The Northwest Florida Water Management District has received federal money that will allow the group to complete an elevation mapping program across the Panhandle this spring. The $225,000 grant from U.S. Geographical Survey will be used to acquire Light Detection and Ranging data from Liberty County and part of Calhoun County.
The program has already collected and processed about 13,000 square miles of data across the Florida panhandle since 2005.
The program, which began in 2005, is collecting data on the Apalachicola National Forest that will be used to restore ecology and hydrology, especially in southern Liberty County, which drains to Apalachicola Bay. It will also be helpful for flood hazard mapping, wetland mitigation projects, stormwater planning, designing stormwater facilities, assessing watersheds and water supplies and many other environmental planning and analysis projects.
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