish project tasks. A cooperative funding agreement will be developed as a multi-year funded project

contingent on the approval of future funding to complete the project. This project will require a cooperative funding



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WMP - Manatee - Watershed Evaluation (Incl N215)


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 426,313 0 0 0 224,411 201,902


Anna Maria - Anna Maria Island WS

Collab (N263)

7,500 0 (2,500) 0 5,000 5,000

Bradenton Bch - Anna Maria Island WS

Coll (N263)

7,500 0 (2,500) 0 5,000 5,000

Holmes Bch - Anna Maria Island WS

Collab (N263)

25,000 0 5,000 0 15,000 5,000

Manatee Co - Countywide GIS SW

(N263)

370,000 0 0 0 185,000 185,000

$836,313 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesCooperative Agreement Executed 3/1/11

Consultant Agreement Executed 3/31/11

Termination of Cooperative Agreement 10/1/13


Project (N215) Anna Maria Island - Watershed Evaluation has been merged into this project. Please refer to N215 to

access CFI application documents. A kick off meeting is scheduled for 11/10/10 with Manatee County & the Island

communities to gain their input so that a project schedule and budget could be finalized. Current Status: District is in the

process of writing the agreements with Manatee County and the Island communities.


N277

Design & Construction - North Port's Reclaimed Water

Transmission Main Phase 1Project Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a 1A priority. This is a multi-year funded project and this is the second years' funding request. This project will

provide additional infrastructure to support the City's Reuse Master Plan and future development of the City's

reclaimed water (RW) system. The project is consistent with the basin objectives by using an alternative water source

to offset potable water use. This project is located in the Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA). There was

sufficient information provided to evaluate the project and the cooperator has confirmed it will include the necessary

matching funds in its capital budget for FY2012. This project is within the District's statutory authority to fund and is not

the result of a permit requirement or enforcement action.

DescriptionThis project consists of the design and construction of approximately 22,000 feet of 16 to 24 inch RW transmission line

to replace over 1.3 mgd of potable groundwater used for irrigation. This is an extension the City's Reclaimed Water

System and is supported in the City's Reuse Master Plan . The new RW customers that will be connected to the

system include the Gardens of the Five Senses; Glenallen Elementary School and soccer fields; Narramore Sports

Park; Police training course; North Port High School; Heron Creek Middle School; Butler Park; and the future Youth

Community Center.

BenefitsThis project will provide over 1.3 mgd of RW to the Gardens of the Five Senses; Glenallen Elementary School and

soccer fields; Narramore Sports Park; Police training course; North Port High School; Heron Creek Middle School;

Butler Park; and the future Youth Community Center to offset approximately 0.8 mgd of existing and future potable

groundwater use.

Costs

The total project cost is $3,890,000 and the District's share is requested to be fifty percent or $1,945,000. The City

plans to spend $389,000 in FY2011 and the Manasota Basin Board has budgeted fifty percent or $194,500. The

Manasota Basin is being requested to provide $583,500 in FY2012 and $1,167,000 in FY2013. The future funds

identified for the project are contingent upon approval of such amounts by the District in the annual budget. The

cost/benefit for the project cost using an 8 percent annual interest rate amortized over 30 years is $1.56 per thousand

gallons offset.


In 2007 the City of North Port and the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD) entered into an

agreement to fund the City of North Port Reuse Master Plan Project L629. One of the objectives of the project was to

provide preliminary designs and recommendations for the expansion of the RW system. The City of North Port

adopted this Reuse Master Plan, which set forth a program of capital improvements designed to expand the RW

transmission system. The City entered into a contract with SWFWMD to fund the construction of a RW storage tank in

2009, which will provide the necessary storage capacity to serve future customers. The City of North Port has one of

the lowest per-capita water use rates in the region, approximately 76 gallons per-capita per day (gcpd). This can be

attributed to an extensive conservation program which includes a tiered-rate structure, a reuse water program, a toilet

rebate program, community and educational efforts, irrigation enforcement, and the pursuit of floodplain management.

RW is provided to golf courses, residential developments, the government complex, commercial businesses and

roadway medians. The City is expanding reuse in accordance with the 2007 Reuse Master Plan to offset potable

water use. Water conservation is enforced by issuing tickets and fines for irrigation violations. The conservation

program offers brochures and literature, conservation classes for children at schools and several neighborhood

associations, and conservation displays at the Business Expo, the North Port Library and public buildings. The City

hosts special events such as a Florida Friendly Landscaping seminar and the Environmental Fair at the Garden of the

Five Senses. The City's website provides specific information on water conservation and the City's Consumer

Confidence Report includes a section on water conservation that is sent to all utility customers. Floodplain

management projects include watershed hydraulic modeling to evaluate effective best management practices and

alternatives in the Big Slough, Myakkahatchee and Charlotte Harbor Watersheds, stormwater management education,


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Design & Construction - North Port's Reclaimed Water

Transmission Main Phase 1evaluation of flood control structure within the City's stormwater canal system, a stormwater study to assess projects

and funding, and continued maintenance programs for debris and vegetation removal from the City waterways. In

addition, in November 2007, the City of North Port passed Ordinance No. 2007-45, Fertilizer and Landscape

Management, in an effort to protect the quality of the City's potable water.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,951,224 1,167,000 0 0 585,885 198,339


District

North Port 1,945,000 1,167,000 0 0 583,500 194,500

$3,896,224 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Start Survey, Design, and Permitting 3/31/11

Complete Survey, Design, and Permitting 12/31/11

Start construction 3/31/12

Complete construction 10/31/13


The City submitted the project plan (Exhibit B) for the Cooperative Funding Initiative (CFI) agreement on October 5,

2010. The District is processing the CFI agreement.


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Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - Manatee - Wares

Creek WatershedProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a high priority. This project is implementation of BMPs. Dredging, channel widening and bank stabilization of

Wares Creek will improve flood protection on an intermediate system waterway. A senior administrator has provided

confirmation that the County will budget the project for FY2012 funding. The county has ranked this project first of 9

submitted for cooperative funding. The County has requested $1,660,292 in cooperative funding for FY2012, however,

District staff is recommending that no funds be provided as there remains sufficient previously budgeted funds for the

next fiscal year.


the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for the Wares Creek Watershed. Implementation of BMPs

includes the following tasks: design, development of construction documents, construction permitting, land acquisition,

bidding and contractor selection, construction of the BMPs and construction engineering and inspection. Wares Creek

is an intermediate-scale system that conveys stormwater from a 6.23 square mile watershed that flows from the

unincorporated areas of Manatee County north through the City of Bradenton before discharging to the Manatee River.

The Wares Creek Flood Protection Project is a joint effort between Manatee County (County) and the United States

Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), as authorized by the U.S. Congress in the Water Resources Development Act of

1996, to reduce flood damage within the Cedar Hammock (Wares Creek) Drainage Basin located in west central

Manatee County. The USACE has proposed dredging, channel widening and bank stabilization of Wares Creek to

reduce flood levels to within-bank for a storm event of a 10-year magnitude. Wares Creek channel improvements will

begin at the confluence of Wares Creek with the Manatee River and end at the 44th Avenue West crossing (Cortez

Road). The USACE and the County have segmented the project into three phases. Phase 1 is that section of Wares

Creek from the Manatee River to 9th Avenue West. Phase 2 is that section of Wares Creek from 9th Avenue West to

17th Avenue West. Finally, Phase 3 is from 17th Avenue West to Cortez Road.

BenefitsThe project will provide additional capacity within the stream banks and, thereby, provide an improved level of service.

These improvements will address structure flooding along Wares Creek by providing flood protection for homes

currently inundated and damaged during the 10-year flood event. Based on an analysis prepared by the USACE, the

project will provide a positive benefit/cost ratio.

Costs

The total projected cost for this project, as estimated by Manatee County, is $46.9 million of which the District's share

is $12,576,828. The County will also contribute $12,576,828. Additional funding of $3,050,000 will be provided by the

Florida DEP and $18.7 million will be provided by the US Army Corps of Engineers. Prior District funding for this

project totals $10,916,536. The County has provided $10,916,536 in matching funds. For FY2012 the County is

requesting cooperative funding of $1,660,292 which is the amount required to complete the District's obligation to fund

the project. The County will provide $1,660,292 in matching funds. No cooperative funding for FY2012 is

recommended for this project as District staff does not believe that these funds can reasonably be spent during the

fiscal year. There are previously budgeted funds which are available for the next fiscal year. When each element is

completed the project budget and scope may require refinement based on the information gathered. The District

funding amounts shown in the table include staff salaries.





provides a method to evaluate the capacity of a watershed to protect, enhance and restore water quality and natural

systems while achieving flood protection. This project involves the Implementation of BMPs. In FY2000 the Basin

Board agreed to participate with Manatee County in the project by providing one-half of the County's required share of

5% of the total project cost. The Basin Board budgeted $346,000 in FY2000 and a cooperative funding agreement


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Creek Watershedwas executed. A second cooperative funding agreement was developed in FY2001 for the Wares Creek Project for

rights-of-way and easement acquisitions necessary to construct the creek enhancements. At the request of the

County, a new cooperative funding expenditure agreement, voiding the two original agreements and incorporating

revisions to the project schedule and budget, was developed in 2008. The District is also co-funding project L200 with

the City of Bradenton which will replace 4 bridges across Wares Creek within the city limits and will provide additional

flow capacity within the stream banks.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 12,626,574 1,660,292 0 10,960,725 2,189 3,368


District

Florida DEP (Bradenton) 500,000 0 0 500,000 0 0

Florida DEP (Manatee County) 2,550,000 0 0 2,550,000 0 0

Manatee County 12,576,828 0 0 10,916,536 1,660,292 0

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 18,700,000 0 0 18,700,000 0 0

$46,953,402 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesDistrict signage will be provided on all construction signs. 12/1/02

2. 5% ConstructionDistrict Agreement Execution 5/31/00 5/31/00

USACE Execution of the Memorandum of Agreement 1/31/01

Permitted Construction Drawings 3/15/01 10/31/09 10/31/09

Begin Construction 12/1/02 3/1/11



3. Rights-of-Way AcquisitionsDraft Agreement to Management Services 12/15/00 1/18/01

Survey Work Began 12/18/00 12/18/00





Commence Land Acquisition 2/2/04 2/2/04

Complete Land Acquisition 6/30/11

4. FY 2005 FundingDraft Agreement to Management Services 6/30/04 6/30/04




Project Complete 12/30/04 12/31/06


5. New Agreement (FY 2006/2007/2008 funding)Contract Executed 3/31/07 3/6/08



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Creek WatershedFunds Encumbered 4/15/07 3/24/08

Project Complete 12/31/12



Status History: County staff began the acquisition of land and easements necessary for the project in February 2004 and

that work continues today. The County has submitted four requests for reimbursement for land and easement acquisition

totaling $6.2 million which have been approved. The USACE and the FDEP completed negotiating conditions of the

Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) in July 2010. ACTION-TO-DATE: Delayed. Land acquisition for Phase 1 (between

the Manatee River and 9th Avenue West) has been completed. Land acquisition for the remainder of the project is

continuing and is almost complete. The USACE is negotiating a contract for the dredging of Wares Creek from the

Manatee River south to 9th Avenue West. Award of the dredging contract is anticipated for February 2011 with

construction to start in March 2011. Construction will take about 6 months. The Corps expects to award a contract for the

next phase of the work (between 9th Avenue West and 17th Avenue West) in the fall of 2011 provided that the County

has completed all land acquisition necessary for that phase of the work.


L019

WMP - Update Sarasota County Watersheds



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a High priority. A senior administrator has provided confirmation that the County will budget the project for

FY2012. Completing elements of the District's Watershed Management Program is one of the District's Strategic

Priorities for managing the water resource, and provides information to local governments to address land use

changes and stormwater management within a specific watershed.

DescriptionThis is a multi-year funded project to perform the Watershed Evaluation, Watershed Management Plan, and

Maintenance of Watershed Parameters and Models elements of the District's Watershed Management Program

(WMP) for multiple watersheds within Sarasota County. The County area is approximately 570 square miles and

includes 28 watersheds. The Topographic Information, Watershed Evaluation and Watershed Management Plan

elements were completed by the cooperator for 18 watersheds before implementation of the District's Watershed

Management Program Guidelines and Specifications (G&S). Through agreements 06C00000087, 07C00000105, and

07C00000105-A, the County prepared Digital Topographic Information for inland areas, and performed maintenance

of County watershed models to reflect capital improvement projects (CIPs) and land alterations approved through

County and District permitting. The maintained models are being used to prepare Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs)

for Sarasota County. A Watershed Management Plan provides a method to evaluate the capacity of a watershed to

protect, enhance, and restore water quality and natural systems, while achieving flood protection. The Watershed





infrastructure. The Watershed Management Plan tasks include watershed model parameterization, computer

modeling, floodplain analysis, peer review of floodplain results, public notification, public meeting, Governing Board

approval of floodplain results, surface water resource assessment (water quality analysis), establishment of level of

service (LOS), and Best Management Practices (BMP) alternative analysis. WIth FY2012 funding, annual

maintenance of County watershed models will continue. Future funds needed to continue annual maintenance will be

contingent upon appoval by the Basin Board in their annual budget.



resource management and Environmental Resource Permitting (ERP) responsibilities. It assists local governments

with their land management responsibilities by identifying the floodplain, establishing a level of service, evaluating

BMPs to address level of service deficiencies, and providing a Geodatabase and projected results from watershed

model simulations for floodplain management and water quality management. The continuous maintenance of

watershed parameters in the GIS database as land alterations are made and permits are approved will provide the

most up to date information about the watershed.

Costs

The projected cost for this project is $3,436,644, of which the District's share is $1,513,332, and the County's share is

$1,913,332. The budget amount for this project varies by year depending on the County's anticipated need for

maintenance of watershed parameters and models. With $2,636,665 in prior funding ($1,113,332 District's share),

LiDAR topographic data was obtained, and county watershed models were maintained to include permitted land

alterations, address gaps and overlaps in watershed boundaries, and add overland flow connections. For FY2011,

$200,000 was included in the Basin's budget, and Sarasota County will contribute $200,000 for a total of $400,000.

With FY2011 funding, existing County watershed models will be maintained to reflect completed projects and address

comments produced by the District, County, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the review

of model results and preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) for Sarasota County. For FY2012, $200,000 is

included in the Basin's budget, and Sarasota County will contribute $200,000 for a total of $400,000. WIth FY2012


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funding, annual maintenance of County watershed models will continue. Future funds identified for the project are

contingent upon appoval of such amounts by the Basin Board in their annual budget. When each element is

completed, the project cost and scope may require refinement based on the informaiton gathered and unforeseen

circumstances. The District funding amount shown in the table includes staff salaries.





Sarasota County will manage this project. The County completed Watershed Management Plans for 18 watersheds

during 1999-2002. Model maintenance was initiated in 2003, and is currently performed on an annual basis. This

project will require a cooperative funding request each fiscal year. The District is a cooperating technical partner (CTP)

with FEMA. Floodplain results will be submitted to FEMA, and flood insurance rate map (FIRM) panels will be updated

by FEMA based on their schedule and budget.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 4,699,314 2,000,000 (556,666) 2,846,880 206,445 202,655


District

Sarasota County 4,948,333 600,000 0 3,948,333 200,000 200,000

$9,647,647 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesReference Project M115 for milestones for FY2004 funding 12/31/04

Recognition of District, Basin Board, County on reports 12/31/09

2. FY2005 Cooperative Funding AgreementAgreement to Management Services 1/30/05 1/18/05

Negotiate FY2005 Cooperative Funding Agreement with County 4/1/05 11/7/05





3. FY2007 Cooperative Funding AgreementNegotiate FY2007 Cooperative Funding Agreement 8/1/07 7/30/07

FY2007 Agreement to Management Services 8/1/07 8/1/07



Submit Requisition for FY2008 Funding 11/9/07 1/25/08


3. FY2007 Cooperative Funding AgreementFirst Amendment to Management Services 9/30/08 1/8/09

County Commission Approval of 1st Amendment 12/1/08 2/11/09

Execute First Amendment 12/31/08 2/19/09

4. FY2010 Cooperative Funding AgreementAgreement to Management Services 12/9/09 12/9/09

County Commission Approval of Agreement 4/15/10

Execute FY2010 Agreement 4/30/10 3/31/10


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Reference project M115 for status of topographic information and model updates performed by the District with FY2004

funding. Both the Manasota Basin Board and Governing Board approved changing the management of the FY2004

funds from the County to the District, using the $420,000 in Basin Board funds to update Watershed Management Plans

in conjunction with the FEMA Map Modernization project, and using FEMA funds to serve as the match for the Basin

Board's FY2004 funds. Cooperative Funding Agreement 06C00000087 encumbers FY2005 and FY2006 funds

($713,332 total, $356,666 District's share). Under the agreement two coastal areas that were not previously studied will

be incorporated into the appropriate watershed models. Because the County's existing watershed models were

developed prior to the District's WMP G&S, staff has had to negotiate a compromise on how the G&S will be satisfied. In

addition, seventeen recent developments will be incorporated into existing watershed models as routine maintenance

activities. The agreement and associated documents were approved by the Sarasota BOCC on April 11, 2006, and were

executed by the District on May 4, 2006. A Second Agreement, No. 07C00000105 was executed, and encumbers

FY2007 and FY2008 funds ($356,666 and $200,000 respectively). The First Amendment to Agreement #07C00000105

was executed to expand the scope of work to include updates to the Upper Myakka River/Howard Creek and Lower

Myakka River watersheds. In 2007, the Florida Department of Emergency Management (FDEM) obtained LiDAR

topographic data for the coastal portion of the County. Consequently, Agreement 07C00000105 includes the

development of LiDAR topographic data for the rest of the County, which has come to be called the "Buy-Up" area. Both

the FDEM data and the LiDAR data for the Buy-Up area were scheduled to be complete in January 2008. The LiDAR

data for both areas was only recently delivered (August 2008), 8 months after the anticipated delivery date. The LiDAR

data was finally approved for use on October 10, 2008. Please refer to M115 for further information regarding the

resulting impacts to the Sarasota Map Modernization project schedule. Current Status: The maintenance reports

associated with the a number of developments have been submitted related to the cooperative agreement using FY2005

funds. Project status meetings have been held with the County's consultants regarding the updates being performed for

Little Sarasota Bay and Dona Bay. The County's consultants are completing the Watershed Evaluation element for their

respective basin areas. In addition, funding will also be allocated for maintenance activities associated with CIPs and

approved developments and to update the existing models based on comments provided by the District, County, and/or

FEMA during the review of the preliminary FIRMs for Sarasota County. For Agreement #06C00000087, a total of

$337,591 of the $356,000 in District funds has been invoiced and paid. The First Amendment to the Agreement

06C00000087 extended the contract expiration date from June 30, 2008 to June 30, 2009. The second Agreement

(Agreement #07C00000105) encumbers FY2007 funds, ($356,666), & FY2008 funds, ($200,000). The First Amendment

to Agreement 07C00000105 was executed to add the Upper and Lower Myakka River watersheds to the list of County

watershed models that may be updated. County staff notified the District they will not have the matching funds for this

project in FY2009. Therefore, the FY2009 funding ($400,000 total, $200,000 District share) has not been added to the

Agreement. $400,000 ($200,000 District's share) in FY2010 has been added to the Agreement, making the total value of

the agreement $1,513,332 ($756,666 District's share). Aerial mapping of the portion of the County not covered by the

State of Florida Department of Emergency Management's LiDAR mapping project has been completed to support

maintenance. However, delivery of the final LiDAR topographic information was delayed over 10 months. For Agreement

# 07C00000105, a total of $674,562 of the $756,666 in District funds has been invoiced paid.


N014

Education - Florida Aquarium's Watershed Education Initiative





The Florida Aquarium, Inc., The Florida Aquarium, Inc.Cooperator(s)

Project Manager UNSER, SALLY

Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as High priority. The Florida Aquarium's focus on Florida's fresh water makes this science-based attraction's

goals closely aligned with the District's mission. The Florida Aquarium Watershed Education Initiative proposes to

continue programming that enhances the District's watershed education efforts by providing participants with a better

understanding of Florida's ecology through summer camps, advanced training for students and teachers in

environmental issues, and indepth teacher training. This project has several strengths: (1) its alignment to the District's

mission; (2) its summer camp program for minority and at-risk students, which is an audience the District has

identified for additional outreach; and (3) its incorporation of multiple learning approaches that encourage learning new

behaviors and environmental leadership skills. The program costs are within acceptable ranges for similar types of

youth education projects with the exception of the weeklong SEAS teacher training component, which is nearly twice

the cost per contact hour of other proposed teacher trainings. The indepth nature of this training justifies the addtional

costs for that component. The proposed program is aligned with Basin Board priorities for education.

DescriptionThis Cooperative Funding Initiative (CFI) project proposes to educate teachers and students in Hillsborough, Pinellas,

Pasco and Manatee counties about Florida's water resources and natural environment. The Florida Aquarium, which is

a major area attraction that drew 670,564 visitors in FY2010, proposes to implement a water resources education

initiative that focuses on three distinct programs for elementary, middle and high school students and teachers. What's

in Your Watershed? is a summer camp program designed to teach the importance of the Tampa Bay watershed to

low-income, at-risk upper elementary and middle school students from organizations such as Metropolitan Ministries,

United Way, Kids Inc. and the school district of Hillsborough County. The proposed camp will provide an opportunity

for youth to engage in interactive role-playing to learn about watersheds, water quality, water conservation and habitat

protection. Throughout the ongoing program, each student takes part in three field explorations within the Tampa Bay

watershed. This component will be evaluated through a portfolio of student work, student and parent evaluation of the

program using a written survey, instructor evaluation of the program and student pre/post assessments. Science

Education at Sea (SEAS) is a teacher education program that proposes to provide workshops for elementary, middle

and high school teachers, focusing on estuaries and incorporating the learning objectives of the Florida

Comprehensive Assessment Test. It allows teachers to explore current and future environmental issues and

challenges. The SEAS evaluation will include a combination of pre/post assessments, workshop surveys and teacher

journals. The proposed Regional Ocean Conference for Students (ROCS) will give 60 middle and high school students

and 15 teachers the opportunity to study several major water quality issues associated with local watersheds. Students

will identify the issues and create action plans that are achievable and beneficial for the environment. SWIM staff

participate in this conference.The ROCS workshop will be evaluated through pre/post assessments.

BenefitsThe cooperator estimates that the FY2012 program will reach 211 students and teachers directly and 9,240 students

indirectly. ROCS will provide an intensive workshop experience for high school students, providing

opportunities to explore current environmental issues in the Tampa Bay watershed, use critical thinking to develop

strategies for solutions and create action plans to be used within their communities. "What's in Your Watershed?"

summer camp addresses the important priority of getting traditionally underserved, inner-city youth outside to

explore the Tampa Bay watershed. Students learn important but simple actions that they can take back to their families

to increase water conservation at home. SEAS increases teachers' understanding of science through water resources

education and is relevant to issues in the Tampa Bay area. In addition, teachers acquire materials that will help

students meet the educational standards and FCAT preparation.

Costs

The total cost of the proposed FY2012 project is $43,346 with the District contributing $21,401 (Alafia River $5,136;

Hillsborough River $10,700; Coastal Rivers $1,070; Pinellas-Anclote River $1,285; Withlacoochee River


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$1,070; Peace $1,070; Manasota $1,070). The dollar amount allocated per basin is determined by the number of

participants that will participate in the programming from each basin. District funding is requested for a summer camp,

teacher training programs and a conference for teachers and students. The program will reach 211 students and

teachers directly and 9,240 students and teachers indirectly at a cost to the District of $2.32 per person and $.73 per

contact hour. Budget lines below includes costs to manage projects.


The District has supported this project since FY2009.

The total FY2011 project cost was $43,346, with the District contributing $20,331 (Alafia River $5,136; Hillsborough

River $10,700; Coastal Rivers $1,070; Pinellas-Anclote River $1,285; Withlacoochee River $1,070; Manasota $1,070).

The dollar amount allocated per basin was determined by the number of participants projected to participate in the

programming from each basin. In FY2010, District funding supported a summer camp, teacher training programs and

a workshop for teachers and students. This program is projected to reach 127 students and 84 teachers directly

and 2,815 students indirectly at a cost to the District of $100.15 per person. The budget line includes costs for staff to

manage the project.


Revenue




015 Coastal Rivers Basin 7,100 0 (226) 3,691 1,747 1,888

016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 7,566 0 (226) 3,694 1,995 2,103

019 Withlacoochee River Basin 7,213 0 (247) 3,792 1,780 1,888

020 Peace River Basin 5,246 0 (226) 3,692 1,780 0

021 Manasota Basin 7,101 0 (226) 3,692 1,747 1,888


District

Florida Aquarium 43,890 0 0 0 21,945 21,945

The Florida Aquarium, Inc. 57,020 0 0 57,020 0 0

$201,994 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2009 Budgeted FundsOpen purchase order 11/3/08 1/5/09

Program components completed 9/15/09 9/30/09 9/30/09

Final report received by the District 9/30/09 10/15/09 12/23/09

FY2010 Budgeted FundsInititate purchase order 10/1/09 12/1/09

Program components completed 12/17/10 12/17/10

Final report and invoice received by the District 1/14/11


Program components completed 12/9/11

Final report and invoice received by the District 1/13/12


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Project manager has written scope of work for FY2011 and it is in approval process.


N151

Mapping - Manatee - NAVD88 Vertical Control Densification



Basin(s) Manasota


Project Manager OWENS, JIM

Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a high priority. This project supports the NAVD88 Migration Project (B134) and the topographic mapping and

watershed modeling currently underway for Manatee County. This is the third year of this mapping effort and the

County has done an excellent job on this project. The County has been an active partner with the District in

establishing geodetic control since the late 1980s and continues to be a leader in this area.

DescriptionThe establishment of an accurate and easily accessible vertical control survey network is an important component in

the development of updated Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FEMA FIRM). The

District, in cooperation with the National Geodetic Survey and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, has

completed the Districtwide vertical control densification. This project further enhances the existing vertical control

network to support FEMA FIRM mapping, topographic data collection and modeling activities. The newly-established

vertical control network allows the District and local governments to transition from the older and less accurate vertical

control survey network known as the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 to the more accurate North American

Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) system. In Manatee County this includes running level loops and establishing bench

marks based on NAVD88 along state and county roadways. This project enables the surveying community to make an

orderly transition to NAVD88 and allows Manatee County to be on the same vertical datum as the District and to

comply with the federal surveying and mapping requirements. This project densifies the NAVD88 vertical control in

Manatee County and compliments the District's NAVD88 migration project.

BenefitsDensification of benchmarks supports the development of Watershed Management Plans for Polk County thus

contributing to flood protection, natural systems, water quality and water supply. Manatee County participates in the

National Flood Insurance Program administered by FEMA and requires that all finished floor elevations be above the

100 year floodplain. This project is a key component in meeting this requirement. Also, the establishment and

implementation of the NAVD 1988 enables more accurate elevations and mapping throughout the District, and the

conversion to the modern vertical datum allows the ability to establish accurate and reliable elevations using Global

Positioning System (GPS) technology. Manatee County is a participant in FEMA's Community Rating System and has

a Class 6 rating. A major emphasis of this project is to help Manatee County move from a Class 6 to a Class 5

Community System Rating with FEMA. Manatee County is also coordinating this project with the City of Bradenton and

the City of Palmetto.

Costs

The total cost of the FY2011 Cooperative Funding Agreement is $150,000 split evenly (50%/50%) between the District

and the County for contractual surveying services. Cost to the Manasota Basin Board for FY2011 is $75,000; the

County is lead for this project, and the District will reimburse the County for 50 percent of the contractual services

costs not to exceed $75,000. The total cost for contractual surveying services in the FY2010 Cooperative Funding

Agreement is $150,000 split evenly (50%/50%) between the District and the County. Cost to the Manasota Basin

Board for FY2010 is $75,000. The County is the lead for this project, and the District will reimburse the County 50

percent of the project costs not exceeding $75,000. Additional costs are associated with staff time required to manage

the project.

The total cost of the proposed FY2012 Cooperative Funding project is $150,000 split evenly (50%/50%) between the

District and the County for contractual surveying services. Cost to the Manasota Basin Board for the proposed FY2012

Cooperative Funding project is $75,000.


This project is to be administered by the County. The vertical control network survey work is being completed by

qualified professional surveying and mapping consultants. All newly-established vertical control network data produced

by this project will be made available through Internet access via LABINS web site and the Manatee County web site.

The original CFI project N264 was merged with N151 being that this is the second year of mapping.


N151

Mapping - Manatee - NAVD88 Vertical Control Densification


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 234,973 0 0 76,949 79,055 78,969


District

Manatee County 225,000 0 0 75,000 75,000 75,000

$459,973 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


150 daysFY2010; Execute Cooperative Agreement between the County and the District 12/31/09 2/5/10 2/5/10

FY2011; Execute Cooperative Agreement between the County and the District 1/31/11

FY2012; Execute Cooperative Agreement between the County and the District 1/31/12

180 daysFY2010; Execute Contract with the Consultants 2/1/10 4/1/10 4/9/10

FY2011; Execute Contract with the Consultant 2/28/11

30 daysFY2010; Project planning and Scope of Work 9/1/09 9/30/09 10/5/09

FY2011; Project planning and Scope of Work 9/30/10 11/17/10

FY2012; Project planning 9/30/11

60 daysFY2010; Cooperative Funding Agreement submitted for approval 10/1/09 10/16/09 10/7/09

FY2011; Cooperative Funding Agreement submitted for approval 10/31/10 11/24/10

FY2012; Cooperative Funding Agreement submitted for approval 10/31/11

730 daysFY2010; Final deliverables 12/30/11 3/18/11

FY2011; Final Deliverables 12/31/12


FY2010 Cooperative Funding Agreement: The District executed the final agreement on February 05, 2010, the fully

executed FY2010 Agreement was sent to the County with notice to proceed on February 18, 2010. The FY2010

surveying work is 100 percent complete, the Manatee County Consultants have submitted the data to the National

Geodetic Survey for adjustment and publication.FY2011 Cooperative Funding Initiative: The District project manager has

submitted the FY2011 Cooperative Funding Agreement to the Manatee County project manager for approval on

February 22, 2011.Florida Initiative ACTION-TO-DATE comment: project is proceeding on time.


N206

Education - G.Wiz Water Wonders Workshop


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality ConservationNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and Monitoring

Basin(s) Manasota

G.WIZ-The Science MuseumCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as high priority. The ranking for this project has changed from Low to High because the Cooperator has reduced

the project budget by 53% in response to staff's concerns about costs. Because there is no decrease in numbers

reached, this budget reduction brings the cost per participant contact hour ($3.01) and the total cost per participant

($12.06) both in line with average costs for other FY2011 proposed youth education projects. This half-day field

trip program educates 1,518 Sarasota County grades 5-7 students and teachers about issues related to water quality,

stormwater runoff, natural systems and conservation. The project's education programming aligns with the Manasota

Basin Board's priorities. The cooperator has confirmed that participating classroom teachers in Sarasota County will

be provided with an evaluation form to provide feedback about the field trip. Student pre/posttests will also be

administered and reported to the District.

DescriptionThis Cooperative Funding Initiative (CFI) project will educate students and adults in Sarasota County about

conservation and protection of local environmental resources. The project targets 138 adults and 1,380 students in

grades 5-7 in Sarasota County. The program's purpose is to excite students about science in an informal educational

setting that encourages curiosity and understanding through hands-on activities about water quality, water

conservation and protection of water resources. Overall, the program proposes to increase student awareness and

knowledge of water resources with the ultimate goal that they become engaged stewards of our natural resources. The

project's success is measured by pre/post student assessments as well as teacher evaluations.

BenefitsThis project will provide students with hands-on experiences with water resources. The District will benefit from

Sarasota County students having a better understanding of conservation and preservation of water resources and be

better prepared for future decision-making.

Costs

The total cost of the FY2011 project is $68,404, with the District contribution reduced from $38,839 to $18,300

(Manasota). District funding is for 30 field trips, including bus transportation and student scholarships for admission

costs into the museum. The program will reach 1,380 students and 138 adults at a cost to the District of $12.06 per

person.


The total cost of the FY2010 project was $71,124, with the District's Manasota Basin Board contributing $38,839.

District funding was used to fund 32 field trips, transportation and workshop supplies. The program reached 1,600

students and 168 adults. The project educates students and adults in Sarasota County about conservation and

protection of local environmental resources. FY2010 is the first year the District has supported this project through the

Cooperative Funding Initiative.


N206

Education - G.Wiz Water Wonders Workshop


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 57,916 0 0 39,616 0 18,300


District

G.WIZ 32,285 0 0 32,285 0 0

WCIND 53,645 0 0 0 0 53,645

$143,846 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



Educational workshops begin 11/2/09 11/20/09

Educational workshops end 7/30/10 5/18/10

Final report and invoice due to the District 8/31/10 8/19/10


Educational workshops begin 10/4/10 10/12/10

Educational workshops end 7/29/11

Final report and invoice due to the District 8/31/11


ACTION TO DATE: On time. Cooperator has completed 28 workshops reaching 1,103 students and 120 adults in the

Manasota Basin.


N255

Data - Venice Beach Water Quality Project



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a High priority. This project is for collecting water quality data to determine the cause of elevated Enterococci

and Fecal Coliform levels on Venice Beach.

DescriptionThis FY2011 cooperative funding project is to investigate the cause of high levels of Enterococci and Fecal Coliform

entering Venice Beach and to design one or more Best Management Practices (BMPs). The City of Venice has

eleven stormwater outfalls that collect from the Venice Island Basin and discharge directly to the Gulf of Mexico. After

a 2008 spring rain event, Venice Beach experienced high readings of Enterococci and Fecal Coliform resulting in

public beach closures. This project includes source sampling, research, determining the source of contamination, and

the design of one or more BMPs to resolve the issue. Possible solutions to the problem include modification of outfall

to allow for more attenuation before it discharges to the Gulf of Mexico, public education on non-point source pollution,

stormwater retention modification, deep gulf pumped discharge and storm pipe lining and/or replacement.

BenefitsThis project will improve water quality that discharges into the Gulf of Mexico by locating the source of bacterial

contamination and designing one or more BMPs to be implemented in second phase of the project.

Costs

The total projected cost for the project is $120,000, of which the District's share is $60,000 with an equal match from

the City. The District funding amounts shown in the table include staff salaries, travel and central garage charges.


The City has taken steps to isolate contaminant sources. The first series of water quality testing shows elevated

Enterococci and Fecal Coliform levels in Flamingo Ditch and Deertown Gulley. Both have levels exceeding acceptable

limits with the highest levels found in Flamingo Ditch. Additional water samples were taken at various points along

Flamingo Ditch to try and isolate a source. The utilities department and stormwater division performed pipe inspection

in the area around the ditch to isolate any infiltration. The City is proceeding to perform DNA microbial analysis, with

one upstream and one downstream sample from Flamingo Ditch and one downstream sample from Deertown Gulley.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 66,018 0 0 0 3,722 62,296


District

City of Venice 60,000 0 0 0 0 60,000

$126,018 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development & ExecutionNegotiate Cooperative Funding Agreement with City 8/1/10 8/1/10


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Data - Venice Beach Water Quality Project



Contract Sent to City for Signature 11/1/10 12/16/10

Signed Contract Returned from City 11/17/10 1/15/11 1/4/11



2. Critical Project MilestonesBidding and Consultant Selection 3/31/11

Begin water qulaity sampling and contaminant source identification 6/30/11

Draft Final report 3/30/12

Final report 4/30/12

Complete final design 7/30/12

3. Project Close OutContract Termination 9/30/12


Notice of FY2011 funding approval was sent to the City's project manager. The cooperative agreement was executed on

January 7, 2011. The City is currently finalizing their RFQ document and anticipates hiring a consultant by April 7, 2011.


N276

Stormwater Improvements - Water Quality - Sarasota - Low Impact

Development (LID) at Venice EastProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a high priority. This project will improve water quality by treating stormwater entering Alligator Creek. The

project includes water quality sampling to document the efficiency of bioretention using different pollution control

media or designs. This data will be used by the District's Regulation Department to determine the effectiveness of this

technology.

DescriptionThis FY2011 cooperative funding project is for the implementation of Low Impact Development (LID) technologies

along Venice East Blvd. in Sarasota County. A variety of LID techniques will be constructed along portions of Venice

East Blvd. to improve stormwater treatment. This area currently receives little to no treatment of stormwater prior to

discharge into Alligator Creek and Lemon Bay. Both Alligator Creek and Lemon Bay have been listed as impaired for

nutrients by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. This project entails the construction of up to 13

stormwater treatment areas along Venice East Blvd., including but not limited to, the use of soil amendments and

bioretention. Water quality sampling will be conducted after construction of the proposed stormwater treatment areas

to determine the effectiveness of LID technologies in removing nutrients from stormwater. The District funds will be

used for construction and post-construction water quality monitoring only. Sarasota County will complete design and

acquire all necessary permits without District funding assistance.

BenefitsThis project will result in the implementation of BMPs to improve the quality of water discharging into Alligator Creek

and Lemon Bay. The project will also provide data on the effectiveness of LID technologies to remove nutrients from

stormwater.

Costs

Estimated total project cost for design, permitting, construction and post-construction water quality monitoring is

$920,000. Sarasota County contributed $150,000 in prior years for project design and permitting. The estimated cost

for construction and post-construction water quality monitoring is $770,000. The Manasota Basin Board budgeted

$230,000 in FY2011 with an equal match from the County. The County is requesting the Manasota Basin Board fund

$155,000 in FY2012. Based on the project schedule provided by the County, the FY2012 requested funds will not be

spent until FY2013 and FY2014. District staff recommend no funding be included in the Manasota Basin Board's

FY2012 budget for this project. District staff have recommended that the County request future funding in the fiscal

years that they will be expended (FY2013 and 2014). The District funding amounts shown in the table include staff

salaries, travel and central garage.


Sarasota County developed a LID manual specific to conditions in Sarasota County in 2008. The County received

cooperative funding from the Manasota Basin Board in FY2010 (N139) to add three more sections to the manual. The

technologies promoted in the manual will reduce potable water use, increase pollutant removal efficiencies, and

protect and restore natural systems. Some of the technologies promoted in the manual include; use of cisterns,

bioretention areas, use of soil amendments, recycling of rainwater, green roofs and pervious pavement. This project

includes post-construction water quality monitoring to determine the effectiveness of LID technologies in removing

nutrients from stormwater. The Sarasota Regulation Department has requested this data which will be used in

assisting their staff on future requests regarding the implementation of LID technologies. Sarasota County has

completed 60% design for the proposed stormwater treatment areas along Venice East Blvd. The County will

complete design and obtain the necessary permits prior to construction.


N276

Stormwater Improvements - Water Quality - Sarasota - Low Impact

Development (LID) at Venice East


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 392,507 155,000 0 0 4,681 232,826


District

Sarasota County 535,000 0 0 150,000 155,000 230,000

$927,507 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development & ExecutionDraft Agreement to Cooperator 10/1/10 9/28/10

Develop Scope of Work 10/1/10 9/28/10

Execute Contract 11/1/10

2. Project TasksDesign and Permitting Complete 12/31/11


Begin Construction 4/30/12

Construction Complete 12/31/12

Begin Monitoring 1/31/13

Monitoring Ends 12/31/14

Final Report - Monitoring Results 3/31/15


The cooperator was sent the draft agreement for review and approval on September 28, 2010. On October 20, 2010, the

cooperator provided a revised project timeline via email. Based on the revised timeline, construction is anticipated to

begin in April 2012 and be completed in December 2012. On February 15, 2011, District staff participated in a

conference call with the cooperator to discuss the conceptual design of the project. To date, the cooperator has not

obtained the services of a design consultant nor has the draft agreement been returned to the District.


N306

Stormwater Improvements - Water Quality - Sarasota - Englewood

CRA Stormwater RetrofitProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota


Project Manager PECK, MICHAEL

Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a High priority. The project will result in reduced nutrient and sediment loads to the Lemon Bay Aquatic

Preserve (an Outstanding Florida Water) by reducing or eliminating the direct discharge of untreated stormwater from

the Englewood downtown commercial district. The project is consistent with the District's priorities for water quality

improvement. The project is within the District's permitting authority and is not the result of a permit requirement or

enforcement action.

DescriptionThis project is for the construction of a stormwater retrofit system to provide stormwater treatment for both the existing

development in the Englewood commercial district as well as future redevelopment. Untreated stormwater runoff from

51 acres of this 71 acre urban drainage area currently discharges directly into the Lemon Bay Aquatic Preserve (an

Outstanding Florida Water). The Gottfried Creek watershed receives untreated stormwater runoff from the remaining

20 acres. This project will provide stormwater treatment, reduce or eliminate the need to provide individual stormwater

treatment systems on each parcel, locate the system within the current public right-of-way or on publicly owned

properties, and most importantly eliminate or minimize direct runoff into the Lemon Bay Aquatic Preserve. This

stormwater retrofit project will utilize Low Impact Development (LID) technologies as opposed to existing traditional

practices to meet the stormwater needs of the Englewood Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) commercial

district. In addition to providing stormwater treatment utilizing LID technologies, water quality monitoring and

educational outreach components will also be included. Water quality sampling will be conducted to evaluate the

effectiveness of the LID technologies in removing nutrients from stormwater.

BenefitsUntreated stormwater runoff from the Englewood CRA commercial district currently discharges directly into the Lemon

Bay Aquatic Preserve (an Outstanding Florida Water). This retrofit project will provide stormwater treatment for the

entire Englewood CRA commercial district (including eventual complete build-out and redevelopment), as well as

reduce or eliminate direct discharge of untreated runoff to bay. As a result, the project will improve the water quality of

the Lemon Bay Aquatic Preserve. The project will also provide data, via water quality monitoring, on the nutrient

removal efficiency of the LID technologies implemented.

Costs

The estimated total project cost, to be split equally between the Manasota Basin Board and Sarasota County, is

$7,500,000. The Manasota Basin Board and Sarasota County each included $750,000 for the project in their FY2011

budgets (for a total of $1,500,000 in FY2011) . The Manasota Basin Board has been requested to include $3,000,000

for the project in the FY2012 budget, to be matched equally by Sarasota County (for a total of $6,000,000 in FY2012).

District funds in the table below include salary, travel, and central garage charges.


The Englewood Community Redevelpment Area (CRA) commercial district is located along Dearborn Street west of

Indiana avenue (SR 776) in Sarasota County. The outlook on future development and redevelopment within the

commercial district is challenged by the prospect of having to provide individual stormwater systems on each parcel,

which would greatly inhibit the maximized use of available property and inhibit growth/redevelopment. Sarasota

County wishes to provide a stormwater treatment system to address the existing development within the commercial

district and thus any future redevelopment of the area as well. This stormwater retrofit project will utilize LID

technologies as opposed to existing traditional practices, made possible by Sarasota County's parallel process of

developing an LID Manual and a conceptual agreement with District regulatory staff to consider permit applications

using LID technologies in lieu of traditional BMPs. The result will be an innovative, real-world, commercial retrofit

project which will implement existing or new LID technologies and allow them to be studied and evaluated on a long

term basis.


N306

Stormwater Improvements - Water Quality - Sarasota - Englewood

CRA Stormwater Retrofit


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 3,760,342 0 0 0 3,007,908 752,434


District

Sarasota County 3,750,000 0 0 0 3,000,000 750,000

$7,510,342 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Contract Development & ExecutionSubmit Cooperative Funding Application 12/1/09 12/1/09

Draft agreement sent to Cooperator 8/30/10 9/30/10 9/21/10

Draft Agreement Sent to Management Services 9/6/10 9/30/10 9/24/10

Draft agreement returned from Management Services 10/8/10 10/22/10 11/30/10




2. Design & PermittingRequest for Bids 11/26/10 8/19/11

Bid Selection & Award 2/11/11 10/14/11

3. ConstructionWater Quality Monitoring Begins 3/4/11 6/17/11



Water Quality Monitoring Ends 8/31/12

4. Project CloseoutFinal Inspection 9/28/12



Sarasota County received permits for the project on 8/31/10, and has final construction drawings and cost estimates in

hand. The estimated total cost of the project, based on the final construction drawings and opinion of probable cost, is in

excess of the amount previously budgeted by the County and the District. The County has requested additional funding,

through the FY2012 CFI program, to match the total project budget to the projected cost. The County is ready to

advertise the project for bid and commence construction, but cannot do so until the project is fully-funded. Project

construction has been delayed pending the finalization of the Manasota Basin Board's FY2012 budget.


N325

Conservation - Manatee - Toilet Rebate Program - Phase V



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a high priority. This project addresses a basin priority by saving potable water through cost-effective water

conservation measures. There is sufficient data submitted to properly evaluate the project, it is within the basin board's

statutory authority to fund, and it is not the result of a permit requirement or enforcement action.

DescriptionThis project is Phase V of the County's Ultra Low-Flow Toilet Rebate (ULFT) incentive program. The program is

available for Manatee County's retail water customers (residential, multi-family, and commercial). The County currently

services over 90,000 potable water accounts and anticipates continued growth over the next 20 years. The objectives

of this rebate program are to reduce water demand and provide financial incentives for the replacement of an

estimated 1,500 high-flow (3.5 gal/flush or higher) toilets. The program addresses the Manatee County Board of

County Commissioners policies on water conservation and is supported by the recently increased Water Conservation

Rates for potable water use. Any retail water customer who agrees to replace a 3.5 gal or more toilet with a ultra-low

flush (ULF) that uses 1.6 gallons per flush (gpf) or less, will receive up to a $100.00 rebate for each toilet (maximum of

two (2) toilets per unit). This project will also focus on educating the new low volume toilet users on the proper

maintenance, specifically flappers and leak detection, necessary to ensure that each toilet remains a water conserving

fixture. Rebate payments are subject to the recipient's submittal of the completed application, documented cost, and

will be distributed upon inspection of the completed installation and verification that the old toilet is ready for disposal.

BenefitsThe estimated total water saving value of the project is 33,465 gpd.

Costs

The total cost for this project is estimated to be $217,500. The Manasota Basin Board has budgeted $108,750 (fifty

percent) in FY2011. The cost/benefit is $1.78 per k/gallons, assuming a 20-year life.


This toilet rebate program is an enhancement to the County's existing Water Conservation Program. The County's

Water Conservation Program includes existing metering and loss reduction programs, water conserving rate

structures, urban and agricultural reclaimed water irrigation supply (with the metering of all users and consumption

based billing for all new users), public education, Florida Friendly based landscape codes, SWUCA based level of

service for water supply at 110 gpcpd, land development codes requiring non-potable sources for irrigation in new

development, water supply protection ordinances, and the use of aquifer storage and recovery for both potable and

reclaimed water. Through Phase III of the County's Toilet Rebate Program and the 47,000 eligible properties in the

county, 3,851 rebates have been issued saving over 65,600 gpd.


N325

Conservation - Manatee - Toilet Rebate Program - Phase V


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 114,114 0 0 0 2,283 111,831


District

Manatee County 108,750 0 0 0 0 108,750

$222,864 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Execute agreement with District 4/15/11

Advertise project 5/2/11

Begin Phase V Toilet Rebates 5/16/11

Complete Rebates 6/29/12



The County has lost it's contractor for the toilet rebate program and this project was on hold. The County's Purchasing

Department initiated a Request for Proposal (#10-2833FL) for a new contractor and anticipated proposals by the end of

January 2011. The County has located a new contractor named Demetri's Solution to complete the project. The contract

between Demetri's Solution and the County is being finalized as of February 25, 2011. The project should resume and

the agreement between the District and County will be processed.


N340

Palmetto - 5th Street LID Implementation


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Supply ConservationWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and Improvement

Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Recommend funding as a high priority. The project will result in the implementation of LID technologies to improve the

quality of water discharging into the Manatee River.

DescriptionThis FY2012 cooperative funding project is for the implementation of Low Impact Development (LID) technologies

along 5th Street in the City of Palmetto. A variety of LID techniques will be constructed along 5th Street to improve

stormwater treatment. The stormwater runoff from this area currently receives little to no stormwater treatment before

discharging into the Manatee River. This project will involve the construction of a variety of LID technologies that may

include landscape islands, rain gardens, bio-swales, pervious pavement and stormwater harvesting. The project will

also include educational signage throughout the site to promote LID technologies. The District funds will be used for

construction only as the City of Palmetto will complete the design and permitting prior to FY2012 funds being available.

The City currently owns the lands necessary to complete the project.

BenefitsThis project will result in the implementation of stormwater BMPs to improve the quality of water discharging into the

Manatee River.

Costs

The estimated total project cost for design, permitting and construction is $1,255,000. The City of Palmetto will

contribute $90,000 for the design and permitting of the proposed LID improvements. The estimated cost for

construction is $1,165,000. The Manasota Basin Board is requested to fund $582,500 (50%) of the construction costs

in FY2012. The City of Palmetto will fund the remaining $582,500 (50%) of construction costs in FY2012. The District

funding amounts shown in the table include staff salaries, travel and central garage charges.


The proposed project is located in a highly urbanized area in the City of Palmetto. The City chose this location

because it owns the property necessary to complete the project and hopes to revitalize a portion of its business

community through redevelopment. The City plans to use the project as a demonstration to encourage future

redevelopment in its downtown area by private parcel owners.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 587,932 0 0 0 587,932 0


District

City of Palmetto 672,500 0 0 10,000 582,500 80,000

$1,260,432 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



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Palmetto - 5th Street LID Implementation

1. Contract Development & ExecutionDevelop Scope of Work 10/3/11

Draft Agreement to Cooperator 10/3/11

Execute Contract 12/1/11

2. Project TasksSolicit Bids for Contractor 1/1/12




Status As Of:


N341

WMP - Lake Manatee Watershed



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a high priority. A senior administrator has provided confirmation that the County will budget the project for

FY2012. Completing elements of the District's Watershed Management Program is one of the District's Strategic

Priorities for managing the water resource, and provides information to local governments to address land use

changes and stormwater management within a specific watershed.

DescriptionThis is a multi-year funded project to perform the Watershed Evaluation element of the District's Watershed

Management Program (WMP). The project area is 130 square miles, located in Manatee County. The Watershed

Evaluation element is the collection and organization of detailed information such as land elevation, ditches, culverts

and other stormwater management features that affect how water moves within a watershed. The Watershed





infrastructure. With FY2012 funding, the collection of existing data and development of the geodatabase tasks of the

Watershed Evaluation will be completed. Future funding may be required to complete the remaining tasks.

BenefitsThe Watershed Evaluation is the foundation for the Watershed Management Plan, the next element in the Watershed

Management Program. Completing elements of the District's Watershed Management Program is one of the District's

Strategic Priorities for managing the water resource, and provides information to local governments to address land

use changes and stormwater management within a specific watershed.

Costs

The projected cost for this project is $600,000, of which the District's share is $300,000 and the County's share is

$300,000. For FY2012, $150,000 is included in the Basin's budget and Manatee County will contribute $150,000 for a

total of $300,000. With FY2012 funding, work on Watershed Evaluation tasks will begin. Future funding will be

required for the remainder of the Watershed Evaluation tasks. Future funds identified for the project are contingent

upon approval of such amounts by the Governing Board and Basin Board in their annual budget. When each task is

completed, the project cost and scope may require refinement based on the information gathered and unforeseen

circumstances. The District funding amount shown in the table includes staff salaries.


The WMP includes five major elements: 1) Topographic information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, 3) Watershed



The District has worked with the County to develop an implementation schedule by watershed based on their

projected funding levels. The District is managing the project entering into agreements and purchase orders to

accomplish project tasks. A cooperative funding agreement will be developed as a multi-year funded project

contingent on the approval of future funding to complete the project. This project will require a cooperative funding



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WMP - Lake Manatee Watershed


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 154,928 0 0 0 154,928 0


Manatee Co - Lk Manatee WMP 300,000 150,000 0 0 150,000 0

$454,928 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Contract Execution 3/31/12

Completion of Draft Plan 6/1/13

Completion of Final Plan 9/1/14

Status As Of:


N344

Design & Construction - Manatee Country Meadows RW

TransmissionProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a high priority. This project will connect additional residential reclaimed water (RW) customers for Manatee

Agricultural Reuse Supply (MARS) system to offset potable irrigation use. This project is consistent with the basin

objectives by using an alternative water source to offset potable water use. This project is located in the Southern

Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA). There was sufficient information provided to evaluate the project and the

cooperator has confirmed it will include the necessary matching funds in its capital budget for FY2012. This project is

within the District's statutory authority to fund and is not the result of a permit requirement or enforcement action.

DescriptionThis project will design and construct 4000 feet of 10 inch and 8 inch HDPE of RW transmission line from the MARS

System to the Country Meadows Development. This will connect 247 residential 1 acre lots in the Country Meadows

subdivision, that are currently using potable water for irrigation, to the MARS RW system. The 247 lots in the Country

Meadows subdivision used an average of 616 gpd of potable water for irrigation in 2010. The residential irrigation

customers are individually metered and will become individual RW customers of Manatee County Utilities. The

proposed transmission line will allow for the future connection of an additional 51 homes to the RW system.

BenefitsThe project will provide approximately 200,000 gpd of RW to the Country Meadows subdivision that will be used to

offset an average of 152,152 gpd of potable water used for irrigation. The proposed transmission line will allow for the

future connection of an additional 51 homes to the reclaimed water system.

Costs

The total project cost is estimated to be $469,716 and the District's share is requested to be fifty percent or $234,858.

The County has requested $234,858 from the Manasota Basin Board in FY2012. The cost/benefit for the project cost

using an 8 percent annual interest rate amortized over 30 years is $0.74 per thousand gallons offset.


This RW line extension will further enhance the existing MARS system which is an integral part of Manatee County

water conservation program. Our overall program includes existing metering and loss reduction programs, water

conservation rate structures, urban and agricultural RW irrigation supply, public education, SWUCA based level of

service for water supply at 110 gpcpd, land development codes requiring non-potable sources for irrigation in new

developments, water supply protection ordinances and the use of aquifer storage and recovery for potable and

potentially RW. This system reduces demand for public potable water for irrigation, improves overall utilization of

existing SWFWMD water resources and provides on demand high quality irrigation water for our urban and

agricultural customers.


N344

Design & Construction - Manatee Country Meadows RW

Transmission


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 238,718 0 0 0 238,718 0


District

Manatee County 234,858 0 0 0 234,858 0

$473,576 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Start Design 1/31/12

Complete Design 4/13/12



Status As Of:


N355

Construction - BRU / City of Sarasota RW Interconnect



Basin(s) Manasota

Braden River UtilitiesCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a high priority. This project will interconnect the Braden River Utilities (BRU) irrigation system with a reclaimed

water (RW) supply from the City of Sarasota Reclaimed Water System and offset potable water used for irrigation .

This recommendation is contingent upon BRU obtaining an agreement with Manatee County and City of Bradenton on

a water quality monitoring plan for the Braden River Watershed. This project is consistent with the basin objectives by

using an alternative water source to offset potable water use. This project is located in the Southern Water Use

Caution Area (SWUCA). There was adequate information available to evaluate the project and the cooperator has

confirmed it has included the necessary matching funds in its capital budget in FY2012. The project is within the

District's statutory authority to fund, and is not the result of a permit requirement or enforcement action.

DescriptionThis project will construct approximately 2,000 feet of 18 inch and 14,100 feet of 12 inch RW transmission line to

provide RW to existing residential and commercial irrigation customers and offset potable groundwater use within the

Braden River Watershed. The project will provide an interconnection between the City of Sarasota's Reclaimed Water

System and the BRU irrigation system. The City of Sarasota has agreed to supply BRU with 1.5 to 2.0 mgd of RW.

Two points of interconnection will be constructed between the City's system and BRU's system. The project will include

the construction transmission line segments within BRU's RW system to enable RW to be used in the Southwest

Sector of the Lakewood Development.

BenefitsThe project will provide approximately 1.5 to 2.0 mgd of RW from the City of Sarasota to the BRU irrigation system to

offset potable water used for irrigation. The RW will replace the potable groundwater now used by residents and

commercial users in the Southwest Sector of Lakewood Ranch and a 100 percent offset is anticipated. The Southwest

Sector of Lakewood Ranch currently has an irrigation demand of over 5.0 mgd used by commercial and residential

customers.

Costs

The total project cost is estimated at $3,000,000, and the District's 50% share is $1,500,000. BRU is requesting that

the Manasota Basin Board fund $1,500,000 in FY2012. The cost/benefit ratio for the total estimated project cost of

$3,000,000, averaging 2.0 mgd of offset, and using an 8% annual interest rate amortized over 30 years is $0.36/1000

gallons.


BRU is the private irrigation provider for the Lakewood Ranch Development and provides non-potable landscape

irrigation to several Community Development Districts in Lakewood Ranch as well as the Lakewood Ranch

Stewardship District. The BRU service area is located within the Most Impacted Area of the Southern Water Use

Caution Area. Source water for the BRU irrigation system currently consists of a diverse set of resources including

ground water, surface water, and in some instances, RW. As part of BRU's longstanding commitment to responsible

development and water management, objectives include increasing the use of RW as a primary irrigation source, and

conjunctively using Alternative Water Supplies to meet BRU's water demands and offset the use of traditional

supplies. With the recent elimination of the restrictive Braden River Watershed Overlay, the opportunity now exists to

further this objective. We believe that these goals align with those of the Southwest Florida Water Management

District (SWFWMD). Towards this end, BRU has entered into a 20-year RW agreement with the City of Sarasota to

provide 2 mgd of RW. This request is for SWFWMD to cost-share the infrastructure construction necessary to use of

the City of Sarasota's RW in the BRU service area. BRU has completed a Reclaimed Water Supply and Demand

Study that identifies anticipated demands and infrastructure needs. BRU is committed to continue to pursue future

opportunities with the City of Sarasota and other RW providers to increase the quantity of water for beneficial irrigation

purposes. The location of the BRU service area provides an opportunity for implementation of a regional RW system.

Regional RW inter-connects could include Aqua Utilities (existing), City of Sarasota (proposed), City of Bradenton

(proposed), Sarasota County (in negotiations) and possibly Manatee County. Lakewood Ranch became one of the

first communities to adopt Florida Green Building Coalition standards which include several water management and


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Construction - BRU / City of Sarasota RW Interconnect

water conservation strategies, such as Florida Friendly landscaping and irrigation system efficiency as well as potable

water indoor water conservation devices and appliances. BRU is the associated private irrigation utility for Lakewood

Ranch and also provides water conservation educational materials to its customers. BRU is not charged with

developing, implementing or enforcing flood protection ordinances.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,504,361 0 0 0 1,504,361 0


District

Braden River Utilities 1,500,000 0 0 0 1,500,000 0

$3,004,361 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Negotiate Inter-local Agreement between BRU and Manatee County 2/1/11

Complete Design and Permitting 3/1/11

Issue Request for Contractor Bids 3/15/11

Select and Authorize Contractor to Initiate Work 4/15/11


Status As Of:


N397

Conservation - Rainwater Harvesting and Commercial Reuse


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Supply ConservationWater Supply Alternative Water Supply



The Home Depot USA IncorporatedCooperator(s)

Project Manager SCOTT, KATHY

ROE, MELISSATask Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a high priority. The project makes use of on-site, alternative water supplies to save water and educate

consumers about water conservation. This addresses District strategies of promoting water conservation through

education and and effective conservation practices. There was adequate information available to evaluate the project

and the cooperator provided a letter confirming it has included the necessary matching funds. The project is within the

District's statutory authority to fund and is not the result of a permit requirement or enforcement action.

DescriptionThis project consists of the installation of a rainwater collection system to collect water from the garden center

catchment area, along with the condensate from the HVAC units on the roof top, in each of The Home Depot stores in

the District to irrigate the plants within the Garden Centers, in lieu of potable water. These systems will include

corrugated steel tank (6' x 20') for a total storage capacity of 4150 gallons each. The complete conveyance system

includes a pump, floating extractor, pump control, motorized municipal backflow valve, flow meter and pre-filtration.

The Home Depot and the District will also work together to provide educational messages to store customers about

the innovative reuse technology being used at the stores as well as general water conservation messages for homes

and businesses.

BenefitsThe project is expected to reduce potable water use at each store by 500,000 gallons per store per year (1,370 gpd)

with a total reduction in the District in 35 stores of 17,500,000 gallons per year (48,000 gpd). In addition to the savings

realized, the project provides the community an example of how to make beneficial use of all available water. It also

affords the District an opportunity to expand its outreach efforts by working with The Home Depot to

communicate the need for and benefits of water conservation to numerous store customers.

Costs

The total project cost is anticipated to be $910,000 and the District is requested to fund $455,000 (50%). It is

anticipated that the cost to install the technology in each store will be $26,000 The stores are located throughout the

District in the following basins, and each basin's funding share is allocated accordingly: three stores in the Alafia River

Basin ($39,000); five stores in the Coastal Rivers Basin ($65,000); seven stores in the Hillsborough River Basin

($91,000); five stores in the Manasota River Basin ($65,000); seven stores in the Peace River Basin ($91,000); and

eight stores in the Pinellas-Anclote River Basin ($104,000). The estimated cost, amortized at 8 percent over and

estimated 20-year life of the savings, is $5.12 per 1,000 gallons saved. The installation portion of the project will be

completed in FY2012.


A similar project has been successfully implemented between the St. Johns River Water Management District

(SJRWMD) and The Home Depot for ten stores within the SJRWMD. The systems were recently brought on-line

(January 2011) and savings data will be forthcoming.


N397

Conservation - Rainwater Harvesting and Commercial Reuse


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 800 0 0 0 800 0

011 Alafia River Basin 40,020 0 0 0 40,020 0

013 Hillsborough River Basin 92,020 0 0 0 92,020 0

015 Coastal Rivers Basin 66,020 0 0 0 66,020 0

016 Pinellas-Anclote River Basin 105,020 0 0 0 105,020 0

019 Withlacoochee River Basin 13,102 0 0 0 13,102 0

020 Peace River Basin 92,020 0 0 0 92,020 0

021 Manasota Basin 66,122 0 0 0 66,122 0


District

The Home Depot 455,000 0 0 0 0 455,000

$930,124 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Complete Equipment Installation 6/30/11

Begin Installing Equipment 10/31/11

Begin Focused Education 2/1/12

Complete Focused Education 12/31/12

Final Report 3/1/13

Status As Of:


N412

Conservation-Venice- Toilet Replacement



Basin(s) Manasota


Project Manager MUSICARO, MELISSA

Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a high priority. This project is consistent with basin board priorities regarding water conservation. This project

will cost effectively result in a reduction of customers' indoor water use. The estimated water savings resulting from

this project will extend the existing supply of water which is supplied by the city system. There was sufficient data

submitted to evaluate the project, it is within the basin board's statutory authority to fund, and it is not the result of a

permit requirement or enforcement action.

DescriptionThe project consists of offering financial incentives to potable water customers for replacing conventional toilets and

urinals with water-conserving equivalents and providing plumbing retrofit kits. The project will target the replacement of

approximately 300 conventional toilets and 100 conventional urinals with low-flow equivalents. The city will provide a

$100 credit to the customer's water bill upon low-flow toilet or urinal installation and inspection. In order to ensure that

the conventional toilets or urinals will not be reinstalled at another location, the city will require permanent disposal of

the fixtures as a condition of the credit. The project will also provide up to 550 water conservation kits and educational

materials at no charge to city potable water customers. These kits will include a low-flow showerhead, bath and

kitchen faucet aerators, toilet flapper valve, toilet tank leak detection dye tablets, and water conservation educational

materials. The showerheads will be provided as an exchange program. The city plans to hire a consultant to

administer the project. The consultant will perform the rebate qualifications, educational component, installation

inspections, and customer surveys, while the city will track pre and post water fixture installation usage.

BenefitsThe various devices to be installed for this project have different life spans. Therefore, the estimated water savings

was determined using a weighted average. The estimated total water savings over the 20 year life of the project is

16,330 gpd.

Costs

The total project cost is estimated to be $85,500 and the Manasota Basin Board is requested to fund $42,750 in

FY2012. The cost benefit amortized at 8 percent over 20 years is $1.44 per thousand gallons saved.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 44,203 0 0 0 44,203 0


District

City of Venice 42,750 0 0 0 42,750 0

$86,953 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Commence Program 2/28/12


N412

Conservation-Venice- Toilet Replacement

Complete Program/Surveys 12/28/12

Program Evaluation 12/31/13

Final Report 3/1/14

Status As Of:


N415

Wildlands Watershed Training Program


AORs Strategic InitiativesNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and MonitoringNatural Systems Natural Systems Conservation and Restoration

Basin(s) Alafia River, Hillsborough River, Coastal Rivers, Pinellas-Anclote River, Peace River, Manasota

Wildlands Conservation, Inc.Cooperator(s)

Project Manager BURKE, MAYA

Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a High Priority. The proposed project is consistent with the basin budget priorities of "Public and Youth

Education" and "Education Through Citizen Science". The proposed project calls for a series of seminars on the

relationship between biological indicators and habitat types that are specific to each watershed. These seminars will

train citizens (using flash cards, CDs and other media) to collect data on these biological indicators. The project will

also provide an online forum (through the Watershed Atlas) to report these data along with data collected by trained

ecologists and an annual assessment of watershed health derived from the data collected. Finally, the project

proposed to employ community-based social marketing techniques, including pre- and post- testing, targeting specific

behavior change (getting outside on District lands and proper fertilizer use, for example) and contact over a sustained

period of time. This project provides an education opportunity for members of the public to engage in citizen science

and may also be of use to the Land Resources Department.

DescriptionThe goal of the Wildlands Watershed Training Program is to train citizens to identify representative wildlife species that

occur in the natural plant communities which comprise the District's watersheds in an effort to encourage citizen

science and assist with stewardship on public recreational lands. Wildlands Conservation, Inc. will develop and

implement a curriculum that informs interested members of the public on wildlife that is common in each of our most

prevalent natural plant communities by using readily evident indicators (sight, sound or sign). Courses will be taught

with the purpose of increasing an understanding of these lands and their associated natural habitats. This class will be

conducted at a minimum of four preservation areas in basins throughout the District. It will provide a two-pronged

approach. Part one is in the classroom; part two in the field. This will enable us to apply the classroom training in the

field. Participants will be encouraged to independently monitor their local watersheds and are provided with sample

data sheets and field guides of local watershed health indicator species and habitats. Data will be uploaded to the

existing Water Atlas website network. This new data layer will use information collected by professional, peer-reviewed

ecologists and citizen "trainees" and will reflect the habitats and selected species element occurrences taught in the

course.

BenefitsWildlands Conservation is a core group of conservation professionals with a common goal to conserve our natural

environment. Wildlands and its expertise are a critical component in the challenge to save our remaining wild places.

From an organizational perspective, Wildlands has been involved in the review of the land acquisition program for the

District and assisted in fine tuning acquisition priorities. This has direct bearing on water conservation and the

Wildlands Watershed Training Program is another avenue to achieving this goal. Furthermore, our staff has taken a

lead role in the Hillsborough River Greenways Task Force since its inception and has implemented a similar program,

the Frog Listening Network.


N415

Wildlands Watershed Training Program


Revenue


011 Alafia River Basin 3,849 0 0 0 3,849 0

013 Hillsborough River Basin 13,195 0 0 0 13,195 0

015 Coastal Rivers Basin 4,948 0 0 0 4,948 0


019 Withlacoochee River Basin 3,849 0 0 0 3,849 0


021 Manasota Basin 8,247 0 0 0 8,247 0

$57,107 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


01/2012-04/2012Schedule seminars 4/20/12

04/2012-10/2012Perform seminars, seminar editing, post-seminar surveys and specimen

maintenance

10/12/12

10/2012 - 12/2012Perform all seminar follow-up surveys 12/7/12

Status As Of:


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Education - SEC Watershed Leadership & Education Program



Basin(s) Manasota

Science and Environment Council of Sarasota, Science and Environment Council of SarasotaCooperator(s)

Project Manager STERNBERGER, VIRGINIA

Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Medium priority. While the SEC has been successful at producing high-quality deliverables and leveraging efforts with

its 20 member organizations, the medium ranking reflects the significantly higher than average cost per contact hour.

The SEC plans to build on previous initiatives created for the Watershed Leadership and Education Program

(2005-2011). This program proposes to educate 10,000 residents about how the health of a watershed is related to

activities people enjoy every day and how actions can help protect the water resources. Program components include

a decision-makers workshop, mobile phone messages, a scavenger hunt and an evaluation. In addition, 145,920

residents will be exposed to the Explore Sarasota's Waters Beyond the Beaches media campaign being developed in

cooperation with the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau. This campaign, scheduled to launch March 2012, will

be an expansion of previous years' Water Opportunities Week. For three months, it will promote nature-based events

and activities for families to learn about natural systems and watershed protection. This project will be effective at

educating residents and visitors about how they can protect the watershed, resulting in a positive impact on the

watershed. Based on the $60,000 requested from the District, the cost per contact hour for direct education

components is $22.52, nearly three times the average of other CFI 2012 project proposals. Considering indirect reach,

however, the cost per person reached is $.41, which is well within other CFI 2012 project proposals. The Manasota

Basin Board prioritized education through partnerships and outreach within the basin. The proposed project meets this

priority.

DescriptionThis Cooperative Funding Initiative project is a continuation of the SEC program designed to work collaboratively with

its 20 member organizations to convene policy discussions and enhance public understanding about water and

watershed conservation based on science. The FY2012 program proposes to use of a variety of approaches to inform

145,920 residents and visitors and directly impact 10,000 residents about how the health of a watershed is related to

activities people enjoy every day and how their actions can help protect the water resources. Project activities

will include a decision-makers workshop, outdoor and nature-based events, an outreach campaign, mobile phone

messages, a scavenger hunt and an evaluation. The project seeks to educate residents about how they can protect

the watershed, resulting in a positive impact on the watershed.

BenefitsThis project will provide watershed education directly to 10,000 Sarasota County residents resulting in a greater

knowledge and awareness of how everyday activities can impact the water resources. These residents will in turn

influence out-of-state visitors to engage in the same activities. Education will be enhanced through the distribution of

District publications at SEC member sites. The Explore Sarasota's Waters Beyond the Beaches media campaign will

provide additional exposure to residents and visitors and promote nature-based activities at SEC member sites, county

parks and on District property when feasible.

Costs

The total proposed cost of the FY2012 project is $120,000, with the District requested to contribute $60,000

(Manasota). SEC's match is its own and member organizations' in-kind services. The program is projected to reach

145,920 residents at a cost to the District of $22.52 per contact hour and $.41 per person reached. The budget lines

below include costs for staff to manage the project.


The total cost of the FY2011 project is $120,000, with the District contributing $60,000 (Manasota). SEC's match

is in-kind services from its member organizations. The program is expected to reach 181,700 residents at a cost to the

District of $.33 per person, well below average for public education programs. Project funds are allocated toward two

decision-maker and policymaker workshops on water and low-impact development (LID). The first workshop will

identify local water and LID issues. The second will refine and come to a consensus on solutions. The SEC also plans

to enhance the general public's understanding of watersheds by producing four three-minute videos focusing on


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outdoor experiences. The videos will provide ideas for nature-based activities and explain the connection people have

to the health of their watershed. The videos will be shown on the Discover Natural Sarasota and on select SEC

member web sites. Adding to mobile phone messages created in FY2009, SEC plans to create five additional

messages to provide up-to-date information about watershed issues. Lastly, the SEC will again coordinate a

Watershed Awareness Week in Sarasota County. The program was developed by SEC to enhance the general

public's understanding of watersheds in Sarasota County and to show how their actions as stewards can help protect

water resources. Evaluation will be conducted by SEC member organizations and will include surveys, attendance

statistics, number of web site hits, an assessment of visitor comments (written and voice), and number of promotional

brochures distributed.


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 329,167 0 (4,006) 208,655 62,347 62,171


District

Science and Environment Council of

Sarasota County

339,000 0 0 219,000 60,000 60,000

$671,467 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding



Outdoor interpretive signs complete 10/15/08 10/15/08

Indoor educational kiosk panels complete 10/15/08 10/15/08

Educational brochures complete 10/15/08 10/15/08

Watershed Awareness Week talk-back boards 10/31/08 11/28/08 11/7/08

Watershed Awareness Week 10/31/08 11/28/08 11/7/08


Outdoor interpretive signs installed 9/30/09 9/30/09

Mobile messages complete 9/30/09 7/31/09

Brochure complete 9/30/09 9/30/09

Decision-makers workshop 9/30/09 6/5/09

Watershed Awareness Week talk-back boards 10/30/09

Watershed Awareness Week 10/30/09 10/30/09 10/30/09

Project close 10/30/09 10/30/09


Decision-makers workshop complete 6/30/10 6/30/10

Video complete 9/30/10 6/30/10 6/30/10

Watershed Awareness Week 10/25/10 10/25/10

Project close 10/31/10 12/31/10 12/31/10

FY2011 Budgeted fundsInitiate purchase order 10/29/10 12/2/10 12/2/10

Decision-makers workshop 6/30/11

Five mobile phone messages complete 9/1/11

Four short videos complete 9/1/11


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Project close 11/30/11

Watershed Awareness Week 11/30/11


ACTION TO DATE: On time. Planning has begun for the upcoming watershed video and mobile phone audio messages.

The scripts are currently being developed and will be submitted to the District for review and approval. The

decision-makers workshop is tentatively scheduled for May. The annual WOW! Water Opportunities Week is scheduled

to take place November 5-13.


L520

Education - Around the Bend Nature Tours in Manatee & Sarasota

CountiesProject Type Cooperative Funding

AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality Maintenance and ImprovementNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and MonitoringWater Supply Conservation


Around the Bend Nature ToursCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as medium priority. This program seeks to educate approximately 2,300 public, private and homeschool

students and teachers in grades kindergarten through 12 about watersheds and natural systems through guided tours

in the Manasota Basin. Education has been named as one of the priorities of the Manasota Basin Board, which makes

the project relevant to District goals and objectives. Cooperator has a long history with the District and is well-versed in

Florida's standards-based education guidelines. Additionally, the project complements the District's Get Outside!

campaign by using District lands when possible in field excursions. Pre- and post-visit student activities are also

incorporated into the program. In FY2010, students demonstrated at 39.2% knowledge gain through the program.

DescriptionThis Cooperative Funding Initiative (CFI) project proposes to educate students and adults about local environmental

systems. Around the Bend Nature Tours will provide approximately 2,300 students and teachers with site-specific

programs that focus on watersheds and include various Manatee and Sarasota County Conservation Lands and

SWFWMD lands (including Emerson Point Park, Riverview Pointe, Rye Wilderness Park, Duette Park or any

SWFWMD area that is deemed appropriate). Funding is requested to pay for program costs and substitutes. These

environmental education programs will benefit students, parents, teachers and homeschool groups and use Around

the Bend Nature Tours guides and materials. The program's effectiveness will be measured through student

pre/posttest data and teacher evaluations.

BenefitsThis program proposes to address watershed education and natural systems through hands-on field study programs

for youth and adults. Many students have not previously been exposed to hands-on environmental field trips and the

experience can foster a personal connection to the sites visited, ultimately leaning to understanding and appreciation

of water systems. Additionally, some field trip sites are on District-owned lands. Cooperator has a long history with the

District and is well versed in Florida's standards-based education guidelines. This program also proposes to work with

homeschool groups, a target audience with which the District's youth education staff would like a greater reach.

Costs


(Manasota). District funds are requested for program costs and teacher substitutes. The project proposes to reach

2,300 people at a cost to the District of $12.10 per person and $4.84 per participant contact hour. While the cost per

person is slightly lower than similar youth education field trip programs, the cost per contact hour is 25% higher than

average. The medium ranking is based on the higher cost per participant contact hour. The budget lines below

includes cost for staff to manage the project.


The total cost of the FY2011 program is $105,315, with the District contributing $27,840 (Manasota). The project will

reach 2,040 people at a cost to the District of $13.65 per person and $3.41 per participant contact hour. Budget line

below includes cost for staff to manage the project. The District has supported this project since FY2006.


L520

Education - Around the Bend Nature Tours in Manatee & Sarasota

Counties


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 166,183 0 (10) 104,741 31,301 30,151


District

Around the Bend Nature Tours 7,100 0 0 7,100 0 0

Braden River Middle School 2,000 0 0 2,000 0 0

FL Division of Historical Resources 30,500 0 0 30,500 0 0

Manatee County Conservation Lands 4,500 0 0 4,500 0 0

Pinellas County Environmental Fund 48,550 0 0 48,550 0 0

Sarasota Bay Estuary Program 109,350 0 0 58,000 30,000 21,350

$386,083 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


FY2009 Budgeted FundsPurchase order opened 10/27/08 10/31/08

Field trips end 9/1/09 6/2/09

Final report due to District 9/30/09 6/12/09


Field trips end 9/1/10

Final report and invoice due to District 9/30/10

FY2011 Budgeted FundsInitiate purchase order 10/1/10

Field trips end 9/1/11

Final report and invoice due to District 9/30/11


ACTION TO DATE: On time. To date, cooperator has performed 30 field trips with 16 schools, reaching 1,282 students

and 175 adults.


N266

Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - North Port - Structure

101 ImprovementsProject Type Cooperative Funding


Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a medium priority. The project is implementation of BMPs. The Best Management Practices will provide

stormwater improvements to sddress flood protection issues. A senior administrator has provided confirmation that the

City will budget the project for FY2012 funding. The project has been ranked 1st of four submitted by the City for

cooperative funding. The City has requested $375,000 in cooperative funding for FY2012, however, District staff is

recommending that only $50,000 be provided as the schedule provided by the City shows that construction will not

commence until FY2013. The FY2012 funds will be used for engineering design and permitting.

DescriptionThis is a project to perform the Implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) element of the District's

Watershed Management Program (WMP) within the Myakkahatchee Creek in the City of Northport. Implementation of

BMPs includes the following tasks: design, development of construction documents, construction permitting, land

acquisition, bidding and contractor selection, construction of the BMPs and construction engineering and inspection.

The Myaccahatchee Creek is the major potable water supply source for the City. The City captures water from the

Myakkahatchee Creek if the flow going over Water Control Structure (WCS) No. 101 is above 10 cfs. WCS No. 101 is

equipped with 4 gates which are operated in the closed position in order to allow storage of water. In anticipation of

pending rain storm events and as the water level rises, the gates are opened as needed to prevent upstream

flooding.The structure was constructed in the 1960s and has not been upgraded since. Extensive corrosion has

developed in the sheet metal weir piling and all 4 of the gates have developed leaks and cannot be closed watertight.

The City proposes that the existing sheet metal weir piling will be enhanced with a concrete weir revetmentand

necessary supports. All gates will be replacedand modeling will be conducted to determine if six gates will be required.

Gate automation and remote telemetry will be added as this is critical with the frequent gate openation required. For

FY2012, the City is requesting funding for the following tasks: design, development of construction documents,

permitting and to start construction of the BMPs.. Future funding will be required to complete construction of the

BMPs.

BenefitsThe project will improve level of service deficiencies by providing flood protection within the service area. In addition,

construction of the water control structure will improve water quality and will provide some storage of fresh water.

Costs

The estimated cost for this project is $1,500,000 of which the District's share is $750,000 and the City's share is

$750,000. For FY2012 the City is requesting $375,000 in cooperative funding and the City will provide $375,000 in

matching funds. Only $50,000 in cooperative funding is recommended to be budgeted for the project in FY2012

because that amount is what District staff believes can reasonably be spent during the fiscal year. Future funding will

be required to complete construction of the BMPs. The probable construction costs are based on a BMP analysis

developed by the cooperator. When each elemant is completed the project budget may require refinement based on

information gathered and unforeseen circumstances. The District funding amount shown in the table includes staff

salaries. The future funds identified for the project are contingent upon approval of such amounts by the District

Governing Board and Basin Board in the annual budget(s).





provides a method to evaluate the capacity of a watershed to protect, enhance, and restore water quality and natural

systems, while achieving flood protection. This project involves the Implementation of BMPs which includes

construction of the BMPs. Funding is included to complete the implementation of the BMP. A cooperative funding

expenditure agreement with the City will be developed as a multi-year funded project contingent on the approval of

future funding to complete the implementation of BMPs.The City will manage the project, where the District project

manager must approve any agreements to accomplish project tasks.


N266

Stormwater Improvements - Flood Protection - North Port - Structure

101 Improvements


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 751,277 700,000 0 0 51,277 0


District

City of North Port 750,000 375,000 0 0 375,000 0

$1,501,277 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


August 2010Design and permit of structure 8/18/10

August 2011Construction 8/18/11

Status As Of:


N342

Dona Bay Hydrologic Restoration



Basin(s) Manasota



BROWN, MARKTask Manager(s)


Recommendation

Overall the project is ranked MEDIUM. Staff is not recommending providing funding for design activities completed

before FY2012. Staff is reccomending providing funding for the construction of the weir and ROMA at 50% cost

share as long as the District receives 50% of the ROMA credits. The total District share for the project, excluding the

previous design work, is $3,3398,694. The FY2012 budget would be $1,792,091 with the remaining $1,606,603

provided in FY2013 if approved. The credits gained by the District will be left and given back to the

environment. Through consultation with the District's Environmental Section the capital cost per acre and capital cost

per mitigation credit are reasonable though Environmental staff did express concerns on the operation and

maintenance of the facility.

DescriptionThis project is for the construction of Phases1A-1 and 1A-2 of the multi-phase Dona Bay Watershed Management

Plan (DBWMP). The two phases will construct the weir in Cow Pen Slough (PH1A-2) and the 300 acre West

Pinelands wetland restoration (PH1A-1) which will be used as a Regional Offsite Mitigation Area (ROMA) worth

approximately 140 credits which will be split between the County and the District. The County is also requesting to be

reimbursed for design activities that took place before FY2012. Because of uncertainties with water supply

demands, future elements such as the Venice Minerals Reservoir are not included at this time.

BenefitsThe construction of the weir and ROMA are the first steps toward the goals of natural system restoration and

improvement of water quality in Dona Bay. The overall objective of the DBWMP is to decrease freshwater flows to

Dona Bay, while creating a beneficial alternative water supply to meet potable water demands in the area.

Costs

The estimated cost for the construction of Phases1A-1 and 1A-2 is $7,997,388. This is inclusive of the costs for design

activities that will be completed before FY2012. The County is requesting 50% ($3,998,694) cooperative funding from

the Manasota Basin Board. The funding request for FY2012 is $ 2,392,091 from the Manasota Basin Board

and includes the previous design work, done before FY2012. The County intends to ask for the additional $1,606,603

in FY13 to complete PH1A-2.


The County and Authority currently have an MOU to finalize a project agreement by July 2012 for regional capacity

from this project. If an agreement can be reached that meets the intent of District Policy 130-4, then Governing Board

funding may be available for the project. This cooperative funding application proposes a portion of a multi-phase

implementation plan for the Dona Bay Watershed Management Plan (DBWMP), previously cooperatively funded by

the basin under L493 and the Pilot treatment study and an intermediate well under HO88. The project proposes to

divert, store and transport excess freshwater flows from Cow Pen Slough (CPS) prior to discharging them into the

Dona Bay Estuary providing an alternative water supply in the SWUCA as well as environmental benefits to the bay.

The water would be ultimately transported to the County's Carlton Facility for treatment and distribution. The potential

capacity is estimated in 3, 5, 10, and 15 mgd phases. The DBWMP was finalized in June 2007, and as design has

progressed, the implementation plan has evolved.


N342

Dona Bay Hydrologic Restoration


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,797,743 0 0 0 1,797,743 0


District

Sarasota County 3,998,694 1,606,603 0 859,320 1,192,091 340,680

$5,796,437 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


MilestoneComplete Design and Permitting Phase 1A 6/1/11

Initiate Weir Construction Phase 1A2 10/3/11

Initiate Construction Phase 1A1 ROMA 7/2/12

Complete Weir construction 7/2/12

Complete ROMA construction 10/1/13

Status As Of:


N372

Island Adventures Pilot Program


AORs Strategic InitiativesWater Quality Water Quality MonitoringNatural Systems Natural Systems Identification and Monitoring

Basin(s) Pinellas-Anclote River, Manasota

Natures AcademyCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as medium priority. While this project has several strengths, its higher than average cost per person compared

to other similar youth education field programs results in a medium ranking. This program proposes to reach a total of

2,200 students and adults at a cost approximately 38% higher per person than similar youth-based field

programs. This program proposes to educate fifth grade students in Title 1 schools in Manatee and Pinellas counties

about the Tampa Bay watershed, estuarine ecology and the actions students can take to protect their local

environment and water resources. Funding for environmental education in Manatee County Schools has been cut, so

this project would provide a means of allowing students to experience hands-on water education. Education has been

named as a priority by both the Manasota and Pinellas-Anclote River basin boards, which makes the project relevant

to District goals and objectives. Evaluation will be conducted through students pre/posttests, teacher evaluations,

school "sharing days" and student surveys.

DescriptionThis Cooperative Funding Initiative (CFI) project proposes to educate fifth grade students in Title 1 schools in Manatee

and Pinellas counties about the Tampa Bay watershed, estuarine ecology and the actions students can take to protect

their local environment and water resources. Nature's Academy is a non-profit 501(c)3 environmental education

company founded in October, 2007. District funds will provide field program transportation, supplies and printing costs.

Program effectiveness will be measured through pre/posttests, teacher evaluations, student surveys and school

"sharing days." The project proposes to reach approximately 2,200 students and adults.

BenefitsThis project proposes to increase student knowledge of local ecosystems and watersheds, water quality issues and

conservation through hands-on programming. Many students lack first-hand knowledge of Florida's environment and

water resources, so field programs can help to foster a lasting sense of environmental stewardship in children.

Nature's Academy will promote District publications and materials through orientation sessions with teachers before

the field program.

Costs


(Pinellas-Anclote River $21,875; Manasota $22,875). The dollar amount allocated per basin is determined by slight

variations in programming allowed by Pinellas and Manatee county school districts. Students are not allowed on the

water in Pinellas County, while the Manasota costs reflect kayak rental fees. District funds are being requested for

transportation, program supplies and printing fees. The program is projected to reach 2,200 students and adults at a

cost to the District of $20.13 per person and $3.36 per participant contact hour. While the cost per contact hour is

comparable to similar youth programs, the cost per person is approximately 38% higher than the average youth field

program costs. The budget lines below include costs for staff to manage the project.


N372

Island Adventures Pilot Program


Revenue


021 Manasota Basin 23,936 0 0 0 23,936 0


District

Nature's Academy 56,133 0 0 0 56,133 0

$104,336 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding

Status As Of:


N381

Planning - Sarasota County North Reuse Study



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a medium priority. Although staff sees value in planning and developing strategies to guide utilities in scoping

and sequencing future projects, the District has placed priority on supporting near term capital improvement projects.

This study will look at the current reclaimed water (RW) customer base, available capacity, identify new areas or

customers that could be added to the RW system, outline regulatory constraints, and identify potential partnerships.

This project will have benefits in offsetting county potable water demands used for irrigation, reducing permitted

groundwater quantities, and offsetting future groundwater withdrawal quantities within the Southern Water Use

Caution Area (SWUCA) and the Most impacted Area (MIA). There was adequate information available to evaluate the

project and the cooperator has confirmed it has included the necessary matching funds in its capital budget in

FY2012. The project is within the District's statutory authority to fund, and is not the result of a permit requirement or

enforcement action.

DescriptionThis project will develop a reuse feasibility study for the northern portion of Sarasota County's RW system. The study

will develop RW use alternatives and evaluate improvements to the county's current northern RW system. With the

planned decommissioning of the Siesta Key WRF, sewer flows from Siesta Key will be redirected inland to the

County's northern RW system. The feasibility study will evaluate the type and location of new and existing facilities,

identify system storage needs, address the transmission and disposal of differing qualities of RW and look for ways to

improve the delivery and reliability of quantities of water to the customer. This study will also investigate how a portion

of the Bee Ridge plant flow treated to Advance Wastewater Treatment (AWWT) standards could be used within the

Braden River Watershed. The study will look at the current customer base, available capacity, identify new areas or

customers that could be added to the system, outline regulatory constraints, and identify potential partnerships.

BenefitsThis study will provide Sarasota County and the District with an implementable plan to efficiently use the available RW

in the County's North Reclaimed Water System. The project will identify benefits in offsetting county potable water

demands used for irrigation, reducing permitted groundwater quantities, and offsetting future groundwater withdrawal

quantities within the SWUCA and the MIA.

Costs

The total project cost is estimated to be $200,000 with the District's share projected to be fifty percent or $100,000 in

FY2012. Any additional funds are for staff time.


The County's northern RW system encompasses the area from approximately Oscar Scherer State Park north to the

Sarasota County line. The northern portion of Sarasota County's RW system is supplied from the Bee Ridge Water

Reclamation Facility (WRF) and the Central County Water Reclamation Facility which is distributed through a series of

pipes and ponds to the county's various customers. This study will develop alternatives and evaluate improvements to

the county's current RW system. When the opportunity for beneficial use is not available, excess RW is sent to one of

county's deep injection wells. The county is also completing an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) well at the

Central County WRF that will enhance storage capacity and allow for greater utilization of RW. Currently the Bee

Ridge & Central County WRF's produce RW meeting advance secondary public access reuse standards. While this

level of treatment is acceptable for many locations, in the northern portion of Sarasota County within the Braden River

watershed there is a need to provide a higher level of treatment in order to expand RW service to this area. The

County plans to add the wastewater flows from the soon to be discommissioned Siesta Key Wastewater Facility to it's

northern wastewater reclamation facilities.


N381

Planning - Sarasota County North Reuse Study


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 103,860 0 0 0 103,860 0


District

Sarasota County 100,000 0 0 0 100,000 0

$203,860 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Start Study 12/30/11

Complete Study 11/29/12

Status As Of:


L015

Data - Sarasota County Surface Water Flow Monitoring Program



Basin(s) Manasota



Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a low priority. Continued collection of rainfall and stream stage data will be used primarily by the County to

support local monitoring efforts. The County plans to continue to monitor these sites for several years but has not

provided a clear indication of the duration of the effort. Staff prefers data collection be used to identify a problem

and implement a project.

DescriptionThis project from Sarasota County is for continued rainfall and stream gauge data collection and analysis at 13 surface

water monitoring sites. The County has been collecting rainfall and stream gauge data at the same sites and has

requested to continue collecting the data for the development of the stage-discharge curves for these sites. The

data were previously used for developing MFL's. The project also included the continuation of field measurements for

one more year to quantify sites influenced by tidal fluctuations. The data and analyses will be used to improve

watershed model calibration and verification, and to quantify freshwater flows to the bays and estuaries. Data

collection results and analyses will support several ongoing projects including pollutant loading, TMDL studies, and

Community Rating System.

BenefitsThe project is intended to provide daily watershed discharge information at 13 sites. The County has funded the field

measurements for 13 sites since August 2004. The District cooperatively funded field measurements in 2004 and has

continued to fund the project since 2007. Continued collection of rainfall and stream stage data in FY2008, FY2009,

and FY2010 have supported several projects including the development of watershed plans for Lemon Bay and

Roberts Bay.

Costs

The total funding that has been approved for this project by the Manasota Basin Board and Sarasota County through

FY2010 is $1,250,000. Sarasota County contributed $130,000 in FY2003. The Manasota Basin Board budgeted

$75,000 in FY2004 and FY2005, $200,000 in FY2006, $100,000 in FY2007 and FY2008, and $60,000 in FY2009 and

FY2010. The County provided an equal match for each year except FY2005 and FY2006. The funds that were

budgeted by the District for FY2005 and FY2006 were returned to the Basin as the County was unable to come up with

their match. This is reflected in the table below as a cumulative transfer in the amount of $216,303. Due to a budget

shortfall, Sarasota County was unable to come up with their FY2010 funding portion of $60,000. The FY2010 contract

was written for a total of $85,500, split equally between the District and the County, instead of the budgeted amount of

$120,000. Once approved by the Sarasota County Board of Commissioners, the District will reimburse the county

with $42,750. The District funding amounts shown in the table include staff salaries, travel and central garage charges.


The stations sampled provided data for the Dona and Roberts Bay study, pollutant loading, and TMDL studies. The

data are also used for the Community Rating System for FEMA flood insurance and watershed impacts due to

development and surface water availability studies. Recently, the data collected have been used in the development

of the watershed plans for Lemon Bay and Roberts Bay.


L015

Data - Sarasota County Surface Water Flow Monitoring Program


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 513,801 0 (233,553) 686,516 59,190 1,648


District

Sarasota County 782,570 0 0 782,570 0 0

$1,296,371 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Phase 4Draft Amendment to Agreement for FY2010 Funding 9/15/09 9/15/09

Draft FY10 Agreement to Contracts Section 3/1/10 4/23/10

Forward FY10 Agreement for County Signature 3/31/10 6/1/10

Execution of FY10 Agreement 5/3/10 9/14/10 9/30/10

FY2010 Data Collection Completed 9/30/10 9/30/10

Expiration Date for FY2010 Agreement 12/31/10 12/31/10

FY2010 Data Final Report Completed 12/31/10 11/10/10


Following completion of the project work, the FY2010 cooperative agreement expired on schedule on December 31,

2010. The Manasota Basin Board did not approve funding for the project in FY2011. Sarasota County is continuing the

monitoring program on its own for FY2011. The County has requested FY2012 funds for continuation of the program

through the District's Cooperative Funding Initiative. The project has been ranked as a Low Priority for funding.


N336

Design & Construction - BRU / City of Bradenton Reclaimed Water



Basin(s) Manasota

Braden River UtilitiesCooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Fund as a low priority. This project will interconnect the Braden River Utilities (BRU) irrigation system with a reclaimed

water (RW) supply from the City of Bradenton Reclaimed Water System. BRU is in the process of obtaining an

agreement with Manatee County and City of Bradenton on a water quality monitoring plan for the Braden River

Watershed and a twenty-year agreement with the City of Bradenton for 4.0 mgd of RW supply. This recommendation

may be changed to a high priority when the necessary agreements and approvals are obtained. This project is

consistent with the basin objectives by using an alternative water source to offset potable water use. This project is

located in the Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA). There was adequate information available to evaluate the

project. The cooperator has confirmed it has included the necessary matching funds in its capital budget in FY2012.

The project is within the District's statutory authority to fund, and is not the result of a permit requirement or

enforcement action.

DescriptionThis project will design and construct approximately 27,200 feet of 18 inch, 4,900 feet of 16 inch, and 4,600 feet of 12

inch RW transmission line in order to provide RW to existing residential and commercial irrigation customers to offset

potable groundwater use within the Braden River Watershed. The project will provide an interconnection between the

City of Bradenton's Reclaimed Water System and the BRU irrigation system. The City of Bradenton will supply BRU

with 4.0 mgd of RW. The project will also include the construction transmission line segments within BRU's RW

system to move the RW to where it will be used in the Northwest and Southwest Sectors of the Lakewood

Development.

BenefitsThe project will provide approximately 4.0 mgd of RW from the City of Bradenton to BRU's irrigation system to offset

potable water used for irrigation. The RW will replace the groundwater now used by residents and commercial users in

the Northwest and Southwest Sectors of Lakewood Ranch and a 100 percent offset is anticipated. The Northwest and

Southwest Sectors of Lakewood Ranch currently has an irrigation demand of over 5.0 mgd and has 7,104 residential

units.

Costs

The total project cost is estimated at $9,028,000, and the District's 50% share is $4,514,000. BRU is requesting that

the Manasota Basin Board fund the entire $4,514,000 in FY2012. Staff is recomending $2,200,000 in FY2012 and

$2,314,000 in FY2013. The cost/benefit ratio for the total estimated project cost of $9,028,000 averaging 4.0 mgd

and using an 8% annual interest rate amortized over 30 years is $0.54/1000 gallons.


BRU is the private irrigation provider for the Lakewood Ranch Development and provides non-potable landscape

irrigation to several Community Development Districts in Lakewood Ranch as well as the Lakewood Ranch

Stewardship District. The BRU service area is located within the Most Impacted Area of the SWUCA. Source water for

the BRU irrigation system currently consists of a diverse set of resources including ground water, surface water, and

in some instances, RW. As part of BRU's longstanding commitment to responsible development and water

management, objectives include increasing the use of RW as a primary irrigation source, and conjunctively using

Alternative Water Supplies to meet BRU's water demands and offset the use of traditional supplies. With the recent

elimination of the restrictive Braden River Watershed Overlay, the opportunity now exists to further this objective. We

believe that these goals align with those of the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD). Towards

this end, BRU is currently negotiating a 20 year RW agreement with the City of Bradenton to provide 4 mgd of RW.

This request is for SWFWMD cost-share for the infrastructure construction necessary to facilitate the beneficial use of

the City of Bradenton's RW in the BRU service area. BRU has completed a Reclaimed Water Supply and Demand

Study that identifies anticipated demands and infrastructure needs. BRU is committed to continue to pursue future

opportunities with the City of Bradenton and other RW providers to increase the quantity of water for beneficial

irrigation purposes. The strategic location of the BRU service area provides an opportunity for implementation of a

regional RW system. Regional reclaimed water inter-connects could ultimately include Aqua Utilities (existing), City of


N336

Design & Construction - BRU / City of Bradenton Reclaimed Water

Sarasota (proposed), City of Bradenton (proposed), Sarasota County (in negotiations) and possibly Manatee County.

Lakewood Ranch became one of the first communities to adopt Florida Green Building Coalition standards which

include several water management and water conservation strategies, such as Florida Friendly landscaping and

irrigation system efficiency as well as potable water indoor water conservation devices and appliances. BRU is the

associated private irrigation utility for Lakewood Ranch and also provides water conservation educational materials to

its customers. BRU is not charged with developing, implementing or enforcing flood protection ordinances.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 4,514,408 2,314,000 0 0 2,200,408 0


District

Braden River Utilities 4,514,000 2,314,000 0 0 2,200,000 0

$9,028,408 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Fianlize Prepare Reclaimed Water Demand/Supply Study 1/15/11

Negotiate Inter-local Agreement between BRU and Manatee County 2/1/11

Execute 20 Year Agreement between BRU and City of Bradenton 2/1/11

Issue Request for Professional Design Services per CCNA 9/1/11

Select and Authorize Professional Design Services 10/1/11

Complete Design and Permitting 2/1/12

Issue Request for Contractor Bids 2/15/12

Select and Authorize Contractor to Initiate Work 3/15/12


Status As Of:


N082

Construction - North Port 1.5 MGD Intermediate Aquifer RO System



Basin(s) Manasota

City of North Port, City of North Port - Public UtilitiesCooperator(s)


FERGUSON, JOHN, ARMSTRONG, BRIANTask Manager(s)


Recommendation

FY2012 Funding is not recommended.

The Manasota Basin funded this project in FY2009 and FY2010 providing a total of $1,400,000. For FY2011,

District staff did not recommend any additional funding since the project's primary benefit is no longer to meet demand

but to achieve compliance with a DEP consent order to reduce TDS in the existing facility's finished water, the District

has already made large investments in other supply development projects that are available to the City and District

funding would reduce the project's unit production costs below the price of available surplus water from the Authority.

During the summer of 2010, District staff worked with City staff to reevaluate the project's unitary cost/benefit. It was

determined that a District funding contribution of $3,410,000 (total) would reduce the project's unitary production cost

to match the price of the Authority's distribution pool water ($2.92 per thousand gallons). At the Manasota Basin Board

meeting on August 11, 2010, a City representative requested that the Board fund 50 percent of the project. Staff

continued to not recommend additional funding, yet did provide a secondary option to fund an amount that would

reduce the City's unit production cost to an equivalent of regional supply unit cost. The Board did not motion to

change the tentative budget and provide any additional funding in FY2011.

DescriptionThis is a brackish groundwater development project for a wellfield and RO system to produce up to 1.5 mgd finished

water. The water will be used for blending at the City's existing surface water facility, the Myakkahatchee Creek Water

Treatment Plant (MCWTP.) The project allows North Port to operate their existing MCWTP year round and meet

required total dissolved solids (TDS) standards. The City is currently operating under a Department of Environmental

Protection (DEP) variance for exceeding TDS that expires on July 2012. The project provides additional supply for

blending at the MCWTP, bringing the plant's total finished potable water supply capacity to 3.5 mgd.

BenefitsDevelopment of this project will allow the Myakkahatchee Creek facility to operate year round, meet TDS requirements

and develop additional alternative water supplies within the SWUCA.

Costs

The total project cost of the RBF/RO project is estimated at $13,100,000. This cost includes pilot studies and existing

facility upgrades paid solely by the City of North Port. The District eligible costs are $12,100,000; with the requested

share being $6,050,000. District funding budgeted to date (FY2009 and FY2010) is $1,400,000 from the Manasota

Basin Board. No additional funding was budgeted in FY2011 for reasons discussed below.

District funding is provided entirely by the Manasota Basin Board, and will be used for the design and construction of

the RBF system and the RO facility. The City has accrued $9,000,000 in project funds from previous years in

preparation for the project and is able to match the funding request.

The Ciy submitted a FY2012 cooperative funding request for $850,000. FY2012 funding is not recommended

by staff.


The objective of this project is to increase the reliability of the MCWTP and meet water quality regulations. The

MCWTP is located at the confluence of Myakkahatchee Creek and the Cocoplum Canal and is permitted to withdraw

from both water bodies, but both sources exhibit considerable seasonal variability in water quality. The MCWTP

currently operates under a DEP-issued water quality variance for TDS (allowing up to 1,000 mg/l) which expires on

July 25, 2012, after which 500 mg/l will be the TDS limit. Annual average production at the MCWTP has varied from

1.0 to 1.5 mgd in recent years. The City estimates that without the variance, annual average production would be

limited to approximately 0.5 mgd and the MCWTP may be inoperable for weeks at a time. The City has stated

that continued operation of the MCWTP may not be economically viable without RO permeate for blending, requiring

them to consider decommissioning the facility and purchasing additional water from a regional supplier and/or develop

brackish groundwater wellfields.

In July 2008, the City completed a Water Treatment Plant Enhancement Study to evaluate treatment alternatives that

would increase the reliability and water quality of the MCWTP. The study proposed the integration strategy of the


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RBF/RO facility, including preliminary pilot test results evaluating reverse osmosis (RO) in combination with riverbank

filtration (RBF) pre-treatment for reducing TDS and sulfate. According to the study, 1.5 mgd (max day) from the RO

facility could be blended with water from the existing system to meet the regulatory limit of 500 mg/l TDS to provide a

total of 3.5 mgd. This would allow the MCWTP to operate on a consistent and year-round basis instead of being

limited to seasonal operation. The City completed the four-month pilot-scale test of the RBF/RO system and

published the pilot study in October 2008.

The cooperative funding agreement was executed on March 17, 2009. On May 28, 2009, the City selected McKim &

Creed as the consultant for permitting, design, and construction management services. The consultant proposed

using a series of horizontal wells parallel to the Cocoplum Canal for the RBF system. The City held the project kick-off

meeting on July 9, 2009. On August 5, 2009, the District sent a letter to the City of North Port explaining that staff

were recommending a FY2010 budget of $500,000, due to economic restraints. The letter also explained that future

funding is contingent on the annual approval of the Manasota Basin budget, and the District may not be able to fund a

full 50% share of the project, but acknowledged the public benefit of the project and its importance to the City.

The consultant submitted a Well Testing Program to the District for review on October 29, 2009. The test utilized a

horizontal well in the upper potion of the intermediate aquifer, parallel to the Cocoplum Waterway. Due to the unique

nature and purpose of the horizontal test well, the Department of Health deferred the test well construction permit to

District regulatory staff. The District issued the test well permits on March 17, 2010, and construction commenced a

few days later. The APT pumping was conducted in May 2010; and the final test report was received on August 16,

2010.

District staff met with North Port's City Manager and Utilities Director on March 23, 2010, to explain that additional

funding was not recommended in FY2011. District staff stated that the $1.4 million in previous funding was still

available for use and encouraged the City to continue with the project; but based on components of District Board

Policy 130-4, the project is not eligible for additional funding. The project is required to achieve compliance with a

DEP consent order, and the District has already invested in other supply development projects that are available to the

City.

At the Manasota Basin Board meeting on August 11, 2010, a City representative presented the project to the Board

and requested a full 50% funding of the project. District staff continued to not recommend additional funding, yet did

provide a second option to fund an amount that would reduce the City's unit production cost to an equivalent of

regional supply unit cost. The Board did not motion to change the tentative FY2011 budget and additional funding was

not provided.

The District regulatory staff issued a WUP modification to the City on December 16, 2010, allowing 7.1 mgd (annual

average) including a separate wellfield based on the City's 20-year demands. The allocation at the MCWTP remained

at 4.4 mgd in surface water withdrawals. On December 17, 2010, the City submitted a second modification to allocate

up to 2.7 mgd of the withdrawals at the MCTWP to come from the intermediate aquifer in the vicinity of the WTP. No

additional allocations are requested in the second modification.


Revenue

021 Manasota Basin 1,414,794 0 0 1,407,897 3,245 3,652


District

City of North Port 9,000,000 0 0 7,572,000 0 1,428,000

$10,414,794 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


RBF facilites permitting complete, construction commence 6/1/10 5/30/10

RBF construction complete 1/31/11 8/16/10

RO facilities construction commence 3/2/12

RO facilities construction complete, start-up 12/31/12


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Final Project Complete 6/1/13


In December 2010 the City requested a modification to their water use permit (#2923) for the RO wellfield. The permit is

currently for 7.1 mgd annual average, including 4.4 mgd annual average from surface water at the existing water

treatment plant, and 2.7 mgd for a future brackish groundwater project 10 miles west of the existing plant. The

modification request is to split the 4.4 mgd quantity at the plant into 2.4 mgd from surface water and 2.0 mgd from the

RO wellfield at the plant. More surface water withdrawals may be allowed if a balance of quantity from the RO wellfield is

not used.The City completed 60 percent design plans and forwarded an electronic copy to District staff on December 16,

2010. The 60 percent design utilized a combination of one additional horizontal well and four vertical wells. In January

2011, test borings indicated that the second horizontal well location was unsuitable. The horizontal well has been

substituted with a fifth vertical well.Conclusions from the horizontal well APT were that the majority of pumped water

would originate from the intermediate aquifer, instead of the surficial aquifer and induced infiltration from the Cocoplum

Waterway. The source water remains of brackish quality (1500-1600 TDS). District staff are evaluating the WUP

modification as an intermediate withdrawal, and recommend changing the project classification from surface water

treatment to brackish groundwater development. A second APT from a vertical well is scheduled in February 2011.The

City has requested a task schedule extension for the wellfield facilities construction deadline. The RO facility schedule

and final completion date remain unchanged.The City has submitted a FY2012 cooperative funding request for

$850,000. Funding is not recommended due to the large investments the District has made to other supply projects that

are available to the City, and the project's primarily of achieving compliance with a DEP consent order to reduce TDS in

the existing facility's finished water.


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Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 1B - Redundant

Segment in Punta GordaProject Type Cooperative Funding



Peace River/Manasota Regional Water Supply Auth.Cooperator(s)


Task Manager(s)


Recommendation

Funding is not recommended.

This project was conceived as an alternate solution to pending cost overages for Phase 1A (H069) in November

2010. Other cost-saving measures were implemented for Phase 1A in December 2010, and benefits of that project (6

mgd bilateral transmission capacity) should be achieved as originally proposed. The Authority has not secured a

cost-sharing agreement with any member or customer to match the District funding request. Recent discussions with

Punta Gorda staff indicate their WTP expansion will likely be postponed for 5 years or later, so there is no immediate

need to expand transmission capacity from that facility.

DescriptionThe Phase 1B regional interconnect is an addition to the ongoing Phase 1A project. The Phase 1A design utilizes

shared capacity in 3.2 miles of an existing 30-inch water line owned by the City of Punta Gorda. This project installs a

parallel line to replace the shared segment with a dedicated regional pipeline. The segment runs from the Authority's

regional pumping station (a Phase 1A component) eastward along US-17. Final design on the project is proposed to

begin in 2012, with construction beginning in 2013 and substantial completion achieved in 2014.

BenefitsThe project will provide a direct connection from the regional system to the Punta Gorda's water treatment facilities

enabling full regional support to the City as needed; and also provide regional access to additional supply from

expansion at the Shell Creek facility without requiring use of the City's distribution system for water deliveries to and

from the Regional system. Installation of Phase 1B also provides opportunities for future pipeline interconnections to

support increased demands in the southern portion of Charlotte County's service area, as well as advancing regional

access to water supplies develped in southern Charlotte County.

Development of the Regional Integrated Loop System will support regional resource management and water supply

goals within the four-county area including maximizing the use of surface water for public supply; providing rotational

capacity and the ability to rest sources; providing reserve capacity for emergency transfers; limiting the development of

Floridan Aquifer groundwater in the SWUCA; and optimizing financial investments in water supply infrastructure on a

regional basis. The use of alternative sources with the maximization of surface water for public supply is consistent

with the District's Regional Water Supply Plan (December 2006), the SWUCA recovery strategy and the Water

Protection and Sustainability Trust Fund.

Costs

The estimated project cost is $3,800,000 with District share of $1,900,000. Funding would be divided as: General

Fund $950,000; Manasota $693,500; and Peace River $256,500.

The FY2012 request is $250,000 for the first year funding and would be divided as: General

Fund $125,000; Manasota $91,250; Peace River $33,750.

FY2012 funding is not recommended.


The Authority is a wholesale supplier of potable water to the Customer Utilities of Charlotte, DeSoto, Manatee, and

Sarasota counties and the City of North Port. These utilities are retail suppliers for their respective public water

systems. The Authority cooperatively participates with Customer Utilities and the District in public awareness and

education regarding water conservation including radio public service announcements, newspaper advertisements

and inserts, and public presentations. The Authority also sponsors workshops for information sharing, and to inform

and educate local utilities on water saving programs. For the past two years (April 3, 2009 and June 24, 2010) the

Authority conducted Water Conservation Policy Summits in Sarasota with Customer Utilities and other local

governments involved in the Water Planning Alliance. The Summits have been very well attended and have included

focus on; Conserve Florida Water, Florida Water Star Gold Certification, Century Commission for a Sustainable

Florida, U.S. EPA WaterSense, local Conservation Programs as well as identifying local and regional priorities in

water conservation.


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Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 1B - Redundant

Segment in Punta Gorda


Revenue



021 Manasota Basin 33,750 0 0 0 33,750 0

$250,000 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


Regional Integrated Loop System - Phase 1B InterconnectBegin final design, permitting, property acquisition 4/2/12

Compete final design, permitting, property acquisition 3/29/13



Status As Of:


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Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 1 DeSoto to Punta

GordaProject Type Cooperative Funding



Cooperator(s)




Recommendation

FY2012 funding is not recommended for the following reasons:

1. A cost-sharing partner has not been secured for the Authority's project share.

2. The primary benefit of interconnecting Punta Gorda and southern Charlotte County should be achieved by the

ongoing Phase 1A Interconnect project (H069)

3. If constructed in FY2012, the pipeline would be under-utilized for several years before population growth and water

demands increased.

DescriptionThe Regional Integrated Loop System project provides a regional water transfer and delivery system for existing and

future water sources to demand centers within the Peace River Manasota Regional Water Supply Authority's

(Authority) four-county region. The Phase 1 Interconnect project will provide regional loop transmission capacity to the

City of Punta Gorda, and service to Charlotte and DeSoto counties along the US-17 corridor. This project was initially

considered for SWFWMD co-funding in FY2007, but was suspended in favor of the Phase 1A Interconnect project

(H069). The Phase 1 project has been reconsidered by the Authority to establish rotational capacity with the City of

Punta Gorda and additional service to Sun River Utilities. The Phase 1 project includes a total of 6 miles of 24-inch

diameter transmission main extending the Authority's 20-inch regional transmission line along US-17 southward to the

Shell Creek Water Treatment Facility (SCWTF). The design flow capacity is 2 mgd (based on June 2006 Scope of

Services.)

BenefitsDevelopment of this transmission system will assist in achieving the regional resource management and water supply

goals within the four-county area including: maximizing use of surface water for public supply; providing rotational

capacity and the ability to blend and rest sources; providing reserve capacity for emergency transfers; providing

alternatives to the development of groundwater in the Southern Water Use Caution Area (SWUCA); and optimizing

financial investments in water supply infrastructure on a regional basis. The use of alternative sources via maximizing

surface water for public supply is consistent with the District's Regional Water Supply Plan (SWFWMD, December

2006), the SWUCA recovery strategy, and the Water Protection and Sustainability Trust Fund.

Costs

The total estimated project cost is $11,500,000; with the requested District's share being $5,250,000 and the

Authority's share being $6,250,000. District shares are divided as: Governing Board $2,625,000; Peace River Basin

Board $708,750; and Manasota Basin Board $1,916,250. Funding was budgeted in FY2007 under the project code

"H050" but was allowed to lapse at the end of that year. The project has been resubmitted by the Authority in FY2009,

FY2010, and FY2011 but no further funding has been budgeted.

Future funding is contingent upon approval of such amounts by the District Governing Board and Basin Boards in the

annual budgets.

The Authority submitted a FY2012 cooperative funding request for $1,500,000; divided as Governing Board $750,000;

Peace River Basin Board $202,500; and Manasota Basin Board $547,500.

Staff recommends not funding.


In June 2006, the Authority, Charlotte County, and the City of Punta Gorda agreed to construct the alternate project

Phase 1A (H069); however, design work for the Phase 1 continued and was completed in 2007. The 2007 design

includes a pumping station and 2 million gallon storage tank adjacent to the SCWTF. On December 17, 2009, the

Authority authorized a design update to accommodate current road widening and stormwater pond installations along

US-17. Phase 1 could potentially provide additional capacity to DeSoto and Charlotte counties and would create

delivery options for the Sun River development area. Completion of both Phase 1 and Phase 1A may establish

rotational capacity between the SCWTF and the Peace River WTF to increase reliability and help maintain residual

chlorine levels.


N416

Interconnects - Regional Loop System - Phase 1 DeSoto to Punta

Gorda


Revenue



021 Manasota Basin 202,500 0 0 0 202,500 0


District

PR/MRWSA 6,250,000 1,500,000 0 1,000,000 3,750,000 0

$7,750,000 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


The project code N416 was created on February 9, 2011 to replace the project code H050. The H050 code contains an

archive of former status updates and funding history.


M110

FIRM Maps - Manatee - Development and Outreach of Flood

Insurance Rate MapsProject Type FEMA/Map Mod.


Basin(s) Manasota

Federal Emergency Management AgencyCooperator(s)

Project Manager LETASI, SCOTT

NGUYEN, NAMTask Manager(s)

Status Not Funded

DescriptionThis project is to perform Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood insurance rate map (FIRM)

modernization which includes 1) Topographic Information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, and 3) Watershed Management

Plan elements of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for numerous Manatee County watersheds.

The County covers an area of approximately 762 square miles. Under this project the FIRMs will reflect updated flood

hazard risk areas and be modernized to a digital product.






simulations for floodplain management and water quality management. The FIRMs are used by local governments for

land management and building permitting to satisfy the minimum requirements of the National Flood Insurance

Program.

Costs

The total budget amount for this project is $900,000. FEMA is expected to contribute all the funds for the project in

FY2008. When each element is completed the project budget will be refined based on the information gathered.





Management (CWM) initiative strategies and one of the District's Strategic Priorities. The District is cooperating with

FEMA to modernize the FIRMs in Manatee county. Information developed with this project will be used to update and

modernize the FIRMs for the entire county. Staff has worked with the FEMA to improve and formalize the District's

relationship with a federal agency that shares flood protection responsibilities. FEMA and the District executed a

Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Memorandum of Agreement on September 14, 2001. As a CTP, the District is

eligible for federal grants and matching funds to further efforts to modernize the flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs).

The District executed a Mapping Activity Statement with FEMA that identifies costs, responsibilities, and specific

activities to complete the FEMA Map Modernization effort for watersheds in Manatee county. The District will

coordinate with the local government(s), will manage the project, and will enter into purchase orders and agreements

to accomplish project tasks. With FEMA funding several tasks of the Watershed Evaluation and Watershed

Management Plan elements for priority watersheds within the County will be accomplished. Watersheds will be

prioritized based on the needs of the local governments and the District. Because of funding constraints some

watersheds will not be studied in detail. The risk information from the current FIRMs will be transferred to the

modernized, digital maps. These watersheds will be studied in detail when additional funding is available through the

cooperative funding process. Work on the Watershed Management Plan element for the priority watersheds will

include the following tasks: survey, data management and development of watershed parameters, GIS processing,

computer modeling, and floodplain analysis. Future cooperative funding request(s) will be required to complete

remaining Watershed Evaluation and Watershed Management Plan tasks (e.g. LOS determination, surface water

resource assessment, and BMP alternative analysis).


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FIRM Maps - Manatee - Development and Outreach of Flood

Insurance Rate Maps


Revenue



FEMA Coop Tech Partner Agreement 900,000 0 0 900,000 0 0

$905,624 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding

Status As Of: September 01, 2009

Status Update: This project is currently on hold. The District has not received funding from FEMA; therefore the project

can not be started.


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FIRM Maps - Sarasota - Development and Outreach of Flood

Insurance Rate MapsProject Type FEMA/Map Mod.





Task Manager(s)

Status Ongoing

DescriptionThis project is to perform Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood insurance rate map (FIRM)

modernization which includes 1) Topographic Information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, and 3) Watershed Management

Plan elements of the District's Watershed Management Program (WMP) for numerous Sarasota county watersheds.

The county covers an area of approximately 570 square miles. Under this project the FIRMs will reflect updated flood

hazard risk areas and be modernized to a digital product.








Program.

Costs

The total budget amount for this project is $2.42 million. FEMA is contributing $2 million for the project.






FEMA to modernize the FIRMs in Sarasota County. Information developed with this project will be used to update and

modernize the FIRMs for the entire county. Staff has worked with the FEMA to improve and formalize the District's

relationship with a federal agency that shares flood protection responsibilities. FEMA and the District executed a

Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Memorandum of Agreement on September 14, 2001. As a CTP, the District is

eligible for federal grants and matching funds to further efforts to modernize the flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs).

The District executed a Mapping Activity Statement with FEMA that identifies costs, responsibilities, and specific

activities to complete the FEMA Map Modernization effort for watersheds in Sarasota county. The District will

coordinate with the local government(s), will manage the project, and will enter into purchase orders and agreements

to accomplish project tasks. With FEMA funding several tasks of the Watershed Evaluation and Watershed

Management Plan elements for priority watersheds within the county will be accomplished. Watersheds will be

prioritized based on the needs of the local governments and the District. Because of funding constraints some

watersheds will not be studied in detail. The risk information from the current FIRMs will be transferred to the

modernized, digital maps. These watersheds will be studied in detail when additional funding is available through the

cooperative funding process. Work on the Watershed Management Plan element for the priority watersheds will

include the following tasks: survey, data management and development of watershed parameters, GIS processing,

computer modeling, and floodplain analysis. FEMA is responsible for working with the local communities for the

adoption of the DFIRMs. Future cooperative funding request(s) will be required to complete remaining Watershed

Evaluation and Watershed Management Plan tasks (e.g. LOS determination, surface water resource assessment, and

BMP alternative analysis).


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Insurance Rate Maps


Revenue



FEMA Coop Tech Partner Agreement 2,000,000 0 0 2,000,000 0 0

$2,112,860 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. FEMA Cooperative AgreementCooperating Technical Partners Memorandum of Agreement 9/14/01 9/14/01

Cooperating Technical Partners Agreement Executed 8/12/02 8/12/02

Mapping Activity Statement Executed 9/30/03 9/26/03

01A - Scoping 8/30/04 8/30/04

02 - Digital Topographic Data Development 10/1/04 5/31/11

03 - Independent QA/QC of Topographic Information 11/1/04 5/31/11

01C - Review of Existing Info, Reconnaissance, & Field Surveys 2/1/05 5/31/11

04 - Hydrology 2/1/05 5/31/11

06 - Hydraulics 2/1/05 5/31/11

05 - Independent QA/QC of Hydrology 3/1/05 5/31/11

07 - Independent QA/QC of Hydraulics 3/1/05 5/31/11

08 - Floodplain Mapping (Detailed & Redelineation) 4/1/05 5/31/11

09 - Independent QA/QC of Floodplain Mapping 5/2/05 5/31/11

10 - Base Map Acquisition and Preparation 5/2/05 5/31/11

11 - DFIRM Production 6/1/05 5/31/11

12 - Merge Revised and Effective Flood Hazard Data 6/1/05 5/31/11

12A - Application of DFIRM Graphic and Database Specs 6/1/05 5/31/11

13 - Issue Preliminary DFIRMs and FIS to Communities 9/2/05 5/31/11

01B - Outreach 10/1/05 5/31/11

14 - Post-Preliminary Processing (by FEMA) 12/2/05 5/31/11

2. Watershed Update Consultant (BCI)Execute Consultant Contracts for Watershed Updates 6/18/03 6/11/04

Execute Consultant Contract for Digital Topo Information 1/9/04 1/9/04

Contract Termination for Watershed Updates 1/8/07 1/8/08 1/8/08

3. Watershed Update Consultant (JEA)Execute Consultant Contracts for Watershed Updates 6/1/04 6/10/04

Execute First Amendment 3/31/06 3/13/06

Contract Termination for Watershed Updates 6/26/06 5/31/10 5/31/10

First Amendment to 04CONC0000040-C 5/15/08 5/31/10 5/31/10

4. DFIRM Consultant Agreement (URS)Execute Consultant Contract for DFIRM Production 1/9/04 1/15/04

Contract Termination for DFIRM Production 1/14/07 9/30/11


1. FEMA: In March 2008, staff submitted a request to FEMA to request additional time to revise and update the

watershed models based on quality assurance reviews performed by the District, the County, local governments, and the

District's consultants. The request was approved, and the performance period was extended to March 31, 2009. Further

revisions, verification, and additions are necessary to appropriately represent the hydrologic and hydraulic characteristics

of the watersheds, and reflect 2007 terrain data. Additional time is also required to complete subsequent reviews, public

outreach on the preliminary floodplain information, and to accommodate a public review and comment period. An

additional time extension request was submitted to FEMA to extend the performance period through May 31, 2010. That


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Insurance Rate Mapstime extension was also approved. However, as the models have been undergoing peer and public review, additional

issues have been identified that need to be addressed. In addition, the County wished to hold public meetings to present

the results of 7 models that the County submitted for use in creating the DFIRMs. The District has requested that the

period of performance be extended to May 31, 2011 to complete this work. Awaiting approval from FEMA. 2. Watershed

Updates (BCI): The agreement with BCI was executed on January 8, 2004 to conduct the scoping activity, and generate

digital topographic information (DTI) via LiDAR for the entire county. Notice to proceed (NTP) for Work Order (WO) #1

was issued effective January 15, 2004. WO#2 to perform the scoping activity was executed on February 8, 2004; and

NTP was issued effective January 15, 2004. Delivery of DTI was delayed for well over a year. The delay impacted the

schedules of all the other elements and consultants contributing to this project. Project scoping was completed in August

2004. The First Amendment to BCI's agreement was executed to include updates to the County's existing Dona/Roberts

Bay and Lemon Bay watershed models to reflect the new DTI, convert models from NAVD29 to NAVD88, and begin

updating the Ainger and Forked Creek models to the District's G&S. BCI completed the conversion for its assigned

watersheds and deliverables were received on January 23, 2006. The BCI Agreement was amended as of February 13,

2007 to extend the contract termination date to January 8, 2008. BCI WO#4 was executed to allow BCI to complete

remaining update tasks. Draft models and associated GIS data for Roberts Bay (including Curry Creek & Hatchet Creek),

Alligator Creek, and the Island of Venice were received on October 14, 2008. The submittal was reviewed by District

staff, and comments were provided to BCI on December 12, 2008. Revised deliverables were received, and the model

was presented to a Peer Consultant on October 20, 2009. The models were further refined, and the results presented at

Public Meetings held on January 5 and 6, 2010. Comments have been received from the public, County staff, and the

Sarasota Regulation Department. The models are currently being revised to address these comments. Submittal of the

revised model and GIS deliverables is anticipated in November 2010. The $750,400 in FEMA funds encumbered to the

agreement with BCI has been expended. $910,725 in B206 funding is being used to completed the models, and the peer

and public review process; of which $522,104 has been expended to date. 3. Watershed Updates (JEA): Agreement

JEA was executed and WO#1 issued to update the existing Little Sarasota and Sarasota watershed model. JEA

completed conversion of these models from NGVD29 to NAVD88. WO #2 was then executed to begin the update of the

Phillippi Creek watershed parameters and model to the District's G&S. The consultant services agreement with JEA was

amended to include floodway analyses and ArcHydro tool development to automate repetitive hydrologic and hydraulic

modeling tasks (M118). The First Amendment to JEA's agreement was executed on March 13, 2006. WO#3 was

executed on May 16, 2006 for the conceptual design of ArcHydro tools. WO#4 was executed on May 8, 2007 to develop

the ArcHydro tool for Irregular Weirs. WO #5 was executed to perform limited updates to the remaining Sarasota Bay

and Little Sarasota Bay models, and convert the lower Myakka River model to NAVD88. Draft deliverables were

submitted for WO #5. WO #6 was issued to update the Hudson and Whitaker Bayou models to reflect 2007 terrain data

and incorporate ERP information. The Hudson and Whitaker models were presented to a Peer Consultant on September

16, 2009. The model was refined to address the peer review comments, and the model results were presented at a

Public Meeting on December 9, 2010. Comments have been received from the public, County staff, and the Sarasota

Regulation Department. The model is currently being revised to address the comments. Submittal of the revised model

and GIS deliverables for Hudson Bayou is anticipated mid-July 2010, and for Whitaker Bayou in August 2010. $729,550

of the FEMA funds have been encumbered to the agreement with JEA, all of which has been expended. $255,581 in

B206 funding are being used to complete the models, and the peer and public review process, of which $167,691 has

been expended to date. 4. DFIRM Production (URS): The agreement with URS Southern was executed on January 15,

2004, to produce the countywide Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs) and Flood Insurance Study (FIS), and to

support public outreach. The URS Agreement was amended twice, ultimately extending the contract expiration date from

July 14, 2008 to June 1, 2010. WO #1 was executed on February 16, 2004 to identify the data to be used for DFIRM

production, and prepare a detailed approach and project outline. URS completed these tasks. WO #2 was executed to

prepare the base maps and perform outreach. URS submitted draft base maps and redelineations for review and

approval in February 2009. District, FEMA, County, and local government staff reviewed the information and provided

comments to URS in April 2009. Staff executed WO#3 with URS to incorporate the final deliverables from model updates

and the Big Slough WMPlan (K883) to produce the preliminary DFIRMs and FIS. A meeting/conference call was held on

June 29, 2007 between all consultants associated with the project to coordinate schedules, review deliverable

requirements, and identify points of contact. URS was asked to stop work on production of the preliminary DFIRMs until

model updates are completed. On March 24, 2008 WO#3 was re-issued to reflect the work completed before the stop

work order. NTP for WO#4 was issued on June 5, 2008 for the preparation of the DFIRMs, DFIRM database, and FIS

report using the watershed models that are currently under development, and watershed models previously developed by

the County. Several of the County models were not originally signed and sealed by a professional engineer. The County

retained professional engineers to review and certify the models. The following County models have now been certified

and provided to the URS to include on the draft maps: Lemon Bay, Cow Pen Slough, Phillippi Creek, Little Sarasota Bay,

Lower Myakka River, Upper Myakka/Howard Creek, and a USGS study of the Myakka mainstem. To date, URS has

completed delineating all of the County's certified models except the USGS model of the Myakka mainstem. District and

County staff are currently reviewing the associated deliverables. $520,000 of the FEMA funds have been encumbered to


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Insurance Rate Mapsthe agreement with URS, all of which has been expended. $213,757 in B206 funding has been added to the agreement

to cover the cost of including the County's certified models and participate in public meetings, of which $43,314 has been

expended to date.


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FIRM Maps - Map Modernization Management Support - Districtwide

FEMA FundingProject Type FEMA/Map Mod.






Task Manager(s)

Status Proposed

DescriptionThis project is to provide management support for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) flood insurance

rate map (FIRM) modernization projects throughout the District (please reference projects M101-M116). Under these

Map Modernization projects the FIRMs will reflect updated flood hazard risk areas and be modernized to a digital

product. The updated flood hazard risk areas are being developed by the District through the 1) Topographic

Information, 2) Watershed Evaluation, and 3) Watershed Management Plan elements of the District's Watershed

Management Program (WMP). Map Modernization management support (MMMS) funds supplement the ongoing

activities already being performed by staff including, but not limited to coordination and effort in building partnerships,

information technology systems, program management planning, hydrologic and hydraulic review, outreach, and the

development of a Coordinated Needs Management Strategy.








Program.

Costs

The total amount for MMMS is $1,013,240 to be funded by FEMA. The District has received a total of $953,860 in

FEMA MMMS to date that has been included in the Governing Board's FY2005, FY2006, FY2007, FY2008, FY2009,

and FY2010 budgets as revenue. District Staff anticipate an additional $150,000 to be funded by FEMA for ongoing

MMMS activities in FEMA's FY2011. Each year FEMA notifies the District how much funding is available for MMMS.

The District funding amounts shown in the table represents staff salaries.






FEMA to modernize the FIRMs throughout the District. Staff has worked with the FEMA to improve and formalize the

District's relationship with a federal agency that shares flood protection responsibilities. FEMA and the District

executed a Cooperating Technical Partners (CTP) Memorandum of Agreement on September 14, 2001. As a CTP,

the District is eligible for federal grants and matching funds to further efforts to modernize the FIRMs. Each year the

District enters into a cooperative agreement with FEMA for MMMS funding that defines the activities that will be

performed. $250,000 in funding (grant EMA-2004-CA-5038) for FY2005 is being used to provide a meeting facilitator

for ongoing coordination meetings between the water management districts, FEMA Region 4, and the Florida

Department of Community Affairs; develop a District-wide FIRM paneling scheme; determine the feasibility of

expanding the District's role in distributing digital FIRMs to the public; maintaining the digital FIRMs; and revising the

FIRMs simultaneously with the ERP application review. For FY2005, a total of $300,000 was actually budgeted in the

General Fund with associated revenue. The $50,000 difference between expected funding and actual was rolled into

the FY2006 budget. For FY2006 FEMA has granted (EMA-2005-CA-5244) the five water management districts

$120,000 in MMMS to hire an outreach facilitator and develop design storm rainfall depth criteria for the entire State.

The District will manage the project and contract with consultants on behalf of the other water management districts.

In addition, the District received additional MMMS ($144,000) in FY2006 to support outreach efforts, allow the District

to develop quality control/quality assurance tools, and support staff travel to meetings and conferences related to this

effort. For FY2007, the District has received $129,620 from FEMA (grants EMA-2006-CA-5631 and


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FEMA FundingEMA-2006-CA-5624) for continued travel support, outreach efforts, management assistance, and an XML-based

export to for the District's Geographic Watershed Information System to populate FEMA's database. The District has

recently received an additional $69,620 under EMA-2007-CA-5723 for continued travel and programmatic assistance.

For FY2008, the District is proposing to budget $150,000 in revenue for continued MMMS. The District will coordinate

with the local government(s), will manage the project, and will enter into purchase orders and agreements to

accomplish project tasks.


Revenue

010 General Fund (Districtwide) 278,431 0 40,600 65,750 163,882 8,199


FEMA Coop Tech Partner Agreement 1,320,000 0 0 1,170,000 0 150,000

$1,598,431 Total:

Prior

Funding

Cumulative

Transfer or



Funding

Total

Funding


1. Critical Project MilestonesFEMA & District Recognition on Reports 3/31/10 9/30/10 9/30/10

2. FY2005Develop Mutually Agreeable Scope of Work for MMMS 9/30/04 9/30/04

Execute FEMA Agreement Articles and Related Forms 11/30/04 11/24/04

Develop Consultant Agreement 11/30/04 11/19/04





Develop First Amendment to Consultant Service Agmt 7/7/06 8/2/06

Draft Amendment to Management Services 7/12/06 8/2/06


Amendment Execution 9/18/06 9/18/06

3. FY2006 - DistrictDevelop Cooperative Agreement for MMMS (District) 6/7/05 6/1/07


District Outreach Facilitator Purchase Order Execution 2/28/06 3/2/06

District Outreach Facilitator Purchase Order Termination 12/31/06 12/31/06

3. FY2006 - FL WMDDevelop Application for competitive MMMS (FL WMD) 6/1/05 5/18/05


Develop State Outreach Facilitator Purchase Order 1/30/06 2/21/06

State Outreach Facilitator Purchase Order Execution 2/28/06 3/2/06

Develop Rainfall Frequency Analysis Purchase Order 6/1/06 6/1/06

Rainfall Frequency Analysis Purchase Order Execution 6/30/06 7/20/06

State Outreach Facilitator Purchase Order Termination 12/31/06 12/31/06

Rainfall Frequency Analysis Purchase Order Termination 6/30/07 9/30/07

4. FY2007Develop Application for competitive MMMS 3/27/06 3/27/06

Develop Cooperative Agreement for MMMS 5/26/06 5/26/06



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FEMA FundingExecute FEMA Agreement Articles and Related Forms 9/22/06 9/29/06

Develop XML-base Export System Purchase Order 11/30/06 5/20/10

XML-base Export System Purchase Order Execution 11/30/06 8/9/10

Develop Map Modernization Program Assistance Agreement 7/31/07 5/30/07

Map Modernization Program Assistance Agreement Execution 9/30/07 9/7/07

5. FY2008Develop Scope of Work for MMMS 6/25/08 6/25/08

Execute FEMA Agreement Articles 6/25/08 8/15/08

Execute 76-10A Form 7/3/08 8/15/08

6. FY2009Execute FEMA Agreement Articles 9/30/09 6/1/10

Execute 76-10A form 9/30/09 6/1/10

Develop Scope of Work for MMMS 9/30/09 6/1/10

7. FY2010Execute Agreement Articles 9/30/10 10/20/10

Execute 76-10A form for FY2010 funding 9/30/10 10/20/10

Develop Scope of Work for Coordinated Need Management Strategy (CNMS) 9/30/10 8/10/10

Develop Scope of Work for Program Management 9/30/10 8/10/10


FY2005: COMPLETEFY2006: ON-GOING. The District was awarded $69,200 in MMMS from FEMA to continue travel

associated with Map Modernization, coordination meeting facilitation, and programmatic assistance. Of the $69,200

provided for programmatic assistance and travel, $65,651 has been expended. The remaining $3,969 is for travel. The

remaining funds have been Board encumbered..FY2007: ON-GOING. The District was awarded $69,200 in MMMS from

FEMA to continue travel associated with Map Modernization, coordination meeting facilitation, and programmatic

assistance. Of the $69,200 provided for programmatic assistance and travel, $65,635 has been expended. The

remaining $4,985 is for travel. The remaining funds have been Board encumbered. FY2008: COMPLETEFY2009:

COMPLETE. $69,000 in FY2009 FEMA funding was awarded to the District, of which $69,000 has been expended to

date. The FY2009 funds are being used to retain a consultant to perform programmatic assistance, including meeting

facilitation. FY2010: ON-GOING. $102,000 of FY2010 FEMA funding was awarded to the District, of which $68,920 has

been expended to date. The funds are being used to retain a consultant to perform programmatic assistance and

develop information for FEMA's Coordinated Needs Management Strategy. To date, a total of $953,860 has been

provided by FEMA for Map Modernization Management Support, of which $908,825 has been expended.


The Southwest Florida Water Management District (District) does not discriminate on the basis of disability. This nondiscrimination policy involves every aspect of the District's functions, including access to and participation in the District's programs and activities. Anyone requiring reasonable accommodation as provided for in the Americans with Disabilities Act should contact the District's Human Resources Director, 2379 Broad Street, Brooksville, Florida, 34604-6899; (352) 796-721 or 1-800-423-1476 (FL only), ext. 4702; TDD (FL only)1-800-231-6103; or email [email protected].