Cotton Creek Road

Cotton Creek Road Mitigation Area / Pensacola Bay System Watershed / Escambia County / Legacy ID – UWRMP 5.2.15

This mitigation project enhanced the hydrology of a forested wetland slough near Cotton Creek by installation of one low-water-crossing (installed July, 2015).  A raised access road (Cotton Creek Road), with no culverts, had blocked this slough and interfered with natural hydrologic flows and moisture regimes.  Long-term, this altered hydrologic regime had the potential to interfere with seedling recruitment, cause early die-off of canopy trees, and lead to conversion to a non-forested system.  Removal of this blockage enhanced the existing forested wetland and will deter long-term conversion.  This mitigation was implemented to offset wetland impacts associated with replacement of the Brickyard Road Bridge at Molino.

Cotton Creek Mitigation Plan

SAJ-2013-00295 NW-AWP (5/31/2013)

FDEP Permit Exemption (5/13/2015)