Miami-Dade
Legislative Item File Number: 161617 |
Printable PDF Format Clerk's Official Copy |
File Number: 161617 | File Type: Resolution | Status: Adopted | ||||||||||||
Version: 0 | Reference: R-722-16 | Control: Board of County Commissioners | ||||||||||||
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Requester: NONE | Cost: | Final Action: 7/19/2016 | ||||||||||||
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Sunset Provision: No | Effective Date: | Expiration Date: |
Registered Lobbyist: | None Listed |
Legislative History |
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Acting Body | Date | Agenda Item | Action | Sent To | Due Date | Returned | Pass/Fail |
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Board of County Commissioners | 7/19/2016 | 11A7 | Adopted | P | |||
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County Attorney | 7/5/2016 | Assigned | Abbie N. Schwaderer | 7/11/2016 | |||
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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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