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Draft Indian River County Lagoon Management Plan Outline April 2019 <br />7.0 PLAN PROGRESSION <br />The Lagoon Management Plan will be implemented in two phases to entify the Research needs; select the <br />projects required to Reduce nutrients inputs; Revitalize the naral IRL systems; Rally public support, <br />understanding, and funding for long-term lagoon Revitalization; an 'Respond to the changing lagoon system. <br />This first phase of the plan is Research focused, and identifie gaps in the existing data, provides new areas of <br />needed Research, and implements well understood cost-effective projects to begin the process to Revitalize the <br />IRL. This process will be long and difficult, given the cur ent state of the IRL and the added pressures of an <br />increasing population, climate change, and limited funds his first phase will provide the science -based approach <br />to efficiently plan and implement projects and program to Revitalize the IRL. <br />The second phase will be a plan revision after thr=to five years. This second phase will use the data collected <br />and lessons learned from this first phase of th- plan to provide an update that is focused on clearly defined <br />objectives with specific measurable goals. Pr.jects will be selected based on their ability to achieve the plan <br />objectives in the most cost-effective manner •ossible. <br />TETRA TECH <br />19 <br />