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RESOLUTION NO. 2009-002 <br />A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY <br />COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, IN <br />SUPPORT OF THE HYDRAULIC AND APPLICABLE PHYSICAL <br />RECONNECTION OF THE CENTRAL AND SOUTH FLORIDA <br />FLOOD CONTROL PROJECT, AS REPRESENTED PRESENTLY <br />BY THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT <br />AND THE ST. JOHNS RIVER WATER MANAGEMENT <br />DISTRICT, THROUGH A SERIES OF INTERCONNECTED <br />RESERVOIRS, STORMWATER TREATMENT AREAS AND <br />CANALS WITHIN THE FORT DRUM MARSH AREA. <br />WHEREAS, the United States of America in partnership with the <br />State of Florida passed Congressional legislation through the Flood <br />Control Acts of 1948 and 1954, titled the Central and South Florida Flood <br />Control Project and provided for the construction and operations and <br />maintenance of the developed project through a partnership of the United <br />States Army Corps of Engineers and an Agency of the State of Florida, the <br />Central and South Florida Flood Control District; and <br />WHEREAS, in the 1970s, through the enactment of Chapter 373, the <br />State of Florida, legislatively created the Five (5) Water Management <br />Districts of the State of Florida, of which two of those legislatively created <br />water management districts, are the South Florida Water Management <br />District and the St. Johns River Water Management Districts; and <br />WHEREAS, the South Florida Water Management District and the St. <br />Johns River Water Management District were previously represented by <br />one jurisdictional agency of the State of Florida, the Central and South <br />Florida Flood Control District headquartered in West Palm Beach, Palm <br />Beach County, Florida; and <br />WHEREAS, through this singular jurisdictional agency of the State of <br />Florida, the Central and South Florida Flood Control District, as established <br />by the United States of Congress, constructed, operated and maintained a <br />regional surface water system consisting of a series of canals, levees, <br />pump stations and other facilities throughout the State of Florida and <br />specific to this resolution in Indian River and St. Lucie Counties; and <br />