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In order to improve hydrologic conditions within the floodplain and reduce some of the sediment load from going to Lake Rowell down Alligator Creek, Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) in cooperation with the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and the City of Starke, plan to conduct a floodplain restoration project which will re-establish the flow connection from the a portion [sic] of the altered creek to a 47-acre floodplain parcel known as the Edwards Bottomlands. The restoration project will improve water quality, fish and wildlife habitat and the hydrology within the altered wetlands. SRWMD is also evaluating the potential acquisition of a 14-acre tract of historic floodplain, adjacent to the 47 acre parcel, as part of this project.

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During the days of September 2 through September 4, 2016, Governor Scott issued a State of Emergency for Bradford county, Executive Order 16-205, signed August 31, 2016, requirements and effects of statutes and rules which conflict with the provisions of this Order are suspended to the extent necessary to implement this Order. In response to the order, a site inspection was conducted on September 7 to view the West Levee system at Trailridge. The system was stable with no discharge occurring at this location and no evidence of a breach in the berm. The pump system was operating as normal. For the days of September 1-September 5, the Alligator Creek stage level at US 301 stream gage was reviewed and the Trailridge discharge for those days are [sic] listed in Table 4. The maximum day of discharge was September 3 at 7.34 MGD which is less than 0.5% of the total basin flow to Alligator Creek.

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Paragrapgh [sic] 6 is copied here: 6. The Department finds that • The Chemours Company TT LLC needs permission to discharge wastewater into the waters within the state for a period of time necessary to complete research, planning, construction, installation, or operation of an approved and final control system; • There is [sic] no present, reasonable, alternative means of disposing of the wastewater other than by discharging it into waters of the state; • The granting of a discharge permit will be in the public interest; • The discharge will not be unreasonably destructive to the quality of the receiving waters. To reduce the volume and iron loading into Alligator Creek the NPDES permit should require that the discharges be split equally between D001 and D002. The discharge limit for D001 should be set at 20 MGD to reduce the total iron discharged into Alligator Creek and the Sampson Basin.