Agenda 05/28/2019 Item # 5A (Presentation SFWMD - WERP Project)05/28/2019
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 5.A
Item Summary: Presentation by the South Florida Water Management District regarding the
Western Everglades Restoration Project (WERP). (All Districts)
Meeting Date: 05/28/2019
Prepared by:
Title: Executive Secretary to County Manager – County Manager's Office
Name: MaryJo Brock
05/20/2019 8:47 AM
Submitted by:
Title: County Manager – County Manager's Office
Name: Leo E. Ochs
05/20/2019 8:47 AM
Approved By:
Review:
County Manager's Office Leo E. Ochs County Manager Review Completed 05/21/2019 10:28 AM
Board of County Commissioners MaryJo Brock Meeting Pending 05/28/2019 9:00 AM
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Comprehensive Everglades Restoration
Plan Projects
Collier Board of County Commissioners
Meeting
May 28,2019
Jennifer Leeds, Section Administrator
Everglades Policy & Coordination Division, SFWMD
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Everglades Restoration
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) was
authorized by Congress in 2000 to restore, preserve, and protect the
south Florida ecosystem
St. Lucie Inlet
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▪18 CERP projects being planned, designed or
under construction
▪Despite the progress of restoration, challenges
still persist:
▪Damaging discharges to the northern
estuaries
▪Environmental,
▪Socioeconomic
▪Reduced flows to the Everglades
▪Dry outs,
▪Impacts to fish and wildlife habitat
▪Reduced storage in the Everglades system
Everglades National Park
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Kississmee River Restoration
Northern Stormwater Treatment Areas
C-44 Reservoir and STA
Everglades Stormwater Treatment
Areas and Restoration Strategies
C-43 West Basin Storage Reservoir
Picayune Strand Restoration
Western Everglades Restoration Project
Central Everglades Planning Project
EAA A-2 Reservoir and STA
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Kissimmee River
Restoration
▪Acquire 102,000 acres of historical
river floodplain
▪Remove 2 large water control
structures
▪Backfill 22 miles of canal
▪Re-carve 9 miles of remnant river
channel
▪Rehydrate 26,500 acres of river
floodplain
Progress to date
▪24 miles of river restored
▪7,800 acres of wetlands restored
▪Additional backfill ongoing
▪Gamefish and avian populations increasing
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Stormwater Treatment Areas north of
Lake Okeechobee
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Taylor Creek STA
120 acres
Nubbin Slough STA
775 acres
Lakeside Ranch
STA
2,700 acres
Ten Mile Creek STA
123 acres
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Everglades Stormwater Treatment
Areas
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•STA-1 East, 5,000 acres, northeast of the
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National
Wildlife Refuge
•STA-1 West, 6,500 acres, northwest of the
Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National
Wildlife Refuge
•STA-2, 15,500 acres (includes Compartment B
expansion), west of Water Conservation Area 2
•STA-3/4, 16,300 acres in western Palm Beach
County, the largest constructed wetland in the
world
•STA-5/6, 13,700 acres (includes Compartment
C expansion), in Hendry County, west of
Rotenberger Wildlife Management Area
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Restoration Strategies
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IRL-South: C-44 Reservoir and STA
STA is 6,400 acres
▪S-404 Spillway -complete
▪Pump Station –complete
▪STA –construction completion
expected 2019
Reservoir:
▪3,400 acres, 15 feet deep resulting
in 50,600 acre feet of storage
▪Construction completion expected
2021
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Pump Station
STA
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Caloosahatchee River (C-43) West
Basin Storage Reservoir
▪10,500 acres -170,000 ac-ft reservoir to
improve the timing, quantity and quality of
freshwater flows to the Caloosahatchee
River and Estuary
▪Capture basin runoff and Lake Okeechobee
releases
▪Dry season flows to improve estuary salinity
levels
▪State began construction in 2015,
substantial completion in 2023
▪Construction of S-476 (195 cfs) Pump Station
complete April 2019
▪S-470 inflow Pump Station substantial
completion -Spring 2022
▪Embankment and earthwork complete -2023
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Central Everglades
Planning Project
EAA Reservoir and STA
A-2 Reservoir:
▪10,500 acres
▪240,000 acre-feet
A-2 STA:
▪6,500 acres
Canal Conveyance
Improvements:
▪North New River
▪Miami Canal
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EAA A-2 Reservoir and STA
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Picayune Strand Restoration Project
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Restore 55,000 acres of native
Florida wetlands and uplands
Project Features:
▪Three pump stations: Merritt, Faka Union, and
Miller Canals
▪Plugging 48 miles of canals and removing 260
miles of roads
▪Features to mitigate effects of manatee
refugium at the Port of the Islands Marina
Status:
▪Merrit and Faka Union Pump Stations complete
▪Miller Pump Station construction complete in
May 2018; conducting 1-year operational
testing and monitoring period
▪Design of SW Protection Features underway
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Western Everglades Restoration
Project
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Seminole Tribe of Florida
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida
▪Approximately 772,700
acres (1,200 square miles)
▪Historically dominated by
wetlands
▪Current land use and land
cover
include:
▪Natural Land/
Wetlands
▪Agriculture
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Western Everglades Restoration
Project
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▪Restore the quantity, quality, timing and
distribution of freshwater to improve
seasonal hydroperiods and historic
distributions of sheet flow
▪Reestablish ecological connectivity and
ecological resilience of the historic
wetland/upland mosaic
▪Restore water levels to reduce wildfires
associated with altered hydrology
▪Improve water quality conditions
▪Promote system-wide resilience and
improve system-wide operational
flexibility
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Western Everglades Restoration
Project Features
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1.STA and flow-way from Wingate Canal to Big
Cypress Seminole Reservation and Big
Cypress National Preserve
2.North Feeder Canal STA on C-139 Annex
3.L-28 Interceptor Alterations
4.Remove L-28 Interceptor levees and fill canal
5.Remove L28 Tieback levee and fill canal
6.Fill L-28 South canal and install 3 gated
structures between WCA 3A and Big Cypress
National Preserve
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Discussion
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