Resolution 096-1979
RESOLUTION iF 96-1979
WHEREAS, the BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of MONROE COUNTY,
Florida, approved an application for Mark C. Glosser, on
September 19, 1978, for the reclaiming of shoreline and the
construction of rip-rap, and
WHEREAS, the Department of Environmental Regulation pursuant
to Section 253.124, of the Florida Statutes, requires that before
a State Permit can be issued that a biological assessment made by
DER be read into the Minutes of the County Commission.
NOW BE IT RESOLVED, that the following biological assessment
be read into the Minutes of the County Commission and approved by
that same body.
To reclaim 105 ft. of shoreline that has eroded back 40 feet
between two seawalls, the applicant proposes placing 350 cubic yards
of fill below the MHW line and 58 cubic yards above MHW to grade the
property. Boulders will be placed as rip-rap then this will be
backfilled. Fill will extend approximately 40 feet below MHW.
To the east of the project site is Bogie Channel, a wide
natural waterway. The uplands of the area are well developed with
single family residences and manmade canal systems. Substrate of
the area is Miami oolite limerock. Much of the area has been filled
with this rock dredged from the canals. Vegetation was primarily
Australian pine (Casurina equisetifolia).
The fill site lies between two existing seawalls. One is the
back of a seawall of the adjacent canal and the other is a simple
concrete jetty perpendicular to the shoreline. The uplands adjacent
to the fill site have been filled with pea rock. The shoreline
just above the MHW line, has a sparse vegetation cover of saltgrass
(Distichlis sp.) and (Heliotropium sp.). At, and below the MHW line
for a distance of approximately 30 feet, there was no significant
vegetation. The intertidal area was bare rock rubble and below the
low tide line there was a growth of red algae. Beyond the fill site
was a bed of turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum) that projected
slightly into the fill site.
Except for the small finger of turtle grass projecting into the
project site, the area is biologically insignificant. Filling the
area will have a slight benefit of eliminating some shoreline
discontinuity.
THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County Commission
hereby approves the biological assessment, read at their Regular
By
Meeting, held this
I HEREBY CERTIFY that this document
: :;5 been reviewed for legal suffi-
c;ency and that the same meets with
my approval.
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day of
May
,1979.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MONROE OUN ,FLORIDA
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