“Green Infrastructure”
Contribution to Everglades
Restoration
Leonard Shabman
Sarah Lynch
Flow Pattern : Yesterday and
Today
Today
Pre
drainage
Flow Pattern: Today and
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Today
Re-plumbing the System
CERP Approach to Restoration
Operable
Active management
Large footprint per
project
The Northern Everglades
Kissimmee
Region
Lake
Okeechobee
Region
Caloosahatchee
Region
St Lucie
Region
N E:Water Management Objectives
Green Infrastructure Defined as …
Dispersed water
management:
Shallow water
distributed across
landscape using
relatively simple
structures.
Passive
Not operable for
most part
The Northern Everglades
Kissimmee
Region
Lake
Okeechobee
Region
Caloosahatchee
Region
St Lucie
Region
The NE Landscape
Open range
Ranching as a businesses
Multiple income sources
Water on Ranchlands in NE
Watershed
 Ranchers deal with
water all the time
 Switch from “drainers”
to “retainers”
 Dispersed Water
Management:
Complements the
CERP
 Immediacy
 Reversibility
 Phasing
Demonstrating DWM
FRESP
FRESP Partners
Participating Florida Ranchers
Payment for Environmental Services Program:
FRESP Design Principles
Extensive working ranch landscapes, relying
on modification to existing water management
structures and strategies, will enter into fixed
term contracts to provide documented water
related environmental services, above and
beyond regulatory requirements creating a
new profit center for ranch enterprises.
FRESP: Pilot Sites and Process
 Could ranchers provide
water retention service?
 Construction / Operations
 Measurement for documentation
 What would a PES
program with buyers and
rancher-sellers require?
 Define buyer
$ 7 million
6 years
10,000 acres
8 Ranches
 Contract design
 Service verification
 Price making
 Regulatory compliance
Ranches Can Retain Water
Ditch networks
…
Program can estimate water retention
at the ranch parcel level .
Program Can Verify Water Retention at
the Parcel Scale
Annual Payment
NE PES Program
 First Solicitation
 14 proposals/8
projects selected
providing 4,800 acft/yr retention
 Contract obligation of
$7 mil over 10 yr life
of contract
 Price per ac-ft ranged
from $99 to $158
 Preparing for 2nd
solicitation – April 2012
DWM Difference: Watershed Scale
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Demonstrating DWM Program
Worth
Administrative Feasibility
 Use of emerging
technology for
instrumentation and
data transmission
 Data management
 Assurance of
compliance with
multiple contracts
 Real time reaction
and enforcement
Green infrastructure has to be
more than a slogan
• Need to demonstrate cost
effectiveness at all scales
• Need to demonstrate
administrative feasibility at all
scales
Contact Information
Leonard Shabman
shabman@rff.org
Sarah Lynch
sarah.lynch@wwfus.org
www.fresp.org