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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
Project Partners

None

Affiliated Institutions

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