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JUL 18 1989 �Uor <br />Director Keating emphasized that this is just a request for <br />the Board to approve this as a budgetary item for inclusion in <br />next year's budget. He then introduced Doug Munch, Division <br />Director of St. John's Water Management District, and Jeffrey <br />Davis, Hydrologist. <br />Mr. Munch, District Division Director for Ground Water <br />Programs, reviewed the history of the District's program. He <br />noted they actually started an inventory of free flowing wells <br />back in 1979 and in 1981 had their first cooperative agreement <br />with Brevard County. In 1983, the Legislature passed the Water <br />Quality Assurance Act which required the Water Management <br />Districts to inventory all free flowing wells and to plug all <br />wells in that inventory by January, 1992. The Legislature, <br />however, was not good with coming up with the funds, and frankly, <br />the District will not reach that 192 deadline. Mr. Munch <br />advised that currently their inventory includes approximately 600 <br />wells, and to date they have plugged 333 throughout the District, <br />or the equivalent of about 50 million gpd, which amount is <br />comparable to about 750 of the total water use in Duval County <br />where Jacksonville is located. They have been working with <br />Brevard County since 1981 and have done 151 wells there on a <br />50/50 cost share program in that time. Mr. Munch stressed that <br />they concentrate the program now where the money is focused. <br />They originally only had 26 wells inventoried in Seminole County, <br />but since the public found out about the cooperative program and <br />learned that it was no cost to them, the inventory in Seminole <br />County has grown to approximately 250 wells. Mr. Munch advised <br />that one of the detriments of enforcement is that it causes <br />people to hide instead of coming out to solve the problem, and it <br />also causes them to take action on their own without the proper <br />technology, which ends up causing a more severe problem. He <br />stressed that enforcement is the District Board's last option; it <br />is not only unsuccessful, but it is not a cost effective way to <br />deal with the problem. <br />26. <br />