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Staff previews inlet dredging, spoil-site permitting and mitigation plans; residents raise manatee concerns
Summary
Canal maintenance staff described upcoming inlet dredging, sonar surveys to maintain navigable depth, and permit-driven mitigation at Buckley Pass tied to the Colony Point spoil site; residents warned dredging could fill winter manatee refuges and staff said they will coordinate timing and consider alternate spoil handling.
At the April 20 meeting, Mark Storm, Canal Maintenance with Public Works, gave a multi-part update on dredging and spoil-site permitting. Storm said the city is near completion on portions of the Hurricane Ian seawall program, has pending seawall applications to show on the May report, and is scheduling inlet dredging and sonar surveys to preserve the canal system’s target depth of about 6 feet.
Storm described permitting progress for the Colony Point spoil site, saying engineering consultants filed…
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