Parts of the problem is not being addressed. Businesses get pretty much an open permit for water usage by Water Management region. There is numerous sand plants in the area not to mention in the past 10 years a huge population explosion resulting in extensive usage of the water in the area. Additionally the News should cover how much water is being shipped down south for use. Many the residents in Keystone are and surrounding have to have watering restrictions. I would like to see when those restricitons are here that the water used elsewhere has same restrictions. Ie if water is being piped down to south fla and there is water restrictions here then there should be same or more restriction to where the water is shipped to.

"but over the past decade, those lakes have all but disappeared" The lakes have been disappearing and reappearing for over 60 years In the early 60 Lake Brooklyn was called the "7 ponds" because the water had dropped leaving 7 small bodies of water. In the 1995-6 the lake rose so high that there was concern of flooding in houses on the lake. Lake Brooklyn looses 52 inches of water each year through run off, saturation and evaporation. When we have a drought the lakes drop. The lakes have actually risen in the last 2 months from the rain that flooded the Middleburg area and Blackcreek this past summer. It takes about 5 months for that water to flow down through Alligator Creek and for it to seep down into the aquifer. If we could have harnessed the flooding from those rains and dumped it quicker into the lakes it would have made a huge impact on Keystone's lakes and may have saved homes that were flooded in the Blackcreek basin. Anyway I am glad that this plan is in the works. Personally I have two houses on Lake Brooklyn, and paying waterfront taxes when there isn't any water is frustrating.