DuPont Permit Request

The following is a June 15, 2011 email exchange between Jackie Host, President of LAWA, and Jennifer Gihring, Project Manager for SJRWMD.

Hello all,
During our meeting last week Friday, you requested District assistance in evaluating the proposed DuPont facility permit revision currently under consideration by FDEP. Tom Bartol has asked Carol Brown, an engineer in our Water Supply Planning Division, to assist you.

I provided Carol copies of your correspondence to-date with Kathryn Jarvis, FDEP. To help us provide better assistance, it would be very helpful if you could pull together a list of 3-5 questions or topics specific to this proposed permit revision. That would help ensure that we provide the information you need. Alternatively, we could have a conference call sometime in the next few days to clarify your needs. Please advise regarding your preference.

Please note that Carol will be out of the office from Wednesday June 22 through Wednesday July 6th.

Carol’s email is cgbrown@sjrwmd.com or you can reach her at 386-329-4816. Our offices are just a few doors apart, so you can trust that we are keeping in touch with each other on this.

Thank you,
Jennifer

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Jennifer Gihring Project Manager
St. Johns River Water Management District
4049 Reid St, Palatka, FL 32178

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Greetings Jennifer,

The following are all issues pertaining to the proposed DuPont DEP permit renewal currently under consideration. These are sources of additional water that could be routed to the chain of lakes.

(1)One of the things we would like to see is the consumptive use permit, accompanying TSR and the 2004(6?) modification associated with DuPont’s DEP permit that allows them to withdraw from the aquifer and discharge through D-002 from the final treatment pond via the 8 “ pipe into the SW quadrant point that gravity flows to Blue pond through the ditch system. Will you please provide that to us?

(2) The storm water runoff associated with the 2500 acres of mined area being reclaimed north of the processing facility is now all routed to Alligator West through Starke and has historically caused flooding problems in Starke. We are wondering if the excess runoff can be routed into the SW Quadrant man made lake that flows to Blue pond through the ditch system (as stated above).

(3)Long term, could runoff from the mined area being reclaimed be routed to the SW Quadrant?

Additionally, the 1995 SJRWMD permit that was never constructed should be readdressed as another source of water. Based on the TSR that is a spring fed, man made lake in the Black Creek watershed. Since a precedent has been made of permitting routing water from the Black Creek watershed to the SW Quadrant lake, and since there are other man made lakes that could be rerouted, and since Black Creek floods, why can’t more water be directed to the aquifer recharge area (chain of lakes and the Keystone Heights area).

Thank you for offering the technical expertise you have at the Management District at the last meeting. We are looking forward to hearing some proposals from your staff too. The clock is ticking and we depend on your assessment to move forward before time runs out on being able to respond to the permit application renewal.

Jackie Host
President, LAWA

Jackie,

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Thank you for your thoughts.  I also spoke with Vivian yesterday and she followed-up with several specific questions.  Carol and I will use these questions to guide our information collection and evaluation process.

See you next week,

Jennifer