INDUSTRY DAY.CORALNURSERY.07.23-24.2024.FinalVersion.pdf

INDUSTRY DAY AGENDA

Meeting Goals:

a. Update the environmental industry on the status of the project including an overview of the proposed mitigation and the proposed coral reef nursery needs.

b. Obtain feedback from industry in the fields of expertise.

Agenda:

1. Introduction

2. Project Overview

3. Updated Contracting Schedule

4. Environmental and Mitigation Overview

5. Questions

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MEETING GUIDELINES

• Please hold questions until the end of the presentation.

• Additional questions can be sent to the Project mailbox at Porteverglades@usace.army.mil mailto:Porteverglades@usace.army.mil

BREAKOUT SESSIONS SCHEDULE

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 Wednesday, July 24, 2024

0900-1000: Presentation 0800-0900: Breakout Session 8 1000-1100: Breakout Session 1 0900-1000: Breakout Session 9 1100-1200: Breakout Session 2 1000-1100: Breakout Session 10 1200-1300: Lunch 1100-1200: Breakout Session 11 1300-1400: Breakout Session 3 1200-1300: Lunch 1400-1500: Breakout Session 4 1300-1400: Breakout Session 12 1500-1600: Breakout Session 5 1400-1500: Breakout Session 13 1600-1700: Breakout Session 6 1500-1600: Breakout Session 14 1700-1800: Breakout Session 7 1600-1700: Breakout Session 15 1700-1800: Breakout Session 16

PROPOSED UPCOMING CONTRACTS:

DREDGING AND CONSTRUCTION

US Coast Guard Station Reconfiguration Contract award estimate - Fall 2025

Marine Dredging: ~6M cubic yards (CY) dredged from new Federal channel, placed in nearby Ocean Dredged Material Disposal Site (ODMDS)

Contract award estimate - Fall 2028

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Spilllage Zones and Relocation Mitigation Sites Coral Needs Nursery Needs To Outplant Order of Work & Time Frames Project Monitoring: Dredging Project Monitoring: Mitigation Sites Potential Strategies for Coral Nursery Execution

Environmental Update and Coral Needs Topics

8SPILLAGE ZONES & RELOCATION

(CORALS, OCTOCORALS AND SPONGES)

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Monitoring Based Mitigation Area (100% relocation of ESA corals; relocation of needed coral species from the yellow zone)

Monitoring Only

Direct & 100% Functional Loss Mitigation (100% relocation corals 3cm or greater)

Mitigation Sites: 100% Functional Loss and Potential Monitoring

Mitigation NRE: Natural Reef Enhancement:

Relocation, Outplanting and all ESA corals.

Osborn Tire Reef: Tire Removal & NRE sites.

Artificial Reef: Relocation (no ESA) and Outplanting- 25 acres max.

enhancement

Osborn Tire Reef

Artificial Reef Site

CORAL NEEDS

Note: The mitigation for indirect impacts with less than 100% functional loss coral numbers are based on best available information. Future revisions are based on the receipt of the completion of an on-going field survey and the results of the DEP and NMFS Functional Analysis, but MAY be up to 3 million corals.

Draft Final Port Everglades Deepening Project-Coral Habitat Mitigation Implementation Plan (Amended May 2024)

Mitigation Option Area

(ac) USACE Scleractinian Coral Density Requirement (ac-1) Scleractinian Corals Required for Biological

Enhancement*

Mitigation for direct and indirect impacts with 100% functional loss 701,628

Natural Reef Enhancement (57, two-acre sites) 114 4,389 500,386

Tire Removal 27 5,439 146,852

Boulder Reef 5 10,878 54,390

Mitigation for indirect impacts with less than 100% functional loss 638,370

Natural Reef Enhancement (25, two-acre sites) 50 4,065 203,250

Boulder Reef 20 10,878 435,120

Grand Total 1,339,998

NURSERY NEEDS TO OUTPLANT

Coral Species Mix Needed

ORDER OF WORK AND TIME FRAMES

Pre-dredging (est. 2-3 yrs)

Dependent on completion of the Record of Decision* (est. 2025)

During dredging (est. 6 yrs) (est. 2028-2033)

Post-dredging (est. 3-5 yrs) (est. 2034-2039)

Site-selection Coral propagation Coral propagation Construction of artificial reefs Coral outplanting (in phases) at distances >2 km Coral outplanting (in phases) at distances >500 m – 2 km

Expansion of land-based facilities

Natural reef enhancement at distances >2 km

Coral outplanting of disease susceptible species

Creation or expansion of in-situ nurseries

Relocation and mitigation monitoring

Natural reef enhancement at distances >500 m – 2 km

Cleaning or performing remedial actions to prepare natural degraded reefs for relocation

Continue tire removal mitigation activities

Spoil shoal mitigation activities

Relocation of corals, octocorals and sponges

Cleaning and maintenance of mitigation reefs with biological enhancement

Mitigation monitoring

Begin tire removal to allow relocation of organisms

Adaptive management (contingency plans if success criteria is not met)

Cleaning and maintenance

Removal of tires from portions of the Osborn Tire Reef.

Additional site-selection (as needed) Adaptive management (contingency plans if success criteria is not met)

*Note: Completed NEPA, LOA Blasting permit, WQC and BO needed to sign the ROD

PROJECT MONITORING

Dredge Related sedimentation monitoring.

• Purpose: Detect unanticipated indirect impacts.

• Measure Unforeseen Impacts: distribution, spatial extent ,severity (functional degradation / loss), and persistence.

• Before-After Control-Impact (BACI):

design. pre-, during-, and post-construction monitoring of assessment and reference stations

14MITIGATION MONITORING

(CORALS, OCTOCORALS AND SPONGES)

Reference Sites:

Reconnaissance and Characterization Survey

Mitigation Sites Monitoring

• Primary Field Monitoring Team

• Third-Party Monitoring Team

Adaptive Management Plan Rapid Assessment Monitoring https://usace-my.dps.mil/:p:/g/personal/marie_g_burns_usace_army_mil/EaXulXKIaA1Gm1ngJW_F YTEBtRWFdn1x7r 9keEUY 7R A?e=aIboEM

15POTENTIAL STRATEGIES FOR CORAL

NURSERY NEEDS

PORT EVERGLADES DEEPENING PROJECT (PEV)

NURSERY CORALS

GOAL: PRODUCE CORAL NUMBERS & SPECIES MIX FOR PEV MITIGATION

FL Coral Reef Restoration and Recovery Initiative

Clearinghouse: Nursery Capacity & Best Management Practices

NURSERY 4

NURSERY

NURSERY

NURSERY

LARGE NURSERY

USACE

Information Exchange

6/11/2024

1PORT EVERGLADES DEEPENING PROJECT

NURSERY CORALS

GOAL: CORAL NUMBERS & SPECIES MIX FOR PEV MITIGATION

FL Coral Reef Restoration and

Recovery Initiative Clearinghouse: Nursery

Capacity & Best Management Practices

NURSERY 4

NURSERY 3

NURSERY 2

NURSERY 1

LARGE NURSERY/

USACE

Contractor

Information

Exchange

6/11/2024

QUESTIONS

Contacts:

Mr. Steve Meyers, Project Manager Phone: (O) 904-232-3657 © 904-238-4461 Email: Stephen.K.Meyer@usace.army.mil

Ms. Nikki Edelenbos, NEPA Biologist Coastal Navigation Phone:904-232-1157 Email: Dominique.N.Edelenbos@usace.army.mil

Ms. Marie Burns, Navigation Program Environmental Lead Phone: 904-897-5196 Email: marie.g.burns@usace.army.mil