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Orange Lake Public Meeting
December 4, 2014
Grand Lake RV and Golf Resort
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Meeting Purpose
•Update of information collected at
September 25th meeting
•Discuss proposed short-term activities
on Orange Lake
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Agenda
• Housekeeping, Ground Rules
• Follow-up from September 25th Meeting
• Orange Lake Habitat Management Plan Community Working Group update
• Interim Management Plan Proposal
• Comments and Questions
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Orange Creek Basin
Stakeholder Engagement Process
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Public
Meeting
Interagency
Working Group
Identify Themes
Stakeholder
Input
Identify Issues
Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP) Process
Community Working Groups •Appropriate agency will lead/facilitate.
•Work on issues within a theme:
•Develop management plans.
•Gather data and information.
•Report on feasibility and costs of projects.
•Stakeholder involvement.
•Provide updates through BMAP process
Interagency
Working Group
Project Development
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Orange Creek Basin
Community Working Groups
• Orange Lake Habitat Management – Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
• Highway 301 Issue – Interagency Working Group
• Herbicide Workshop - Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
• Hydrology/Geology Workshop
• Airboat Curfew Letter – Alachua County
• Nutrient/BMAP Question – Department of Environmental Protection
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How do I stay informed?
• Orange Creek Basin
Interagency Working
Group web page
– http://orangecreekbasin.
wordpress.com/
• Basin Management Action
Plan Meetings—DEP
– http://www.dep.state.fl.us/w
ater/watersheds/bmap.htm
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Orange Lake Habitat Management
Plan Community Working Group
• FWC is the lead agency
• Stakeholders will be involved from the beginning and throughout the process
•Will begin as soon as possible
• Process is anticipated to take at least a year
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What do we do now?
• Community Working Group
– Long-term solution
– High level of stakeholder input
–Will take time
• Interim Lake Management Plan
– Short-term work
– Utilize current funding
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Interim Lake Management Plan
• FWC recognizes immediate management needs
• Limitations to large scale tussock management are financial, regulatory, and lack of stakeholder consensus
• Therefore there is a need for an Interim Management Plan
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FWC Aquatic Resource
Management Programs
Division of Habitat & Species
Conservation
Invasive Plant Management Section (IPM)
Aquatic Habitat Conservation and
Restoration Section (AHRES)
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Funding Priorities
IPM • Floating plants
(hyacinth/lettuce)
• New hydrilla infestations
• Plants blocking access &
navigation
• Open areas in dense hydrilla
mats
• Large-scale hydrilla control
• Control other noxious plants
AHRES • Habitat Enhancement
− Lake Restoration 2020
Program.
• Freshwater Lakes, Rivers,
Streams and Perennial
Wetlands
• Isolated Ephemeral
Wetlands
• ARPET
• Public Access
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Work Plan Development FWC Fiscal Year – July1st to June 30th
IPM • Annual work plan submitted
in May.
• Based on historic conditions
and anticipated need.
• One page application/permit-
fixed set of objectives.
• Flexibility to respond to
changing conditions.
AHRES • Project plans submitted in
November of previous
year.
• Based on detailed
proposal with specific
habitat ojectives.
• Multiple page application
requires peer review w/
written comments.
• Rigid regulatory
constraints.
• Site specific with limited
flexibility .
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Interim Management Proposal Dec. 2014 – Jun. 2015
• Based on current availability of funds for IPM and AHRES.
• Projects that are logistically feasible under current conditions.
• Regulatory approval - permits in hand or feasible within short timeframe.
• Buy-in from stakeholders
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Access & Navigation
• FWC-IPM will improve and maintain at least two points of public access.
• Priority Level 1 – East: Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings/Cross Creek
– West: Mike’s Fish Camp
• Priority Level 2 – Macintosh Bay/Tower to
Tower Trail
– Essen/PG Run
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Habitat Enhancement FWC-AHRES
• Mechanical Methods – Harvesting and shredding
– Enhance or restore deep marsh/open water habitats
• Water quality improvement – Dissolved oxygen
– Improved habitability for all aquatic organisms
• Consistent with FWC habitat guidelines document
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Wading Bird Island Enhancement
• 4 sites: Bird Island, Redbird Island, North Island and Grassy Point (new site).
• Mechanical shredder used to remove surface vegetation and tussocks from perimeter.
• 300’ vegetated buffer will remain inside of 200’-300’ wide “moat” that will be treated to create open water/deep marsh spatterdock zone.
• Reduce potential for nest predation and improve suitability for nesting/roosting.
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Essen Run Deep Marsh Restoration
• Mechanical removal/harvesting of heavy mud tussocks with upland disposal.
• Restore spatterdock and submersed aquatic vegetation
• Isolated cove decreases potential for immediate encroachment of new tussocks.
• Benefits can be achieved with relatively small project footprint.
• Added benefit of high public use potential (two points of access for boats)
• Project already 50% complete; demonstration area for stakeholders to evaluate management potential.
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Cost Feasibility
• Herbicide – $130/ac
– 1,9223 acres
• Mechanical Shredding – $1,200-$1,800/ac
– ~170 acres
• Mechanical Harvesting – $4,000-$10,000/ac
– ~40 acres
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Questions?
https://orangecreekbasin.wordpress.com/