Year in Review: BP money’s impact begins to trickle in
- December 24, 2014
- / Reggie Dogan
- / community-dashboard
The Deepwater Horizon disaster was in April 2010, and now more than four years later, the picture of what “BP money” pot began to clarify.
There are several rounds of funding and several categories of money that come from what is often lumped together as “BP money.”
— One pot of money comes from the Natural Resources Damage Assessment process. Funding for restoration projects from this source has included $18 million to bring a fish hatchery and research facility for Florida Fish and WIldlife Commission to Bruce Beach in downtown Pensacola. See the other projects funded in that round of money here.
— The restoration of Bayou Chico is getting a big boost from another pot of BP-related money. Some $11 million is coming to Escambia County specifically to help rehabilitate the bayou, which historically has been one of the most polluted bodies of water in the state of Florida. There is hope that that could be just the beginning of a serious effort to dredge the bayou and help return it to health.
— Several projects also are in the works for the Pensacola Bay watershed as well.
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