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Board backs Nature Conservancy pilot to retrofit stormwater ponds, approves ELAP land purchases

Indian River County Board of County Commissioners · November 19, 2025
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Summary

The BOCC approved a letter of support for a Nature Conservancy pilot to install adaptive controls on HOA stormwater ponds to reduce nutrient runoff into the Indian River Lagoon, and moved forward on several Environmental Lands Acquisition Program purchases including a 36.99-acre Winter Beach site and a Tier 1 property ranking list.

The Board unanimously approved a county letter of support for The Nature Conservancy’s runoff-and-resilience pilot project that would retrofit homeowner-association stormwater ponds with Continuous Monitoring Adaptive Control (CMAC) systems.

James Byrne, director of strategy and policy for The Nature Conservancy in Florida, told commissioners the group…

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