[Green] Turkey Creek Follow-Up

[jamesgrecni at gmail.com]

Thank you for that update, Rebecca.  Jim G.

 

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Subject: [Green] Turkey Creek Follow-Up

 

Hello, all,

 

After today's discussion, I looked up Turkey Creek and discovered that there
is a formal plan in place, money has been secured, and a contractor has been
selected. REALLY slow, but progress.

 

BTW, I misread: the watershed project covers 30,000 acres, not 300,000. 

 

Project Description <http://ltmcp.org/turkey-creek-watershed/>  from the
Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain

The implementation Plan
<http://ltmcp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/final.TurkeyCreek.WIP_.pdf> 

2015 grant
<https://www.nfwf.org/sites/default/files/gulf/Documents/ms-turkey%20creek-1
5.pdf>  from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

2018 presentation
<https://www.mdeq.ms.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Turkey-Creek-PPT-2.27.20
18.pdf>  by the MS Department of Environmental Quality

 

2019 brief progress report from the DEQ: Budget: $6.1 million total /
$1,442,000 expended through December 2019

Description: This project seeks to conserve important habitat and enhance
water quality in the 30,000- acre Turkey Creek watershed through habitat and
stream conservation and restoration. The Turkey Creek watershed encompasses
a mix of rural and urban land use areas in greater Gulfport and has
significant ecological and recreational value. However, the watershed faces
development pressures that threaten its ecological benefits. The project
will use fee simple land and easement acquisition, focused in the lower
reaches of the Turkey Creek watershed, to protect key wetland and riparian
habitats. Restoration on these and other previously protected lands will
include hydrologic restoration of wetlands, riparian buffers, invasive
species management, debris removal and stream bank stabilization. The
restoration efforts will maintain and improve water quality, and floodwater
storage capacity, and will enhance the hydrologic connectivity of Turkey
Creek to Bernard Bayou and the Back Bay of Biloxi.

Progress: The Land Trust of the Mississippi Coastal Plain (the Land Trust)
finalzed the baseline survey of properties along the creek.The Land Trust
continues to treat invasive species on properties currently owned by the
Land Trust along the creek. The Corps Network continues to the provide the
work crews to treat invasive species on the properties owned by the Land
Trust. USGS continues to maintain and monitor the water quality monitoring
station located in the creek.

 

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