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April 8, 2010
MEETING AGENDA 8& NOTICE
MEETING AGENDA. NOTICE
COASTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (CAe)
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 2010 - 1:00 P.M.
TURNER BUILDING (Administrative Building F, 3rd Floor Collier County Government Center,
3301 E. Tamiaml Trail, Naples)
Sunshine Law on Avenda Questions
PUBLIC NOTICE
I. Call to Order
II. Pledge of Allegiance
III. Roll Call
IV. Changes and Approval of Agenda
V. Public Comments
VI. Approval of CAC Minutes
1. March 11. 2010
VII. Staff Reports
1. Expanded Revenue Report - Gary McAlpin
2. Project Cost Report - Gary McAlpin
VIII. New Business
1. Emergency Truck Haul Project - Doctors Pass and Park Shore
a. Engineering Status/Permit
b. Conceptual Construction Pian
2. Fiscal Year 10/11 Budget Discussion
a. Fiscal Year 10/11 Budget Analysis
b. Fund 195 10 Year Plan
c. Fiscal Year 09/10 Grant Applications with Grant Guidelines
d. Fiscal Year 10/11 Grant ADDllcatlons with Grant Guidelines
3. Wiggins Pass Inlet Permit Application Update
a. RAI Comments - FDEP
b. Inlet Management Plan and Environmental ImDact StudY
4. Uncompleted Word Awarded on BVO Contracts
a. North County Passes - CP.E
5. Dune Restoration Grant Program Policy ProDosal
a. Grant ADDllcatlon from Park Shore
IX. Old Business
1. Clam Bay Subcommittee - Update
a. Anthonv Pires e-malls dated 3/27/10 and 3/19/10 to Steve Feldhous
Regarding WorkshoD.
b. Final Version Proposal to PDSD Peer Review
X. Announcements
XI. Committee Member Discussion
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XII. Next Meeting Date/Location
May 13, 2010 - Government Center, Administration Bldg. F, 3rd Floor
XIII. Adjournment
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Dear Coastal Advisory Committee Members,
The County's Coastal Zone Management department has pushed the issue to obtain and
use studies by PBSj in Clam Bay meant to justify taking additional sand from its ebb shoal.
The PBSj Clam Bay Data Collection and Analysis report was not at all well received by many
persons, including members of the Clam Bay Advisory Committee. They did not approve it.
Clearly, Mr. McAlpin is in need of a positive peer review that will approve of the PBSj report.
He has told you and others that the entities and persons he is recommending to do the Peer
Reviews of the PBSj work are derived from recommendations from the FDEP. However, that
is not at all what the records show.
Attached to this commentary is an email to Gary McAlpin from David Tomasko of PBSj firm,
whereby he recommend entities and persons for review of his own work....
Note that he may expect these entities or persons to approve of his work, particularly if Mr.
McAlpin provides a very narrow scope of work for the review that would ensure a favorable
outcome. Certainly, the concept of an "Independent" peer reveiw has been lost here.
However, there are SEVERAL INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS ALREADY DONE.
The two technical specialists members of the CBAC submitted their own written reviews of
the PBSj report that criticized it for poor historical data review, skewed reporting of newer
data, improper characterizations of benthic or biological components and inappropriate
comparisons between the canal waterway system of Doctor's Pass/Moorings Bay and the
natural vegetated shorelined waterways of the Clam Bay Conservation and NRPA.
The Mangrove Action Group commissioned an "Independent" Peer Review done by Dr,
Harold Wanless and provided it to the Coastal Advisory Committee (CAC). Several CAC
agendas continued it repeatedly and it has yet to be aired publicly by either the sub-
committee on Clam Bay or the full CAC board.
In Summary:
The Coastal Zone Manager has attempted to control the process for selection and scope of
work for professional review of the PBSj Clam Bay Data Collection and Analysis. There has
been an outrageous lack of transparency and accountability in the choice of PBSj as the
professional consultant and the nature of the work they are doing for Collier County. The
PBSj report has attempted to either marginalize or discredit all prior Clam Bay studies and
substitute their own highly questioned report of data to justify major alterations to the
preserve waterways. When this was questioned and criticized, those criticisms were shoved
aside for recommendations of a reviewer who will give approval of the PBSj report.
The public has a right to be informed of all professional/technical reviews of the PBSj report
including the Indepenent Review done by Harold Wanless, Chair of Geological Sciences of
the University of Miami.
I request that the reviews by Kathy Worley of the Conservancy and David Roellig a retired
Corps geologist be publicly aired and discussed and once again request for the Wanless
Review to be publicly discussed on the record by this committee.
Marcia Cravens
Mangrove Action Group
From: Tomasko, David A [mailto:DATomasko@pbsj.com]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 7:18 PM
To: McAlpinGary
Cc: Tabar, Jeffrey R; DeMunda, Todd J; Flynn, Bryan D
Subject: potential reviewers
Gary:
Christopher Reed is an engineer with URS, and would be a useful reviewer if the questions were
relating to the hydrodynamic portion of the study. If the concerns were mostly related to water
quality assessments (which seems to me to be the case) then I'm not sure of how his experience
is relevant to those questions. Instead, I would put forth that the Senior Scientists of the
Sarasota Bay and Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Programs would be more appropriate. Both
of them work with data on water quality and ecological characterizations, and both are scientists,
not engineers. As it seems the science part is the one with more controversy, perhaps that's a
good place to start.
For Sarasota Bay, the scientist to contact is Dr. Jay Leverone, who can be reached via email
at jay@sarasotabay.org
For Charlotte Harbor, the scientist to contact is Judy Ott, who's email address is jott@swfrpc.org
As well, contacts with FDEP, related to the TMDL program and/or "impairment" issues would
include Julie Espy, Kevin Petrus, and Paul Kurisko. Getting the report to FDEP might be a good
way to kill a couple of birds with one stone, get a review of the work we did, get an answer as to
the value of the existing water quality monitoring data, and also answer the questions about the
need for data to be put into STORET and whether or not such data (not our data, but the
County's data) would indeed result in a finding of impairment. That might be a way to get the
Conservancy and Pelican Bay to really take a stand on their data - do they think FDEP would
agree that Clam Bay is "pristine"? Let's put the question to the people who are charged with
making that call. Why not, right?
Finally, whoever is chosen, please ensure that they understand the budget and scope and
timeline we had. You can always do more work (I pointed that out in my response) but the
question is did we do a good job considering what we were tasked with doing.
Thanks!
DAve
David Tomasko, Ph.D.
Senior Environmental Scientist IV and Manager,
Watershed Science and Assessment Program
PBS&J
Direct: 813.281.8346
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