Preserving Water Supply and Habitat To protect a springwater manatee habitat, three Florida municipalities and the county in which they are located faced a mandate to reduce groundwater pumping, one that would severely diminish their water supply. Holland & Knight’s Water Law Team helped our clients develop an innovative alternative that could become a template for addressing similar water issues. In this case, the local water management district suggested that our clients reduce their groundwater pumping because the withdrawals had the potential to reduce the flows in the nearby Volusia Blue Spring – and during cold weather, manatees, a protected species, rely on the relatively warm spring flows as a refuge. The problem was that the municipalities and the county rely on the groundwater pu

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