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Home My WebLink About03-024RESOLUTION NO. 03-24 A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, THE SOUTH FLO ~IDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, AND THE FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION POSTPONE THE DRAWN DOWN OF LAKE TOHO TO A NON-EL NINO YEAR WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida, has made the following determinations: 1. The Florida Fish mad Wildlife Conservation Commission has expressed its desire to draw down the level of Lake Tohol:ekaliga ("Lake Toho") to allow fisheries restoration activities and such draw down needs the approval and consent of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District to do so. 2. The levels of La/ce Okeechobee since mid-December 2002, have been above levels suitable under the present Lace Regulation Schedule and there have been a series of pulse releases from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries to adhere to this schedule. 3. The draw down of Lake Toho, which is at the head waters of Lake Okeechobee, would drain significant volumes of water into Lake Okeechobee and exacerbate the implementation to the Lake Regulation Schedule by requiring additional pulse releases to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries. 4. St. Lucie County has experienced significant ecological and water quality impacts to the St. Lucie estuary from pulse :eleases, and the proposed drawn down of Lake Toho would require more and higher volume pulse releases in the future. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of St. Lucie County, Florida: 1. St. Lucie County requests the Army Corps of Engineers, the South Florida Water Management District, and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to postpone the drawn down of Lake Toho to a non-E1 Nino year. 2. The County Adm_nistrator is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Army Corps of Engineers, the South Florida Water Management District, and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. After motion and second the vote on this resolution was as follows: Chairman Cliff Barnes AYE Vice-Chairman Paula A. Lewis AYE Commissioner Frannie Hutchinson AYE Commissioner Doug Coward AYE Commissioner John D. Bruhn AYE PASSED,AND DUI. Y,,AI)OPTED,. '".. this 21st day of January, 2003. ATTEST: ..' i: ' ' '~,, BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Oi~PUTY CL"~ ~ :~ ST. LUCIE CO~ ~ BY. ~AIRMA~4 APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM AND ajRRECTNESS: