Lake Apopka North Shore Restoration Area Feasibility Study Orange and Lake Counties, Florida. Special Publication SJ2010-SP6

摘要

MACTEC has been contracted by the District to complete a Feasbility Study (FS) for the remediation of lands planned to be restored to wetland habitat in the Lake Apopka North Shore Restoration Area (NSRA). The NSRA in this document encompasses approximately 20,000 acres (31 square miles) to the north of Lake Apopka in Orange and Lake Counties, Florida. It also highlights several major sub-portions of the NSRA that have differing land use/management issues: Duda Farms, Sand Farm, and Units 1 and 2 of the former Zellwood Drainage and Water Control District (ZDWCD), and includes the Marsh Flow-Way (not part of the NSRA). These sub-areas are discussed further in Section 1.1. The purpose of this FS is to summarize the nature and extent of contamination and risks posed by organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in soil within Units 1 and 2 of the NSRA, and evaluate remedial alternatives under a range of potential remediation criteria that would permit planned restoration of wetlands that had been drained for agricultural use between 1941 and 1985. The planned wetlands restoration is an important component of the restoration of Lake Apopka.