More NRDA projects announced for Franklin, Gulf and Wakulla counties

The Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Trustees have proposed another $88 million dollars in early restoration projects for Florida including over 1.7 million dollars for 7 projects in Franklin County.

The projects include constructing additional docks at the Abercrombie boat ramp and enhancing parking and adjacent tie-up docks at Waterfront Park in Apalachicola.

Money has also been proposed to fund building restroom facilities at Indian Creek Park in Eastpoint and renovating the boat ramp there and adding restrooms to the Eastpoint and St. George Island Fishing Piers.

Other proposed project including building picnic pavilions, boardwalks,

and a restroom at Bald Point State Park and building a boardwalk  and fishing and wildlife observation structure at Cash Bayou.

Nearly 3 million dollars has been proposed for 5 boat ramp and park improvement projects in Gulf County, including work at the Windmark Beach fishing pier, the Indian Pass Boat Ramp and the Frank Pate Boat Ramp.

A little over 2 million dollars is proposed for three projects in Wakulla County including improvements to Mash’s Sands park, beach Nourishment at Shell Point, and improvements to the St. Marks Boat Ramp.

This would be the third phase of NRDA projects - To date, Phases I and II of early restoration projects for Florida have totaled nearly 12 million dollars. 

The earlier projects include oyster Reef Restoration in Escambia, Santa Rosa, Bay and Franklin counties, a Living Shoreline Project at Cat Point, and seagrass recovery projects in Gulf, Franklin and Bay counties.

Before any of the proposed projects are finalized, the projects will go through a 60-day public comment period that runs through February the 4th.

Included in the comment period are two public meetings in Florida; one in Pensacola on January 28th and one on January 29th in Panama City.

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