HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo from C.R. O'Meilia to Village Manager about Big Munyon Island dated 5-27-91 along with article County Seeks $212,000 for Big Munyon ProjectVILLAGE OF NORTH PALM BEACH
MEMORANDUM
27 MAY 1991
TO: VILLAGE MANAGER
FROM: C.R. O'MEILIA
SUBJECT: BIG MUNYON DEVELOPMENT
1. The enclosed news article is self explanatory.
2. The Comp Plan allows development of a passive park the definition
of which should be determined by the Village.
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County seeks $212,000 for Big Munyon projeel
By JOE BROGAN
r a rt Real) F Post Staff Writer
PALM BEACH SHORES —
Palm Beach. County asked the
Florida Inland Navigation Dis-
trict fur $212,000 Friday to help
pay for the first phase of the
environmental restoration of Big
Mi.rnyon Island in the Intracoast-
al Waterway.
The 45-acre island in North
Palm Beach, part of John D.
MacArthur Beach State Park,
has beenseverely eroded on the
!: est side by waves from passing
boat rat ' .c, said Jim Barry, di-
rector of coastal and wetlands
management for the county De-
partment of Environmental Re-
sources Management.
Plans call for the county to
place 1,300 tons of rocks along
300 feet of the island's northwest
corner as a wave break, Barry
said.
Exotic vegetation, such as
Australian pines. also would be
removed from a 3.7-acre section,
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Red and black mangroves
would be planted, and a clan-
nel and several smaller ditch-
es would allow the tide to
flush the mangrove area.
'.et-p project would reduce
silt in the water and enhance
the fish and wildlife habitat,
Barry said.
A study last year by. the
state Department of Envi-
ronmental Regulation
showed the island was the top
priority site for e.nvironmen-
ta.l restoration in the Intra-
coastal Waterway from
•North Palm Beach to Boyn-
ton Beach, Barry said.
The county would. pay
$40,000 of the cost of the first
phase, Barry said.
The second phase would
be the renovation of another
2,200 feet on the island's
Western shore.
Within five years, the
state would build a board-
walk from the mainland to
the island for passive park
activities, such as fishing,
Barry said.
The John D. and Cather-
ine T. MacArthur Foundation
has expressed an interest in
financing recreational devel-
opment of the island in the
later stages of the project.
Barry was told by FIND
Chairman S.E. Goodman to
justify the spending as an
environmental education
project.
Decisions on grants will
be made in July on whether
to provide money for the
county's proposal and six oth-
er requests made Friday,
tor
PROJECT REQJESTS
II $97,500 for boat -ramp renovation and con-.
struction of 15 boat slips at the Pahokee municipal
.marina complex.
• $ 0,soo to help establish a Riviera Beach
c
.city marine patrol to protect manatees within the
city's maritime boundaries.
, W $95,000 for an environmental education
program at the Palm Beach Maritime Museum in
Riviera Beach.
IN $25,000 for a boating education program to
be run by the Loxahatchee Council of Govern-
ments, the Palm Beach County School Board and
the Marinelife Center in Juno Beach.
II $85,000 for dredging the Boat Club Park
boat -ramp channel area in Boynton Beach.
$etS,S75 for channel dredging at the coun-
ty's Ocean Inlet Marina near the Boynton Inlet.
• $212,000 for shoreline wave protection and
wetlands restoration at the northeast end of Bi
Munyon !stand in North Palm Beach.
Source: Florida Inland Navigation District