2-1: Santa Rosa Sound Water Quality Improvement Program - Monitoring
Implementing Organization
Gulf Consortium
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$3,460,834
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council
Funding Program
The RESTORE Act Funds Bucket 3: Spill Impact Component
Details
Project Category
Environmental
Project Actions
Water Quality Restoration and Maintenance
Targeted Resources
Wetlands/Marshes/Estuaries
Project Description
Santa Rosa County is requesting $856,243 in Council-Selected Restoration Component funding for the Council approved Santa Rosa Sound Water Quality Improvement Program. This component will establish a Water Quality Monitoring program that collects, interprets, and makes available data about water quality characteristics from nine stations in and around Santa Rosa Sound, Santa Rosa County, FL over a period of 5 years. Santa Rosa County will execute a subrecipient agreement with UWF to conduct components of the planned scope of work. Developing strategies to make data available will provide baseline pre-construction and post-construction data that informs the Observational Data Plan and Reporting for Project 2-1 Santa Rosa Sound Water Quality Improvements included in the RESTORE Spill Component SEP for Santa Rosa County. Consolidated data will be made accessible to city, state and federal resource managers as well as the public through a web-based Geographic Information System application. This activity will be vital to tracking the Comprehensive Plan goal and objective of restoring water quality and quantity and restoring, improving, and protecting water resources preceding and following the abandonment of 758 septic systems and elimination of the NBWWTF effluent discharge from the Sound. Additionally, this data is important to addressing the restoration and protection of natural resources, ecosystems, fisheries, marine and wildlife habitats, beaches, and coastal wetlands of the Gulf Coast region (Eligible Activity 1).
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