The Report Card
You paid for restoration. Here is what you got.
What is in the current adopted plan. What was completed. What is underway. What remains. What it cost. And what the lagoon is doing now.
The plan has evolved over time; this is not the original 2016 project count or a statement that all 403 were scheduled for completion by 2026. Homeowner projects are counted separately.
“In progress” can include projects in design, under contract or under construction. It does not mean all 92 have bulldozers on site.
Open the project-status evidence ↗Posted September 2026 progress report
The County's posted September progress report lists 140 completed community projects, 2,697 completed homeowner projects and 1,035 completed conversions to sewer. These are different measures; they are not added together as a single project total.
- Titusville clam restoration: The September report records completed seeding of 24 million native clams across eight acres near Titusville.
- Eau Gallie muck dredging: Dredging began August 7, 2026; the September report puts it at about 20% complete.
- Cocoa Beach Golf muck capping: Sand capping began June 22, 2026; the first three-inch sand layer is about 60% complete in the September report.
These are implementation milestones from the County's posted September 2026 progress report. A seed count is not a survival estimate or a measured lagoon-wide benefit, and a construction percentage is not a water-quality result. Source: September 2026 SOIRL progress report (posted for the September 18, 2026 meeting) ↗
Money flow
Every category answers a different question.
$539.7Mcollected in the SOIRL Trust Fund
$119.8Mcumulative actual expenditures across all projects
$335.2Massociated with in-progress work
$84.7Mcalculated difference: collected − (spent + funding in progress). Not a cash balance or unrestricted funding available.
+$127.3M in outside grants leveraged
Why hasn’t all the money been spent yet?
Engineering, permits, procurement, contracts and construction precede final payment. Expenditure is a lagging measure of infrastructure progress. The in-progress category is not established here as a legally committed total.
See every dollar and project ↗Environmental return
What has the completed work been designed to accomplish?
186,885
pounds of total nitrogen kept out each year
Modeled annual reduction associated with completed projects.
Modeled estimate · County dashboard · August 17, 2026156,728
pounds of one-time nitrogen removal
Counted separately because a one-time cleanup cannot be added to an annual rate.
Modeled estimate · one-time benefit415,803
additional pounds of total nitrogen per year
Modeled annual reduction expected when projects currently in progress are completed.
Projected from work in progress748,105
pounds of total nitrogen per year under the full plan
Modeled annual reduction if the currently adopted project plan is completed.
Projected estimate · full planTotal nitrogen means all forms of nitrogen entering the water. These numbers are engineering estimates of pollution prevented or removed, not pounds physically sampled from lagoon water. “Per year” is an annual estimate; one-time removal is counted separately.
See how the County calculates project benefits ↗Local receipts
Find the projects near you.
Open the Evidence Library’s project map and filter by city, category and status.