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FPL Bobwhite-Manatee Transmission Line Project

Created By: Megan Galloway 10/10/2024

UWF GIS 5050/L

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Project Problem

  • While determining the best route, the Bobwhite Transmission Line project needs to consider how pre-existing features in the community will be affected by the new transmission line.

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  • Conservation Land
  • Wetlands
  • homes
  • Parcels
  • Schools

Project Objectives

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Why GIS?

  • Completes complicated task
  • Easier for the viewer to understand
  • Takes ideas and makes them presentable

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Data Required

Data

Source

Study Area

UWF

Transmission Line

UWF

Transmission Buffer

created

Sarasota County Boundary

U.S. Census Bureau

Manatee County Boundary

U.S. Census Bureau

Conservation Land

Florida Natural Areas Inventory

National Wetland Inventory

National Wetland Inventory

Homes

created

Sarasota Parcels

UWF

Manatee Parcels

UWF

Sarasota Schools

Florida Department of Education

Manatee School

Florida Department of Education

Major Roads

U.S. Transportation

Aerials

Labins.org

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Background of Study Area

  • Location- Sarasota County and Manatee County Florida
  • 1,275 alternatives
  • Follows roads and property lines
  • Feasible coast
  • crosses the Manatee River at an existing bridge.
  • Study Area: 133, 707 Acers
  • Transmission Line: 6,566 Acers

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Data Used:

Florida Counties

Manatee County

Sarasota County

Major Roads

Study Area

Transmission Line

Tools:

Project

Export Data

Symbolize Unique Fields

Clip

Labels

Essential Map Elements

Calculate Geometry

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Conservation Land Study Area

Data Used:

-Study Area

- Conservation Lands

Tools:

  • Clip

- Calculate geometry

  • Symbolize by unique values
    • Name and acers

Name

Acers

RYE WILDERNESS PARK

683

OLD MIAKKA - O'NEIL PROPERTY

132

LITTLE MANATEE RIVER (SWFWMD)

817

LAKE MANATEE STATE PARK

549

LAKE MANATEE LOWER WATERSHED CONSERVATION EASEMENT

25

LAKE MANATEE LOWER WATERSHED

5795

HERITAGE RANCH CONSERVATION EASEMENT

1972

GUM SLOUGH TNC CONSERVATION EASEMENT

224

BEKER

197

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Total: 10,394 acers

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Conservation Land Intersecting Transmission Line

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Data Used

  • Transmission Line
  • Conservation land

Tools

  • Intersect
  • Calculate geometry
  • Symbolize by unique vales
    • Name and acers

Name

Acers

HERITAGE RANCH CONSERVATION EASEMENT

91

LAKE MANATEE LOWER WATERSHED

10

LAKE MANATEE STATE PARK

63

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Total: 164 acers

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Wetlands and Uplands Study �Area

Tools

  • Calculate geometry
  • Symbolize by unique values
    • name

Data Used

- National Wetland Inventory

Name

Acers

Uplands

118,654

Wetlands

19,052

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Total: 137,706 acers

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Wetlands and Uplands �effected by Transmission Line

Date Used:

  • Transmission Line
  • National Wetland Inventory

Tools:

-intersect

-calculate geometry

-calculate field

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Homes within a Proximity of Transmission Line

Data used:

- Transmission Line

-Transmission Buffer

  • Aerials
  • Homes

Tools:

-Buffer

-heads-up digitizing

-symbolize unique values

-Inside transmission line or in the buffer

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Location

Count

Homes inside Transmission Line

22

Homes inside the 400ft Buffer

61

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Total: 83

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Parcels in Sarasota County and Manatee County �Effect by Transmission Line

Data Used:

  • Sarasota Parcels
  • Manatee Parcels
  • Transmission Line
  • Transmission Buffer

Tools Used

  • Select by Location
  • Export data

Location

Count

Sarasota- Transmission Line

30

Sarasota- Transmission Buffer

53

Manatee- Transmission Line

132

Manatee- Transmission Buffer

202

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Total- 417

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Schools within Sarasota County and �Manatee County

Data Used:

  • Sarasota Schools
  • Manatee Schools

Tool:

  • Download and cleanup
  • Table to table
  • Project
  • Create locator
  • Geocode table

Limitation

  • Geocoding did not do the university in Sarasota
    • Went back and added it

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Location

Amount

Manatee Schools

85

Sarasota Schools

66

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Total:151

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Schools within a Proximity of� Transmission Line

Data Used:

- Manatee Schools

- Sarasota Schools

  • Study Area

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Tools Used

- clip

Location

Count

Manatee Schools

5

Sarasota Schools

1

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Total-6

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Results

  • Conservation Lands-
    • In study area-10,394 Acers
    • Intersecting transmission Line- 164 Acers

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  • Wetlands and Uplands
    • In Study Area –
      • Wetlands- 19,052 Acers
      • Uplands- 118,654
    • Intersecting Transmission Line-
      • Wetlands- 14% or 914 Acers
      • Uplands- 86% or 5,652 Acers

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  • Homes
    • Homes in Transmission Line- 22
    • Homes in 400ft Buffer- 61

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  • Schools
  • In Manatee County- 85
  • In Sarasota County- 66
  • In Study Area-
  • - Manatee Schools- 5

- Sarasota Schools- 1

  • In Transmission Line or Transmission Line 400ft buffer- 0
  • Parcels
    • Sarasota Parcels in Transmission Line- 30
    • Sarasota Parcels in 400ft Buffer-53
    • Manatee Parcels in Transmission Line- 132
    • Manatee Parcels in 400ft Buffer- 202

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Conclusion

  • Feasible with circumstances
  • pros out way the cons
  • Other things to consider
    • Native habitats
    • Endangered animal’s habitats
    • Years to complete
    • Watershed

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Works Cited

  • FLP (2006) “BobWhite-Manatee Project” Sarsota, Florida https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WggurliIPThzJcAbMQekPKhlNsQxkd2f/view
  • Siegle,J. (2013). Construction on Bobwhite transmission line begins. Observer. https://www.yourobserver.com/news/2013/jun/26/construction-bobwhite-transmission-line-begins/