FPL is violating the law and putting South Florida at risk

• NuclearReactorslikeTurkeyPointneedhugeamountsof watertocooldowntheirreactors.•TheFPLnuclearplantatTurkeypointdrawswaterfrom BiscayneBayandrunsitthroughtheIndustrialWaste waterfacilityorcoolingcanalsystem(IWCCS)tocool thereactors.•Thewaterheatsupandiscirculatedthroughthecanal system•Whentheheatedwaterinthecoolingcanalsystem evaporates(loosingupwardsof40milliongallonsaday), allthesaltgetsleftbehind.•Thehighlyconcentratedsaltwaterthat’sleftoverseeps intoouraquifertotheeastandunderBiscayneNational Park.•Thisisindirectconflictwiththegoalsofeverglades restoration,endangersouraquiferbymakingwaterun safetodrinkandharmsspeciesinBiscayneNationalPark.

The Turkey Point Facility releases 600,000 lbs. of salt into our aquifer daily and exacerbates our problem of Salt Water Intrusion

FPL has a legal right to release salt: The company has permits allowing release of salt within the bound-ary of the cooling canal system only. The law prohib-its FPL from releasing salt outside of the facility.

Unfortunately, FPL is violating this permit. as well as both state and Federal law by releasing salt into the base of the aquifer toward Biscayne National Park and our water supply to the west.

FPL is endangering our aquifer and national parks by releasing dangerous levels of salt and other pollutants from the Turkey Point Power Plant.

This puts a great many South Florida communities at risk. Without proper Abatement and Clean up through Remediation, South Dade county generally and all of Monroe County, Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park are in danger of damage from salt water intrusion.

The communities most threatened by this process are: Cutler Bay, Florida City, Homestead, Ocean Reef, and Key Largo.

Violating the Law?

(Above) The FPL Nuclear Powerplant at Turkey Point

(Right) The Turkey Point In-dustrial Waste water facility or cooling canal system (IWCCS)

Additional Concern: Toxic Trouble

•Alongwiththesaltthereareotherharmfulcontaminantssuchasheavymetals,ammoniaandtritiumreleasedintotheaquiferandBiscayneNationalParkfromthecoolingprocess.Theeffectedwatersupplyisusedbypeople,businessesandagriculture,allofwhichareimpactedbythesaltandotherchemicalintrusion.

•NotonlydoesthisposeastaggeringrisktothemarinewildlifeofBiscayneNationalpark,italsoaffectseveryindividualwhomakesuseofthewatersforswimming,fishing,boatingorrecreation,aswellasthethousandsofindividualsinsouthFloridaandtheFloridaKeyswhoeatfishtakenfromthesewaters.

History of the Turkey Point Nuclear Powerplant

•In 1972FPLestablishedtheTurkeyPointPowerplant

•In 2005regulatorsdiscoveredsignificantproblems.WelearnedthatFPLhasnotbeenproperlymanagingit’scoolingcanalsystem•DEPhasbeenawareofthisissuesince 2007,buttheyhavenotissuedanoticeofViolationwhichwouldmakeitmandatoryforFPLtocutoffthepollutionsource.

•In 2009,Miami-DadeCountyandtheSFWMDenteredinanagreementtoABATE(Stop)thisprocessatTurkeyPoint,REmEdIATEthedamagebycleaningupthesaltintrusion,andmITIgATEanydamagetotheevergladesorBiscayneBay.DEPsignedoffontheagreement

Theagreementcalledfora2 yearmonitoring(2011)ofthe operationsandresulting damage.

ThecurrentDEPistryingto striptheSFWMDoftheright toforcetheagreementtogo forward.

Help Tropical Audubon Society force regulators to clean up the pollution plume at Turkey Point.

3. MITIGATE

1. ABATE

2. REMEDIATE

Adopt alternate cooling methods

Stop the salt loading

Clean up the areas already impacted

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