Public Private Partnerships Create Shallow Water Storage for Water Supply and Ecosystem Protection Client: Evans Properties/Grove Land Utilities Location: Southeast and East-Central Florida Since 2013, Hazen and Sawyer has been evaluating the conceptual, economic, and nancial feasibility of storing stormwater runo on citrus grove land to create a new water supply, recharge the aquifer, and protect the environment. Wet season discharges of freshwater and nutrients harm Florida’s fragile and economically valuable coastal ecosystems. Storage and treatment of stormwater runo can reduce the pulses of nutrient-laden stormwater entering tidal water bodies. In the process, a new water supply is created from water that is currently discharged to tide.Hazen and Sawyer evaluated the physical ben

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