Resolution 268-1979
RESOLUTION #
268-1979
WHEREAS, the BOARD of COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of MONROE County,
Florida, has received an application from Kampgrounds of America,
to construct:
Approximately 2,050 linear feet of boulder riprap seawall,
at apparent Mean High Water Line around the shoreline of this
commercial campground and resort. Backfill would come from upland
source. No dredging was permitted. The layup of the boulders was
to be accomplished by hand. Grouting was not mentioned.
On July 26, 1978, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a Cease
and Desist because a boulder riprap seawall was being installed
around areas not included in the above mentioned permit.
This inspector visited the site and felt that the order was correct,
but the violation was one of omission rather than an intent to defraud.
Personal observation of the construction of this seawall impressed
this inspector with the conscientious effort of the individual who
was constructing this seawall by hand. No attempt, on the part of
the person building the seawall, was made to increase the upland of
the campground. Each boulder was placed as tightly against the
existing eroded, vertical, meandering shoreline as possible. (Note
Photo #2). The builder displayed great pride that he was building
an environmentally coordinated habitat as well as a solid seawall
to prevent further erosion of existing upland. Previous erosion
of adjacent upland at the northwest access channel to existing boat
basin had caused this channel to become too shallow for boat traffic
at low tide.
According to this application, 3,011 feet of boulder riprap seawall,
instead of 2,050 feet of seawall (#44-40-3448) has been laid along the
exposed shoreline of this manmade upland.
This area was created many years ago, as a campground and is the only
activity on this small Key. Upland vegetation is grass, palms,
shrubs and Australian pines. Roads and recreational trailer pads
are surfaced. Tent sites are unsurfaced fill, each with a concrete
table set on a level concrete pad.
The areas along which this seawall was placed has Halodule sp.,
Penicillus sp. ,padina sp., sponges, barnacles, and green and brown algae.
Some Thalassia testudinum plants are present a few feet offshore in
the shallow areas. The baybottom is rock, stone, sand and silt.
Algae have already become established on those boulders of the
seawall which are covered with water at high tide. Numerous small
fishes (Sgt. Majors, damsel fishes, snappers, pinfish,barracuda)
were also observed in and around the base of the seawall at various
locations.
The impact of the actual construction of the seawall was short-term
as each boulder was hand positioned. The long-term effect is the
creation of a stabilized boulder habitat for vegetation and marine
organisms, as opposed to the transient habitat of an eroding upland
fill, which the seawall replaced.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
of MONROE County, Florida, that said BOARD hereby given its approval
for the construction of the above mentioned project.
RESOLVED this 20th
day of November, 1979, at a Regularly
scheduled Meeting.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MONROE COUN FLORIDA
BY
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