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Comprehensive Plan Intergovernmental Coordination Element the canal system will be piped to the headworks of the facility and then sheet flow over a large algal turf scrubber. Algae that grows on the scrubber will remove pollutants from the water and be harvested and composted on a weekly basis in the summer and less often in the cooler months. Then water that has flowed over the scrubber will be routed sequentially through 3 polishing ponds (initial intermediate and final) and then pumped back into the canal system. The Indian River County's Main Relief Canal Pollution Central System Using Series Screening Methodology to continuously remove solids to 1/16th inch diameter from 300 mgd of canal water. The project is being paid for and constructed by Indian River County in the Indian River Farms Water Control District's right-of-way under an Interlocal Agreement between the county and the IRFWCD main relief canal pollution control system. Indian River Farms is not the only water control district with which the county must coordinate, and drainage is not the only county/water control district intergovernmental coordination issue. With the Fellsmere Farms Water Control District (FFWCD), an important issue is property access. Presently, there are many five and ten acre parcels, created in the 1920's by the FFWCD's plat of reclamation, that have access only through ditch roads within FFWCD's canal and road rights-of-way. These ditch roads are unpaved and unsafe. Consequently, there is a need for the county and FFWCD to coordinate to improve these roads. Overall, it is necessary that the county coordinate extensively with the water control districts. This coordination should involve addressing water quality and water quantity aspects of new development projects, cooperating with road and canal right-of-way usage, and j ointly addressing long term stormwater management system improvements. With respect to land use, decisions in one jurisdiction can produce various types of impacts on infrastructure components such as water, sewer, solid waste, drainage, and aquifer recharge in other jurisdictions. Such impacts could include: facility impacts (such as stormwater runoff from a project in one jurisdiction affecting drainage canals in another, development in one jurisdiction affecting water and sewer capacity and availability in another jurisdiction, or a drainage district's capacity or level of service standard limiting discharge rate for development projects in a jurisdiction); aquifer recharge area impacts (such as development in one jurisdiction reducing aquifer recharge and consequently affecting quantity and/or quality of groundwater in another area); and other types of impacts. For adjacent counties, the St. Johns River Water Management District, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Environmental Protection, the principal relationships involve natural resource protection and Floridan aquifer recharge area protection. Because land use decisions can have extra jurisdictional impacts, coordination among adjacent local governments and special districts is important. Therefore, notification of affected governments, identification of expected impacts, establishment of ways to mitigate impacts, and development of a process to resolve disputes are important. A policy for Joint Planning Areas (JPA) can address these issues. In the future, the county should work with adjacent local governments to develop formal intergovernmental coordination agreements that address extra jurisdictional impacts. Community Development Department Indian River County 3 2