2010 Meeting dates for CHNEP Committees

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• Policy Committee

• Management Committee

• Citizens Advisory Committee

  • CAC Reservoir Subcommittee

  • CAC Environmental Progress Subcommittee

• Technical Advisory Committee

  • CHNEP Water Quality and Quantity Objectives Subcommittee (WQQOS)

• Science Forum

Additional committee meetings:

• CHNEP Climate Change Conceptual Ecological Model: December 1

• CHNEP Working Group to Review Climate Change Indicators: January 8, 2010 from 1:30 to 3:30 Meeting notes

• North Spreader Environmental Management Agreement: July 28

• CHNEP Water Atlas Subcommittee: October 27 from 10 to 12:30 at SWFRPC, 1926 Victoria Ave in Fort Myers

Policy Committee

• Friday, February 19 from 9:30 to 12:30 at Polk Nature Center Discovery Center (4399 Winter Lake Rd/SR 540 in Lakeland): Agenda packet (PDF @ 1,747 KB)

  • Vulnerability Assessment (PDF @ 2,923 KB)

  • Polk County is hosting a tram tour of the Circle Bar B Reserve marsh restoration after the meeting. Therefore, we will have Boxed Lunches available for those that RSVP by February 17. Boxed lunch ($10 + tip) includes sandwich (chicken salad, roast beef & cheese or veggie), pasta salad, fruit, cookie & iced tea. RSVP, including choices, to mhilgendorf@swfrpc.org.

  • FDEP Reclaimed and Released Mining Parcels (PDF @ 3,126 KB)

  • A link to the Secretary's quarterly report that shows the current rate of  reclamation: ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/minerec/ERS/CHNEP%20presentation/ http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/mines/docs/2008-rate-of-reclamation.pdf

  • Three permits were discussed in the question section after the presentation:  Altman, Ona-Fort Green extension, and South Fort Meade-Hardee Co. extension.  Reading each of the permits themselves will be the most efficient way for anyone to see that the same principals and conditions are being consistently used in these more recently issued permits. The permits are located at  the following public access.  There should not be a prompt to view/download these.  ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/minerec/manpho/

• Friday, May 21 in Bonita Springs from 9:30 to 12:30 at FGCU Vester Marine Laboratory (5164 Bonita Beach Rd in Bonita Springs): Agenda packet (PDF @ 3,686 KB). A tour of the field station will be offered immediately following the meeting.

  • 4c: CHNEP-funded grant project with Mote Marine Laboratory -- Water Quality and the Fish Assemblages of Mangrove Creeks: A Snapshot Study Shows Challenges in Assessment of Coastal Zone Management Strategies (PDF @ 4,043 KB)

  • 4d: CHNEP-funded grant project with Mote Marine Laboratory -- A Spectrally Explicity Optical Model of Attenuation for Charlotte Harbor Seagrasses (PDF @ 2,300 KB)

  • Item 4c: Presentation by Mote given to TAC on Water Quality and the Fish Assemblages of Mangrove Creeks  funded with a CHNEP grant (PDF @ 2,143 KB)

  • Item 5: Presentation by HDR on Predevelopment Mapping (PDF @ 2,587 KB)

  • Item 6: Presentation by USF on Water Atlas Project (PDF @ 4,551 KB)

  • Item 9: Presentation by Fort Myers Beach on Balancing Resource Management Needs (PDF @ 6,471 KB)

• Monday, August 23 from 9:30 to 12:30 at North Port City Hall (Room 244, 4970 City Hall Blvd): Agenda packet (PDF @ 2,429 KB)

• Monday, November 22 from 9:30 to 12:30 at Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council (1926 Victoria Ave, Fort Myers): Agenda packet (PDF @ 2,206 KB)

Management Committee

• Friday, February 5 from 9:30 to 12:30 at Polk Nature Center Discovery Center (4399 Winter Lake Rd/SR 540 in Lakeland): Agenda packet (PDF @ 1,601 KB)

  • Vulnerability Assessment (PDF @ 2,595 KB)

  • Polk County is hosting a tram tour of the Circle Bar B Reserve marsh restoration after the meeting. Therefore, we will have Boxed Lunches available for those that RSVP by February 3. Boxed lunch ($10 + tip) includes sandwich (chicken salad, roast beef & cheese or veggie), pasta salad, fruit, cookie & iced tea. RSVP, including choices, to mhilgendorf@swfrpc.org.

  • FDEP Reclaimed and Released Mining Parcels (PDF @ 3,126 KB)

  • A link to the Secretary's quarterly report that shows the current rate of  reclamation: ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/minerec/ERS/CHNEP%20presentation/ http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/mines/docs/2008-rate-of-reclamation.pdf

  • Three permits were discussed in the question section after the presentation:  Altman, Ona-Fort Green extension, and South Fort Meade-Hardee Co. extension.  Reading each of the permits themselves will be the most efficient way for anyone to see that the same principals and conditions are being consistently used in these more recently issued permits. The permits are located at  the following public access.  There should not be a prompt to view/download these.  ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/minerec/manpho/

• Friday, May 7 in Bonita Springs from 9:30 to 12:30 at FGCU Vester Marine Laboratory (5164 Bonita Beach Rd in Bonita Springs): Agenda packet (PDF @ 2,677 KB). A tour of the field station will be offered immediately following the meeting.

  • Item 4c: Presentation by Mote given to TAC on Water Quality and the Fish Assemblages of Mangrove Creeks  funded with a CHNEP grant (PDF @ 2,143 KB)

  • Item 5: Presentation by HDR on Predevelopment Mapping (PDF @ 2,587 KB)

  • Item 6: Presentation by USF on Water Atlas Project (PDF @ 4,551 KB)

  • Item 9: Presentation by Fort Myers Beach on Balancing Resource Management Needs (PDF @ 6,471 KB)

• Friday, August 6 from 9:30 to 12:30 at North Port City Hall (Room 244, 4970 City Hall Blvd): Agenda packet (PDF @ 2,429 KB)

• Friday, November 5 from 9:30 to 12:30 at Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council (1926 Victoria Ave, Fort Myers): Agenda packet (PDF @ 1,547 KB)

Citizens Advisory Committee

• Wednesday, January 20 from 10 to approximately 2 at Polk Nature Center Discovery Center (4399 Winter Lake Rd/SR 540 in Lakeland: Agenda packet (PDF @ 3,117 KB)

  • Agenda with directions (PDF @ 78 KB)

  • 3c: Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Report (PDF @ 2,864 KB)

  • 3f NEW: Workplan amendment to re-arrange the order of tasks to be undertaken by Janicki Environmental and scope of work;

    • FY11 workplan modified

  • 3g NEW: Water Atlas scope of work

  • 7d: Climate change indicators (PDF @ 86 KB)

  • 7h: Requirements for Reclassifying the Designated Uses of Florida Surface Waters and Conducting Use Attainability Analysis (PDF @ 589 KB)

  • FDEP Reclaimed and Released Mining Parcels (PDF @ 3,126 KB)

  • A link to the Secretary's quarterly report that shows the current rate of  reclamation: ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/minerec/ERS/CHNEP%20presentation/ http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/mines/docs/2008-rate-of-reclamation.pdf

  • Three permits were discussed in the question section after the presentation:  Altman, Ona-Fort Green extension, and South Fort Meade-Hardee Co. extension.  Reading each of the permits themselves will be the most efficient way for anyone to see that the same principals and conditions are being consistently used in these more recently issued permits. The permits are located at  the following public access.  There should not be a prompt to view/download these.  ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/minerec/manpho/

• Wednesday, April 21 in Bonita Springs from 9:30 to 12:30 at FGCU Vester Marine Laboratory (5164 Bonita Beach Rd in Bonita Springs): Agenda packet (PDF @ 2,152 KB) and 5d: Workplan (PDF @ 820 KB).

  The agenda packet only includes executive summaries of the longer reports. The full reports are available as PDF files.

  • Item 4c: Draft Water Quality Target Refinement Project Task 4: Pollutant Loading Estimates Development

    • Part 1 (4,374 KB), Page 2 2.4 to 2.9 (7,692 KB), Page 3 2.9 (11,186 KB), Part 4 4-5 (8,725 KB), Part 5 Appendixes (6,140 KB)

  • Item 4e: R&RPG Water Quality and the Fish Assemblages of Mangrove Creeks (PDF @ 4,043 KB)

  • Item 4f: R&RPG A Spectrally Explicit Optical Model of Attenuation for Charlotte Harbor Seagrasses (PDF @ 2,300 KB)

  • Presentation to be given by EPA (PDF @ 210 KB)

  • Item 4d: Presentation given to TAC by HDR on Predevelopment Mapping (PDF @ 2,587 KB)

  • Item 4e: Presentation given to TAC by Mote on Water Quality and the Fish Assemblages of Mangrove Creeks  funded with a CHNEP grant (PDF @ 2,143 KB)

  • Item 5b: Presentation by USF on Water Atlas Project (PDF @ 4,551 KB)

• Wednesday, July 21 in North Port from 9:30 to approximately 12:30 at the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary in North Port (Marina Park at intersection of Chancellor Blvd and Kenwood Dr.): Agenda and directions only  (PDF @ 69 KB); Agenda Packet (PDF @ 1,813 KB)  A tour of Little Salt Springs may be offered after the meeting and lunch. This is an ecological and archeological preserve managed by the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine Science (www.rsmas.maima.edu/groups/lss/). Directions to the site, which is located in southern Sarasota County, will be provided at the meeting.

• Wednesday, September 8 in Fort Myers to further the development of the 2011 calendar

• Wednesday, October 20 from 10 to approximately noon at Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council (1926 Victoria Ave, Fort Myers): Agenda and Map (PDF @ 120 KB), Agenda packet (PDF @ 3,483 KB)

  • 7j: Presentation given by Director Beever for EIS

  • 8: Presentation give by Mr. Beever: Watershed Analysis of Permitted Coastal Wetland Impacts and Mitigation Methods report and presentation

Reservoir Subcommittee: Draft Workshop Summary Report 6-26-09 (PDF @ 896 KB)

CAC Environmental Progress Subcommittee

This subcommittee will likely continue to meet the afternoons of many of the regularly scheduled CAC meetings.

Technical Advisory Committee

• Wednesday, January 13 from 1:30 to 4:00 at Polk Nature Center Discovery Center (4399 Winter Lake Rd/SR 540 in Lakeland): Agenda packet (PDF @ 5,922 KB)

  • Agenda and Directions (PDF @ 105 KB)

  • Item 10-3 Designated Use Agenda for Public Meeting 1-7-10 (PDF @ 38 KB)

  • Item 10-4 Designated Use Rule Draft Update 1-6-10 (PDF @ 24 KB)

  • Item10-5 Designated Use Technical Document (part of rule) 12-09 (PDF @ 399 KB)

  • Item 10-6 Designated Use FAQs (PDF @ 23 KB)

  • Item 10-7 Designated Uses SWFRPC Comments 12-8-09

  • Item 10-8 Designated Uses Conservancy Comments 1-6-10 (PDF @ 178 KB)

  • Item 11-4 Stormwater Rule Handbook presentation (PDF @ 2,291 KB)

  • Item 11-5 Stormwater Rule Handbook (part of rule) draft 7-8-09 (PDF @ 5,386 KB)

  • Item 11-6 Stormwater Rule Comments SWFRPC 12-7-09 (PDF @ 56 KB)

  • FDEP Reclaimed and Released Mining Parcels (PDF @ 3,126 KB)

  • A link to the Secretary's quarterly report that shows the current rate of  reclamation: ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/minerec/ERS/CHNEP%20presentation/ http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/mines/docs/2008-rate-of-reclamation.pdf

  • Three permits were discussed in the question section after the presentation:  Altman, Ona-Fort Green extension, and South Fort Meade-Hardee Co. extension.  Reading each of the permits themselves will be the most efficient way for anyone to see that the same principals and conditions are being consistently used in these more recently issued permits. The permits are located at  the following public access.  There should not be a prompt to view/download these.  ftp://ftp.dep.state.fl.us/pub/minerec/manpho/

• Wednesday, April 14 from 9 to 4:30 at FGCU Vester Marine Field Station (5164 Bonita Beach Rd in Bonita Springs): Agenda packet without three reports (PDF @ 2,374 KB)

  • Item 5: Draft Water Quality Target Refinement Project Task 4: Pollutant Loading Estimates Development

    • Part 1 (4,374 KB), Page 2 2.4 to 2.9 (7,692 KB), Page 3 2.9 (11,186 KB), Part 4 4-5 (8,725 KB), Part 5 Appendixes (6,140 KB)

  • Item 13: R&RPG Water Quality and the Fish Assemblages of Mangrove Creeks (PDF @ 4,043 KB)

  • Item 14: R&RPG A Spectrally Explicit Optical Model of Attenuation for Charlotte Harbor Seagrasses (PDF @ 2,300 KB)

  • Item 9: Presentation by HDR on Predevelopment Mapping (PDF @ 2,587 KB)

  • Item 11: Presentation by USF on Water Atlas Project (PDF @ 4,551 KB)

  • Item 14: Presentation by Mote on Water Quality and the Fish Assemblages of Mangrove Creeks  funded with a CHNEP grant (PDF @ 2,143 KB)

  • Item 17: Presentation by FGCU on Invertebrate Preproduction (PDF @ 24,213 KB)

  • Item 18: Presentation by Fort Myers Beach on Balancing Resource Management Needs (PDF @ 6,471 KB)

• Wednesday, July 14 in North Port from 9:15 to 3:35 at the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary in North Port (Marina Park at intersection of Chancellor Blvd and Kenwood Dr.): Agenda and directions only with agenda revised as of 7/9 (PDF @ 128 KB); Agenda Packet with agenda revised as of 7/9 (PDF @ 2,352 KB)

  • Item 7: CHNEP Pollutant Loading Estimates and Conceptual Diagram (PDF @ 14,302 KB)

    • Executive Summary (PDF @ 364 KB)

    • Chapter 1 (PDF @ 218 KB)

    • Chapter 2 (PDF @ 7,541 KB)

    • Chapter 3 (PDF @ 989 KB)

    • Chapter 4 (PDF @ 2,764 KB)

    • Chapter 5 (PDF @ 384 KB)

    • Literature Cited (PDF @ 33 KB)

    • Appendices (PDF @ 2,171 KB

  Presentations

  • North Spreader Environmental Management Agreement — Jon Iglehart or Megan Fairobent, FDEP (page 15)

  • Caloosahatchee River TMDL and BMAP – Nathan Bailey, FDEP (page 51)   

  • Numeric Nutrient Criteria – Tony Janicki, Janicki Environmental (page 53)

  • Environmental Indicators of Climate Change — Judy Ott, CHNEP (page 113)

  • Bay Scallop Monitoring and Restoration - Sarah Stephenson/FWC (page129)

  • Bird Rookery Monitoring in Aquatic Preserves – Cheryl Clark, FDEP (page133)

  • CF Industries update

   

• Wednesday, October 13 from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at SWRPC (1926 Victoria Ave, Fort Myers): Agenda and Map (PDF @ 172 KB); Agenda packet (PDF @ 4,506 KB). Because of their size, three reports are not icluded in the packet but are instead provided as separate PDF files.

  • Item 5-1: The Determination of Minimum Flows for the Lower Myakka River, SWFWMD, Peer Review Draft: Intro and chapters 1-2 (PDF @ 4,737 KB), chapters 3-4 (PDF @ 17,733 KB), chapters 5 to end (PDF @ 9,908 KB)

  • Item 5-2: Appendices to report (above)

  • Item 7: Development of Numeric Nutrient Criteria for the Estuarine Waters of the CHNEP - Task 7, Interim Report 6 prepared by Janicki Environment for CHNEP (PDF @ 8,039 KB)

  • Item 10: Nekton of the Lemon Bay Estuarine System and a Comparison of Nekton Community Structure in Adjacent Southwest Florida Estuaries (PDF @ 1,383 KB)

   

  • Presentations

  • Item 5: The Determination of Minimum Flows for the Lower Myakka River (PDF @ 17,391 KB)

  • Item 7: CHNEP Numeric Nutrient Criteria: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

    Item 7: Candidate Alternative Methods and Chlorophyll Values to be used to generate CHNEP Total Nitrogen and Total Phosphorus Criteria (PDF @ 39 KB)

  • Item 9: A Watershed Analysis of Permitted Coastal Wetland Impacts and MItigation Methods within the CHNEP Study Area (PDF @ 6,280 KB)

  • Item 11: Development of a Water Quality Management Plan for the Winter Haven Chain of Lakes (PDF @ 1,226 KB)

  • Item 12: Restoration of Natural Ground Cover on Sanibel Island (PDF @ 7,170 KB)

Science Forum

• Wednesday, January 13 from 8:30 to 11:50 at Polk Nature Center Discovery Center (4399 Winter Lake Rd/SR 540 in Lakeland): Agenda (PDF @ 119 KB)

• Wednesday, April 14 from 9 to 4:30 at FGCU Vester Marine Field Station (5164 Bonita Beach Rd in Bonita Springs): Joint meeting with the TAC.

• Wednesday, July 14 in Venice

• Wednesday, October 13 in Fort Myers