If you’re looking at watefront houses and thinking about extending the dock or changing the dock then you may have heard mention of the need for a sea grass survey. What’s that?
For starters, it’s not JUST a survey of sea grass. It’s a survey, done by a professional engineer, of ALL the “Submerged Aquatic Vegitation”. They, the engineer or his employee, will literally snorkle around the area in question and map out any submerged aquatic vegitation (A/K/A sea grass). These surveys are used when applying for vertain permits and can only be done at certain times of the year. The below link is to the FDEP document
https://floridadep.gov/sites/default/files/SAVMonitoringPlanImpacts_12082020-508Compliant_0.pdf
Note that a “bethnic” survey takes this one step further by not only mapping out the submerged aquatic vegitation but ALL the “benthic” resources in a body of water, including things like coral, fish, or any other living things.
