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Scientists and Divers Urgently Petition State of Florida and the Federal
Government to Save NORTH AMERICA'S last HEALTHY near shore CORAL Reefs
January 5, 2003

TO:

Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida

Charlie Crist, Florida Attorney General

Tom Gallagher, Chief Financial Officer

Charles H. Bronson, Agriculture Commissioner

David Struhs, Department of Environment Protection, Florida

Broward County Commissioners

Jim Naugle, Mayor, City of Fort Lauderdale

Oliver Parker, Mayor, Lauderdale by the Sea

Billy Causey, Superintendent, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Dan Basta, Director, National Marine Sanctuaries Program, NOAA

Roger Griffis, U.S.  Coral Reef Task Force

All Members, U.S.  Coral Reef Task Force:

Secretary of Commerce

Secretary of Interior

Environmental Protection Agency

National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA

We, the undersigned coral reef scientists, conservationists, divers,
fishermen, and other concerned members of the public, urgently appeal to
the US Government, the State of Florida, and Governor Bush to
immediately designate the remaining healthy shallow coral reef in
Broward County as Outstanding Florida Waters, establish a management
plan, and provide the same level of protection as the Florida Keys
National Marine Sanctuary.

This coral reef (lying between Lauderdale by the Sea to Port Everglades
in Broward County, Florida) is the last North American near shore coral
reef still in excellent condition. It is threatened with imminent
destruction by the effects of unnecessary dredging and beach filling.

The Segment II permit (Permit Authorization #0163435-005-JC) that will
allow the destruction of this reef is awaiting a final decision by
Governor Bush and the Cabinet of the State of Florida. A hearing is
scheduled for January 28 2003. We call for the permit to be denied
because it violates Executive Order 13089 (Coral Reef Protection), and
common sense.

These Florida coral reefs are a priceless national treasure. They are
the only healthy coral reefs in North America that one can swim to from
the beach, and the only coral reefs directly in front of a major urban
area. They represent the only place in Florida that corals and reef fish
can spread northward if global warming continues.

The Broward County reefs that lie closest to the beach are several miles
in length and, amazingly, are covered with between thirty and forty
percent of healthy, live coral, including many ancient corals up to a
thousand years old. They contain the largest forest of Staghorn coral (a
rare and rapidly vanishing species) known to remain in the entire
Caribbean reef region. Dense fish populations pack these reefs which are
essential habitat for juvenile fish. This nursery will surely perish
without protection.

These particular reefs are the last known of the once abundant shallow
reefs that bordered Southeast Florida. Only by accident have they
survived. They lie in front of the only large remaining stretch of
Southeast Florida beach not already filled with dredged materials, which
killed most of the other shallow reefs in the region.

Those old reefs were equally magnificent. But they remain only in the
memories of the oldest divers who watched them suffocate and die when
dredged mud and sediment washed over them. No assessment studies were
done until almost all of these old corals had been killed. It is
unthinkable that the State could allow history to repeat itself by
permitting the destruction of the last remaining stretch of healthy near
shore Florida corals.

Incredibly, these threatened Broward County reefs were unknown to
scientists until very recently, even though they have been the crown
jewel for local divers and fishermen for many years. Because they were
unknown, they were never identified as a coral reef habitat, or
designated as Outstanding Florida Waters, and have no protected status
of any kind.

This proposed dredging project is completely unnecessary. There is
little beach erosion taking place in the stretch still protected by the
living reef. By contrast, in all the areas where reefs were killed by
previous beach dredge-filling projects, there is strong beach erosion.
Those beaches can be more cheaply re-nourished by bypassing sand blocked
by jetties from reaching them than by dredging the last available
offshore sand supplies. Dredge fill material will directly bury some
13.6 acres of near shore hard-bottom that are feeding areas for
endangered Green Turtles.

Supporters of dredging point out that the dredge material will not be
deliberately dumped directly on the reefs. But because the reefs lie in
only 10-15 feet of water, 150 to 500 yards offshore, the pipelines from
the dredge boats must cross them to get to the beach. There have been
repeated and inevitable accidents in previous dredging projects as
barges, anchors, chains, pipes, and suction pumps have damaged corals,
despite the best of intentions. The mitigation plan requires 600 ton
capacity barges with a loaded draft of approximately 7 feet to go over
the reef to dump 152 million pounds of 4 to 6 foot boulders in the surf
zone near the inner edge of the reef.

Worse, the reefs will inevitably be smothered by mud plumes from the
dredged material that will be re-suspended by wave action for years to
come. Coral reefs are the most sediment-sensitive of all marine
ecosystems. Staghorn corals, which lie closest to the beach, are the
most sensitive species. The turbidity standard that is being applied (29
NTU) in the monitoring plan for this project is many times too high for
these corals.

This dredging project is as economically wasteful as it is
environmentally irresponsible. According to the recent (2001) NOAA
Socioeconomic Study of Reefs in Southeast Florida, Broward County earns
some 2.069 billion dollars per year from reef related diving, fishing,
and other marine activities that employ 36,000 people. This is more than
any other Florida county including Monroe County (the Keys) and Dade
County (Miami). Each dollar spent to destroy these reefs will eliminate
many more dollars per year of income to the people of Broward County.

Broward County is the shore diving capital of the continental United
States and the only place where healthy coral reefs can be dived or
snorkeled to from land. To allow this marvelous marine habitat to be
destroyed is unconscionable. To destroy it in the name of widening a
beach that is not eroding is like burning down the last Giant Redwood
forest in the process of roadside weed clearance.

Therefore, we appeal for immediate emergency action to save North
America's last healthy near shore coral reefs from imminent threatened
destruction. We call on all responsible Florida State, County, and
Municipal officials to reject the Segment II dredging permit application
and to fulfill the responsibilities designated under Coral Reef
Protection Executive Order 13089 to protect all coral reefs in US waters.

Further, we call on all responsible State and Federal Agencies to
immediately begin the process to designate these reefs as Outstanding
Florida Waters, to establish a proper management plan to ensure that
they receive the same level of protection as those in the Florida Keys
National Marine Sanctuary, and to save them forever as a unique part of
the natural heritage of the American people.

For more information see the Cry of the Water and Global Coral Reef
Alliance report. "Broward County Reef Threatened by Dredging" at
www.cryofthewater.org and at www.globalcoral.org. For a video showing
the incredible corals and fish of this area contact: Dan and Stephanie
Clark at Reefteam2 at yahoo.com or 954-753-9737 or 954-298-9737 For more
information on the scientific and environmental condition of these reefs
contact Dr. Thomas Goreau at goreau at bestweb.net or 617-864-0433.

SIGNATORIES:
Cry of the Water
Dan Clark, President, Cry of the Water, P.O. Box 8143, Coral Springs, FL
33075

Stephanie Clark, Treasurer, Cry of the Water, P.O. Box 8143, Coral
Springs, FL 33075
Global Coral Reef Alliance
Thomas J. Goreau, Ph.D., President, Global Coral Reef Alliance, 37
Pleasant St., Cambridge, MA 02139

Jeff Houdret, Global Coral Reef Alliance, 324 Richardson Rd., Lansdale
PA 19446

James Cervino, Global Coral Reef Alliance, 117-20 5th Ave., College
Point NY 11356
Sierra Club National
Dave Raney, Chair, Sierra Club National Marine Wildlife and Habitat
Committee, 1621 Mikahala Way, Honolulu, HI 96816-3321
Sierra Club Florida and Broward
Richard Winn, Florida Sierra, Marine Issues Committee, 6305 S. A1A Hwy
#133, Melbourne Bech, FL  32951

Harold Hancock, Chair, Sierra Club Broward, 1500 SE 15th Street, Ft.
Lauderdale, FL  33316
Public Employees for Environmental ResponsibilityDan Meyer, General Counsel
Chuck Sultzman, Marine Biology Consultant
Save Our Shoreline
Brenda Lee Chalifour, Esq., Pro Bono for Save Our Shoreline, Inc.
Reef Relief
Dee Von Quirolo, Executive Director of Reef Relief, Key West, FL
Greater Ft. Lauderdale Dive Association  Jeff Torode, President, Greater
Ft. Lauderdale Dive Association, P.O. Box 460216Ft. Lauderdale, FL
33346
                                          PADI
Bob Harris, PADI  (Professional Association of Dive Instructors)
PADI Project AwareKristin Vallette, PADI Project Aware
Others

Les Kaufman, Boston University Marine Program, 5 Cummington Street,
Boston, MA  02215

Brian Lapointe, Senior Scientist, Division of Marine Science, Harbor
Branch Oceanographic Institution, 5600 US 1 North, Ft. Pierce, Fl  34946

Phillip Dustan, Ph.D., Department of Biology, College of Charleston,
Charleston, SC  29424

Heinrich Holland, H.C. Dudley Research Professor, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA

James S. Wang, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard
University, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA  02138

Please send names, affiliations, emails, and addresses of signatories to
Reefteam2 at yahoo.com, or Cry of the Water, P.O. Box 8143 Coral Springs,
FL 33075

Cry of the Water,  P.O. Box 8143 Coral Springs, FL 33075
reefteam2 at yahoo.com visit our web site at cryofthewater.org

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Scientists and Divers Urgently
Petition State of Florida and the Federal Government to Save NORTH
AMERICA'S last HEALTHY near shore CORAL Reefs<?xml:namespace prefix = o
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January 5, 2003<o:p></o:p>
TO: <o:p></o:p>
Jeb Bush,
Governor of Florida<o:p></o:p>
Charlie Crist,
Florida Attorney General<o:p></o:p>
Tom Gallagher,
Chief Financial Officer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p>
Charles H.
Bronson, Agriculture Commissioner<o:p></o:p>
David Struhs,
Department of Environment Protection, Florida<o:p></o:p>
Broward County
Commissioners <o:p></o:p>
Jim Naugle,
Mayor, City of Fort Lauderdale<o:p></o:p>
Oliver Parker,
Mayor, Lauderdale by the Sea<o:p></o:p>
Billy Causey,
Superintendent, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary<o:p></o:p>
Dan Basta,
Director, National Marine Sanctuaries Program, NOAA<o:p></o:p>
Roger Griffis,
U.S.&nbsp; Coral Reef Task
Force<o:p></o:p>
All Members,
U.S.&nbsp; Coral Reef Task
Force<DEL cite="mailto:Compaq"
datetime="2003-01-06T16:09">:</DEL><o:p></o:p>
Secretary of
Commerce<o:p></o:p>
Secretary of Interior<o:p></o:p>
Environmental
Protection Agency<o:p></o:p>
National Marine
Fisheries Service<o:p></o:p>
NOAA
We, the undersigned coral reef
scientists, conservationists, divers, fishermen, and other concerned
members of the public, urgently appeal to the US Government, the State
of Florida, and Governor Bush to immediately designate the remaining
healthy shallow coral reef in Broward County as Outstanding Florida
Waters, establish a management plan, and provide the same level of
protection as the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
This coral reef (lying between Lauderdale by the Sea to Port
Everglades in Broward County, Florida) is the last North American near
shore coral reef still in excellent condition. It is threatened with
imminent destruction by the effects of unnecessary dredging and beach
filling.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
The Segment II permit (Permit Authorization #0163435-005-JC)
that will allow the destruction of this reef is awaiting a final
decision by Governor Bush and the Cabinet of the State of Florida. A
hearing is scheduled for January 28 2003. We call for the permit to
be denied because it violates Executive Order 13089 (Coral Reef
Protection), and common sense.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
These Florida coral reefs are a priceless national treasure.
They are the only healthy coral reefs in North America that one can swim
to from the beach, and the only coral reefs directly in front of a major
urban area. They represent the only place in Florida that corals and
reef fish can spread northward if global warming continues.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
The Broward County reefs that lie closest to the beach are
several miles in length and, amazingly, are covered with between thirty
and forty percent of healthy, live coral, including many ancient corals
up to a thousand years old. They contain the largest forest of Staghorn
coral (a rare and rapidly vanishing species) known to remain in the
entire Caribbean reef region. Dense fish populations pack these reefs
which are essential habitat for juvenile fish. This nursery will surely
perish without protection.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
These particular reefs are the last known of the once
abundant shallow reefs that bordered Southeast Florida. Only by accident
have they survived. They lie in front of the only large remaining
stretch of Southeast Florida beach not already filled with dredged
materials, which killed most of the other shallow reefs in the
region.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
Those old reefs were equally magnificent. But they remain
only in the memories of the oldest divers who watched them suffocate and
die when dredged mud and sediment washed over them. No assessment
studies were done until almost all of these old corals had been killed.
It is unthinkable that the State could allow history to repeat itself by
permitting the destruction of the last remaining stretch of healthy near
shore Florida corals.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
Incredibly, these threatened Broward County reefs were
unknown to scientists until very recently, even though they have been
the crown jewel for local divers and fishermen for many years. Because
they were unknown, they were never identified as a coral reef habitat,
or designated as Outstanding Florida Waters, and have no protected
status of any kind.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
This proposed dredging project is completely unnecessary.
There is little beach erosion taking place in the stretch still
protected by the living reef. By contrast, in all the areas where reefs
were killed by previous beach dredge-filling projects, there is strong
beach erosion. Those beaches can be more cheaply re-nourished by
bypassing sand blocked by jetties from reaching them than by dredging
the last available offshore sand supplies. Dredge fill material will
directly bury some 13.6 acres of near shore hard-bottom that are feeding
areas for endangered Green Turtles.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
Supporters of dredging point out that the dredge material
will not be deliberately dumped directly on the reefs. But because the
reefs lie in only 10-15 feet of water, 150 to 500 yards offshore, the
pipelines from the dredge boats must cross them to get to the beach.
There have been repeated and inevitable accidents in previous dredging
projects as barges, anchors, chains, pipes, and suction pumps have
damaged corals, despite the best of intentions. The mitigation plan
requires 600 ton capacity barges with a loaded draft of approximately 7
feet to go over the reef to dump 152 million pounds of 4 to 6 foot
boulders in the surf zone near the inner edge of the
reef.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
Worse, the reefs will inevitably be smothered by mud plumes
from the dredged material that will be re-suspended by wave action for
years to come. Coral reefs are the most sediment-sensitive of all marine
ecosystems. Staghorn corals, which lie closest to the beach, are the
most sensitive species. The turbidity standard that is being applied (29
NTU) in the monitoring plan for this project is many times too high for
these corals.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
This dredging project is as economically wasteful as it is
environmentally irresponsible. According to the recent (2001) NOAA
Socioeconomic Study of Reefs in Southeast Florida, Broward County earns
some 2.069 billion dollars per year from reef related diving, fishing,
and other marine activities that employ 36,000 people. This is more than
any other Florida county including Monroe County (the Keys) and Dade
County (Miami). Each dollar spent to destroy these reefs will eliminate
many more dollars per year of income to the people of Broward
County.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
Broward County is the shore diving capital of the continental
United States and the only place where healthy coral reefs can be dived
or snorkeled to from land. To allow this marvelous marine habitat to be
destroyed is unconscionable. To destroy it in the name of widening a
beach that is not eroding is like burning down the last Giant Redwood
forest in the process of roadside weed clearance.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
Therefore, we appeal for immediate emergency action to save
North America's last healthy near shore coral reefs from imminent
threatened destruction. We call on all responsible Florida State,
County, and Municipal officials to reject the Segment II dredging permit
application and to fulfill the responsibilities designated under
Coral Reef Protection Executive Order 13089 to protect all coral reefs
in US waters.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p>
Further, we call on all responsible State and Federal
Agencies to immediately begin the process to designate these reefs as
Outstanding Florida Waters, to establish a proper management plan to
ensure that they receive the same level of protection as those in the
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, and to save them forever as a
unique part of the natural heritage of the American people. 
For more information see the Cry of the Water and Global
Coral Reef Alliance report. "Broward County Reef Threatened by Dredging"
at <A href="http://www.cryofthewater.org/">www.cryofthewater.org</A> and
at <A href="http://www.globalcoral.org/">www.globalcoral.org</A>. For a
video showing the incredible corals and fish of this area contact: Dan
and Stephanie Clark at <A
href="mailto:Reefteam2 at yahoo.com">Reefteam2 at yahoo.com</A>&nbsp;or
954-753-9737 or 954-298-9737 For more information on the scientific and
environmental condition of these reefs contact Dr. Thomas Goreau at <A
href="mailto:goreau at bestweb.net">goreau at bestweb.net</A> or 617-864-0433.
<o:p></o:p>
SIGNATORIES:<o:p></o:p>
<H1>Cry of the Water</H1>
Dan Clark, President, Cry of the Water, P.O. Box 8143, Coral
Springs, FL 33075<o:p></o:p>
Stephanie Clark, Treasurer, Cry of the Water, P.O. Box 8143,
Coral Springs, FL 33075<o:p></o:p>
<H1>Global Coral Reef Alliance</H1>
Thomas J. Goreau, Ph.D., President, Global Coral Reef
Alliance, 37 Pleasant St., Cambridge, MA 02139<o:p></o:p>
Jeff Houdret, Global Coral Reef Alliance, 324 Richardson Rd.,
Lansdale PA 19446<o:p></o:p>
James Cervino, Global Coral Reef Alliance, 117-20
5th Ave., College Point NY 11356<o:p></o:p>
<H1>Sierra Club National </H1>
Dave Raney, Chair, Sierra Club National Marine Wildlife and
Habitat Committee, 1621 Mikahala Way, Honolulu, HI 96816-3321
<H1>Sierra Club Florida and Broward</H1>
Richard Winn, Florida Sierra, Marine Issues Committee, 6305
S. A1A Hwy #133, Melbourne Bech, FL&nbsp; 32951
Harold Hancock, Chair, Sierra Club Broward, 1500 SE 15th
Street, Ft. Lauderdale, FL&nbsp; 33316<o:p></o:p>
<H1>Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility</H1>
<H1>Dan Meyer, General
Counsel<o:p></o:p></H1>
Chuck Sultzman, Marine
Biology Consultant
<H1>Save Our Shoreline</H1>
Brenda Lee Chalifour, Esq., Pro Bono for Save Our Shoreline,
Inc.<o:p></o:p>
<H1>Reef Relief</H1>
Dee Von Quirolo, Executive Director of Reef Relief, Key West,
FL<o:p></o:p>
<H1 style="mso-list: none; mso-list-ins: Unknown 19000000T0000">Greater Ft. Lauderdale Dive Association&nbsp; </H1>
<H1>Jeff Torode, President, Greater Ft.
Lauderdale Dive Association, P.O. Box 460216Ft. Lauderdale, FL&nbsp;
33346&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:

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<H1><FONT size=2><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes">&nbsp;</SPAN><B><U><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY:
Helvetica">PADI<o:p></o:p></SPAN></U></B></FONT></H1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY:
Helvetica">Bob Harris, PADI<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</SPAN>(Professional Association of Dive Instructors)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<H1 style="mso-list: none; mso-list-ins: Unknown 19000000T0000"><FONT
size=2><U>PADI Project Aware</U></FONT></H1>
<H1><FONT size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION:
none; text-underline: none">Kristin Vallette, PADI Project
Aware</SPAN>&nbsp;</FONT></H1>
<P><U><STRONG>Others</STRONG></U></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY:
Helvetica">Les Kaufman, Boston University Marine Program, 5 Cummington
Street, Boston, MA<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</SPAN>02215<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY:
Helvetica">Brian Lapointe, Senior Scientist, Division of Marine Science,
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, 5600 US 1 North, Ft. Pierce,
Fl<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>34946<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY:
Helvetica">Phillip Dustan, Ph.D., Department of Biology, College of
Charleston, Charleston, SC<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
</SPAN>29424</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY:
Helvetica"></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Heinrich Holland,
H.C. Dudley Research Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY:
Helvetica">James S. Wang, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard
University, Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>02138<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY:
Helvetica">Please send names, affiliations, emails, and addresses of
signatories to <A href="mailto:Reefteam2 at yahoo.com"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Reefteam2 at yahoo.com</SPAN></A>,
or </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">Cry of the Water, P.O.
Box 8143 Coral Springs, FL 33075<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><BR><BR>Cry of the
Water,  P.O. Box 8143 Coral Springs, FL 33075 <A
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