Escambia To Receive $16 Million In Bay Restoration Funds

March 20, 2019

The Florida Trustee Implementation Group approved its Final Restoration Plan 1, which selects 23 projects at a total estimated cost of $61 million. The final plan is consistent with the Trustees’ Programmatic Restoration Plan and selects projects for restoring natural resources and services injured or lost in Florida as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. With the approval of this plan, 10 projects totaling more than $16 million will benefit water quality and recreation in Pensacola Bay and Perdido Bay.

The projects include water quality improvements and park amenities for Carpenter Creek, expansion of Pensacola Beach reclaimed wastewater system, nutrient reduction in Pensacola and Perdido Bays, Gulf Islands National Seashore beach and dune habitat protection and invasive plant removal, and new camping sites along the Perdido River and Bay Paddle Trail.

These projects will help restore and benefit wetlands, coastal and nearshore habitats on federally managed lands; improve water quality and hydrology by reducing sources of pollution and restoring more natural flows to increase the overall health and productivity of these ecosystems; and enhance the public’s access to the surrounding natural resources while increasing recreational opportunities.

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One Response to “Escambia To Receive $16 Million In Bay Restoration Funds”

  1. Grand Locust on March 20th, 2019 8:56 pm

    great that the money for the envirionment destroyed by bp is being funded……..they will not put it into another pet project which has nothing to do with the spill.

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