Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Lake Okeechobee Works of the District Permits. </SPAN><SPAN>Lake Okeechobee Works of the District Permits are issued within the Lake Okeechobee Watershed region of the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). The District identified Lake Okeechobee as a priority water body threatened by phosphorus pollution. The State Legislature mandated the District to develop a Surface Water Improvement Management plan to reduce the phosphorus loading to the lake. In 1989, the Lake Okeechobee Works of the District Rule was developed as a result of the Surface Water Improvement Management Plan. The rule requires that property owners within the Lake Okeechobee Watershed obtain a Lake Okeechobee Works of the District (WOD) permit. These permits are issued to limit the amount of phosphorus coming from land parcels that drain to Lake Okeechobee. Chapter 40E-61 provides authorization and the requirements for the issuance of these permits. The applications for the WOD permits are reviewed by the Lake Okeechobee Watershed Assessment (LOWA) staff. The Lake Okeechobee Protection Act which was passed by the legislature in 2000, expanded the scope of the Lake Okeechobee Watershed to include the Kissimmee Upper Chain of Lakes and the Lake Istokpoga basins. The WOD rule is currently being revised to include this region.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Service Item Id: ab386529bcaa4c6bbc30c1e38c82a7bf
Copyright Text: 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.
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>C-139 Basin Permit Application Boundaries. Each Basin is represented by one or multiple parcels owned by different landowners and grouped as farms. The compliance program ensures that landowners are responsible for their proportional share of phosphorus load discharged from the C-139 Basin based upon their proportional share of acreage to the total C-139 Basin acreage.The objectives of this BMP program are as follows:(a) to immediately require initial implementation of a BMP program for reducingand controlling phosphorus discharges from the C-139 Basin (b) to provide a compliance methodology for determining whether additionalmeasures will be required of landowners (c) to establish an inspection and enforcement program to ensure thatphosphorus discharges from the basin do not exceed historic levels, basedupon water quality monitoring data from the period October 1, 1978 toSeptember 30, 1988, in accordance with Chapter 40E-63, F.A.C., AppendixB-2, "C-139 Basin Compliance Methodology", dated October 2001An application packet is created when a permit is applied for. This application packet contains a unique application number, location information such as: Sec/Twp/Rge, project acreage, project land use and location map. 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>
Service Item Id: ab386529bcaa4c6bbc30c1e38c82a7bf
Copyright Text: 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.
Description: <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>
Service Item Id: ab386529bcaa4c6bbc30c1e38c82a7bf
Copyright Text: 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.