2/12/2024 0 Comments How to dredge a swimming pondMuck from Turkey Creek would go in a spoil site managed by the Florida Inland Navigation District just north of the creek near U.S. The county plans to store muck from the Sykes Creek project at a small island just north of Kiwanis Island Park. The scope of the Grand Canal project is still in development but expected to remove about 500,000 cubic yards of muck and to span through 2016. In partnership with Cocoa Beach, Brevard would dredge about 87,000 cubic yards from the city's canals, he said. "It's going to happen as quickly as we can pull it together," said Matt Culver, boating and waterways program coordinator for the county's Natural Resources Management Department.Īt the Jones Road boat ramp site in Mims, the county plans to dredge about 40,000 cubic yards of muck, Culver said. Dredging in the Grand Canal should start in 2016. The work in Mims is expected for late 2015. The county hopes to begin the Turkey Creek, Sykes Creek and Cocoa Beaches projects this year. Hundreds of manatees, dolphins and pelicans also died in the wake of the blooms. A "superbloom" of green algae in 2011 and subsequent brown algae blooms killed off 60 percent of the lagoon's seagrass, the barometer of the estuary's ecological health. Lagoon advocates hope that will help begin to cure a lagoon ailing from years of algae blooms. So Brevard County will soon dredge up the cumulative sins of our past poor soil management: the noxious muck that blankets the lagoon bottom throughout the estuary.īeginning this year, the county will spend $10 million in state money to dredge five sites: the mouth of Turkey Creek in Palm Bay canals along Sykes Creek and in Cocoa Beach the Grand Canal and associated canals in Satellite Beach and waters near Jones Road boat ramp in Mims.Ībout $1 million of the state money will go to Florida Institute of Technology scientists to study the before and after of the dredging projects to measure the environmental benefits.Ĭombined, the five dredging projects will remove 1.4 million cubic yards, enough muck to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool about 437 times. The muck stops here, in the Indian River Lagoon, where it robs fish and other marine life of oxygen.
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