Draft Suwannee River Basin Management Action Plan 2017-11-14

Today, 6PM, in Live Oak, now with draft plan:

To: Suwannee River Basin BMAP Stakeholders
From: Terry Hansen, Basin Coordinator

The Draft BMAP for the Lower and Middle Suwannee River, Withlacoochee River, and associated springs to be discussed at the November 14th, 2017 meeting has been posted to:.

Figure ES-1. Suwannee River BMAP and PFA boundaries

http://publicfiles.dep.state.fl.us/DEAR/BMAP/Suwannee/DRAFT BMAP/

The Department requests that you please submit any comments on the draft document by COB Thursday, November 30th, 2017.

Meeting Reminder:

November 14, 2017, 6:00 PM,
Suwannee River Water Management District,
9225 CR49 Live Oak, FL 32060

A meeting agenda will be made available prior to the meeting.

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions at 850-245-8561 or by e-mail at Terry.Hansen@dep.state.fl.us.

As always, thank you for your interest and participation.

Terry Hansen. P.G.
Watershed Planning and Coordination Section
Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration
Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Agenda_SR+BMAP+Mtg_111417_to+post.docx

The current draft BMAP under the above link is: FDEP PDF.

Figure 7. Loading to groundwater by source in the Withlacoochee River Springshed

I’ve pulled out selected maps from that BMAP draft on the WWALS website. In addition to the obvious maps, they include locations of wastewater treatment facilities and water quality monitoring, and Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal System (OSTDS) locations.

See you at the meeting this evening.

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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