Miami-Dade Legislative Item
File Number: 161617
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File Number: 161617 File Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
Version: 0 Reference: R-722-16 Control: Board of County Commissioners
File Name: DISCONTINUE USE OF THE COOLING CANAL SYSTEM Introduced: 7/5/2016
Requester: NONE Cost: Final Action: 7/19/2016
Agenda Date: 7/19/2016 Agenda Item Number: 11A7
Notes: Title: RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE COUNTY MAYOR IN EFFORTS TO SEEK A COMMITMENT FROM FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE COOLING CANAL SYSTEM AT THE TURKEY POINT POWER PLANT
Indexes: COOLING CANAL SYSTEM
Sponsors: Rebeca Sosa, Prime Sponsor
  Daniella Levine Cava, Co-Sponsor
  Audrey M. Edmonson, Co-Sponsor
  Dennis C. Moss, Co-Sponsor
Sunset Provision: No Effective Date: Expiration Date:
Registered Lobbyist: None Listed


Legislative History

Acting Body Date Agenda Item Action Sent To Due Date Returned Pass/Fail

Board of County Commissioners 7/19/2016 11A7 Adopted P

County Attorney 7/5/2016 Assigned Abbie N. Schwaderer 7/11/2016

Legislative Text


TITLE
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE COUNTY MAYOR IN EFFORTS TO SEEK A COMMITMENT FROM FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY TO DISCONTINUE USE OF THE COOLING CANAL SYSTEM AT THE TURKEY POINT POWER PLANT

BODY
WHEREAS, the Florida Power & Light�s Turkey Point Power Plant, located in south Miami-Dade County, utilizes a cooling canal system which consists of a network of approximately 5,900 acres of unlined canals; and
WHEREAS, water from this cooling canal system communicates with the surrounding groundwater, and long-term monitoring data has shown that a hypersaline plume of cooling canal water has been migrating in the groundwater, beyond the boundaries of the cooling canals; and
WHEREAS, the County has taken action to address these issues, including, but not limited to, issuing a Notice of Violation in 2015 to Florida Power & Light for certain water quality violations in the groundwater, and requiring, through an administrative consent agreement, that Florida Power & Light take certain actions to retract and contain the hypersaline groundwater plume; and
WHEREAS, at that time, the issues were focused on the hypersaline groundwater plume migrating west of the cooling canal system; and
WHEREAS, more recent water quality sampling detected exceedances of Miami-Dade County water quality standards in certain surface water locations in or connected to Biscayne Bay, adjacent to and east of the cooling canal system; and
WHEREAS, this Board, as well as residents of this County and members of the general public, are concerned about these recent discoveries, and such discoveries further highlight the challenges posed by the continued operation of the cooling canal system; and
WHEREAS, Florida Power & Light has a license from the federal government to operate the Turkey Point power plant units that use the cooling canal system until 2033; and
WHEREAS, the County Mayor has sought a commitment from Florida Power & Light to discontinue the use of the cooling canal system by 2033 in favor of more modern technology such as cooling towers; and
WHEREAS, this Board wishes to express its support for the County Mayor�s efforts to obtain such a commitment from Florida Power & Light,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that this Board supports the efforts of the County Mayor to seek a commitment from Florida Power & Light to discontinue the use of the cooling canal system at the Turkey Point Power Plant.



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