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Programmatic Regulations
Pre-CERP Baseline
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Section 385.35(a) of the programmatic regulations describes the processes for the development of the pre-CERP baseline. The pre-CERP baseline is a description of assumed hydrologic conditions on the date of enactment of WRDA 2000 (December 11, 2000), including a simulation of these conditions, which has been developed to satisfy the requirements of the programmatic regulations as a tool in the implementation of the Savings Clause (Section 601(h)(5) of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000). The programmatic regulations define the pre-CERP baseline as:
“…the hydrologic conditions in the South Florida ecosystem on the date of enactment of WRDA 2000, as modeled by using a multi-year period of record based on assumptions such as land use, population, water demand, water quality, and assumed operations of the Central and Southern Florida Project.”
The pre-CERP baseline is to be used to aid the USACE and the South Florida Water Management District in determining if existing legal sources of water will be eliminated or transferred as a result of project implementation as described in Section 385.36 and memorialize the pre-CERP baseline in an appropriate document. This document below provides a description of the model assumptions necessary to simulate the pre-CERP hydrologic conditions. It also provides the results of a South Florida Water Management Model (SFWMM v5.4) simulation based on these assumptions.
The USACE and the SFWMD have completed the Pre-CERP Baseline and have submitted it to the Secretary of the Army for approval, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Interior and the Governor of Florida, in accordance with the Programmatic Regulations. As part of the consultation process required by the programmatic regulations, this final draft document is being made available for review by agencies and the public prior to approval.
Pre-CERP Baseline model results can be found at: http://modeling.cerpzone.org/cerp_recover/
pmviewer/pmviewer.jsp.
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