Restore committee baffle boxes and artificial reef
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Uh last thing I w I'll say and I I think you may want to talk to this, but we did have a Restore committee meeting the other day. Uh we didn't have a quorum. There was confusion about getting in, getting out, but I will tell you my assistant was there for fifteen minutes after the meeting started.
I think they came at seven.
I know, so they got they're they're an hour late. But anyway. So it was a little difficult to do it. But we didn't have it didn't uh vote on anything. But we did have a great presentation on baffle boxes. Uh one of the things they talked about, which I wanted to bring to the core is they've taken like a million pounds of contaminants that would have gone into Indian River Lagoon. million pounds with the Belfort Box. They got fourteen of them they got set up. They've been working on these things for sixteen years. I found out after the fact that Saint Petersburg has
got a bunch of 'em, Oldsmar's got a bunch of 'em, uh and there's even one in Tarbon Springs. So I was thinking I was gonna go take the trip out to Melbourne Titusville, but uh frankly we've got some local stuff to go look at. Adam Bilc Adam Bib Alan Biddlecombe was there. Uh he's gonna go find find out more about it. Colleen's working on it as well to go find out where these are to go look at 'em because they take out so much of pollutants that go in the water. Right. Their water quality is going through the roof in height. I mean they're really taking a lot of trash, they're taking a lot of contaminants because it filters all all those sediments
are going in there and the water quality is getting better. I want to say our stormwater team's done a phenomenal job with all the flooding that we used to have up and down the coast. Our water quality has gone up so high This Hudson Artificial Reef Project that we try to do, because our seagrass has come back so well in that one area or the two areas that we had picked out. The army post says, well the seagrasses, you can't go build the artificial reef there now.
Oh well we'll take it on our side down down by the side.
We still need one.
No no well I was gonna say Going through the Restore Act process it takes steps and steps and years and years, right? But I think if we go look at tourist development to go take a look at maybe take a look at that cost. The cost could probably go way down. The monitoring cost Much much higher going restore, you got a report, report. We take all that away, we just probably get it done. So if I I ask Kurt I asked Curtis Franklin, I says, please go to tourist development. I I will make mention to the board that I'm supportive of it. I think it's a good place to fund it. Not a ton of money,
but it's long-term benefits are definitely there. And that is all yeah.