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Regional Issues in Aquifer Storage and Recovery for Everglades Restoration A Review of the ASR Regional Study Project Management Plan of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (2002) / Chapter Skim
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4 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 39-42

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... Some of the task descriptions suggest that the study will be conducted as a relatively routine engineering exercise rather than a comprehensive and integrated scientific study to "investigate regional technical and regulatory issues governing the feasibility of ffi~-scale ASR implementation...and develop tools to assess the feasibility and increase the level of certainty of successful ASR implementation," which is the stated objective of the study. This structure is of some concern given that results of the regional study may show that ASR at the scale being proposed is not feasible due to hydrogeological, geochemical, ecological, or other reasons.
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... This can be remedied by adding monitoring and assessment of ecological indicators to the proposed bioassays of Task ~ 3. In coordination with other CERP science initiatives such as RECOVER, an opportunity exists to develop indicators that can be employed in both system-wide monitoring and the ASR Regional Study.
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... However, it appears more likely that negative effects of ASR-recovered water could occur within the Everglades itself. This is where surface waters are low in nutrients and dissolved solids, and where input, either directly or via pathways that include Lake Okeechobee, of recovered ASR water with relatively high ionic strength would represent a major ecological change.
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