{
  "projectDescription": "Through funding from NOAA’s Restoration Center, in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Pinellas County Environmental Foundation, and others, volunteers constructed a bridge to restore circulation to the back bays of Mullet Key in Ft. DeSoto Park, Florida. Tidal flow between bays in the Fort DeSoto Park Aquatic Habitat Management Area in Pinellas County were severed during the dredging and filling activities that occurred in the late 1950s.  Summertime temperatures become extremely elevated in these areas leading to very low dissolved oxygen levels as well as severe seagrass stress. Restored circulation has improved water quality healthier essential fish habitat. Fish and crabs had migrated into the area within a few days.",
  "program": "Community-based Restoration",
  "name": "Ft. DeSoto Tidal Flow Restoration",
  "id": "416",
  "state": "Florida",
  "state_abbr": "FL",
  "region": "SER - Southeast",
  "constructionStartDate": "2001-05-31 00:00:00.0",
  "nepaStatus": "Complete",
  "fedLeverage": "0",
  "nonFedLeverage": "375000",
  "accompReportStatus": "Completed",
  "accompReportDate": "2005-03-30 00:00:00.0",
  "accompAcresMilesFlag": "Y",
  "accompVolFlag": "Y",
  "accompDebrisFlag": "N",
  "status": "Completed",
  "locations": [
    {
      "latitude": "27.6225",
      "longitude": "-82.7439",
      "county": "Pinellas County",
      "city": "Tierra Verde",
      "congDistrict": "13",
      "riverBasin": "Tampa Bay",
      "huc": "31002060700"
    }
  ],
  "habitats": [
    {
      "name": "softbottom mud/sand",
      "fiscalYear": "2005",
      "actAcresRehabCnt": "189"
    },
    {
      "name": "mangrove",
      "fiscalYear": "2005",
      "actAcresRehabCnt": "31"
    },
    {
      "name": "submerged aquatic vegetation",
      "fiscalYear": "2005",
      "actAcresReestablishCnt": "80",
      "actAcresRehabCnt": "840"
    },
    {
      "name": "upland"
    },
    {
      "name": "tidal wetland"
    }
  ],
  "species": [
    {
      "species": "testudinum",
      "genus": "Thalassia",
      "commonName": "Grass, turtle",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    },
    {
      "species": "wrightii",
      "genus": "Halodule",
      "commonName": "Shoalgrass",
      "nmfsManagedFlag": "N"
    }
  ],
  "partners": [
    {
      "name": "Gulf of America Program",
      "fedAgency": "US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)"
    },
    {
      "name": "US Environmental Protection Agency",
      "fedAgency": "US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tampa Bay Estuary Program",
      "fedAgency": "US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Southwest Florida Water Management District"
    },
    {
      "name": "Florida Department of Community Affairs"
    }
  ],
  "strategies": [
    {
      "name": "Hydrologic Restoration",
      "primaryFlag": "Y"
    }
  ],
  "photos": [
    {
      "id": "3178",
      "name": "3178_F13205_ftdesotoded2.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "3",
      "caption": "Restoration Partners admire an artist's rendering of the new bridge that will restore tidal circulation at the Ft. DeSoto project site.",
      "date": "2/1/2004",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "3177",
      "name": "3177_F14090_ftdesotoded1.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "4",
      "caption": "Pinellas County Commissioner Robert Stewart addresses restoration partners at the Ft. DeSoto bridge dedication ceremony.",
      "date": "2/1/2004",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "3303",
      "name": "3303_F13138_Desotodye.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "2",
      "caption": "Non-toxic dye is used to monitor water flow between the two bays.",
      "credit": "NOAA",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    },
    {
      "id": "3304",
      "name": "3304_F21867_Desotobridge.jpg",
      "webpageNumber": "1",
      "caption": "Completed bridge - restoring tidal flow through the causeway.",
      "credit": "NOAA",
      "imageType": "Project Photo",
      "feature": "N"
    }
  ],
  "volunteers": [
    {
      "count": "10",
      "hours": "200.0"
    }
  ],
  "techniques": [
    {
      "name": "Planting"
    },
    {
      "name": "Berm/dike removal"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tide gate modification (including replacement)"
    }
  ],
  "monitoring": [
    {
      "monitorResultId": "17B975ED-1402-F111-8406-001DD80008CC",
      "tier1Flag": "N"
    }
  ],
  "funding": [
    {
      "mechanism": "National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Pinellas",
      "activityType": "Restoration",
      "fyAwarded": "2001",
      "noaaContribution": "250,000.0",
      "noaaFundingFlag": "N",
      "otherNonFedContribution": "0.0",
      "partnerContribution": "0.0",
      "stateContribution": "0.0",
      "sourceProgram": "DA - Directed Appropriations",
      "partner": {
        "name": "Pinellas County"
      }
    },
    {
      "mechanism": "NOAA Restoration Center",
      "activityType": "Restoration",
      "fyAwarded": "2001",
      "noaaContribution": "75,000.0",
      "noaaFundingFlag": "N",
      "otherNonFedContribution": "0.0",
      "partnerContribution": "0.0",
      "stateContribution": "0.0",
      "sourceProgram": "CRP - Community-based Restoration Program",
      "partner": {
        "name": "Pinellas County"
      }
    }
  ]
}