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06/04/2026

Water Quality Enhancement Areas work like wetland mitigation banking, but for water quality rather than wetland acreage. Credits are perpetual, sites require conservation easements, and DEP maintains a public ledger. The program opens to all ERP applicants July 1, 2026.

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05/30/2026

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

💧 Beneath our feet lies one of Florida’s greatest hidden resources.

This map shows the top of the Floridan aquifer across the St. Johns River Water Management District — a vast underground water source that helps supply drinking water, supports springs, rivers, wetlands, and fuels life across our region.

Those lines represent changes in elevation below ground, helping scientists better understand how water moves through the aquifer system. 🌎

Protecting water doesn’t just happen on the surface — it starts underground, too.

Because Florida water… It’s worth saving. 💙

05/30/2026

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Where conservation connects. 🌿

The Buck Lake-South Conservation Easement is part of a larger protected landscape that helps link St. Johns Lake and surrounding conservation areas within the Upper St. Johns River Basin. This permanently protected land preserves vital wetlands, pine flatwoods, and marsh systems that support wildlife habitat, improve water quality, and provide natural flood protection.

As part of a working conservation landscape, it also helps maintain Florida’s rural character while ensuring these ecosystems and open spaces are preserved for generations to come.

Together, these lands are part of the broader Farmton conservation vision, balancing agriculture, conservation, and stewardship to protect Florida’s working landscapes for the future. 🌾

05/27/2026

When no mitigation credits are available within the same watershed as a proposed impact, Florida's State Mitigation Proximity Factor provides a defined framework for using credits from outside the service area.

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Learn how Florida State Mitigation Proximity Factor (SB 492) allows out-of-basin credit use when local credits are unavailable. Includes multiplier guidance.

05/26/2026

The Upper Alabama River Mitigation Bank has completed its Revised Prospectus and entered formal Interagency Review Team engagement with the USACE Mobile District. This is the last major regulatory threshold before Mitigation Banking Instrument approval and first credit release.

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05/22/2026

Florida Senate Bill 848 formally established Water Quality Enhancement Credits as a compliance mechanism for projects in impaired watersheds.

Developers can now purchase credits from approved restoration projects to satisfy nutrient loading requirements rather than engineering costly on-site solutions.

See how credits work and when they are required 👇
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05/21/2026

Navigating the wetland permitting landscape means working across multiple agencies, portals, and databases. We put the most commonly needed resources in one place, from basin maps and bank ledgers to RIBITS and FDEP permitting tools.

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05/20/2026

FDEP is proposing revisions to Chapter 62-4, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.), and Chapter 62-330, F.A.C., and creation of Chapter 62-332, F.A.C.

This rulemaking effort will establish an environmental resource permit (ERP) for water quality enhancement areas as codified in section 373.4134, Florida Statutes.

Proposed rule changes will authorize the creation and use of enhancement credits for specified regulatory purposes, establish an application processing fee for the water quality enhancement area ERP, update the ERP Applicant’s Handbook Volume I, and establish requirements for permit application, enhancement credits, service area requirements, land use restrictions, credit ledgers, monitoring requirements, financial responsibility, compliance and enforcement mechanisms and the surrender or transfer of permits.

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