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The South Dade Soil and Water Conservation District was created on May 11, 1982 [1] by the Florida Department of Agriculture, following a signed petition by ten percent of landowners in the district. [2] It has remained a local government with small budgetary means and little responsibilities.
The ground water and the aquifer currently are managed as an integrated water system. [ 2 ] Because the top part of the Biscayne aquifer is the water table, this aquifer is known as an unconfined aquifer .
Injection wells can insert clean water into an aquifer, thereby changing the direction and speed of groundwater flow, perhaps towards extraction wells downgradient, which could then more speedily and efficiently remove the contaminated groundwater. Injection wells can also be used in cleanup of soil contamination, for example by use of an ...
Many states, especially in the western United States, claim ownership of groundwater and allocate the resource through an appropriative system just as they would any surface right. Typically water rights are appropriated based on each aquifer's sustainable yield, and once all the rights are granted no further permits will be issued. Some states ...
The draft permits were released barely two weeks after Twin Pines agreed to pay a $20,000 fine ordered by Georgia regulators, who said the company violated state laws while collecting soil samples ...
Groundwater is also used by farmers to irrigate crops and by industries to produce everyday goods. Most groundwater is clean, but groundwater can become polluted, or contaminated as a result of human activities or as a result of natural conditions. The many and diverse activities of humans produce innumerable waste materials and by-products ...
A Florida agency isn’t budging in its conclusion that Miami-Dade County messed up the approval process on a 380-acre industrial park outside Homestead, a standoff that may force developers to ...
Groundwater-related subsidence is the subsidence (or the sinking) of land resulting from unsustainable groundwater extraction.It is a growing problem in the developing world as cities increase in population and water use, without adequate pumping regulation and enforcement.