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Chapter 1 Introduction
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... Additional water supply demands from the increased population will not be met by further withdrawals from groundwater supplies in the basin because those supplies are reaching their sustainable limits. Moreover, a joint action plan of the three Florida water management districts responsible for water management in central Florida capped groundwater withdrawals at the level of the 2013 demand.
From page 4...
... The NRC committee will review scientific aspects of the WSIS, including hydrologic and water quality modeling, how river withdrawals for drinking water will affect minimum flows and levels in the two rivers, the impact of removing old and introducing new wastewater streams into the rivers, the cumulative impacts of water withdrawals on several critical biological targets, and the effects of sea level rise. Potential environmental impacts being considered by the District include altered hydrologic regimes in the river, increased pollutant concentrations in the rivers (e.g., sediment, salinity, nutrients, temperature)
From page 5...
... Johns basin, and runoff from these areas was pumped into manmade canals that flowed directly into the Atlantic Ocean via the Indian River Lagoon. Because of environmental concerns, wetland restoration has been underway in the upper basin since the 1980s, and several large projects are reconnecting parts of the upper drainage basin that had been transferred out of the basin by levees, canals, and pumping systems (see below)
From page 6...
... Johns River, major lakes along the main stem, relevant towns and cities including Cocoa and Christmas where model simulations were run, and the location of four potential surface water withdrawal sites. SOURCE: Tom Bartol and Ed Carter, SJRWMD, personal communication, 2010.
From page 7...
... Johns River. Upper Basin Projects Three upper basin diversion projects -- Three Forks, C-1 basin, and Fellsmere -- are underway to return tens of thousands of acres of land to the St.
From page 8...
... , and Fellsmere Water Management Area.
From page 9...
... . In the WSIS hydrologic modeling studies, water inputs from operating the completed upper basin projects to the St.
From page 10...
... 5. Scenarios for various land use and water withdrawals were simulated with the models to estimate the effects on water levels, the magnitude of flows, and the timing peak and minimum flows throughout the basin.
From page 11...
... . In addition to the amount of water withdrawn, the District is altering other variables as it develops scenarios that will reflect future conditions, including changes in land use from 1995 to 2030, changes in how the upper basin is managed, potential sea level rise, future wastewater treatment plant (WWTP)


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