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High Springs
Herald
Springs on Suwannee River, with a
heated, in-ground pool, soon to be open to public
By Rachael Anne Ryals
Herald Staff Writer
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Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 10:57 AM
Subject: Santa Fe River and New River TMDLs FAW Notice
The following notice has been published to Florida
Administrative Weekly today, August 22, 2008. https://www.flrules.org/default.asp
The link to a summary of the FAW notice is
https://www.flrules.org/Gateway/View_notice.asp?id=6034872
The FAW notice (as shown below) can be found at: https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?id=62-304.410
The current Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Report can
be found at: http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/draft_tmdl.htm#Group1
For more information about the TMDL, please contact Jan
Mandrup-Poulsen at Jan.Mandrup-Poulsen@dep.state.fl.us
For more information, please contact the Suwannee Basin
Coordinator, Terry Hansen at Terry.Hansen@dep.state.fl.us
Notice of Proposed
Rule
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
RULE NO: RULE TITLE
62-304.410: Santa Fe Basin TMDLs
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The purpose of the rule
is to adopt Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), and their allocations, for
nutrients and dissolved oxygen in the Santa Fe River (below river rise) and to
adopt Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), and their allocations, for fecal
coliforms (New River), total nitrogen (New River WBIDs 3506 and 3506B), and
total phosphorus (New River WBID 3506).
SUMMARY: The Santa Fe TMDL addresses
nutrients and dissolved oxygen impairments in the Santa Fe River (below river rise). This waterbody
was verified as impaired by nitrate-N and dissolved oxygen (DO) using the
methodology established in Chapter 62-303, F.A.C., Identification of Impaired
Surface Waters. For DO, the nutrient TMDL target, set as a monthly average for
nitrate-N, will reduce any pollutant impacts associated with DO. A concentration
target was used to develop the nutrient TMDL. The New River TMDLs address fecal
coliform and DO impairments in the New River.
This waterbody was also verified as impaired by fecal coliforms and dissolved
oxygen using the methodology established in Chapter 62-303, F.A.C. For the DO
TMDLs, water quality targets were identified for total nitrogen and/or total
phosphorus using a bioregion reference nutrient approach. The Kansas approach was used
to develop the fecal coliform TMDL.
SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED
REGULATORY COSTS: The Department has not prepared a Statement of Estimated
Regulatory Cost (SERC) for this proposed Rule.
Any person who wishes to
provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or
provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative must do so in writing
within 21 days of this notice.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 403.061, 403.067 FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 403.061, 403.062, 403.067 FS.
A HEARING WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND
PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
DATE AND TIME: September 18, 2008,
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Florida Department of
Environmental Protection, 2600
Blair Stone Road, Room 609, Bob Martinez
Center, Tallahassee, Florida
Pursuant to the provisions of the
Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to
participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 5
days before the workshop/meeting by contacting: Ms. Pat Waters at (850)245-8449.
If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the
Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).
THE
PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Jan Mandrup-Poulsen,
Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration, Bureau of Watershed
Management, Mail Station 3555, Florida Department of Environmental Protection,
2600 Blair Stone Road, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400, telephone
(850)245-8448
THE FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE IS:
62-304.410 Santa Fe Basin
TMDLs.
Santa
Fe River Planning
Unit.
(1) Santa Fe River
TMDLs.
(a) Santa Fe River TMDL for nutrient
and dissolved oxygen impairments: The Total Maximum Daily Load for nutrients in
the Santa Fe River (below river rise) is to achieve a monthly average of 0.35
mg/L nitrate-N, and is allocated as follows:
1. The Wasteload Allocation (WLA) for
wastewater sources is not applicable,
2. The WLA for discharges subject to
the Department’s National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
Municipal Stormwater Permitting Program are to meet a monthly average in-stream
ambient water quality target of 0.35 mg/L nitrate-N. The range of percent
reduction necessary to achieve the LA is estimated between 13 and 35 percent
depending on the month and location within the basin..Achievement of the TMDL
constitutes meeting the water quality target,
and
3. The Load Allocations (LA) for
nonpoint sources are to meet a monthly average of 0.35 mg/L nitrate-N. The range
of percent reduction necessary to achieve the LA is estimated between 13 and 35
percent depending on the month and location within the basin. Achievement of the
TMDL constitutes meeting the water quality target,
and
4. The Margin of Safety is
implicit.
(2) New
River TMDLs.
(a) New River TMDL for fecal coliform
impairment. The Total Maximum Daily Load for New
River 400 counts/100mL for fecal coliform, and is allocated as
follows:
1. The WLA for wastewater point
sources is not applicable,
2. The WLA for discharges subject to
the Department’s NPDES Municipal Stormwater Permitting Program is not
applicable,
3. The LA for nonpoint sources is to
address anthropogenic sources in the basin such that in-stream concentrations
meet the fecal coliform criteria which, based on the measured concentrations
from the 1995 to 2007 period, will require a 45 percent reduction at sources
contributing to exceedances of the criteria,
and
4. The Margin of Safety is
implicit.
5. While the LA for fecal coliform
has been expressed as the percent reductions needed to attain the applicable
Class III criteria, it is not the intent of the TMDL to abate natural background
conditions.
(b) New River TMDL for dissolved
oxygen impairment. The Total Maximum Daily Load for the New
River is allocated as follows:
1. The WLA for wastewater point
sources is not applicable,
2. The WLA for discharges subject to
the Department’s NPDES Municipal Stormwater Permitting Program is not
applicable,
3. The LA for nonpoint sources is to
address anthropogenic sources in the basin such that there is a 38 percent
reduction of current anthropogenic total nitrogen (TN) loading to the upper
portion of the New River, a 13 percent reduction of current anthropogenic total
nitrogen (TN) loading to the lower portion of the New River, and a 38 percent
reduction of current anthropogenic total phosphorus (TP) loading to the lower
portion of the New River, based on measured concentrations from the 1995 to 2006
period.
Specific Authority
403.061, 403.067 FS. Law Implemented 403.061, 403.062, 403.067 FS.
History–New
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NAME OF PERSON
ORIGINATING PROPOSED RULE: Drew Bartlett, Deputy Director, Division of
Environmental Assessment and Restoration
NAME OF AGENCY HEAD WHO APPROVED THE
PROPOSED RULE: Michael Sole, Secretary, Department of Environmental
Protection
DATE PROPOSED RULE APPROVED BY AGENCY HEAD: July 29, 2008
DATE
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT PUBLISHED IN FAW: August 1,
2008
Anita
Nash
Environmental
Consultant
Watershed
Planning and Coordination Section
Watershed
Management Program
Office:
(850) 245-8545
Fax:
(850 245-8434
Florida
Department of Environmental Protection
2600
Blair Stone Rd.
MS 3565
Bob
Martinez Center,
Room 659G
Tallahassee,
FL 32399-2400
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You and Your
Favorite Organization Have The Power To Convince Restaurants
to
Pledge to Stop Serving Bottled Water
Take Back the Tap and Toss Bottled Water
Out
August 20, 2008
Dear Merrillee,
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Tell restaurants in your city to
Take Back the
Tap!
Ask Your Favorite
Restaurants to
Toss Bottled Water
Out
You have the
power!
Community organizations and groups can
(and ARE!) successfully convincing their favorite restaurants
to
show bottled water the
door!
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Are you a member of a community
organization or group that would like to help Take Back the
Tap?
If so,
this is a great opportunity for your organization to start a Take
Back the Tap campaign in your city by encouraging
local restaurants to ditch
bottled water!
Activists have already
partnered with restaurants in Memphis, Boulder, Durango, Ann Arbor,
Madison, San Francisco, Omaha, and Albuquerque to make the pledge to
serve only tap water.
Ask restaurants in your city to
eliminate bottled water! Tell them:
-- Most tap water is
just as clean and safe as bottled water.
--
The idea that all bottled water is pure is a marketing
myth.
-- Plastic bottles can leach
chemicals into the water.
-- About
86% of the empty plastic water bottles in the U.S. land in the
garbage instead of being
recycled.
Get your organization or
community group to join the movement to get rid of bottled
water!
Sincerely,
Corie
Lopez
Food & Water
Watch
For more information, read our Restaurant-Goers'
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GILCHRIST COUNTY
ANNOUNCEMENT....
FYI: The Gilchrist County
Visioning Committee will be meeting on the following
dates:
Tuesday,
September 2, 2008, 6:00 P.M.
Tuesday, October
7, 2008
Thursday,
November 6, 2008
Tuesday, December
2, 2008
All meetings will be held at the
Trenton High School Auditorium (1013 North Main
Street
Trenton, Florida
32693) and
the first meeting will begin at 6:00 P.M. The meeting time for the other
meetings will be set during the first meeting.
The meetings are
open to the public, and everyone in the Gilchrist County community is encouraged to attend
and take part in the visioning process.
Please help spread the
word!
Thank
you.
Taylor
Brown, Planning Director
Gilchrist County Community
Development Department
209 South East First
Street
Trenton, Florida 32693
Phone (352)
463-3173
Fax (352)
463-3189
Email: tbrown@gilchrist.fl.us
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Interesting chemical questions directed to
Niagara Bottling LLC.
These are questions we need to be concerned within
our neighborhoods too.
August 20, 2008
To:
Rob Kelly
From:
Ronald E. Ney, Jr., Ph.D.
Subject: Consumptive use application by Niagara
Bottling LLC
There are many l concerns that I have concerning
Niagara Bottling LLC, bottling plant that I wished SJRWMD and Niagara Bottling
LLC would answers.
- What safety measures will be in place to prevent
phthalates, plastic particles (nano-particles) and dioxins from getting into
lakes, rivers, groundwater and air?
- Will any chemical releases endanger children,
adults, pets and wildlife?
- The following questions are on chemicals and
degradation products that are discharged into the wastewater and solid
waste.
·
Will plastic particles be
discharged?
·
Will the plastic particles absorb
or adsorb any chemicals, if so, which ones and how much?
·
Will the nano-plastic particles
absorb or adsorb any chemicals, if so, which ones and how much?
·
What chemicals will be in the
wastewater and solid waste and how much?
·
What chemical extraction and
determinative methods are used?
·
How where the methods validated
and who did the peer review of the methods?
·
Will phthalates be
discharged?
5. The following question concern discharges into the
air.
·
What chemicals will be
discharged?
·
Will plastic particles and or
nano-particles be discharged?
·
Will phthalates be
discharged?
6. Are sanitizers and chlorinated chemicals used and
discharged?
7. What chemicals and what amounts will be stored on
the site?
8. Will any Laws and Treaties of the United States
for Protecting Migratory Birds similar to those listed below be violated or any
others?
- Lacey Act
- Weeks-McLean Law
- Migratory Bird Treaty Act
- Endangered Species Act
- Other Domestic Laws
9. Will any international treaties not listed in 8 be violated
because of the contaminated discharge or its reuse on land? If requested I can
provide additional list.
10. The following questions deal with the statement,
“A report that Niagara
prepared for the water management district predicts the company's water withdrawal could lower some
lakes in that part of the county by more than an inch.”
·
What predictive techniques were
used?
· I would
like a copy of these predictive techniques.
·
What is the accuracy of the
predictive techniques?
·
How were the predictive methods
validated?
·
Who peered reviewed the
predictive techniques?
·
What comments did the peer
reviewers rendered on the predictive techniques?
Thank you,
Dr. Ron Ney
Ø Certificate of Achievement and entered into the 16th
edition of AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN OF SCIENCE, January 1987.
Ø In 1994-1995, included in Marquis WHO'S WHO IN
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, Marquis WHO'S WHO in America.
Ø In 1997, included in the International Who's Who,
Cambridge England
Retired Supervisory Chemist USEPA (USDA & FDA)
and former NREP & Registered Environmental Professional State of
California
- Science Advisor in the Office of Solid Waste
Disposal, USEPA; Liaison to EPS’s Office of Research and Development, and
Universities Centers of Excellence Research.
- Chief of Environmental Chemistry,
USEPA; for Fate and Transport of Pesticides in Air, Water, Soil, Plants and
Animals, and Modeling. Wrote the data requirements for 40CFR § 158.290 and
§ 158.1300 Subpart
N.
- Department of Agriculture’s Pesticide Registration
Division, Supervisory Chemist for Pesticide Tolerance Review for Pesticides in
or on food, meat, dairy, eggs, etc. and started the regulations on Fate and
Transport of Pesticides in Air, Water, Soil, Plants and Animals.
- Food and Drug Administration, Laboratory Group
Leader for Total Mercury Analysis.
- Assistant Referee for the Association of Official
Analytical Chemist for Total Mercury determination in treated seed.
- Collegiate Professional Teaching Certificate to
teach chemistry, science and biology.
- Adjunct Assistant
Professor/Instructor for College Chemistry (general, organic and
biochemistry), Topics in Environmental Issues, Topics in Environmental Risk in
Real Estate Transactions and Real Estate Appraisal.
- Principal Real Estate Broker and Certified Real
Estate Appraiser.
- Author of Where Did That Chemical Go?, Fate and Transport of Organic Chemicals in the
Environment, Your Guide to Safety and Chemicals: What you need to know.
- Member on the Dioxin Disposal
Advisory Group in the USEPA in the early 1980’s.
- I have
explained environmental data in court cases for the USEPA and with the DOJ and
have served as an expert witness on environmental cases.
I have reviewed and/or supervised the review of data
on plants, animals, air, soil and water to make regulatory decisions and
enforcement decisions (actions) and other type reviews.
1. I have reviewed about 10,000 pesticides
labels for chemical names, crop restrictions, etc.
2. I have reviewed about 3,000 reports for
pesticide petitions for tolerance (chemical residues in crops), rotational
crops, planting restrictions, etc. I wrote many data requirements for this under
FIFRA, which were adopted by FFDCA (pre USEPA).
4.
I have reviewed about 500 reports
for environmental chemistry data on fate and transport of pesticides in air,
water, soil, plants and animals. These data requirements were written and
started by me.
5.
I have reviewed microbial studies
proposed by NASA for research in space.
6.
I have reviewed
studies for the disposal of radioactive material at Yucca Mountain.
I have reviewed many
pesticide studies on fate and transport submitted by the USACOE to USDA and
USEPA.
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- August 15, 2008
