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Sarasota BayStorm Water Retrofit
Category: Submerged, Intertidal, Wetland, and Upland Cost: + $30 million Description: The project goal was to retrofit storm water within priority watersheds to reduce nitrogen loads and pollution. The project entailed installing large regional storm treatment systems (large man-made lakes) to serve as retention centers to catch and retain water in the upper reaches of the watershed. The water would be treated before it was allowed to flow to the lower part of the watershed. Outcome: The results of this project were that 1-2 percent of the nitrogen load has been reduced. The Phillippi Creek watershed, a large watershed that had the largest load from a creek, has been 90 percent completed. Other watershed areas, such as Hudson Bayou, will be completed in the next few years. Contact: Mark Alderson, Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program, (941) 359-5841, sbnep@gte.net Citation: "State of the Bay 2000." |