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Section 2 Existing Conditions/Affected Environment

EAA Storage Reservoirs Revised Draft PIR and EIS February 2006

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source areas and, where present, impacted media abated. In 2003, the SFWMD

reported there were 17 areas remaining that required closure, including three

tracts that had not been evaluated. According to the SFWMD, the closure of the

17 areas and/or evaluations will be completed by 2007.

Evaluation of samples collected from the cultivated areas have identified

localized areas of agrochemical (toxaphene) impacts at Tract No. 100-039—

Woerner Farm #3, which was targeted for abatement and remediated. However,

the clean-up effort failed to achieve the site specific clean-up goals for toxaphene.

As a result of this finding, the Fish and Wildlife Service has recommended that,

at a minimum, a more rigorous environmental risk assessment be conducted by

the responsible party. In the event that additional clean-up sufficient to reduce

toxaphene to levels not threatening to future fish and wildlife utilization is

warranted, remediation would precede the operation of the reservoir in the

contaminated zone. To date, with the exception of this one tract, elevated levels

of persistent or toxic chemicals have not been detected, or only detected at low

levels below thresholds of concern for ecological integrity.

Additional lands owned by either the State of Florida or the SFWMD, located

between Compartment A and the Miami River Canal along the northern

boundary of Holey Land make up three previously assessed tracts—Tract No.

100-103 Farm 15, Tract No. 100-018, and Tract No. 100-019, respectively. The

URS summary document reported the environmental status of each tract as

follows:

• Tract No. 100-103 Farm 15 was divided into three monitoring units—

Pump Station, Equipment Staging Area, and Cultivated Crop Area. Only

the Pump Station portion of the site required closure; the Equipment and

Crop areas were determine by the USFWS and FDEP to require no

further action (NFA).

• Tract No. 100-018 was designated as requiring no further action.

• Tract No. 100-019 was designated as requiring no further action

In addition to the above, several site visits were conducted at locations identified

in the HTRW database over the past few years. The HTRW database review of

existing conditions found the project site to be free of hazardous and toxic

materials and waste. The property surrounding the potential project site did not

have discolored soils or stressed vegetation, or any other indicator of

contamination levels requiring cleanup. No hazardous substances in connection

with identified uses were observed. However, the database search did reveal

that a road adjacent to the original Restudy proposed 60,000-acre (24,281 ha)

storage area did have a toxic release to the north of the northernmost

20,000-acre (8,094 ha) storage cell. This spill poses a low risk to the site.

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