Resolution 056-1980
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RESOLUTION 4F_.
56-1980
WHEREAS, the BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of MONROE County,
Florida., has received an application from Gerold Brugger to
construct:
105 l.f. of concrete block seawall along MLW on an open-water
shoreline for the purpose of reclaiming eroded property by backfilling
and preventing further erosion. Riprap will be placed at the toe of
the wall for its entire length. The length of the wall will be
interrupted in the center by an existing concrete boat ramp. About
100 c.y. of marl backfill will be placed below ~T and about 25 c.y.
of riprap. Equipment and materials will be delivered to the site over
existing uplands.
The project site is on the east side of Sugar10af Key north of U.S.
#1 and located on Bow Channel, a major tidal channel, handling current
flow between the Florida Straits and Florida Bay. Depths in this
channel range from about -3 to -8' MLW and bottom communities are
productive seagrasses or hard bottom algal communities. Shorelines
in the area are exposed to predominant E winds. Across Bow Channel
on Cudjoe Key are natural mangrove shorelines and wetlands.
There are scattered residential communities in the area with a few
long dead-end canals. There is a peripheral channel along and to the
north of the site shoreline with fill uplands adjacent to this channel.
Upland residential development is low, probably about 10%, and there
are natural mangrove fringes located to the south and further to the
north from the project site.
The project site is an eroded, rock rubble shoreline that drops
into an artificial peripheral channel about 5-10' waterward of MLW.
The landward edge of this channel is irregular in nature and vegetated
up to about MLvJ with a small amount of turtle grass (Thalassia
!:estudinum) where adequate sediments exist and the algae LaureIlcia,
Penicillus, and various filamentous red algae (Ceramia1es). The
intertidal zone is essentially unvegetated. Uplands are old fill with
residences on both lots to be seawa11ed and upland and shoreline
vegetation is limited. Erosion of this shoreline has occurred due
to its orientation to the east. The peripheral channel is about 60'
wide and about 10-15' in depth. Immediately to the north of the site
is a$ndbag seawall at about MLW and to the south are additional
eroded, rubble shorelines with several private docks.
The construction of this seawall as nroDosed will result in no adverse
impacts to local biological resource~ a~d will in effect prevent
further erosion and provide more stable nearshore conditions. Placement
of the riprap as proposed will serve to reflect wave energies and
provide attachment sites frrplants and animals.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the BOARD OF COUNTY CO~MISSIONERS of
MONROE County, Florida, that said BOARD hereby given its approval for
the construction of the above mentioned project.
RESOLVED this
26th day of February
1980, at a Regularly
scheduled Meeting.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MONROE COU TY, FLORIDA
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