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Water Quality Assessment Report: Middle St. Johns
Table 4.1: Schedule for Development and Adoption of the Group 2 Verified Lists
Date
May 14, 2003
June 2, 2003
June 13, 2003
June 11, 2003
June 10, 2003
June 9, 2003
June 19 2003
June 25, 2003
July 7, 2003
September 5, 2003
September 17, 2003
October 2, 2003
September 29, 2003
May 27, 2004
June 30, 2004
Scheduled Activity
Public meeting at Jacksonville on Lower St. Johns Basin Draft Verified List
Publication of Draft Verified Lists for the Other Group 2 Basins and Beginning of
Public Comment Period
Public Meeting at Apalachicola on the Apalachicola and Chipola Basins
Public Meeting at Sanford on the Middle St. Johns Basin
Public Meeting at St. Petersburg on the Tampa Bay Tributaries Basin
Public Meeting at Punta Gorda on the Charlotte Harbor Basin
Public Meeting at Stuart and at Jupiter on the St. Lucie and Loxahatchee Basins
Public Meeting at Jacksonville on the Lower St. Johns Basin Revised Draft List
Publication of Revised Draft Verified List for the Other Group 2 Basins
Publication of Revised Draft Verified List for Other Group 2 Basins
Public Meeting in Tallahassee on Revised Draft Verified Lists for All Basins, and
Public Comments and Input from Prior Public Meetings
Final Deadline for Receiving Public Comments
Adoption of Lower St. Johns Basin September 2003 TMDLs (main stem of river)
Adoption of Verified List by Secretarial Order
Submittal to EPA as State’s 303(d) List of Impaired Waters
Identification of Impaired Waters
As discussed in Chapter 2, waters on the Verified and Planning Lists
must meet specific thresholds and data sufficiency and data quality requirements
in the IWR (Rule 62-303, Florida Administrative Code [F.A.C.]).
Appendix A describes the legislative and regulatory background for the
development of the Planning and Verified Lists. Appendix E contains a
methodology that describes the criteria and thresholds required for both
lists under the IWR.
Any waters that do not have sufficient data to be analyzed in accordance
with the requirements of the IWR will remain on the 1998 303(d)
list of impaired waters maintained by the EPA. These waters are not
delisted, and they will be sampled during the next phases of the watershed
management cycle so that their impairment status can be verified.
The Verified List of Impaired Waters
Table 4.2 contains the Verified List of impaired waters for the Middle
St. Johns Basin, based on the water quality assessment performed for the
October 2002 update to the 303(d) list. Figure 4.1 shows waters on the
Verified List for the entire basin as of May 27, 2004, as well as the projected
year for TMDL development. For presentation purposes, the entire
watershed for the listed water is highlighted. However, only the main