Everglades Florida Keys National Marine Restoration: Sanctuary Update on Progress and Advisory Council Activities PRESENTED BY Shannon Estenoz Director, Office of Everglades Restoration Initiatives U.S. Department of the Interior December 10, 2013 Everglades Restoration Foundation Projects ► Kissimmee River ► C-111 South Dade ► C-51/STA-1E ► Modified Water Deliveries 1st Generation CERP ► Site 1 Impoundment ► IRL-South ► Picayune Strand 2nd Generation CERP ► C-43 Reservoir ► Biscayne Broward County WPA EVERGLADES Bay NATIONAL ► C-111 Spreader Canal PARK ► Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands Florida Bay October 3, 2012 Kissimmee Restoration: Looking east at Phase II/III railroad bridge construction progress. October 3, 2012 Kissimmee Restoration: Montsdeoca Run - Phase I restoration area Steps to Complete Modified Waters and C-111 South Dade Projects . G-3273 and S-356 operational testing . Northern Detention Area and C-111 South Dade constructed (Contract 8) . Combined operational plan for Modified Waters and C-111 COMPREHENSIVE EVERGLADES RESTORATION PLAN . 68 Components ► Storage Surface ASR LAKE OKEECHOBEE ► STAs for water quality WCA 1 WCA ► Seepage management 2 WCA BIG CYPRESS NATIONAL 3A PRESERVE ► Removing barriers to flow 3B EVERGLADES ► Revised operations NATIONAL PARK . 30+ year implementation CENTRAL EVERGLADES . Reduce undesirable discharges to east and west coast estuaries . Deliver “new” sources of clean water to the Central Everglades and ENP . Restore habitat in the central Everglades Biscayne EVERGLADES Bay NATIONAL PARK Florida Bay Too Healthy Dry Too Dry; No Flow Too Dry NORTHERN WCA 3A PROBLEMS MIAMI CANAL IS AN TOO DRY, TOO OFTEN UNNATURAL HABITAT A RIVER THAT DOES NOT FLOW With Flow Without Flow 10 CENTRAL EVERGLADES PLANNING PROJECT (CEPP) PROPOSES TO: . Move water south from Lake Okeechobee through St. Lucie Estuary Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) LAKE OKEECHOBEE . Improve benefits to the EVERGLADES Caloosahatchee and St Lucie AGRICULTURAL WCA AREA 1 estuaries Caloosahatchee WCA Estuary 2 WCA . Store and treat flows with proposed 3 flowage equalization basin (FEB) in Gulf of Mexico the EAA Biscayne EVERGLADES Bay NATIONAL PARK . Send treated water south through Water Conservation Area 3A (WCA 3) Florida Bay and a flowway portion of 3B, and into Everglades National Park and Florida Bay SPATIAL PERSPECTIVE EVERGLADES With CEPP planning terminology AGRICULTURAL AREA WCA North of the Redline 1 . Combination of features to increase water deliveries downstream and improve estuarine benefits L-5 WCA 2 South of the Redline WCA . 28 Features and their locations to best restore - 3A L I-75 sheetflow in northern Water Conservation Area 3A WATER Greenline/Blueline CONSERVATION L-33 AREAS . Features to best restore sheetflow through southern WCA-3A and 3B L-30 WCA . Configuration of conveyance features to best restore 3B S-333 L-29 flows to Everglades National Park Tamiami Trail L-67 Ext Yellowline . Features to best compliment rest of project and EVERGLADES NATIONAL manage seepage to the eastern urban area PARK without impacting the water supply L.O. WATER FLOW TENTATIVELY SELECTED PLAN (Alt 4R) EVERGLADES STORAGE AND TREATMENT AGRICULTURAL . Construct A-2 FEB and integrate with A-1 FEB operations AREA . Lake Okeechobee operation refinements within LORS WCA DISTRIBUTION/CONVEYANCE 1 . A-2 Diversion of L-6 flows, Infrastructure and L-5 canal improvements A-1 . Remove western ~2.9 miles of L-4 levee (west of S-8 3,000 cfs capacity) S-8 . 360 cfs pump station at western terminus of L-4 levee removal L-5 . Backfill Miami Canal and Spoil Mound Removal ~1.5 miles south of S-8 to I-75 L-4 WCA 2 DISTRIBUTION/CONVEYANCE WCA . Increase S-333 capacity to 2,500 cfs 28 - 3A L . Two 500 cfs gated structures in L-67A, 0.5 mile spoil removal west of I-75 L-67A canal north and south of structures . Construct ~8.5 mile levee in WCA 3B, connecting L-67A to L-29 WATER . Remove ~8 miles of L-67C levee in Blue Shanty flowway (no canal back fill) L-33 CONSERVATION . One 500 cfs gated structure north of Blue Shanty levee and 6,000-ft gap AREAS in L-67C levee . Remove ~4.3 miles of L-29 levee in Blue Shanty flowway, divide structure east of Blue Shanty levee at terminus of western bridge ` WCA L-30 . Tamiami Trail western 2.6 mile bridge and L-29 canal max stage at 3B S-335 9.7 ft (FUTURE WORK BY OTHERS) S-333 L-29 . Remove entire 5.5 miles L-67 Extension levee, backfill L-67 Extension canal S-356 . Tamiami Trail S-334 C-2 Remove ~6 mile Old Tamiami Trail road (from L-67 Ext to Tram Rd) L-67 Ext G-211 SEEPAGE MANAGEMENT 8.5 SMA . Increase S-356 pump station to ~1,000 cfs . Partial depth seepage barrier south of Tamiami Trail (along L-31N) EVERGLADES . G-211 operational refinements; use coastal canals to convey seepage NATIONAL 111 SD - PARK C Note: System wide operational changes and adaptive management considerations will be included in project FEB STA Pump Old Tamiami Trail Removal Backfill Levee Removal Gated Structure NOT TO SCALE Canal Improvement Seepage Barrier Divide Levee Questions? .