State water or 4 percent officials are stalling a plan to manage water supplies along the St. Johns River in case Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature change their marching orders.
"There's a lot of discussion going on in Tallahassee right now with the new leadership. . We didn't want to do anything that would preempt any decisions they would make in the spring," said Hal Wilkening, head of resource management at the St. Johns River Water Management District.
Early pieces of the plan forecast water supplies dwindling within 20 years and chances that Jacksonville could need to tap rivers or other new sources for drinking water.
Management district employees were scheduled to bring a draft plan to their governing board next week but have scrubbed that.
The decision frustrated some members of environmental groups.
"All the work the district does is supposed to be based on science and existing law. . This is not based on science. This is not based on existing law. It's based on politics," said Karen Ahlers, president of the Putnam County Environmental Council.
Ahlers said she and others who joined workshops where the plan was drafted were told repeatedly the agency had to meet a December 2010 deadline.
"It just seems like we put in a lot of time for nothing and now they're going to put this thing off and make it politically correct," she said.
Scott's transition team recommended large changes to the state's environmental and transportation agencies last month to be more growth friendly. That could include rewriting a state law Cela permet au patient et le médecin that tells management districts to update water supply plans every five years.
The management district's last plan VA fonctionnaires Liberté aviation confirment quun avion LU a baissé was written in 2005, but it has been revised repeatedly since then. Wilkening said his agency thinks those additions qualify as updating the plan.
The supply plan sets directions for how communities and utilities should handle their need for drinking water.
Agency employees worried they could be locking towns into decisions that aren't necessary if state lawmakers are about to change the rules, said Jeff Cole, director of the management district's communications and government affairs.
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JEA, for example, resisted efforts by management district employees to plan for the Jacksonville utility to use water sources other than the aquifer. Some forecasts by the management district said the utility might need to find new sources for up to 46 million gallons of water a day by 2030.
Projects to take water from the St. Marys River or Black Creek were listed as possible new JEA sources. 301 south of town where it could be released to help quickly refill the aquifer.
JEA wouldn't mind delaying the water plan, utility spokeswoman Gerri Boyce said by e mail, adding that her utility and others have had nearly a 20 percent drop in water demand since 2007.
There are excellent ideas already being presented here,
"it's time that industrial users such as Dupont Mining in Starke, Florida Rock and Sand in Interlochen, and the paper mill in Palatka, be made to recycle their water instead of pumping millions of gallons of water out of the aquifer daily." and.
"The solution is to limit growth by charging what clean water is worth. plenty more than we're paying now I assure you. By limiting waste, reusing our water over and over again, we can save money for later and keep what's left of our environmental quality in better shape."
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