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Blue Spring, Volusia County: Minimum Flow Regime

Minimum flows and levels (MFLs) prevention/recovery strategy development process

For selected lakes and springs in Brevard, Clay, Lake, Marion, Orange, Putnam, Seminole and Volusia counties

The St. Johns River Water Management District is facilitating a process to develop prevention/recovery strategies for water bodies within the District where MFLs are currently not being met or are projected not to be met within 20 years. The District and stakeholders are working collaboratively to develop long-term comprehensive strategies to achieve the MFLs.

District water supply planning efforts over the past few years have included further, detailed evaluation of adopted MFLs. This evaluation of established MFLs has identified more than 35 water bodies (springs and lakes) of concern through the 2030 planning horizon. To organize the process, the water bodies have been grouped into six strategy development areas.

MFLs are water flows and levels for surface water and groundwater designed to ensure that water withdrawals will not cause significant harm to the water resource or the ecology of the area. Establishing MFLs and evaluating their status are important parts of the District’s work to plan for adequate water supplies while also protecting water bodies from significant harm. The District has established MFLs on more than 120 water bodies throughout the District’s 18-county area.

If the existing flow or level of a water body is below or projected in 20 years to fall below established MFLs, then a recovery strategy must be implemented to restore the system to the established MFLs or a prevention strategy implemented to prevent the system from falling below the established MFLs.

How to learn more, get involved

For more information about the prevention/recovery strategy development process or how to get involved in a stakeholder team, contact Scott Laidlaw at slaidlaw@sjrwmd.com or (386) 312-2388.

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