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REGIONAL ISSUES IN AQUIFER STORAGE AND RECOVERY FOR EVERGLADES RESTORATION
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The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) is a framework and guide to restore, protect, and preserve the water resources of central and southern Florida, including the Everglades. It covers an 18,000-square-mile area, includes more than 60 elements, and will take more than 30 years to implement. It is designed to capture, store and redistribute fresh water previously lost to tide and to regulate the quality, quantity, timing and distribution of water flows. The need for water storage for the CERP has led to the proposal to drill over 300 aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) wells in south Florida (Figure 1). ASR is “the storage of water in a suitable aquifer through a well during times when water is available, and recovery of the water from the same well during times when it is needed” (Pyne, 1995). The CERP would use porous and permeable units in the Upper Floridan aquifer (UFA) to store excess surface water and shallow groundwater at rates of up to 1.7 billion gallons per day (bgpd) (6.3 million m3 per day) during wet periods for recovery during seasonal or longer-term dry periods.
National Research Council - Personal Name
0-309-50368-X
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Management
English
2002
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