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Florida Administrative Code (Last Updated: October 28, 2024) |
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40. Water Management Districts |
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40D. Southwest Florida Water Management District |
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40D-21. Water Shortage Plan |
1(1) Purpose – This part of the chapter generally describes the data collection and analyses that the District continuously undertakes in anticipation of and during a declared Water Shortage or Water Shortage Emergency.
34(2) 35Condition monitoring – Water resource data and water demand data 45will be obtained from any source 51of information needed to evaluate the following:
58(a) Drought Indicators shown in Table 21-1.
65(b) Current regional lake levels and their relationship to low normal values.
77(c) Current and recent values of the U.S. Drought Monitor from the National Drought Mitigation Center.
93(d) Current precipitation outlooks from the Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service112.
113(e) Public supply storage status.
118(3) Minimum monitoring standards – At a minimum, the District will monitor the Drought Indicators specified in Table 21-1.
137Rulemaking Authority 139373.044, 140373.113 FS. 142Law Implemented 144373.175, 145373.246 FS. 147History–New 4-9-06, Amended 7-5-12.
