St. Johns River Water Management District
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The St. Johns River Water Management District (SJRWMD) is one of five Florida water management districts, supervised by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, that is responsible for managing ground and surface water resources in an 18-county region in northeast and east-central Florida. SJRWMD employs about 700 people in offices in Palatka, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Altamonte Springs, FL, and Palm Bay, FL. The headquarters is located in Palatka, Florida.
SJRWMD covers 12,283 square miles (31,813 km²), or 23 percent of Florida. As of 2005, 4.4 million people (about 21 percent of the state’s population) made their home in SJRWMD.
The counties which are entirely or partially within the SJRWMD are: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Clay, Duval, Flagler, Indian River, Lake, Marion, Nassau, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Putnam, St. Johns, Seminole and Volusia.
The five water management districts were established in 1972 by Chapter 373, Florida Statues, and were empowered by the electorate in 1976 to assess ad valorem taxes to fund the management of the state’s water resources, and related land rsources, to benefit the citizens and the environment. Each water management district is governed by a Governing Board comprised of citizens appointed by the Governor and approved by the Florida Senate.
SJRWMD’s duties include regulating the consumptive use of water, regulating the construction and maintenance of stormwater management systems that serve developed properties in order to protect water quality and prevent flooding, regulating the construction of water wells and the licensure of water well contractors, conducting water supply planning, conducting research on water resource issues, buying and managing environmentally sensitive land, and the operation of flood control structures.
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