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Water Resources Projects -
Modeling/TMDL/Watershed Management
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Client
Southwest Florida Water Management District
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Location
Pinellas County, Florida
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Key BCI Staff
Kenneth Ying, PhD
John Kiefer, PE, PWS
Mark Schwartz, PE, CFM
Yonglang Li, PhD
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Project Costs
$200,000
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Start Date
March 2007
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Completion Date
Ongoing
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Lake Tarpon Outfall Canal
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Scope
 As part of our continuing services contract with the Southwest Florida Water Management District (SWFWMD), BCI is conceptualizing a retrofit design approach to stabilize and facilitate a coastal marsh/tidal creek restoration plan for the Lake Tarpon Outfall Canal (LTOC).
The LTOC is an artificial connection from Lake Tarpon to Tampa Bay designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the late 1960s as part of a major flood control project. The Canal has had a history of chronic bank erosion problems and some impacted coastal wetlands.
BCI was asked by the District to use our knowledge and experience with coastal hydrodynamic modeling, sediment transport, sediment management, wetland restoration, and geotechnical engineering to design an improved canal system for retrofit. BCI has completed the first phase of the project and will continue the evaluation of coastal erosion near the downstream reach of the LTOC.
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