Aquifer Storage and Recovery in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan A Critique of the Pilot Projects and Related Plans for ASR in the Lake Okeechobee and Western Hillsboro Areas (2001) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Questions Sent to the SFWMD Prior to the Workshop, and Its Responses
Appendix C: Questions Sent to the SFWMD Prior to the Workshop, and Its Responses
Pages 30-39
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Recognizing the importance of an understanding of regional issues, and the budget limitations of the pilot projects, USACE/SFWMD are now proposing to allocate funds to conduct a Regional Study in parallel with the pilot projects. The scope of the Regional Study is not yet defined, but will be refined based on CROGEE comments.
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Recognizing the importance of an understanding of regional issues, and the budget limitations of the pilot projects, USACE/SFWMD are now proposing to allocate funds to conduct a Regional Study in parallel with the pilot projects. The scope of the Regional Study is not yet defined, but will be refined based on CROGEE comments.
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As stated above, there are insufficient funds in the pilot projects at this time to install additional monitor wells apart from those previously mentioned to fill regional data gaps. Of course, it is difficult to predict the myriad of circumstances that might change this current plan.
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How will the regulatory concerns associated with injection of these source waters be addressed in the pilot studies? As the pilot project PMP indicates, two primary tasks are geared!
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. Will the pilot studies provide the necessary data to adequately characterize source water quality and ambient water quality in the injection zones, including temporal and spatial variability?
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The Florida Geological Survey (FGS) has conducted studies to indicate that leaching of arsenic and radionuclides from the carbonate aquifer matrix has occurred in the Tampa Bay area, relatively close to the Lake Okeechobee ASR Pilot Projects.
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From a permitting perspective, the environmental requirements include complying the applicable Class ~ or Class IlT water quality criteria from NPDES permits. From a municipal perspective, water recovered from ASR systems to Lake Okeechobee must meet Class I: (i.e., drinking water)
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Assuming successful results of the pilot projects, and subsequent step-wise implementation of regional ASR, more will be learned to evaluate the ability of regional ASR systems to meet water quality anti quantity needs of inten(led receptors/users.
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does not provide many details about the ASR Pilot Projects, an artifact of preparing a typical 5-year feasibility study within the 2-year timeframe mandated by Congress. Having said that, the $19 million figure for Lake Okeechobee $S million figure for Western Hillsboro, and $6 million figure for Caloosahatchee were crudely based on estimates for a given number of ASR systems, assuming approximately $2 million per system.
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First, locating all ASR wells in one geographic location (e.g., the west side of Lake Okeechobee) does not answer a fundamental question; that is, does ASR work in geographically dispersed areas around the Lake.
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