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Section 7 Environmental Effects of the Selected Plan

EAA Storage Reservoirs Revised Draft PIR and EIS February 2006

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• Modifications to 11,000 acres of existing limestone quarries in the Lake

Belt region of northern Miami-Dade County for water storage for urban

areas and the natural environment;

• Construction of new wastewater reuse facilities and modifications to an

existing waste water reuse facility to supply up to 220 million gallons per

day of treated, clean water to the natural system; and

• Pilot projects to address uncertainties associated with some of the

physical features that are proposed in the CERP.

A number of operational components have also been identified in the CERP and

will, in most cases, occur in conjunction with related construction features. The

operational features in the CERP include: a modified Lake Okeechobee

regulation schedule; environmental water supply deliveries to the

Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Estuaries; modifications to the regulation

schedules for WCAs 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, and the current rainfall delivery formula for

ENP; modified Holey Land Wildlife Management Area Operations Plan;

Modified Rotenberger Wildlife Management Area Operations Plan; a

modification for coastal wellfield operations in the Lower East Coast (LEC); LEC

utility water conservation; and operational modifications to the southern portion

of L-31N and C-111.

Project features will cause some adverse consequences to agricultural land uses -

permanently removing tens of thousands of acres from agricultural production.

These impacts may be felt locally and/or regionally as the economic base derived

from agriculture is incrementally reduced relative to other sectors of the

economy. The overall benefit to the regional system is expected to be far greater

than the localized adverse effects. As these features occur disparately across the

landscape within different hydrologic basins, and as distinct units rather than

multiple features within a single watershed, they will not likely result in a

significantly detrimental cumulative effect.

The EAA Storage Reservoirs project is part of the CERP. Large areas north of

Lake Okeechobee, within the EAA, around the lake, in the Caloosahatchee River

basin, and on the upper east coast are anticipated to be used to increase water

storage for the overall gain and long-term benefit of the regional system. These

project features will provide important storage functions and the Restudy

deemed them essential to the overall restoration of the freshwater marshes and

the estuaries and the downstream Everglades. Project features will cause some

adverse consequences to agricultural land uses - permanently removing tens of

thousands of acres from agricultural production. These impacts may be felt

locally and/or regionally as the economic base derived from agriculture is

incrementally reduced relative to other sectors of the economy. The overall

benefit to the regional system is expected to be far greater than the localized

adverse effects. As these features occur disparately across the landscape within

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