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WRDA 2000 Initial Projects:
Adaptive Assessment and Monitoring Program
An extensive Adaptive Assessment Program, which includes a system-wide monitoring program will be conducted to support the system-wide ecosystem restoration objectives of the Comprehensive Plan. This program will provide an opportunity to continue investigating concepts and issues relative to the overall Comprehensive Plan while implementation of the initial project features are underway. The Adaptive Assessment Program will include continued system-wide evaluation and analysis among other planning activities. The construction and regional monitoring program will have a dual focus on the biological and hydrological restoration objectives in the natural systems, and the water supply and flood protection objectives in the urban and agricultural regions.
This Adaptive Assessment Program for the Comprehensive Plan is still under development. Given the conceptual nature of the Comprehensive Plan and the need to integrate the monitoring program portion with other ongoing efforts, it is difficult to prepare a detailed estimate of its cost at the present time. However, based on other ongoing programs including this feasibility study and other ecologic restoration monitoring programs such as the Kissimmee River Restoration Project, the total estimated annual cost for this program is estimated to be $10,000,000. For Corps of Engineers programming purposes, this cost is assumed to be a "Construction" cost as opposed to Operation and Maintenance cost since it is required to advance the project to completion.
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