Florida Cat Point Living Shoreline Project
Implementing Organization
State of Florida
Overview
DWH Project Funding
$1,218,611
Known Leveraged Funding
$0
Funding Organization
Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees (NRDA)
Funding Program
Natural Resource Damage Assessment NRDA
Details
Project Category
Environmental
Project Actions
Habitat Restoration and Enhancement
Targeted Resources
Wetlands/Marshes/Estuaries
Project Description
This project employed living shoreline techniques that utilized natural and/or artificial breakwater material to reduce shoreline erosion and provide habitat off Eastpoint, Florida (Franklin County). This area has been the location of previous successful living shoreline projects that contributed to shoreline protection. Combining these objectives, this project created breakwaters to reduce wave energy, increased benthic secondary productivity, and created salt marsh habitat. Project activities included expanding an existing breakwater by creating up to 0.3 miles of new breakwater that provided reef habitat and created approximately 1 acre of salt marsh habitat.
Contact
Pearce Barrett(850) 245-2106
pearce.barrett@floridadep.gov
Project Website
None
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