Resolution 039-1980
RESOLUTION if_. 39-1980
WHEREAS, the BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of MONROE County,
Florida, has received an application from Jacques Cloutier, to
construct:
60' long concrete bulkhead in line with an existing riprap
wall immediately to the north and waterward of MEW and place about
10 cubic yards of riprap along 40' of the toe of the proposed wall.
About 70 cubic yards of limerock backfill will be placed waterward
of MHW. Materials and equipment can be transported to the site over
existing uplands and riprap will be placed by backhoe. Purpose of
the project is to prevent further erosion, recover property and
provide dockage for a small boat. The middle 20' of the wall will
not have riprap at the tow to allow for dockage of a small boat.
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 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 old fill from th~ excavation of the
peripheral channel and are vegetated almost exclusively by Australian
pines (Casuarina). The shoreline has experienced severe erosion due
to its orientation and exposure and presently the eroded embankment
is about 25' landward of the peripheral channel cut. Vegetation
along the shoreline is limited to a few scattered buttonwoods
(Conocarpus erectus), bay cedar (Suriana) and sea lavender
(Tou.rnefortia).MHW is located about 15' landward of the channel edge
and the intertidal zone is well-sorted rock rubble, essentially
unvegetated and about 8' wide. Below MLW to the channel edge are
patches of turtle grass (Thalassiatestudinum) in the finer rubble
and valious lithophytic algae, including Batophora, Laurencia and
filamentous algae of the orqer Ceramiales, on the larger rock rubble.
Similar subtidal vegetation is present waterward of the existing
riprap to the north indicating that the placement of this seawall
will not adversely impact the benthic vegetation waterward of the
wall. The proposed wall and riprap will be about 5 to 10' landward
of the Channel edge.
The placement of this wall and riprap in line with the existing
riprap to the north and set back from the peripheral channel edge
should have no adverse impact on local biological resources, protect
existing subtidal vegetation along the eroded slope and allow the
applicant to recover eroded property.
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 12th
day of February, 1980, at a Regularly
scheduled Meeting.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
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