Florida Senate - 2010 SB 2354 By Senator Sobel 31-01044-10 20102354__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to sewage disposal facilities; 3 amending s. 403.086, F.S.; requiring facilities 4 discharging domestic wastewater through ocean outfalls 5 that divert flows for reuse purposes to meet specified 6 reuse requirements; providing that such reuse 7 contributes to the reuse requirement of the facilities 8 originally accepting the flows; providing an effective 9 date. 10 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 12 13 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (9) of section 14 403.086, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 15 403.086 Sewage disposal facilities; advanced and secondary 16 waste treatment.— 17 (9) The Legislature finds that the discharge of domestic 18 wastewater through ocean outfalls wastes valuable water supplies 19 that should be reclaimed for beneficial purposes to meet public 20 and natural systems demands. The Legislature also finds that 21 discharge of domestic wastewater through ocean outfalls 22 compromises the coastal environment, quality of life, and local 23 economies that depend on those resources. The Legislature 24 declares that more stringent treatment and management 25 requirements for such domestic wastewater and the subsequent, 26 timely elimination of ocean outfalls as a primary means of 27 domestic wastewater discharge are in the public interest. 28 (c) Each domestic wastewater facility that discharges 29 through an ocean outfall on July 1, 2008, shall install a 30 functioning reuse system no later than December 31, 2025. For 31 purposes of this subsection, a “functioning reuse system” means 32 an environmentally, economically, and technically feasible 33 system that provides a minimum of 60 percent of the facility’s 34 actual flow on an annual basis for irrigation of public access 35 areas, residential properties, or agricultural crops; aquifer 36 recharge; groundwater recharge; industrial cooling; or other 37 acceptable reuse purposes authorized by the department. For 38 purposes of this subsection, the term “facility’s actual flow on 39 an annual basis” means the annual average flow of domestic 40 wastewater discharging through the facility’s ocean outfall, as 41 determined by the department, using monitoring data available 42 for calendar years 2003 through 2007. Facilities that divert 43 flows shall meet the 60 percent reuse requirement of this 44 paragraph. Such reuse shall be considered to contribute to 45 meeting the reuse requirement of the facility that originally 46 accepted the flows.Diversion ofFlows diverted fromthese47 facilities to other facilities that provide 100 percent reuse of 48 the diverted flows prior to December 31, 2025, shall be 49 considered to contribute to meeting the 60-percent reuse 50 requirement. For utilities operating more than one outfall, the 51 reuse requirement can be met if the combined actual reuse flows 52 from facilities served by the outfalls is at least 60 percent of 53 the sum of the total actual flows from thethesefacilities, 54 including flows diverted to other facilities for 100 percent 55 reuse prior to December 31, 2025. In the event treatment in 56 addition to the advanced wastewater treatment and management 57 requirements described in paragraph (b) is needed in order to 58 support a functioning reuse system, such treatment shall be 59 fully operational no later than December 31, 2025. 60 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.