Submitted By: Payal Pandya
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Presentation By: Sean Lanier
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Department: Engineering
FORMAL TITLE:
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Budget Resolution 2026-100 to amend the Fiscal Year 2025-26 budget to appropriate funds from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for Retrofit Installation of Nutrient Removing Filtration SystemTM using Bold & Gold(r)TM Media at the Heritage Nature Conservancy Pond in the amount of $271,500
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OCALA'S RELEVANT STRATEGIC GOALS:
Quality of Place, Economic Hub
PROOF OF PUBLICATION:
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BACKGROUND:
The City of Ocala was awarded grant funds from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection for Retrofit Installation of Nutrient Removing Filtration SystemTM using Bold & Gold(r)TM Media at a Heritage Nature Conservancy Pond.
This project will improve water quality by implementing a combination of accepted and innovative best management practices (BMPs) for the reduction of nutrient/nitrate loading in stormwater runoff, thereby meeting the nutrient reduction requirement of the Silver Springs, Silver Springs group, and Upper Silver River Basin Management Action Plan (BMAP).
The Heritage Hills Nature Conservancy Pond has had a history of flooding in severe storms and is located in a Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Hazard Area. The relocation of drainage wells to the Heritage Hills Nature Conservancy Pond from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) pond located on NE Second Street was recommended by the 2012 TetraTech Flood Report as one of the alternative solutions to help alleviate the flooding.
FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS:
This grant will provide funding to abandon two existing 4-inch drainage wells in a Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) pond and install two new 4-inch drainage wells with a Nutrient Removing Filtration System using Bold & Gold(r) or equivalent media at the Heritage Nature Conservancy Pond. Staff recommends approval.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding for this grant will be appropria...
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