Water Use Permitting
 

Water Use Permitting

Jones Edmunds has a successful track record of obtaining Consumptive Use and Water Use Permits (CUPs and WUPs) for our public and private clients. As the Water Management Districts continue to tighten the permitting process and attempt to reduce future allocations, Jones Edmunds has kept abreast of the issues and successfully worked on all of the various permitting details and tasks, including the following:

  • Conducting Historical Population Analysis
  • Determining Future Population
  • Calculating and Negotiating Water Use Projections and Future Allocation
  • Preparing CUP and WUP Application Packages
  • Preparing Five-Year Compliance Reports
  • Conducting Extensive Groundwater Modeling
  • Wetland Characterization, Evaluations, and Monitoring Design
  • Resolving Service Area Growth and Boundary Issues
  • Preparing and Updating Water Conservation Plans
  • Preparing Wellfield Management Plans
  • Conducting Aquifer Performance Testing
  • Balancing Withdrawals with Distribution System Demand and Performance
  • Siting Wells and Wellfields
  • Designing, Constructing, and Testing Wells

Jones Edmunds has helped clients plan permit applications and modifications in challenging areas such as water use caution areas, the Central Florida Coordination Area (CFCA), and other areas with limited traditional supply. We have performed Minimum Flow and Level investigations that could affect CUP/WUP permittee clients. We also have assisted with groundwater modeling evaluation, such as the review of the regional modeling conducted for the STOPR member communities in the Central Florida Coordination Area and the Northeast Florida model area. We are experienced with the various groundwater models and modeling methods and are aware of modeling and/or data limitations.

In addition to permitting, Jones Edmunds has experience in many other aspects of water supply, including evaluating alternative water supply sources, obtaining funding from various sources, reclaimed water engineering, designing and installing pumps, and treatment design and construction. We have performed wellfield construction and expansion projects for a variety of clients with facilities ranging from 100,000 to 45 million gallons per day.