| The
mission of the Indian River Soil and Water Conservation District
is to assist land users in applying conservation technology,
and to help educate the public, citizen groups and units of
government to provide natural resource planning and assessment.
Our current
objectives for 2004 are as follows:
Through
a local, public, workshop held in 2002, we continue to follow
the prioritized objectives from that meeting:
- Improve
and maintain surface and ground water quality and quantity
- Wildlife
habitat protection and enhancement
- Ag
land preservation / urban sprawl (crop diversity / sustainability)
- Wetlands
(preservation, enhancement)
- Assist
with water consumption issues
- Minimize
sedimentation and pollution of the Indian River Lagoon
- Conservation
education
- Exotic
/ Invasive / Aquatic species control (revegetation)
- Water
table management
- Assist
and cooperate with state and federal water improvement projects
- Minimize
sedimentation and pollution of the St. John's River
- Surface
water interbasin transfer
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