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     SI was contracted to provide professional services related to the design, permitting and implementation of an aquifer recharge and recovery (ARRP) system to provide make-up water for fresh-water cooling towers at a power generating station in Polk County, Florida.  The power plant is located within in the Southwest Florida Water Management District’s Southern Water Use Caution Area where groundwater resources are and will become critical in the future.  The aquifer recharge and recovery concept is to inject water into the groundwater aquifer and recover a percentage of the injected water from a production well down gradient.  The percentage of injected water not recovered from the aquifer is a net gain of a groundwater resource for the region.

     SI obtained a permit and constructed one Class V Group 8 exploratory well in order to obtain information to determine the feasibility of injection for the purpose of aquifer recharge.  Upon completion of lithologic, hydrogeologic, and water quality analyses, SI concluded that the exploratory well is suitable for injection.  SI is currently working with the client and regulatory agencies to obtain a permit for the test injection phase of the project.