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Article: Water-mix strategy may save aquifer: Shingle Creek and reclaimed wastewater are key components in an Osceola project.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2006
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Byline: Mark Pino
Sep. 12--KISSIMMEE -- A project to pump millions of gallons of water out of Shingle Creek daily for irrigation and industry is seen as a way to help protect the Floridan Aquifer's limited supply of drinking water. The Toho Water Authority plans to begin testing a system today that could pump an average 4 million gallons a day out of Shingle Creek, the northernmost headwaters of the Everglades. The water will be treated and mixed with existing reclaimed wastewater for cooling power-plant generators and lawn irrigation. The project cost $6.5 million, and officials say it will be the first of its type in Central Florida to come online ...
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