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Southwest Florida Seagrass Working Group members and other seagrass enthusiasts:

Attached you will find copies of the agenda and presentations given at the October 6, 2011 meeting. Also attached are notes from a discussion on the potential roles of the Working Group. Please feel free to add comments and circulate to the group. Do you think the Working Group could be taking a more active role in promoting the importance of seagrass? Should members develop joint research priorities? Support one another on grant proposals? Your ideas and comments are welcomed and will help to make this group more beneficial for everyone!

Feel free to call or email me with questions/comments. (727) 893-2765 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Thanks, Lindsay Cross

Attachments:

Agenda_Southwest Florida Seagrass Working Group_October 06, 2011	[ ]	7 Kb
Preview of 2012 SWFWMD Aerial Seagrass Mapping_Kris Kaufman	[ ]	1786 Kb
Are Seagrass Meadows a Tractable Biological Indicator in SW FL_Dave Tomasko	[ ]	2636 Kb
Prop Scar Monitoring in Cockroach Bay_Laura Thorne	[ ]	1414 Kb
Seagrass Transplanting Efforts in Tampa Bay_Peter Clark	[ ]	5324 Kb
Discussion on Role of Seagrass Working Group October 6, 2011 Meeting	[ ]	96 Kb

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The Tampa Bay Estuary Program, in coordination with the Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium and TBEP Technical Advisory Committee, has developed estuarine numeric nutrient criteria for the Tampa Bay estuary. Currently, state and federal efforts are underway to develop statewide numeric nutrient criteria for all Florida waters. The attached documents demonstrate that the Tampa Bay nitrogen management strategy, developed and implemented by the TBEP and Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium since 1996, provide the foundation for continued water quality protection, as it relates to nutrients, in the Tampa Bay estuary. As such, the protective numeric nutrient criteria for the Tampa Bay estuary are expressed as the nitrogen delivery ratio (tons of TN per million cubic meters of freshwater delivered) to each bay segment in Tampa Bay. These values are presented in the table below.

Additional information and documents on the development of these criteria are summarized in the attached PDFs below. The following links also provide information on TBEP developed goals and targets established in the mid-1990s.

• Habitat Protection and Restoration Targets for Tampa Bay. 1994.  Technical Publication #07-93 of the Tampa Bay National Estuary Program.  Prepared by Coastal Environmental, Inc. (A.J. Janicki, D.L Wade, and D.E. Robison).
• Estimating Critical Nitrogen Loads for the Tampa Bay Estuary:  An Empirically Based Approach to Setting Management Targets. 1996.  Technical Publication #06-96 of the Tampa Bay National Estuary Program.  Prepared by Coastal Environmental, Inc. (A.J. Janicki and D.L. Wade).
  

Attachments:

Summary TBEP Estuarine NNC Recommendations (TB Proper)	[ ]	196 Kb
Summary TBEP Estuarine NNC Recommendations (BCB, TCB & MR Segments)	[ ]	5063 Kb
TBEP Estuarine NNC Full Technical Document (BCB, TCB and MR Segments)	[ ]	6368 Kb
Alternative NNC Recommendations for Estuarine TN and TP Con. (TB Proper)	[ ]	3460 Kb
Characterization of TB D.O. Conditions with respect to Recommended Estuarine NNC	[ ]	13606 Kb
Development of Numeric Nutrient Criteria for Tampa Bay Tidal Tributaries	[ ]	716 Kb
Assessment of TB Estuarine Numeric Nutrient Criteria Implementation Issues	[ ]	3584 Kb
TBNMC Hydrologic Normalization 2009 RA Addendum Decision Memo #11	[ ]	797 Kb

On behalf of the Tampa Bay Nitrogen Management Consortium co-chairs, attached to this post is the Final 2009 Reasonable Assurance Addendum: Allocation and Assessment Report. This document was approved for submittal to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection by the Consortium members by a vote of 32 to 0, with three abstaining (including FDEP and EPA) on September 11, 2009.

The full document is available for downloading using the PDF link below. Appendix D (datasets) is posted below as a zip file.

The collaborative efforts of the Consortium participants have resulted in proposed equitable nitrogen load allocations to 189 permitted and unpermitted sources throughout the watershed, collectively meeting the federally-recognized nitrogen TMDL for Tampa Bay.  The document details the technical basis for these proposed allocations, monitoring and assessment methods to track results of the Consortium’s efforts, ongoing and future actions proposed by the Consortium members to continue to meet Tampa Bay water quality threshold values, and a framework for evaluating and addressing water quality problems as needed in the event that Tampa Bay’s ambient water quality does not meet accepted thresholds in future years.

Responses to FDEP comments on the original submission have been finalized and approved by the Consortium at the January 22, 2010 NMC meeting. On December 22nd, 2010, FDEP Secretary Drew signed a Final Order accepting and approving the 2009 Reasonable Assurance Addendum for Tampa Bay.

Attachments:

Dec. 22nd, 2010 FDEP Final Order Approving and Accepting 2009 RA Addendum	[ ]	135 Kb
Final 2009 RA Addendum Addressing FDEP Comments Approved 01/22/2010	[ ]	20249 Kb
NMC RA Process Overview Presentation	[ ]	538 Kb
2009 Tampa Bay Reasonable Assurance Fact Sheet	[ ]	257 Kb
September 11, 2009 Final Voting Meeting Summary	[ ]	153 Kb
2009 RA Declaration	[ ]	19 Kb
Appendix D	[ ]	111 Kb
Original 2009 RA Addendum Approved for Submittal to FDEP on 9/11/2009	[ ]	25518 Kb