Greetings Al,
In reviewing the draft for the collaborative effort on the
regional groundwater model development project I noticed that the third party
Stakeholder was “other parties yet to be identified”. I have received a
flurry of communications regarding this from members of the community as one
cannot help but notice all of the stakeholders that are identified are utility,
agriculture and phosphate companies. I am very hopeful that you are
considering some other participants such as University of Florida or USGA
professionals to balance your working group.
If I understood Jennifer correctly, this is a technical
working group for the groundwater model and will have no direct bearing or will
slow up any progress on the Stakeholder group she is putting together for the
Brooklyn, Cowpen, Geneva recovery strategy.
Your thoughts on the above would be appreciated so I could
report it to my Alliance members.
Sincerely,
Jackie Host
Jackie –
The charter you are referring to is for a project to develop a new regional groundwater model for parts of north central Florida, north east Florida and south Georgia. This is a separate effort from the Prevention/Recovery strategy effort currently underway.
The stakeholder groups you see
listed so far are those who became aware of the project before it was posted on
our web site and have expressed interest in participating. The purpose of
posting the charter on the web site is to inform a wider variety of
stakeholders of the project and to solicit their involvement should they so
desire.
There are three levels of
involvement possible for stakeholders: Project Team (any stakeholder interested
in the chartering and progress of this project), Steering Team (interested and
qualified stakeholders who will provide high-level direction to the Technical
Team) and Technical Team (stakeholders with technical expertise in groundwater
modeling, hydrogeology, hydrology or related fields). More detail on the
teams is provided in the Definitions section of the draft project
charter.
Once the model is developed, we will likely have it peer reviewed by one or two groundwater modeling technical experts not involved in the project.
This new model will not
be used to develop the Prevention/Recovery strategies, as model development is
expected to be a multi-year effort. The current version of the District’s
Northeast Florida groundwater model (Version 4, NEF) will be used to develop
strategies. Accordingly, development of the new model will not slow down
the Prevention/Recovery strategy effort.
Alfred P. Canepa
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