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Section 2 Existing Conditions/Affected Environment

EAA Storage Reservoirs Revised Draft PIR and EIS February 2006

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2.0 EXISTING CONDITIONS/AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT

2.1 HISTORY AND PROCESS FOR DETERMINING EXISTING

CONDITIONS

The development of agriculture within the EAA was substantially completed in

1962. Associated with that development was gathering extensive information on

soils, crops, water resources, and water management. The proposed EAA

reservoirs have been previously considered and studied as part of the C&SF

Project and CERP. The documents generated by these studies contain extensive

information regarding system-wide existing conditions as well as conditions

within the Study Area.

Subsequent to the completion of the Restudy, the EAA Storage Reservoir PIR

study was initiated. It focused on advanced plan formulation and design of the

proposed reservoirs. Collectively, the information contained in this large body of

prior planning efforts, studies, and reports provides documentation of

environmental, economic, social, and demographic conditions and serves as the

basis for projecting future conditions in the Study Area. In 2003, a South

Florida Water Management District (SFWMD)/United States Army Corps of

Engineers (USACE) report identified environmental conditions in the CERP

Study Area, including the EAA, based on available data (SFWMD, 2003a).

These referenced materials were expanded through additional data collection

efforts.

A December 2002 SFWMD document defines major basin (drainage basin

boundaries) and sub-basin boundaries within the EAA watershed (SFWMD,

2002). These boundaries are continuously changing because of land use changes,

land swapping, permit modifications, and other activities within the watershed,

as well as the implementation of projects related to the CERP.

USFWS prepared a preliminary report in 2003 on existing conditions in the EAA

(USFWS, 2003). This report summarized additional research information and

provided the results of a multi-agency wetland habitat verification and the

evaluation effort conducted during 2003.

Existing socioeconomic conditions were presented in a 2003 document by

SFWMD/USACE. This report focused on socioeconomic data related to EAA

agricultural production (SFWMD, 2003b). In January 2004, Dr. George Snyder

published a report on EAA soil subsidence and land use projections (Snyder,

2004). This report provided key information about existing conditions for

evaluating the future without the project. Information on existing flood control

conditions within the Study Area was gathered in 2003. The results were

published in February 2004 by SFWMD (SFWMD, 2004).

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