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Northwest Florida Water Management District Consolidated Annual Report March 1, 2011 Annual Report 2011-02 NORTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT Consolidated Annual Report March 1, 2011 ANNUAL REPORT 2011-02 Cover photos of 2009-2010 activities include (from top left): tidal creek and wetland restoration at Liza Jackson Park in Fort Walton Beach; NWFWMD’s new West Region land management field office; shoreline restoration and oyster reef establishment at Live Oak Point on Choctawhatchee Bay; and restoration of the Pitt Spring complex in the Econfina Creek Water Management Area. NORTHWEST FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD GEORGE ROBERTS, Chair Panama City PHILIP MCMILLAN, Vice Chair Blountstown STEVE GHAZVINI, Secretary/Treasurer Headquarters Tallahassee 81 Water Management Drive Havana, Florida 32333-4712 PETER ANTONACCI STEPHANIE BLOYD JOYCE ESTES (850) 539-5999 Tallahassee Panama City Beach Eastpoint TIM NORRIS JERRY PATE RALPH RISH Tallahassee Santa Rosa Beach Pensacola Port St. Joe Delaney Center Building, Suite 2-D 2252 Killearn Center Boulevard Tallahassee, FL 32309 (850) 921-2986 DOUGLAS E. BARR Executive Director Crestview 800 Hospital Drive Crestview, Florida 32539 (850) 683-5048 REPORT CONTRIBUTORS Milton 5453 Davisson Road Coordination .................................................................................. Paul Thorpe Milton, FL 32583 Tel. (850) 626-3101 Document Development and Distribution .......................Leigh Brooks 1 – SWMP Annual Work Plan Report .................................. Paul Thorpe Marianna 2 – MFL Priority List ................................................................ Ronald Bartel 4765 Pelt Street 3 – Five Year Capital Improvement Plan .................. William Cleckley Marianna, FL 32446 4 – Water Supply .................................................................... Christina Coger (850) 482-9522 5 – Florida Forever Work Plan Annual Report .................. Carol Bert, Christina Coger, Leigh Brooks, and Paul Thorpe Econfina 6418 E. Highway 20 6 – Mitigation Donation Annual Report ....................... Lee Marchman, Youngstown, FL 32466 Duncan Cairns, and Leigh Brooks (850) 722-9919 7 – SWIM Program Summary Report .................................. Paul Thorpe For additional information or to request a copy of this report, please contact Paul Thorpe at (850) 539-5999 or [email protected]. Table of Contents Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... vi 1. Strategic Water Management Plan Annual Work Plan Report ......................................... 1 1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 FY 2011-2015 SWMP Implementation – Strategic Priorities ...................................................... 1 Strategic Priority: Alternative Water Supply Development ........................................................ 2 Strategic Priority: Coastal Utilities Interconnections .................................................................. 4 Strategic Priority: Consumptive Use Permitting ......................................................................... 5 Strategic Priority: Cumulative Impacts Analysis......................................................................... 6 Strategic Priority: Environmental Resource Permitting .............................................................. 7 Strategic Priority: No Net Loss of Wetland Function .................................................................. 8 Strategic Priority: Flood Hazard Mapping................................................................................... 9 Strategic Priority: Reuse of Reclaimed Water ........................................................................... 11 Strategic Priority: Restoration ................................................................................................... 12 Strategic Priority: Lands Management ...................................................................................... 14 2. Minimum Flows and Levels Annual Priority List ........................................................... 16 3. Annual Five-Year Capital Improvements Plan ............................................................... 18 3.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 18 3.2 Five-Year Capital Improvements Plan ....................................................................................... 19 3.3 Project Descriptions .................................................................................................................... 20 3.4 Appendix .................................................................................................................................... 31 4. Water Supply ................................................................................................................... 32 4.1 Five-Year Water Resource Development Work Program: FY 2010-2011 ................................ 32 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 32 Regional Water Supply Planning in Northwest Florida ............................................................. 32 Work Program Implementation .................................................................................................. 35 Funding for Water Resource Development ................................................................................ 36 Water Supply Development Project Assistance ......................................................................... 37 Water Resource Development Projects – Region II: Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, and Walton Counties ............................................................................................................................ 38 Water Resource Development Projects – Region III: Bay County ........................................... 47 Water Resource Development Projects – Region V: Gulf and Franklin Counties .................... 51 4.2 Alternative Water Supplies Annual Report ................................................................................ 56 5. Florida Forever Five Year Work Plan Annual Report..................................................... 59 5.1 Land Acquisition Work Plan ...................................................................................................... 60 5.2 Florida Forever Goals and Numeric Performance Measures ..................................................... 63 5.3 Land Acquisition Projects .......................................................................................................... 64 5.4 Implementation of the 2009-2010 Work Plan ............................................................................ 85 5.5 APPENDIX: DEP Florida Forever Priority List ........................................................................ 91 5.6 Capital Improvement Work Plan ................................................................................................ 95 6. Mitigation Donation Annual Report ................................................................................ 99 7. Surface Water Improvement and Management Program Summary Report .................. 100 References ...................................................................................................................................... 102 iv List of Tables Table 2.1 Northwest Florida Water Management District MFL Priority List (2010) ................................ 17 Table 3.1 NWFWMD Five Year Capital Improvements Plan, Fiscal Years 2010-2015 ............................ 19 Table 4.1 Floridan Aquifer Sustainability Model Applications and Support ............................................... 39 Table 4.2 Inland Sand-and-Gravel Aquifer Sustainability Model ..................................................................... 40 Table 4.3 Development of Feasible Surface Water Resources ........................................................................... 40 Table 4.4 Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Feasibility ................................................................................. 41 Table 4.5 Water Reuse Coordination ........................................................................................................................... 42 Table 4.6 Water Conservation Coordination ............................................................................................................ 43 Table 4.7 Regional Water Supply Planning Strategies .......................................................................................... 44 Table 4.8 Hydrologic Data Collection and Analysis ................................................................................................ 45 Table 4.9 Abandoned Well Plugging ............................................................................................................................. 45 Table 4.10 2010-2015 Region II WRDWP Project Funding ................................................................................ 46 Table 4.11 Hydrologic and Water Quality Data Collection, Monitoring, and Analysis ............................ 48 Table 4.12 Water Reuse and Conservation Assistance ........................................................................................