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06/09/2011 Backup Documents 'CAC MEETING BACKUP DOCUMENTS JUNE 9, 2011 June 9, 2011 Meeting Agenda and Notice COASTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE (CAC) THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011 - 1:00 P.M. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS CHAMBERS THIRD FLOOR, COLLIER COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER 3299 TAMIAMI TRAIL EAST, NAPLES -Sunshine Law on Agenda 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. May 12. 2011 VII. Staff Reports 1. Expanded Revenue Report 2. Proiect Cost Report VIII. New Business 1. Conceotual Design Uodate CP&E - Vanderbilt. Park Shore and Naples Beaches 2. H&M - Inlets Annual Monitoring 3. Conceptual Design Update-Coastal Engineering-Marco South Beaches IX. Old Business x. Announcements XI. Committee Member Discussion XII. Next Meeting Date/Location August 11, 2011 Government Center, 3rd Floor XIII. Adjournment *Any person in need of a verbatim record of the meeting may request a copy of the recording from the C.ollier County Communications and Customer Relations Department or, if televised, view the video online at www.colliergov.net All interested parties are invited to attend, and to register to speak and to submit their objections, if any, in writing, to the board prior to the meeting if applicable. For more information, please contact Gail D. Hambright at (239) 252-2966. If you are a person with a disability who needs any accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please .contact the Collier County Facilities Management Department located at 3301 East Tamiami Trail, Naples, FL 34112, (239) 252-8380. Public comments will be limited to 3 minutes unless the Chairman grants permission for additional time. Collier County Ordinance No. 99-22 requires that all lobbyists shall, before engaging in any lobbying activities (including, but not limited to, addressing the Board of County Commissioners) before the Board of County Commissioners and its advisory boards, register with the Clerk to the Board at the Board Minutes and Records Department. CltLfb~ ~-q-" ~ McAlpinGary From: Sent: To: Ernest Wu [wu_e@yahoo.com] Thursday, June 09, 2011 10:27 AM apires@wpl-Legal.com; Jim Burke; Jim Burke; ewaynecarson@sbcglobal.net; McAlpinGary; JmoreI2409@aol.com; murrp2h@aol.com; soreysan@comcast.net; tforcht@cityofmarcoisland.com; vnrios@marcocable.com; Wayne Waldack; FialaDonna; CoyleFred; HillerGeorgia; ColettaJim; OchsLeo; HenningTom Clam Bay markers at today's CAC meeting Vinyard-Bondi Itr 6-3-11.pdf; Clam%20Bay%20Kinard%20Ietter[1].doc Subject: Attachments: Dear CAC and BCC members, I encourage you to not endose a canoe trail marker system in Clam Bay and vote to remain with the previously approved US Coast Guard red / green markers. My apologies for the late hour of this email but I only learned to this agenda item today as it was not on the agenda late last night. Attached is a letter send to the County, FDEP, and the FL Attorney General asking for an inquiry as to why the permit requiring red/green markers have not been installed. In addition, I had a phone conversation with Theresa Hudson, head of USACE Enforcement in Jacksonville, who will release a letter likely tomorrow. To quote her on a May 9 email "Our position on the letter signed by Mr. Kinard has not changed." Mr. Kinard's letter is also attached for your reference. Please do not compromise the safety of boaters who use Clam Bay. Please do not force the County to waste taxpayer resources by fighting FDEP, the Attorney General, and USACE. Some have said if we just did the right thing years ago, we wouldn't have this mess. I hope you agree. For your reference, below is the string of emails I have had with USACE Enforcement. I have also had many more phone conversations as well including one today. Thanks, Ernest Wu, M.D. President, Seagate Property Owner's Association Dear Ms. Hudson, I wanted to follow up on our phone conversation two weeks ago about permit 1996-02789. I look forward to hearing or seeing your email soon. Thanks, Ernest Wu... --- On Mon, 5/16/11, Ernest Wu <wu_e@yahoo.com>wrote: From: Ernest Wu <wu_e@yahoo.com> Subject: Fw: Re: Clam Bay, UASCE permit #1996-02789 To: "Theresa SAJHudson" <Theresa.B.Hudson@usace.army.mil> Date: Monday, May 16, 2011, 4:18 PM Dear Ms. Hudson, Thank you for talking with me last Friday, May 13. Per our conversation, I will be looking forward to first, your email response to my questions and second, a formal letter addressing those same questions. You said the letter would take less than two weeks to leave your desk but could take a long time be reviewed and cleared by your legal department due to their backlog of cases. I will follow up with you in two weeks about the formal letter and will watch my email for the email response. The County will discuss issues about this permit on June 14. My hope is that Collier County will comply with the USACE permit and not encur issues with enforcement. I hope your letter will act as an "ounce of prevention and prevent a pound of cure." By the way, I remember past letters were sent to various people in Collier County such as Leo Ochs, County Manager; Jeffrey Klatzkow, County Attorney, and Gary McAlpin, Coasta Zone Management, in addition to USACE in Fort Myers and Jacksonville. Please include me on the mailing list. My address is: 1 Ernest Wu 5194 Seahorse Ave. Naples, FL 34103 Thanks, Ernest Wu... m On Wed, 5/11/11, Ernest Wu <wu_e@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Ernest Wu <wu _ e@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Clam Bay, UASCE permit #1996-02789 To: "Theresa SAJHudson" <Theresa.B.Hudson@usace.army.mil> Date: Wednesday, May 11,2011,9:37 AM Dear Ms. Hudson, I was wondering if you completed your investigation on this permit and if you were ready to issue a letter about concerns of the permit? You mentioned you might have a family matter to attend to so I hope all is well with your family. Thanks, Ernest Wu... --- On Wed, 5/4/11, Hudson, Theresa SAJ <Theresa.B.Hudson@usace.army.mil>wrote: From: Hudson, Theresa SAJ <Theresa.B.Hudson@usace.army.mil> Subject: Re: Clam Bay, UASCE permit #1996-02789 To: wu _ e@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, May 4,2011, 10:26 AM Mr. Wu, lam meeting this week with folks that can fill me in on the background for your question. Our position on the letter signed by Mr. Kinard has not changed. Are you available for a discussion on Friday? Sincerely, Theresa Hudson From: Ernest Wu <wu_e@yahoo.com> To: Hudson, Theresa SAJ Sent: Tue May 03 22:39:24 2011 Subject: Clam Bay, UASCE permit #1996-02789 Dear Ms. Hudson, Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to talk with me. I represent the Seagate neighborhood in Naples, Fl Seagate is a multi-family neighborhood composed of several canals which boaters access the Gulf of Mexico by traversing Clam Bay and Clam Pass. Seagate has had riparian rights to access the Gulf since it's formation in the 1950'~ In addition, Clam Bay and Clam Pass have been deemed "navigable waters of the United States" by both the US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) and US Coast Guard (USCG). Our local government is currently considering installing non-navigational Florida Wildlife Commission (FWC) canoe trail informational signs in place of USCG navigational channel markers. Members of my community who use this waterway feel that this substitution jeopardizes boater safety and fails to keep motorized watercraft off sea grasses and confined with the channel. As you know, three previous letters from USACE (Donald Kinard, USACE Deputy Chief, Regulatory Division, March 2, 2009; and Susan Blass, USACE Chief, Fort Myers Section, May 25, 2009 and June 9, 2009) have been written stating 2 that USACE permit #1996-02789 is not in compliance because USCG navigational channel markers have not been installed. My specific questions are as follows: 1. Currently, there are no USCG navigational channel markers marking the main channel in Clam Bay. Do the navigational markers remain a requirement of the permit and is the permit still out of compliance in accordance with Special Condition 2? 2. Previous letters from Donald Kinard and Susan Blass have stated "the markers must meet US Coast Guard standards for signs". The area being marked is for a navigational channel for motorized watercraft. My discussions with USCG (specificallyJoe Embres in the Miami office) stated there is only one way to mark a navigational channel for motorized watercraft and that is using the Lateral System published in "US Aids to Navigation System". Here in Naples, we refer to these markers as simply "red-green" markers. FWC authorizes informational signs but is prohibited from authorizing navigational markers. My question is does the current permit allow deleting USCG channel markers and replace them with signs which do not meet USCG standard for navigational markers (in this case, FWC informational canoe trail markers)? 3. Permit 1996-02789 was issued on August 11, 1998. Can fines be issued to the original permittee (which I believe to be the Pelican Bay Services Division, a subsidiary of Collier County government) for being so long in non-compliance? 4. If the permit is truly going on 13 years in non-compliance, does this hinder Collier County government ability to get new permits from USACE? Is there a good time in the next few days that I could talk to you about these issues? I promise to be brief and respectful of your time. You can reach me at any time at 239-821-9473 or email me. You have my full permission to fact check any of my above statements. Last, it would be appreciated if you could write your final responses to the above questions in an official signed letter as it will be shared with Collier County govenment. Thanks, Ernest Wu... 3 LAW OFFICES OERTEL, FERNANDEZ, COLE & BRYANT,P..A. TIMOTHY P. ATKINSON JEFFREY BROWN M. CHRISTOPHER BRYANT C. ANTHONY CLEVELAND TERRY COLE SEGUNDO J. FERNANDEZ PRESTON McLANE ANGELA K. OERTEL KENNETH G. OERTEL TIMOTHY J. PERRY 301 SOUTH BRONOUGH STREET SUITE 500 TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA 3a301 MAILING ADDRESS: POST OFFICE BOX I J 10 TALLAHASSEE. FLORIDA 3a302.1110 (850) sa 1-0700 FAX (8S0l 521-0720 www.ohfc.com June 3, 2011 Mr. Herschel T. Vinyard Jr., Secretary Department of Environmental Protection 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard M.S. 49 Tallahassee, Florida 32399 The Honorable Pam Bondi, Attorney General Office of the Attorney General The Capitol, PL-Ol Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1050 Re: Notice of Violation for Potential Petition for Enforcement of Agency Action Clam Bay Restoration and Long-Term Management Dear Secretary Vinyard and Attorney General Bondi: Pursuant to Section 120.69(1)(b), Florida Statutes, notice is hereby given of the violation of permit conditions contained in Consolidated Joint Coastal Permit and Sovereign Submerged Lands Authorized Number 0128463-001-JC, issued by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection ("DEP") to Collier County-Pelican Bay Services Division on July 6, 1998. By copy of this letter, we are also informing the permittee, Collier County, of the violation. We are also copying DEP Deputy General Counsel Sandra Stockwell, who may have some prior familiarity with this activity. This notice IS gIven on behalf of the Seagate Property Owners' Association, Inc., ("Seagate") and its members. Seagate is a Florida not-for-profit corporation whose members are property owners or residents in the Seagate community, a single family residential development in Collier County with frontage on and riparian access to Outer Clam Bay. Residents of the Seagate neighborhood have navigational access through Outer Clam Bay and Clam Pass to the Gulf of Mexico, and a substantial number of Seagate's members engage in boating in Outer Clam Bay on a regular basis. Herschel T. Vinyard, Jr. & Pam Bondi June 3, 2011 Page 2 of4 DEP Permit In 1998, DEP issued to Collier County, through the County's Pelican Bay Services Division, a Consolidated Joint Coastal Permit and Sovereign Submerged Lands Authorization, Number 01 28463-001-JC. The permit document, without all of the lengthy attachments, is attached to this letter as Exhibit "A." As a part of the permit application process, the applicant submitted a Clam Bay Restoration and Management Plan ("CBRMP"). The CBRMP represented a comprehensive assessment of the Clam Bay system, including Clam Pass, and the interior tidal creeks and water bodies that make up that estuary system, including Outer Clam Bay, Inner Clam Bay, and Upper Clam Bay. The permit also addressed a number of other features and conditions affecting this system, including the then - declining health of mangrove communities, the condition and protection of seagrass beds, and the impacts of - upland stormwater runoff into the system. Excerpts of the lengthy CBRMP are attached to this letter as Exhibit "B." The CBRMP included at Section 3.3.2 a proposed recreational component. This section of the CBRMP included the following representations and commitments by the permit applicant: Appropriate notification, signage and policing will be provided by the County or PBSD to ensure compliance. The signage will be strategically placed both at the entrance to Clam Pass and in the areas around the boat ramp located at the southern end of Outer Clam Bay. These are intended to insure that persons accessing the Clam Bay system are informed of its unique ecological characteristics, the limitations of access resulting from variations in water depth, the existence of no wake/idle speed requirements for motorized boat operation and importantly, the necessity of staying out of areas identified as having maturing seagrass beds and potential manatee habitat. Precise locations and language to be included in the signage will be determined in cooperation with the agencies post permit issuance. Finally, the main channel will be marked in accordance with the requirements imposed by the United States Coast Guard to insure that those who use the system clearly know where the channel is and the prohibitions against operating their water craft outside the same. (Emphasis added.) The DEP permit attached as Exhibit "A" expressly referenced and incorporate the CBRMP. See, Page 2 of21 of the permit, which reads in part as follows: Herschel T. Vinyard, Jr. & Pam Bondi June 3, 2011 Page 3 of 4 The project is to conduct activities to improve the hydrodynamics of, and thus restore and manage. the Clam Bay ecosystem by conducting the activities in association with and specified by the Clam Bay Restoration and Management Plan (CBRMP). which is attached to and made part of this permit as Attachment "A". The Permittee is authorized to implement the CBRMP as set forth therein. (Emphasis added.) General Condition 1 of the permit states that "all activities authorized by this permit shall be implemented as set forth in the plans, specifications, and attached drawing approved as part of this permit, and all conditions and requirements of this permit." (Emphasis added.) This permit was expressly "issued under the authority of Chapter 161 and Part IV of Chapter 373, F.S." Section 373.430 declares, in pertinent part, that it is a violation of Part IV of Chapter 373 "to violate or fail to comply with any rule, regulation, order, or permit issued by... the department...." (Emphasis added.) To date, Collier County has failed or refused to install navigation markers in the main channel in Outer Clam Bay as required by the DEP permit. Similar requirements exist in a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Permit, Number 1996-02789, and the County has also failed or refused to comply with that permit requirement. According to DEP's website, the County has other permit applications pending at this time that affect Clam Bay and the Clam Bay system. We have not reviewed those pending applications and do not know if they relate to this deficiency. They include Joint Coastal Permit application 296087-001 for Clam Pass Park, and "ERP Exemption Permit" application 295193- 002 for "Coastal Zone Management/Clam Bay/Pass." We are aware that not all DEP personnel may agree with the underlying assertion that the previously-issued Joint Coastal Permit required marking the navigational channel. However, our reading of the CBRMP leads us to this conclusion inescapably, especially given the comprehensive nature of that permit's treatment of this estuary system. The purpose of this letter is to provide the Department, the Attorney General, and the Permittee of notice of this violation of the permit conditions. Pursuant to Section 120.69(1)(b), Florida Statutes, the Seagate Property Owners' Association, and potentially individual members of that association, intend to file a Petition for Enforcement in the Circuit Court in and for Collier County, if the Department does not file and diligently prosecute a Petition for Enforcement within the 60 day time period. Herschel T. Vinyard. Jr. & Pam Bondi June 3. 2011 Page 4 of 4 We are confident that you share our concern for the permit holder's failure to comply with the permit requirements. We trust the Department is prepared to initiate an appropriate enforcement action to bring the project into compliance with the terms and conditions of its permit. but we are truly hopeful that the permit holder will voluntarily comply and that an enforcement will be unnecessary. Please advise if we can provide you with any further information. Sincerely, !'lrz7 M. Christopher Bryant KGO/MCB/am Attachments cc: Collier County-Pelican Bay Services Division 801 Laurel Oak Drive. Suite 605 Naples. Florida 34108 Sandra Stockwell. Deputy General Counsel Florida Department of Environmental Protection Division of State Lands 3900 Commonwealth Boulevard. MS 35 Tallahassee. Florida 32399 F:\MCBIJ551-1 Scagate Homeowners\Letters\Vinyard-Bondi-Collier ftr 6-3-ll.docx DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY JACKSONVILLE DISTRICT CORPS OF ENGINEERS P. O. BOX 4970 JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 32232-0019 REPLY TO ATTENTION OF March 2, 2009 Regulatory Division Special Project/Enforcement Branch Enforcement Section 199602789(IP-CC) Collier County Pelican Bay Services Division 801 Laurel Oak Drive, Suite 605 Naples, Florida 34108 Gentlemen: This is in reference to Department of the Army permit number 199602789 issued to you on August 11, 1998. The permit authorized replacement of Seagate Drive culverts, dredging of the Clam Pass main channel for Cuts 1, 2, 3, and 4, and excavation and maintenance of interior tidal creeks. The project is located within Clam Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, in Sections 4, 5, 8, 9, 32, 33, Township 49 south, Range 25 east, Collier County, Florida. In accordance with Special Condition 2, the Permittee was to comply with the components and timeframes specified within the Clam Bay Restoration Management Plan. It has come to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' (Corps) attention that the navigational markers have not yet been installed. Installation of these markers is indeed a requirement of the Department of the Army permit. In addition, the markers must meet U.S. Coast Guard standards for signs. It is requested you provide the Corps with a drawing showing the placement of these markers and a time frame when you expect the signs to be in place. This information can be directed to Ms. Cynthia Ovdenk at our Ft. Myers Regulatory Office at 1520 Royal Palm Square Boulevard, Suite 310, Fort Myers, Florida 33919. Should you want to modify any of the components of the Clam Bay Restoration Management Plan, please directed your request to Ms. Susan Blass, Section Chief, at the same address. Sincerely, ~ ZJ.#-I:~~ Donald W. Kinard Deputy Chief, Regulatory Division Copy Furnished: Mr. J. Gary McAlpin, Director, Coastal Zone Management, 3300 Santa Barbara Blvd., Naples, Florida 34116