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Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Unit Areas are generated in western Palm Beach and eastern Hendry counties by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). |
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Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Unit Areas are generated in western Palm Beach and eastern Hendry counties by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). |
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SFWMD - Everglades Regulation Bureau. SFWMD, Regulation: SFWMD shares regulatory responsibilities for managing and protecting regional water resources with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and other state and local governments. Geospatial Services manages and maintains geospatial products and data related to the Regulation business function. Regulation provides oversight over these products. |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Permit Application Boundaries. The EAA Basin is located between the Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades Protection Area. The EAA Basin encompasses approximately 474,000 acres of highly productive agricultural land, mostly sugar cane with crops such as winter vegetables, sod, and rice making up the remainder. An Everglades Works of the District (EWOD) Permit is required for the landowners or entities within or discharging to drainage basins in the EAA Basin that ultimately drain to the Everglades. Generally all lands are required to apply for an EWOD Permit. An EWOD Permit is an approval of a best management practices (BMPs) plan, and of a discharge (water quality and quantity) monitoring plan where applicable. The specific Works of the District (WOD) regulatory program responsibilities include verifying implementation of the BMPs required under the permit, ensuring that the discharge monitoring plans and resulting data are reasonably representative of the permitted basins, ensuring compliance with WOD permit conditions, and assessing that the EAA is in compliance with the Everglades Forever Act reduction of 25% of Total Phosphorus load in comparison to a baseline period before the WOD regulatory program was in place. In order to obtain a permit, EAA landowners submit applications including a BMP Plan and discharge monitoring plan for each hydrologic unit included within the permit (a Permit Basin), a description of land uses and crops, parcel ownership, and a description of their water management system. Applications for renewal are submitted every five years. This application boundary is digitized into GIS Application Arc Map for the county in which the application is located in. Once the application has been reviewed and issued, the application becomes a permit with a permit number.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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<DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN>This dataset is made available to the public in response to the Florida Public Records Law, Florida Statutes, Chapter 119. Any information, including but not limited to software and data, received from the South Florida Water Management District ("DISTRICT") is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, and the District expressly disclaims all express and implied warranties, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the results and performance of any information obtained from the District is entirely assumed by the recipient.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> |
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