| WFPP |
Water Farming Pilot Project |
Matt Powers |
WQM |
mpowers |
20-FEB-2014 |
23-JUL-2018 |
The Dispersed Water Management Program is intended to reduce the quantity of undesirable stormwater runoff and reduce nutrient loading to Lake Okeechobee, the St Lucie estuary and the Caloosahatchee estuary. To achieve this task the Dispersed Water Management Program encourages private property owners to retain water on their lands rather than allowing drainage to area canals for the purpose of reducing regional run-off and increasing ground water recharge. The Water Farming Pilot Project (WFPP) was created to design, field test and evaluate the cost-effectiveness of an innovative, market-based approach to improve regional environmental benefits through surface water retention/storage and nutrient load reduction on fallow citrus lands. |
