Workshop for Expansion of Northern Tampa Bay Water Use Caution Area

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Workshop forExpansion of Northern Tampa Bay
Water Use Caution Area

• April 9, 2007
• Dade City, Florida

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Expansion of Northern Tampa Bay Water Use
Caution Area

• Introductions
• Background
• Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations
• Open Discussion
• Next Steps
• Adjourn

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What is a Water Use Caution Area?

• A WUCA is a region of the District where the
  Governing Board determines additional regulation
  is necessary to address water resource concerns
• Regulations are augmented by non-regulatory
  activities including conservation education,
  cooperative funding, etc.

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Declaring a WUCA

• ? A WUCA is based on a Governing Board
  determination that
• regional action is necessary to address
  cumulative water withdrawals
• ? To address present or future
• adverse impacts to the water resources or the
  public interest.

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Northern Tampa BayHydrogeology and Water Use
Trends
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Northern Tampa Bay Planning Area
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Northern Tampa Bay Planning Area
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Estimated Water Use
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Generalized North-South Hydrogeologic Cross
Section
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Conceptual Hydrogeologic Setting
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Water Levels and Pumping
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Northern Tampa Bay WUCA
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Adopted Minimum Levels
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Impacts in 1998
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Impacts in 2010
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TBWs Groundwater Withdrawals
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Demand Projections NTB Area 2000-2025 (mgd)
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Demand Projections Hillsborough County 2000-2025
(mgd)
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Demand Projections Pasco County 2000-2025 (mgd)
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Population Trends
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Environmental Resources
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Lands with an ERP
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Lands with a WUP
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Estimated 2004 Water Use
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Northern Tampa Bay

• Resource impacts have occurred in portions of
  Hillsborough and Pasco counties outside of the
  Northern Tampa Bay WUCA
• The area outside the Northern Tampa Bay WUCA is a
  high growth area with increasing water use demands

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Questions?
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Northern Tampa BayOverview of NTB WUCA
Regulations
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Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations
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Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations

• Public Supply
• Wholesale Permits
• Per capita limit 150 gpd
• Water-conserving rate structure
• Water audit of distribution system

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Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations

• Public Supply
• Annual Report
• Per Capita achieved
• Service Area Population
• Withdrawals
• Water losses
• Transfers of water
• Residential information (single family vs multi
  family, etc.)

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Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations

• Agriculture - Efficiency
• Existing New
• Permits Permits
• Citrus/Strawberry 75 80
• Row Crops drip/unmulched 75 80
• Row Crops mulched 60 70
• 14 in./yr. crop establishment
• 60 for crop establishment
• Note Current requirements based on irrigation
  system type rather than crop type

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Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations

• Recreational/Industrial/Mining
• ? Conservation Plan that includes
• - Recycling of water
• - Use of reclaimed water
• - Efficient landscaping irrigation

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Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations

• Golf Courses
• ? Conservation Plan that includes
• - Increasing efficiency of water application
• through conversion to low-volume irrigation
• methods
• - Increased system management,
• - Limiting high-frequency irrigation to water-
• critical areas, such as tees and greens.
• - Reducing the frequency of irrigation for
• fairways.
• - Elimination of irrigation of roughs.

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Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations

• Augmentation
• ? Specific rules regarding augmentation of lakes
• and wetlands
• ? Prohibition on aesthetic augmentation
• Lake Impacts
• ? No withdrawal impacts to stressed lakes

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Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations

• Alternative Water Supplies
• ? Increased emphasis on use of reclaimed
• water where feasible
• ? Reclaimed water providers and users
• must report reuse information
• ? Desalination must be investigated where
• feasible

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Overview of NTB WUCA Regulations

• Metering of Withdrawals
• ? Reduce metering threshold to permits
• 100,000 gpd and greater
• ? Monthly data reports required

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NOTE Does not include Crossbar Ranch and Cypress
Creek wellfields
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Total 51.7 MGD
NOTE Does not include Crossbar Ranch and Cypress
Creek wellfields
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Conclusion

• Potential expansion due to growth in Pasco and
  Hillsborough Counties and to capture impacted
  areas
• Governing Board directed staff to obtain public
  input
• Feedback will be relayed to the Board to
  determine next steps

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• Open Discussion

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• Next Steps

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