Open revision history
Updates & source dates
Project status: July 24, 2026 dashboard · Financial and nutrient figures: August 17, 2026 dashboard · Homeowner and conversion counts: posted September 2026 progress report (prepared for the September 18 meeting). These are different reporting dates, not a single snapshot.
Latest site edit: 2026-09-15. A site edit is not a new County reporting date. Earlier reported figures remain in explicitly dated historical records; they are not the current headline totals.
91 projects in progress → 92 projects in progress
Earlier site-reported figure replaced with 92 in the July 24 County dashboard snapshot. The reason for the one-project difference has not been established.
County record · Source date: 2026-07-24 · Change recorded: 2026-09-08
$535.6M collected → $539.7M collected
Earlier site-reported figure replaced with $539.7M in the August 17 dashboard snapshot. No transaction-level explanation of the difference is asserted.
County record · Source date: 2026-08-17 · Change recorded: 2026-09-08
$122.8M spent on completed projects → $119.8M cumulative expenditures, all projects
Earlier site-reported amount and label replaced. The verified category is $119.8M cumulative expenditures across all projects, not only completed projects. Why the earlier amount differs remains unresolved.
County record · Source date: 2026-08-17 · Change recorded: 2026-09-08
2,954 homeowner projects → 2,666 homeowner projects (written report)
The earlier site attributed 2,954 to a May meeting report. The August 21 written progress report states 2,666. Do not interpret this as projects being undone or invent a counting-method explanation; the discrepancy remains unresolved.
County record · Source date: 2026-08-21 · Change recorded: 2026-09-08
2,666 homeowner projects (August 21 report) → 2,697 homeowner projects and 1,035 conversions to sewer (posted September 2026 report)
The County's posted September 2026 progress report lists 140 completed community projects, 2,697 completed homeowner projects and 1,035 completed conversions to sewer. These are different measures and are not added together. The report's measurement cutoff date is not stated; it was posted before the September 18 oversight meeting.
County record · Source date: September 2026 report · Change recorded: 2026-09-15
Recovery page: NOAA closed the event April 30, 2022 → USFWS administrative closure March 14, 2025; event period ended April 30, 2022 (FWC record)
April 30, 2022 is the retrospective end of the event period, not a closure action. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service administratively closed the Atlantic-coast event on March 14, 2025, as recorded by FWC. Both sites now use the same wording.
County record · Source date: 2025-03-14 · Change recorded: 2026-09-15
Written homeowner report and outreach summary differ
The August 21 written progress report lists 2,666 completed homeowner projects and 905 septic-upgrade reimbursements processed. The County's August outreach summary reports 3,127 homeowner projects and 910 septic upgrades. The definitions, counting basis or timing behind these differences have not been reconciled. This site uses the written report's figures with its date; it does not infer that projects were undone or that the outreach totals supersede the report.
August 21, 2026 SOIRL progress report · August 2026 citizen oversight meeting highlights (outreach summary)
Financial-table corroboration
Cumulative actual expenditures across all projects, not spending only on completed projects. The August financial tables, Table 17, corroborate the rounded dashboard amount with $119,794,009 in cumulative actual expenditures.
County financial tables, Table 17 (August 21, 2026)
The adopted plan is not the original promise
403 projects in the current adopted plan. Homeowner projects are reported separately. 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.
Arithmetic remainder outside complete and in-progress categories, not an official County status. It does not establish that these projects are cancelled, stalled, unfunded or scheduled for any particular year. County record
Money and model definitions corrected
Value associated with work in progress. Not independently established as an executed-contract or legally committed total. Site arithmetic residual from rounded dashboard categories. Not a County-certified cash balance, surplus, available appropriation, or uncommitted-funds total.
Annual nitrogen estimates and one-time removal are kept separate. Modeled benefits are not direct measurements of lagoon-water improvement. County record
Manatee event period versus closure
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service administratively closed the Atlantic-coast Florida manatee Unusual Mortality Event on March 14, 2025. The retrospectively defined event period ran December 1, 2020 through April 30, 2022; its 1,392 cases comprise 1,255 carcasses and 137 rescues, not 1,392 deaths. FWC reports that Atlantic-coast mortality returned to expected levels; habitat concerns and monitoring continue. The event period and the closure date are different, and closure does not establish full habitat or forage recovery.
NOAA event-period record · Formal closure record
Official 2026 ballot wording and the levy expiration
Brevard County voters decide the renewal on November 3, 2026. The existing lagoon half-cent sales tax expires December 31, 2026. The ballot proposes continuing the same half-cent rate for another ten years. The Supervisor of Elections has published the official referendum; earlier notices that the wording was pending have been retired. Verified September 15, 2026.
Official referendum · Florida DOR surtax expiration table
Independent audit located
RSM's May 6, 2026 internal audit reported no observations or exceptions in the work it tested. The audit covered June 1, 2025 through January 31, 2026 and included collections, sampled expenditures and procurement compliance. It did not verify every dollar, every project, cost-effectiveness or ecological results.
RSM audit report (May 6, 2026)
September 2026 construction milestones
The September report records completed seeding of 24 million native clams across eight acres near Titusville. Dredging began August 7, 2026; the September report puts it at about 20% complete. 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.
September 2026 progress report
What this review did not certify
The local evidence and research inventory was structurally checked. That is not a fresh source-by-source verification of every research paper, historical project status or cost. Existing record-level dates and limitations still apply. No claimed ecological gain is attributed entirely to SOIRL.
Earlier voter-site corrections · Evidence-library correction history · Machine-readable current facts