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Section 2 Existing Conditions/Affected Environment

EAA Storage Reservoirs Revised Draft PIR and EIS February 2006

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urbanized area and south of Lake Okeechobee is off the major state and federal

roads and consists of local, unpaved farm roads.

FPL has several major transmission lines that are located in the northern,

eastern and southern portions of the EAA, but none that are located

immediately adjacent to or traverse the proposed EAA Reservoir. These

transmission lines include the Corbett – Orange River 230 kV transmission line

that runs through the northern portion of the EAA, approximately 3 miles north

of the Cross and Bolles canals, between the West Palm Beach area and Ft.

Myers; the Andytown – Corbett and Andytown – Martin 500 kV transmission

lines that run immediately west of and parallel to the L-6 and L-7 levees and

WCA Nos. 1 and 2A; the Levee – Midway 500 kV transmission line that runs

one mile west of these two 500 kV transmission lines until it turns south and

runs long the west side of the North New River Canal, US 27, and STA 3/4

(south of the proposed EAA Reservoirs); and the Andytown – Orange River 500

kV transmission line that runs along the south side of STA 3/4 and the Holey

Land, north of the L-5 levee, the Palm Beach – Broward County line, and WCA

No. 3 from US 27 west to Ft. Myers.

Bell South and four fiber optic communications companies (WilTel

Communications, Epik Communications, Broadwing Communications, and

Northstar Communications) have a major underground trunk route that runs

along the west side of US 27 within the Florida Department of Transportation

(FDOT) right-of-way for US 27. There are no cell towers in the immediate

vicinity of the EAA Reservoir and canal enhancement projects.

Except for the major electrical transmission lines along the eastern, northern

and southern portions of the EAA and the major fiber optic lines along US 27,

most of the existing utilities within the EAA study area and the proposed EAA

Reservoir and along the North New River, Miami, and Cross and Bolles canals

are local distribution type facilities that provide service to existing land uses

and/or previous property owners or land uses. Aerial telephone lines are

typically co-located on the same poles with electrical distribution lines under a

cooperative cost-share arrangement between FPL, Bell South and other

telecommunications companies.

There is an existing FPL distribution line along the main east-west drainage

canal that provides power to the on-site pump stations that serve the existing

farming operations on the Compartment A lands (formerly known as the

Talisman Lower Ranch) and previously provided power to the Talisman Sugar

Mill that has since been removed. This distribution line will be removed as part

of the construction of the EAA Reservoirs project. Other remaining distribution

lines in the EAA Reservoirs area will also be removed once the project design

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