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SJRWMD FY 2017-2018 Final Budget Ill. FY 2017-18 Budget Highlights A. FY 2016-17 Accomplishments by Program Water Supply Water Supply Planning • The District's Governing Board and the Suwanee River Water Management District's Governing Board voted to approve the North Florida Water Regional Water Supply Plan (NFRWSP) on January 17, 2017. The regional water supply plan will ensure the protection of water resources and related natural systems and identify sustainable water supplies for all water uses in the coordination area through 2035. • The Legislature has appropriated $13.3 million toward the Black Creek Water Resource Development Project listed within the NFRWSP. This project will provide aquifer recharge within the Keystone Heights area, as well as contribute to MFL recovery of the Lower Santa Fe Basin. As of July 2017, the Governing Board approved granting the Executive Director the authority to rank and select a contracting firm to begin design and permitting. By the end of July 2017, CDM Smith was placed under contract and started work. Resource Evaluation and Modeling • The District will continue working cooperatively with the South Florida and Southwest Florida water management districts (SFWMD and SWFWMD) on revision of the East Central Florida Transient model through a memorandum of understanding between the three districts; potentially receiving a 33 percent match from each district for contractual modification to the model that will result in reduced cost and increased efficiency for all involved. Springs Restoration • Cowpen Lake and DeLeon Springs MFLs were proposed for adoption on December 14, 2016, and made effective on February 1, 2017. These MFLs are currently being met and are expected to be met over the next 20 years, and no prevention or recovery strategy was needed. • The District approved the adoption of minimum flows for Silver Glen Springs in Marion County, Alexander Springs in Lake County and Gemini Springs in Volusia County—all three Outstanding Florida Springs —on May 10, 2017, defining a protective limit on the amount of available water beyond which further groundwater withdrawals would be significantly harmful. The MFLs became effective in late June 2017 to meet the July 1 statutory deadline. Water Quality Water Resources • The District completed the southern inlet for Fellsmere Water Management Area in January 2017. This will make the area fully operational and provide 70,000 acre-feet of additional storage for the Upper St. Johns River Basin. This is one of Page 10