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Resident public-comment letter

Challenge to the applicants’ RAI response

Author: William R. Nobles, Jr. · Application: 930235 / Permit 47575.002 · Type: resident advocacy and technical comment.

A detailed request that SWFWMD investigate unresolved acreage, wetland, floodway, hydrology, wildlife, contamination, planting, belowground-ecology, title, default, financial-assurance, and project-delivery issues before approval or credit release. This publication is not an agency finding, and website publication alone is not an official filing.

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Application 930235 / ERP 47575.002

Issuing body: SWFWMD · Type: public permit record · Status: incomplete as last verified.

Use for the current document list and application status. It is separate from withdrawn Applications 889588 and 907654.

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Application 907654 / ERP 47575.001

Issuing body: SWFWMD public permit viewer · Type: withdrawn individual mitigation-bank record · Retrieved archive: all 102 documents publicly listed in the viewer at retrieval.

This withdrawn design proposed substantial excavation, pond and ditch filling, wetland creation, material export, and a stated total of 79.57 potential credits. The displayed 13.86- and 65.72-credit components sum to 79.58; the one-hundredth difference may reflect rounding and should be reconciled. Those were proposals, not approvals, and must not be represented as the current design or SWFWMD’s complete internal file.

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Agency request

Request for Additional Information

Issuing body: SWFWMD · Application: 930235 · Type: RAI · Status: open in the reviewed record.

Use for the agency’s unresolved checklist, including wildlife, pond, and water-related requests.

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Applicant response

Partial RAI response

Issuing body: applicant filing in SWFWMD record · Application: 930235 · Type: partial response.

Statements remain applicant statements unless an agency adopts them. Its attached June 2025 FWC letter concerns the earlier withdrawn application.

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Applicant request

Time-extension request

Issuing body: applicant consultant filing in SWFWMD record · Application: 930235 · Type: extension request.

Records what the applicant requested and anticipated; it is not an agency decision or substantive approval.

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Latest applicant filing

Applicant RAI Response

Filing party: applicants and consultants · Application: 930235 · Type: applicant response.

The 121-page package is now before SWFWMD for review. Filing is not acceptance, completeness, or approval.

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Pinellas County Official Records · Instrument 2019338177

County waiver and release — limited to a 3.40-acre Exhibit A tract

Custodian: Pinellas County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller · Book/page: OR 20738/2541.

What the recorded instrument says: Pinellas County released specified management, maintenance, and treated-effluent-disposal rights only as to the 3.40-acre tract described in Exhibit A. It expressly says the waiver applies to that tract and not to the remainder of the Golf Course Property, and that the agreement remains effective on the balance, including continued acceptance of treated effluent.

The metes-and-bounds courses in Exhibit A also appear in Application 930235 title material as Parcel 3 (Fee Estate). That matching description is relevant to the current parcel, survey, utility, and easement reconciliation.

Important limitation: the instrument does not release the stated rights over the entire golf-course property. Matching description courses are not a title opinion, do not establish present ownership, and do not prove whether a later recorded instrument changed any right. The current title chain and complete governing agreement still control.

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Pinellas County Property Appraiser · current parcel pages

Both Tarpon Woods tax parcels — current assessor indexing

Folio 34-27-16-00000-140-0000: indexed to TARPON WOODS PROPERTIES LLC · Folio 34-27-16-00000-110-0400: indexed to TARPON WOODS PROPERTIES LLC.

Displayed deed field: both pages show AAAAA/AAAA for “Last Recorded Deed / Book-Page,” rather than a Clerk instrument number and official-record book/page.

Important limitation: Property Appraiser indexing is useful assessment evidence, not a Clerk deed citation, title opinion, surveyed boundary, or proof of authority to encumber each acre. The ownership display must be reconciled with the recorded instrument, current title commitment, survey, and conservation-easement documents.

Open folio 140-0000 (opens in a new tab) Open folio 110-0400 (opens in a new tab) Read the Property Appraiser disclaimer (opens in a new tab)
FDEP Nexus historical file · Facility PATS_127253

East of Tarpon Woods Boulevard — historical development and mitigation plans

Official index label: “EAST OF TARPON WOODS BLVD.” The scanned plans use the names Tarpon Woods Estates I, Ridgewood, and Woodridge Lakes and document development and mitigation planning in the broader Tarpon Woods area east of the boulevard.

Important limitations: our review did not locate either current golf-course folio—34-27-16-00000-140-0000 or 34-27-16-00000-110-0400—on the reviewed sheets. The plans identify different historical project names and parties. They are adjacent-area context, not proof of work on the present golf-course parcels, current ownership, current applicant conduct, a present wetland line, or a current mitigation-bank condition.

Open FDEP document index (opens in a new tab) Open official 1986 plans file (opens in a new tab) Read the plain-English history
FDEP Nexus historical monitoring file · Permit 521272533

Bridlewood at Tarpon Woods — 1987 wetland-fill permit and later mitigation monitoring

What the file identifies: FDEP permit 521272533 was issued May 29, 1987 and expired May 29, 1992 for 0.75 acre of wetland fill at “Bridlewood at Tarpon Woods.” The record names First Florida International as permittee, gives 800 Tarpon Woods Boulevard as its address, and required 1.46 acres of forested-wetland mitigation.

What the 1995 record reports: an August 3 FDEP memo says an inspection found less than half of the required mitigation area had been created and much of the created area was herbaceous. The file discusses an earlier warning and permit transfers; a separate memo states that Parkwood performed the development.

Important limitations: this historical record concerns a different project, permittee, and development history. It does not establish a defect on either current golf-course folio, misconduct by the current applicant, failure of the present mitigation-bank proposal, or current ecological conditions. The 1995 observations must not be projected onto today's property without current mapping and field evidence.

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FDEP current tank registry and historical agency file

Facility 8624510 — current tank-account status and the separate 1990–1991 record

Current registry: FDEP's DOPPLER cover report, run September 1, 2026 from data refreshed August 31, identifies “TARPON WOODS GOLF & TENNIS CLUB,” 1100 Tarpon Woods Boulevard, as a fuel-user/non-retail facility with status “OPEN.” It lists two 550-gallon aboveground tanks—vehicular diesel and unleaded gasoline—as “In Service,” plus three tanks as removed from the site. The current summary states “No Compliance Activity Data Found,” “No Open AOCs Found,” “No Open Violations Found,” “No Discharges Found,” and “No Property Owner Information Found.” “OPEN” is the storage-tank facility/account status, not an open contamination or enforcement case, and the report is not title evidence.

Historical file: an August 28, 1990 notification reports a diesel discharge discovered August 27 and detection through soil analysis/OVA-FID. A closure-report package received March 25, 1991 describes removal of a 2,000-gallon gasoline underground tank and a 3,000-gallon diesel underground tank, excavation of approximately 80 cubic yards of soil with elevated field-vapor readings at the diesel pit, laboratory soil results below detection limits, a gasoline-pit groundwater sample slightly above the then-state benzene target, and a later nondetect sample from one temporary monitoring well. Later correspondence in the package identified closure-report deficiencies.

Important limitations: the current DOPPLER fields do not erase or resolve the separate historical documents, and the historical documents do not override the current no-open-AOC/no-open-violation/no-discharge display. Together they do not establish present contamination, an open cleanup case, the current location of every tank, an agency no-further-action determination, or current ownership. The historical consultant report and current registry contain different historical tank inventories; they must be cited separately, not blended into one assumed inventory. They establish a site-specific history that a current Phase I, sampling design, soil-management plan, planting plan, and cost estimate should address.

Open current DOPPLER report (opens in a new tab) Open 1990 notification (opens in a new tab) Open 1991 closure-report package (opens in a new tab) Read the plain-English analysis
FDEP construction-stormwater record

FLR10BW24 — Tarpon Woods Drainage Improvements

Permittee in record: Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners · Address: 1100 Tarpon Woods Boulevard · Reported disturbed area: 3.73 acres · Receiving water: “Brooker Creek Channel A (tributary to Lake Tarpon).”

The current FDEP WAFR report lists the construction-general-permit record inactive from May 14, 2012 with the comment “Admin Terminated - Expired.”

Important limitation: this is a historical construction-stormwater record for County drainage work. It is not a current mitigation-bank permit, a current survey, proof of present hydrology, or proof that the earlier work was timely closed out. It is relevant baseline evidence of prior exact-address disturbance and the identified receiving-water path.

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FDEP construction-stormwater record

FLR10MM29 — Tarpon Woods - Drainage Improvements

Operator/applicant in record: David Nelson Construction Company · Project manager/signatory: Leigh Lilla · Address: 1100 Tarpon Woods Boulevard · Reported disturbed area: 4.1 acres · Receiving water: “BROOKER CREEK.”

The FDEP file includes a termination submission received February 1, 2017 and an acknowledgement dated February 10. The current WAFR report lists the facility inactive beginning February 1, 2017.

Important limitation: this historical construction-general-permit coverage is not a current mitigation-bank, section 401, hydrology, or Corps approval. It is relevant evidence of prior exact-address disturbance and a direct Brooker Creek receiving-water designation.

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FDEP statewide permitted-bank layer

Brooker Creek is not listed in the public layer of state-permitted mitigation banks

Custodian: FDEP · Dataset scope: banks permitted under section 373.4136, Florida Statutes, by FDEP or a water management district · Stated coverage: available data through August 2026.

What the fielded substring query showed: searches of bank name for Brooker or Tarpon and current permittee for Tarpon Woods returned no feature. An all-Pinellas County query returned one listed bank, North Shore Seagrass, permitted by SWFWMD and marked approved—not Brooker Creek.

Important limitation: this is a public layer of permitted banks, not a complete index of pending, incomplete, withdrawn, unissued, or informal matters. It does not decide Application 930235, establish that no FDEP correspondence exists, or replace the SWFWMD permit file. FDEP describes the map as illustrative and unsuitable for regulatory, engineering, or legal determinations.

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Pinellas County floodplain procedure

Floodplain Determination Appeal Standard Operating Guidelines

Issuing body: Pinellas County Public Works Department · Type: administrative guidance for revising regulatory flood studies and maps.

Why included: the procedure describes revised existing-conditions watershed modeling, applicant-funded independent professional-engineer peer review, iterative requests for information, public notice in specified circumstances, County acceptance, and FEMA LOMR steps when an effective FIRM changes. It supports rigorous floodway review; it is not itself a determination about the mitigation bank.

Access note: Save Tarpon Woods reviewed the County-issued PDF retained in the homeowner’s pool-permit file. Because a current stable public URL for that exact PDF was not confirmed, the private local copy is not republished.

Pinellas County Floodplain Management Read the sourced case study
Resident public filing in SWFWMD record

Michelle Hollidge — response challenging the August RAI submission

Custodian: SWFWMD · Permit: 47575.002 / Application 930235 · Type: resident public comment with attached research packet.

Why included: Michelle Hollidge is a longtime resident advocate who has worked on this opposition from its early stages. Her 42-page filing identifies ownership, County-code, historic-map, flood, contamination, credit-release, financial-assurance, and wildlife questions and supplies source leads that can be tested against original records.

Evidence boundary: Its presence in the official permit file proves that the District received the submission. Individual statements remain the author’s assertions unless separately supported by the cited records or adopted by an agency.

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Historical SWFWMD permit record

Tarpon Woods Drainage Improvements — Application 57947 / ERP 30028.000

Custodian: SWFWMD · Type: historical drainage application package.

Why included: pages 65–67 contain the 1970 and 1944 federal quadrangles and the 1847 General Land Office township plat identified in Michelle Hollidge’s filing. This is an official-record source chain for the exhibits, not proof that SWFWMD adopted later handwritten annotations.

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Pinellas County and SWFWMD published study

Brooker Creek Watershed Alternative BMP Analysis — complete 398-page package

Issuing bodies: Pinellas County and SWFWMD · Consultant: URS Corporation Southern · Type: watershed model and flood-protection alternatives analysis with technical appendices.

Why included: the report documents the watershed-scale model, coordination with the Tarpon Woods Action Committee, and the Tampa Bay Engineering feasibility work presented September 27, 2007. It analyzes thirteen alternatives, including a 3,400-foot, 50-foot-wide high-flow channel through the golf-course reach.

Limit: the analysis predates the current mitigation-bank plan and should inform—not replace—new signed-and-sealed project modeling.

U.S. EPA primary sources

Mitigation-bank safeguards and MSMA restrictions

Why included: EPA’s mitigation-bank guidance says site selection must consider adjacent-land-use compatibility, floodplain goals, contamination potential, existing significant habitat, technical feasibility, contingency planning, financial assurances, and performance-linked credit release. EPA’s MSMA page states that MSMA may not be used in Florida except on cotton in twelve named counties and explains that organic arsenicals can convert to inorganic arsenic in soil.

Limit: These general authorities support investigation and testing; they do not establish that Target 6 Plus was applied at Tarpon Woods or that this site is contaminated. The filing describes an FDACS investigation whose final disposition has not yet been located in a public primary source.

EPA mitigation-bank guidance EPA MSMA restrictions
Applicant filing

Application 930235 filing

Issuing body: Applicant filing in SWFWMD record · Permit: 47575.002 · Type: application.

Rights status: authoritative link only; no local republication claim. Why included: establishes what the applicant proposed, not what an agency approved.

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SWFWMD agency document

Current Request for Additional Information

Issuing body: SWFWMD · Permit: 47575.002 · Type: RAI.

Rights status: authoritative link only. Why included: identifies unresolved information; it is not a permit denial or final finding.

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Applicant filing

Partial RAI response

Issuing body: Applicant filing in SWFWMD record · Permit: 47575.002 · Type: partial response.

Rights status: authoritative link only. Why included: provides the applicant’s response and historical FWC attachment; not an agency acceptance.

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Applicant filing

Latest time-extension request

Issuing body: Applicant consultant filing in SWFWMD record · Permit: 47575.002 · Type: extension request.

Rights status: authoritative link only. Why included: records the applicant’s request and anticipated schedule; not an agency action.

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SWFWMD agency document

Latest time-extension approval

Issuing body: SWFWMD · Permit: 47575.002 · Type: extension decision.

Rights status: authoritative link only. Why included: controls the current applicant response date as last verified.

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Applicant narrative and SWFWMD receipt in withdrawn record

Why Application 907654 was filed—and the $2,724 transfer request

The applicant stated that it was withdrawing conceptual Application 889588 and asked SWFWMD to apply the earlier $2,724 fee to the new individual application. Page 3 reproduces a SWFWMD receipt identifying Application 889588, the “Conceptual” transaction, July 31, 2024, $2,724 paid, and receipt IN2460180254001. This directly links the two earlier filings and confirms the original payment record.

Important limitation: the document proves the receipt and transfer request; it does not establish whether SWFWMD approved or completed the transfer, how the amount was later accounted for, a current fee credit, or compliance with every fee rule.

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Applicant form in withdrawn SWFWMD record

Application 907654 — 172.59-acre individual mitigation-bank filing

The form identifies a new wetland mitigation bank, lists Tarpon Woods Properties, LLC as permittee and GreenSource as applicant representative, separately reports 172.59 applicant-owned contiguous acres and 172.59 project acres, then displays 345.18 as “total land area.” It also reports 17.8 acres of proposed impact and no proposed impervious area.

Important limitation: the two 172.59-acre entries may describe the same overlapping land or reflect an automated sum; the displayed 345.18 total therefore requires clarification and is not represented here as actual distinct acreage. An application form records what the applicant requested. It is not a completeness determination, technical finding, approval, or current Application 930235 design.

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Applicant environmental filing in withdrawn SWFWMD record

The withdrawn excavation, fill, wetland-creation, and credit proposal

The applicant proposed excavating golf-course uplands to create 55.54 acres of freshwater marsh, restoring another 20.64 acres of golf-course upland by excavation, filling and restoring 17.27 acres of ponds and 0.53 acre of ditch, placing a conservation easement over 172.59 acres, and stating a total of 79.57 potential credits. Its displayed 13.86- and 65.72-credit components sum to 79.58, a one-hundredth difference that may reflect rounding but should be reconciled.

Important limitation: these are proposed quantities and applicant calculations in the withdrawn 907654 design. They were not approved, and this record does not establish that they were retained in Application 930235 or that they match the owner/proponent’s current “no earthwork” account.

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SWFWMD Request for Additional Information

Agency questions about legal control, credits, fill disposal, wildlife, and cross-sections

SWFWMD requested additional information about legal control, wildlife and historic-resource review, the credit methodology, disposal of excess fill, and cross-sections for the proposed excavation and filling.

Important limitation: an RAI identifies information the agency sought; it is not a final deficiency finding, permit denial, or conclusion that every question remained unresolved at withdrawal.

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Applicant partial response in withdrawn SWFWMD record

No identified specific buyer or receiving site for excess fill

The applicant proposed selling excess fill to an unidentified buyer and offered FDOT or a nearby project as examples. The response said a buyer might not be identified until permits were obtained.

Important limitation: this describes the applicant’s then-proposed disposition in withdrawn Application 907654. It does not establish that FDOT or another project agreed to receive material, that material was excavated, sold, transported, or proposed for export under current Application 930235.

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SWFWMD clarification letter

The file remained incomplete as of September 19, 2025

SWFWMD’s clarification identified unresolved inconsistencies involving excavation, filling, temporary crossings, haul routes, staging, access, numerous proposed, removed, or replacement pipes and control structures, modeling, and legal-interest or title information.

Important limitation: the letter records the agency’s unresolved questions at that stage. The publicly retrieved viewer archive contains no later response resolving them before the applicant withdrew, but it is not represented as SWFWMD’s entire internal file. The letter is not a merits denial or an adjudication of title.

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Applicant request and SWFWMD withdrawal action

Application 907654 withdrawn

The applicant requested withdrawal and SWFWMD’s public docket recorded the withdrawal action the same day. The live viewer now displays “Deleted” with the reason “Application Withdrawn.”

Important limitation: “Deleted” is a viewer status tied to withdrawal; it does not mean the public records were destroyed. Withdrawal is not an approval or a merits denial.

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Pinellas Clerk recorded order · Instrument 2025260301

CCM-25-00069 joint-stipulation code-enforcement order

The four-page order requires $378.95 in prosecution costs, sets December 8, 2025 as the minimum-housing compliance date, and provides for a $250-per-day fine for each continuing minimum-housing violation. It states that the zoning violation had been abated by September 8, 2025.

Important limitation: this is a maintenance and code-enforcement record. It is not a development approval, mitigation-bank permit, environmental finding, or proof of present compliance beyond what the order itself states.

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SWFWMD historical document

Withdrawal acknowledgement for Application 889588

Issuing body: SWFWMD · Permit: 47575.000 · Type: withdrawal acknowledgement.

Rights status: authoritative link only. Why included: confirms the earlier application was withdrawn effective December 6, 2024; it does not decide the current application.

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Applicant filing in SWFWMD record

Response to Request for Additional Information — Application 889588

Custodian: SWFWMD public permit record · Author: Lisa Cartwright, P.W.S., GreenSource Environmental Professionals, Inc. · Type: applicant RAI response and attachments.

Why included: contains the applicant’s scrape-and-fill description, Attachment 2 deed copy, and Attachment 7 treated-effluent letter. These are applicant statements in a withdrawn file, not findings about incomplete Application 930235.

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SWFWMD clarification RAI

Clarification Letter — Application 889588

Custodian and issuing body: SWFWMD · Authors: Robert A. Dasta, P.E. and Lee Hughes, P.W.S. · Type: clarification RAI.

Why included: fourteen days after an unrecorded deed copy was filed, Item 2 still requested reasonable assurance of complete legal control over folio 110-0400 and said a co-permittee might be required. Other open items addressed authorization, signed/sealed plans, fill and excavation cross-sections, SHWT documentation, and hydrologic-basin storage.

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Applicant plan in SWFWMD record

Brooker Creek Mitigation Bank Master Site Plan C-1

Custodian: SWFWMD public permit record · Preparer: 5M Civil · Type: plan/exhibit whose visible title block shows February 2, 2024.

Why included: depicts the proposed bank boundary, Parcel 3, earthwork hatches, a 147.09-acre site-data total, and a “NO PROPOSED BUILDINGS” notation. A withdrawn plan is not the current plan. A separate source filename or portal date should not be substituted for the date printed inside the engineering sheet.

Open official plan filing Parcel and acreage context
Pinellas County development-review consultation · Closed

DRM-23-00102 — mitigation bank, reclaimed water, and process

Custodian: Pinellas County · Requester: Katie Cole, Hill Ward Henderson · Type: applicant-side early-assistance / pre-submittal Development Review Meeting record.

Why included: the applicant fields raise the mitigation-bank application process, reclaimed-water utility requirements, and related public-utility issues. The official record shows a meeting milestone scheduled for September 6, 2023 and “Meeting Notes Completed” on September 26.

Important limitation: this proves those issues were raised in a County consultation record. It is not a County approval, permit, or finding that any proposed design is acceptable or still operative.

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Pinellas County development-review consultation · Continued

DRM-24-00066 — earlier cut, fill, acreage, and floodplain concept

Custodian: Pinellas County · Applicant contact: Jesus Antonio Merly, 5M Civil · County author: Guy Shoemaker, Development Project Manager I · Type: applicant-side Development Review Meeting record with preliminary comments for the July 1 DRC meeting.

Why included: the applicant-entered project description asks what permits would be required for excavation and states 168.40 acres, an estimated cut of 273,000 cubic yards, and an estimated fill of 31,000 cubic yards. The attached C-1 master site plan instead reports 6,407,200 square feet, or 147.09 acres, while its site-data block says “NO PROPOSED BUILDINGS.” Preliminary County comments address no fill in the floodway, no-net-fill calculations, potentially required whole-watershed modeling, existing/revised-existing/proposed comparisons for 10-, 25-, and 100-year flood elevations, floodway reestablishment at no more than a 0.1-foot rise, floodway/floodplain overlays, applicable CLOMR/LOMR sequencing, an environmental site assessment, land use, utilities, easements, and community consultation. Several disciplines are marked “Revisions Required.”

Important limitation: the estimates are applicant-entered, not County findings or approved quantities; the comments are not a permit or final County determination; and County land-use requirements are not automatically SWFWMD criteria. The quantities belong to an earlier concept and are not represented as current Application 930235 quantities. Their arithmetic difference does not prove export or disposal. The record establishes a materially different design history and applicant-side County coordination that the present filing should reconcile.

Open official County record (opens in a new tab) Open official C-1 plan Read the plain-English comparison
FDEP Title & Land Records worksheet in SWFWMD record

Worksheet 133182 — limited state-owned-submerged-lands review

Custodian: SWFWMD public permit record · Origin: FDEP Title & Land Records · Initiated by: SWFWMD / Lee Hughes in withdrawn Application 889588 · Type: agency-to-agency title and submerged-lands worksheet.

What it says: FDEP recorded that it had not completed the research needed to locate the original mean-high-water line; the worksheet was not a sovereignty-boundary determination; and proprietary authorization normally required for state-owned land was not recommended at this time.

Important limitation: this internal worksheet is not an environmental approval, wetland or contamination review, federal authorization, final mean-high-water determination, final title-boundary adjudication, or approval of current Application 930235. The available record identifies it as an agency-to-agency review, not an applicant-originated filing.

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Applicant authorization filing

ERP Section A and authorized-agent letter

Custodian: SWFWMD public permit record · Type: application authorization.

Why included: Ryan Deibler signed Section A, and the authorization letter is signed “J. Rand” as “manager of the Brooker Creek Mitigation Bank.” The April 10, 2023 pre-application record separately lists Jamie Rand. The reviewed record does not establish that those strings identify the same person.

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SWFWMD plan

Lake Tarpon SWIM Plan

Issuing body: SWFWMD · Application: not project-specific · Type: watershed plan.

Rights status: authoritative link only. Why included: supplies regional Lake Tarpon and Brooker Creek context; not a project impact finding.

Open agency plan Related water briefing
FDEP report

2026 Integrated Water Quality Assessment for Florida

Issuing body: FDEP · Application: not project-specific · Type: integrated report.

Rights status: authoritative link only. Why included: identifies current statewide assessment data for Lake Tarpon; not proof of project causation.

Open FDEP report Related water briefing
Complete name-search result set

What FDEP's fourteen “Tarpon Woods” facility results actually represent

On September 1, 2026, the FDEP Nexus search for facility names containing “Tarpon Woods” in Pinellas County returned fourteen facilities. The result is a mixed index: exact-address golf-course operations, County infrastructure, adjacent historical work, and unrelated businesses appear together. A name match is not a finding of contamination, a permit violation, present ownership, or involvement in the current mitigation-bank application.

Search result, not a clearance: Six relevant facility indexes exposed downloadable public records. Across those indexes, the research archive preserves 23 official PDFs and six facility-result CSV exports, plus the current DOPPLER HTML report; that is a preserved search set, not a claim that every FDEP record has been obtained. The remaining rows did not expose an electronic-document link in the result table. The search did not locate a current Nexus facility or document named for the Brooker Creek Mitigation Bank or the present bank-applicant aliases reviewed. That narrow negative result does not rule out informal, draft, withdrawn, unposted, differently indexed, or public-record-request-only material. FDEP itself directs users to request records when the desired material is not found. Open the official Nexus search portal (opens in a new tab).
FacilityProgram and locationAttributionWhat the result can—and cannot—support
SQG_208462
Tarpon Woods Golf Club
Hazardous Waste · 1100 Tarpon Woods BoulevardExact-address golf-course operational listingThe result establishes an indexed small-quantity-generator facility name at the address. No electronic-document link was exposed. The listing alone does not establish a release, violation, contamination, present generator status, or any mitigation-bank approval.
SQG_196044
Tarpon Woods Veterinary Medical Center
Hazardous Waste · 800 Tarpon Woods Boulevard F3Unrelated business and addressExcluded from the golf-course and mitigation-bank evidence set.
PATS_7205
Tarpon Woods Golf
ERP · address not shownHistorical-name resultNo electronic-document link was exposed. The name alone does not tie a permit, parcel, party, or condition to the present application.
PATS_62553
Tarpon Woods Race Track
ERP · address not shownHistorical-name resultNo electronic-document link was exposed. Retained only as a differently named historical result, not present-project evidence.
PATS_27586
Tarpon Woods Golf & Tennis
ERP · address not shownHistorical-name resultNo electronic-document link was exposed. The index row does not establish its parcel, scope, outcome, or relationship to the current bank.
PATS_14729
Tarpon Woods Golf & Tennis
ERP · address not shownHistorical-name resultNo electronic-document link was exposed. The same strict identity and scope limits apply.
PATS_127253 (opens in a new tab)
East of Tarpon Woods Boulevard
ERP · historical plans and monitoringAdjacent/historical, with different partiesThe 1986–1995 files document other developments and wetland mitigation east of the boulevard. Reviewed sheets did not identify either present golf-course folio. This is regional history, not proof of current-parcel work, current-applicant conduct, or present site conditions.
FLR10MM45 (opens in a new tab)
Tarpon Woods Secondary Outfall
NPDES stormwater · 3130 Tarpon Woods BoulevardCounty infrastructure at a different addressThe two 2013 records concern a County outfall project, not a present-owner or mitigation-bank filing.
FLR10MM29 (opens in a new tab)
Tarpon Woods – Drainage Improvements
NPDES stormwater · 1100 Tarpon Woods BoulevardEarlier contractor/operator submission at the exact addressDavid Nelson Construction Company submitted a 2013 construction NOI for 4.1 disturbed acres with Brooker Creek as receiving water; 2017 records terminated coverage. This is a real exact-address FDEP filing, but not by the current owners and not a mitigation-bank application.
FLR10FQ98 (opens in a new tab)
Tarpon Woods Boulevard Sidewalk Improvements & Pedestrian Bridge
NPDES stormwater · Palm HarborCounty infrastructureThe five 2007/2012 records concern public sidewalk and pedestrian-bridge work, not the private bank proposal.
FLR10BW24 (opens in a new tab)
Tarpon Woods Drainage Improvements
NPDES stormwater · 1100 Tarpon Woods BoulevardCounty infrastructure at the exact addressThe six 2005/2006 records document 3.73 disturbed acres and Brooker Creek Channel A as receiving water. They are drainage-project history, not a current bank approval or current hydrologic model.
FLA012878
Tarpon Woods Golf & Tennis Club
Wastewater · East Lake DriveGolf-course operational listingNo electronic-document link was exposed. The listing supplies an operational research lead, not a present discharge finding, permit-status conclusion, or bank authorization.
ERP_466793
Tommy's Carwash @ Tarpon Woods
ERP · 2551 Tarpon Woods BoulevardUnrelated site and businessExcluded from the golf-course and mitigation-bank evidence set.
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Tarpon Woods Golf & Tennis Club
Storage tanks · 1100 Tarpon Woods BoulevardExact-address operational and historical recordsThe current report lists two 550-gallon tanks in service, three removed, “No Compliance Activity Data Found,” “No Open AOCs Found,” “No Open Violations Found,” “No Discharges Found,” and “No Property Owner Information Found.” Separate 1990–1991 documents describe historical tank removal and sampling. Neither source should be made to say what the other does not: together they do not establish present contamination or a present no-further-action determination.
Confirmed Corps project-location record

The Corps' ORM public layer identifies SAJ-2025-02276-JLA for the Brooker Creek Mitigation Bank

On September 1, 2026, Save Tarpon Woods located an official U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ORM Project Locations public-layer record under DA number SAJ-2025-02276-JLA. The record's project-name field reads “TARPON WOODS PROPERTIES, LLC / BROOKER CREEK MITIGATION BANK / 1100 TARPON WOODS BLVD / PINELLAS.” It identifies the Jacksonville District, year 2025, and request type NWP.

What this proves—and what it does not: The public layer confirms a Corps project-location record and associated polygon geometry under that DA number. The layer does not state what boundary the polygon represents or establish its survey accuracy or legal effect. It also does not identify the Nationwide Permit number, applicant field, receipt or decision date, current status, jurisdictional determination, preconstruction-notification contents, written verification, conditions, authorization, or outcome. The applicant should disclose the complete administrative or permit record associated with the identifier, including any PCN or application, plans and jurisdictional materials, permit relied upon, section 401 and coastal-zone materials, correspondence, conditions, decision, and current status.

Separate RIBITS bank/site, Regulatory Request System public-notice, and Jacksonville District public-notice searches using “Brooker Creek,” “Tarpon Woods,” and “Tarpon Woods Properties” did not return an exact bank/site or public-notice match. Those negative results are demonstrably incomplete if read as a search for any Corps record because the separate ORM location layer did return this project-location entry.

SAJ-2011-03542 is a County drainage-outfall record

The same official ORM service contains a 2011 record named “PINELLAS COUNTY BOCC / TARPON WOODS SECONDARY DRAINAGE OUTFALL SYSTEM” with request type NWP.

Disambiguation: this is historical County infrastructure, not a filing by the present owner or applicant team and not evidence of the current mitigation-bank proposal.

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SAJ-2016-00672-CSH is a County pedestrian-bridge record

The ORM service also contains a 2016 record named “PINELLAS COUNTY / TARPON WOODS PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE” with request type NWP.

Disambiguation: this too is historical County infrastructure, not a present-owner filing, a bank authorization, or evidence that SAJ-2025-02276-JLA has been approved.

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Why separate the records: all three federal entries contain “Tarpon Woods,” but only SAJ-2025-02276-JLA is named for Tarpon Woods Properties, LLC and the Brooker Creek Mitigation Bank. The earlier two help explain the drainage and bridge history; they cannot be used as applicant admissions or as evidence that the current project has federal authorization.

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