Tampa Bay Mitigation Bank is found in the southern partition of Hillsborough County, Florida. The bank site is roughly 161 sections of land and furnishes both saltwater and freshwater moderation credits in the Tampa Bay Basin. The TBMB site comprises of 161.2 sections of land encompassing the headwaters of Andrews Creek, on the southeast divide of the landmass between Little Cockroach Bay and Cockroach Bay, east of the southern divide of the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s (SWFWMD) Cockroach Bay Habitat Restoration Project in southeastern Hillsborough County, Florida

Tampa Bay Mitigation Bank may be utilized by both private and open customers for infrastructures, base, roadway changes, and different ventures inside the waterfront partitions of Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Manatee Counties. Advanced by Birkitt Environmental Services, Inc., Tampa Bay Mitigation Bank was composed using a recovered shell mining territory found on the Cockroach Bay Peninsula in the prompt vicinity of the Hillsborough County Cockroach Bay Habitat Restoration Project.

RESTORATION AND ENHANCEMENT PLAN

The bank incorporates the formation of saltwater and freshwater wetlands on earlier farming grounds. The bank will incorporate improvement of Andrew’s Creek, which empties to Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserve and restoration of local upland natural surroundings encompassing the wetlands. This wetlands creation and restoration furnishes huge natural and water value profits to Cockroach Bay and the Tampa Bay Estuary.

An essential component of the TBMB is the upgrade of Andrews Creek and making of tidal tributaries through elevational conformity permitting tidal submersion of exhumed wetland sinks through Andrews Creek. Give or take 40.0 sections of land of flat and elevated saltmarsh mixed with mangroves will be secured through red mangrove (Rhizophora ruin) planting and recruitment, and planting saltmarsh cordgrass (Spartina patens), saltmeadow cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora), seashore paspalum (Paspalum distichum), saltwort (Batis maritima), and glasswort (Salicornia virginica) to quicken saltmarsh foundation (Myers and Ewel 1994).

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