Tequesta utilities director presents DEP‑prescribed coastal vulnerability assessment, outlines grant‑funded priorities

Marjorie Craig, Utilities Director for the Village of Tequesta, presented the village’s Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) vulnerability assessment at the May 14, 2025 Environmental Advisory Committee meeting, saying the work was done to “help assess what’s vulnerable in our community” and to position the village for grant funding.

Craig told the committee the project was financed initially with a $95,000 FDEP grant and that she later secured an additional $50,000 grant to fill data gaps: “we received a grant originally of $95,000,” and then applied for the extra funds to capture stormwater structure survey data used in modeling scenarios.

The assessment follows DEP’s prescribed methodology and combined inventorying critical assets, topography and GIS layers, inundation modeling (storm surge and rainfall‑induced flooding), exposure and sensitivity analyses, and two public meetings. Craig described the DEP guidance as a…