Resolution 287-1979
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287-1979
v.7HEREAS, the BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER.S of MONROE County,
FLORIDA, has received an application from Stephen Schuster to
construct:
60 l.f. of riprap (35 cy) seawall and backfill with about
70 c.y. of clean marl fill on an open water shoreline. This seawall
will be placed about 15' waterward of MITnv and will connect with, and
be in line with, an existing riprap seawall immediately to the north.
Materials and equipment will be delivered to the site over existing
upland roads. Riprap will be placed and fill will be spread by
backhoe.
The project site is located on the east side of Little Torch Key
within a residential community known as Jolly Roger Estates. This is
a development with inland dead-end finger canals and a peripheral
channel along the open-water shoreline. To the north of the area is
U.S. #1 and additional residential shoreline development north of
U.S. #1. Uplands within the general area of development are essentially
all artificially created by the excavation of the canal systems. To
the west and south of Jolly Roger Estates are natural mangrove
wetlands and shoreline fringes. Development presently in this
subdivision is about 30%. Pine Channel is tidal between the back
country of Florida Bay to the north and eventually the Florida Straits
to the south. Depths are from about -3 to -10' MLW and are
productive seagrass or hard bottom-algae-sponge communities.
A number of residents along this shoreline and peripheral channel
have received permits and recovered eroded shoreline in a manner
similar to this proposed project.
Uplands at this site are filled and presently contain only Australian
pines (Gasuarina) and various grasses and weeds. The shoreline has
experienced severe erosion due to its orientation and exposure and
presently the eroded embankment is about 20' landward of the
peripheral channel cut. The watenvard edge of the existing shoreline
is vegetated with scattered pioneering buttonwoods (Gonocarpus
erectus). bay cedar (Suriana), sea ox-eye (Borrichia) and saltwort
(Sesuvium). The intertidal zone is eroded, well-sorted rock rubble,
about 10' wide and is essentially unvegetated. Present below MLW
along the slope are the benthic algae Batophora and Laurencia and
patches of turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum) where adequate sediments
exist. Near the edge of the slope and the channel cut are denser
patches of turtle grass.
The placement of this riprap seawall in a line with the riprap wall
on the adjacent lot will allow the applicant to recover eroded
property without creating an additional shoreline discontinuity or
impacting productive baybottom. Only a small area of benthic
vegetation will be filled by the placement of this wall as proposed.
Observation of the existing adjacent wall indicates that seagrasses
immediately waterward of the riprap are not adversely impacted over
time by the subtidal placement of the riprap.
Eventually this entire shoreline v7ill probably be riprapped or
seawalled in a similar manner although most of the work performed
to date is farther to the south along this shoreline.
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.
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RESOLVED this ., \ '6-t~ day of December, 1979, at a Regularly
scheduled Meeting.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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