| NECP |
Non-Everglades Construction Project |
Leslye Waugh |
WQM |
lwenker |
25-AUG-1997 |
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The Non-Everglades Construction Project (NECP) was created to fulfill the goals of the 1994 Everglades Forever Act to improve water quality in the Everglades. The permit, issued by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), authorizes the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) to operate and maintain thirty seven structures within the control of the District and to assess and characterize on a continuous basis waters discharging into, within, or from the Everglades Protection Area (EPA). Several parameters required to be analyzed include physical, nutrients, major ions and trace metals. The EPA is defined as Water Conservation Areas 1, 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B, the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge and the Everglades National Park.
The primary purpose of these structures is as follows:
1. Eight structures discharge into the EPA: G123, S9, S14, S18C, S140, S175, S190
and S332,
2. Fifteen structures discharge within the EPA: G64, G69, G71 (alt site S12D), S10E, S141 (alt site S34), S142, S143 (alt site S11A), S144, S145, S146, S151, S339 & S340 (alt site C123SR84 for both), S346 & S347 (alt site S12D for both),
3. Fourteen structures discharge from the EPA: G94A, G94B, G94C (all three sampled at G94B), S31, S34, S38, S39, S197, S333, S334, S337 (alt site S31), S343A & S343B (alt site US4125 for both), S344.
The NECP project includes a Mercury Screening Program which requires sampling for mercury (total and methyl) in water, mosquitofish, sunfish and largemouth bass. This sampling is performed under the project names HGLE, HGOK, HGOS for mercury in water and HGFS for mercury in fish.
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