Done with studies, state water officials are moving ahead with concrete steps on a project to pump water from Clay County’s Black Creek to shrunken lakes around Keystone Heights.
The St. Johns River Water Management District’s governing board on Tuesday approved a $15.9 million contract to build a pump station to eventually move up to 10 million gallons of creek water daily through a pipeline to near Lake Brooklyn in the county’s southwest corner.
The lake is in a recharge area for the Floridan aquifer, which supplies most of the state’s drinking water, and the agency has said the pipeline will “help meet future water supply demands while protecting natural resources.”
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