SEP #26: little lagoon restoration project -- the alabama department of conservation and natural resources (adcnr) will be the recipient of this award and have overall responsibility for oversight…

The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) received a $6,175,557 Project Grant award from the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council under the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Oil Spill Impact Program (CFDA #87.052) to implement the Little Lagoon Restoration Project. As the prime recipient, ADCNR will oversee the City of Gulf Shores, who serves as a subrecipient and implementing agency. Working with Auburn University, the University of South Alabama, and Mississippi State University, the City of Gulf Shores will undertake activities to restore and conserve habitat, improve water quality, and protect coastal resources in and around Little Lagoon over a five-year period through November 2026. Specific restoration efforts include expanding fish habitat with living shorelines, improving hydrologic connectivity in the existing canal system, converting approximately 200 septic systems to municipal sewer service, and restoring shellfish, marsh, and seagrass. Additional funded work consists of hydrodynamic modeling, ecological research, and long-term water quality monitoring.

SEP #26: little lagoon restoration project -- the alabama department of conservation and natural resources (adcnr) will be the recipient of this award and have overall responsibility for oversight of the city of gulf shores (cogs). The cogs will be the subrecipient and implementing agency, working with auburn university, the university of south alabama and mississippi state university to implement a number of activities that collectively align with comprehensive plan goals to restore and conserve habitat, restore water quality and replenish and protect coastal resources. The project will have secondary beneficial impacts to the region including more resilient and sustainable infrastructure and increased recreational and ecotourism opportunities. Specific activities will result in fish habitat expansion through the construction of living shorelines, improved hydrologic connectivity of the existing canal system, conversion of approximately 200 individual septic systems to municipal sewer, shellfish restoration, marsh and seagrass restoration, hydrodynamic modeling, ecological research and long-term water quality monitoring. With funding of $6,175,557, this project will be implemented by the cogs over a five-year period in and around little lagoon. Little lagoon is an 8 mile-long, 3-quarter mile wide brackish coastal lake hydrologically connected to the gulf of mexico and is part of a system of coastal dune lakes in south baldwin county. Little lagoon is located in cogs and is bounded on the west by the BON secour wildlife refuge and to the east by gulf state park.