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Page 1: Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program Status Update and Needs Assessment Presented by the Environmental Protection Division March 18, 2008.

Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program

Status Update and Needs Assessment

Presented by the Environmental Protection Division

March 18, 2008

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Presentation Outline

Purpose TMDL – Program Overview

Group Status

Future Needs

Action Items

Page 3: Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program Status Update and Needs Assessment Presented by the Environmental Protection Division March 18, 2008.

Presentation Outline

Purpose TMDL – Program OverviewTMDL – Program Overview

Group StatusGroup Status

Future NeedsFuture Needs

Action ItemsAction Items

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Purpose

BCC presentation-June 14, 2005 BCC presentation-April 11, 2006

Approved BMAP for Upper Oklawaha

Basin

Overview of TMDL Program Long Branch BMAP Discuss future needs

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Presentation Outline

PurposePurpose TMDL – Program Overview

Group StatusGroup Status

Future NeedsFuture Needs

Action ItemsAction Items

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TMDL- Program Overview

Clean Water Act (CWA) – polluted waters must be identified through the 303(d)list every two years

EPA – approves (FDEP) or creates their own lists for TMDLs

Administration: Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP)

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TMDL = Assimilative Capacity

TMDL- Program Overview

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TMDL- Program Overview

Example: Lake Jesup Phosphorus TMDL

Existing Phosphorus Load 63,000 lbs

- Calculated TMDL - 41,000 lbs

Reduction Required 22,000 lbs

Also need to factor in loads Also need to factor in loads from future growth!from future growth!

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TMDL- Program Overview

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Basin Rotation Cycle

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Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

TMDL – Program Overview

Basin Rotation Cycle

Kissimmee River(Group 4)

Middle St. Johns River(Group 2)

Upper

St. Johns

River

(Group 3)

Ock

law

ah

a

Riv

er

(Gro

up 1

)

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Phase 1 - Initial monitoring Phase 2 – Verified listing Phase 3 - TMDL development Phase 4 - Basin Management

Action Plan (BMAP) Phase 5 - Implementation

TMDL – Program Overview

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Presentation Outline

PurposePurpose TMDL – Program OverviewTMDL – Program Overview

Group Status

Future NeedsFuture Needs

Action ItemsAction Items

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Group 1 - Upper Ocklawaha Basin Lake Apopka, Beauclair, Carlton, BMAP adoption in 2007 Commitment - continued

monitoring and education Partnerships with SJRWMD and Lake County

Group Status

Upper

St. Johns

River

(Group 3)

Ocklawaha River

(Group 1)

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Group 2 - Middle St. Johns Basin

Wekiva River Little Wekiva River Rock Springs Wekiva Springs Lake Lawne

Group Status

Crane Strand and Drain (Little Econ River) Little Econ River Lake JesupLong BranchLake MinehahaSpring LakeLake WinyahBay LakeLake Concord

Middle St. Johns River

(Group 2)

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Group 2 - Middle St. Johns Basin

BMAP’s underway for - Lake Jesup, Crane Strand, Wekiva group

Long Branch BMAP approval – Coliform and Dissolved Oxygen Impairments

Commitment – regional projects externally retrofits, new technologies, source monitoring, flow

analyses

Group Status

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Group StatusGroup 2 - Middle St. Johns Basin

Long Branch BMAP

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Group Status

Management Action Responsible Party

Timeline Cost

MS4 Permit Implementation Orange Co Ongoing Countywide

Public Education & Outreach Orange Co Ongoing Countywide

Econ. River Ordinance Orange Co Ongoing Countywide

Parks Total Phosphorus Removal Orange Co Ongoing Countywide

Ag. Best Management Practices DACS & Private Landowners

Ongoing Statewide

Pollution Abatement Swale Design Criteria

Orange Co Under development

Countywide

Environmental Resource Permitting SJRWMD & Private

Landowners

Ongoing Districtwide

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Group StatusManagement

ActionResponsibl

e PartyTimeline Cost

Hydrologic Measurements

Orange Co Begin in 2008

$45,000/yr1

Sanitary Survey

Orange Co/Health Dept.

2008 $1,500 (EPD staff time)$TBD (Health Dept. staff

time)

Optical Brightener

Testing

Orange Co 2008 (pending

equipment availability)

$1,500

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Group 3 - Upper St. Johns Basin

St. Johns River FDACS - lead GreenPLACE Acquisitions Commitment – continued

monitoring

Group StatusUpper

St. Johns

River

(Group 3)

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Group 4 - Upper Kissimmee Basin

Butler Mann Clear Pineloch Holden Catherine Mary Jane Cane

Group Status

Kissimmee River(Group 4)

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TMDL’s delayed• due to Lake Okeechobee TMDL’s

BMAP organization - late 2008 Commitment – monitoring and

future regional and internal projects

Group StatusGroup 4 - Upper Kissimmee Basin

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Presentation Outline

PurposePurpose TMDL – Program OverviewTMDL – Program Overview

Group StatusGroup Status

Future Needs

Action ItemsAction Items

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Education

Septic maintenance

Fertilizer use

Future Needs

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Rules

Fertilizer Ordinance Water Quality Ordinance Comprehensive Planning Effort

• Low Impact Development• Stormwater Reuse

Septic• Variances

Future Needs

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Funding Needs

Increased Water Quality Monitoring Responsibilities

Enhanced recordkeeping Increased Operation & Maintenance Upgrade existing stormwater systems

Future Needs

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Funding Options

CIP

Stormwater Utility Fee

Future Needs

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Presentation Outline

PurposePurpose TMDL – Program OverviewTMDL – Program Overview

Group StatusGroup Status

Future NeedsFuture Needs

Action Items

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Approve resolution supporting the adoption of the Long

Branch Basin Management Action Plan

Board direction on funding for the TMDL program

Action Items

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Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program

Status Update and Needs Assessment

Environmental Protection Division

March 18, 2008