Florida Administrative Code › 68 - FISH AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION COMMISSION › 68C - Manatees › Chapter 68C-22 - THE FLORIDA MANATEE SANCTUARY ACT › Section 68C-22.006 - Brevard County Zones

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) The
				Commission hereby designates the waters within Brevard County, as described
				below, as areas where manatee sightings are frequent and where it can be
				assumed that manatees inhabit on a regular, periodic or continuous basis. The
				Commission has further determined that a likelihood of threat to manatees
				exists in these waters as a result of manatees and motorboats using the same
				areas. The primary purpose of this rule is to protect manatees from harmful
				collisions with motorboats and from harassment by regulating the speed and
				operation of motorboats within these designated areas. A secondary purpose is
				to protect manatee habitat. In balancing the rights of fishers, boaters, and
				water skiers to use these waterways for recreational and commercial purposes
				(as applicable under Section
				379.2431(2)(k),
				F.S.) with the need to provide manatee protection, the Commission has examined
				the need for unregulated areas or higher speed travel corridors through
				regulated areas. Such areas or corridors are provided in those locations where
				the Commission determined, on the basis of all available information, (1) there
				is a need for the area or corridor and (2) the area or corridor will not result
				in serious threats to manatees or their habitat. Unregulated areas or higher
				speed corridors are not provided in locations where both of the above findings
				were not made.
(2) The following
				year-round and seasonal zones are established, which shall include all
				associated and navigable tributaries, lakes, creeks, coves, bends, backwaters,
				canals, and boat basins unless otherwise designated or excluded. As used in
				this rule, ICW means the Intracoastal Waterway. Access to the No Entry and
				Motorboats Prohibited zones designated in paragraphs (2)(a) and (b), will be
				provided in accordance with procedures set forth in subsection (4), hereunder,
				and applicable provisions of Rule
				68C-22.003, F.A.C.
(a) No Entry (November 15 - March 31)
1. Indian River, Reliant Corporation
				Delespine Power Plant Area: All waters within the discharge canal of the
				Reliant Corporation Delespine power plant, and; All waters southerly of a line
				extending eastward from and following the same bearing as the southernmost
				seawall of the power plant discharge canal, with said line bearing
				approximately 70°, westerly of a line 250 feet east of and parallel to the
				western shoreline of the Indian River, and northerly of the jetty on the north
				side of the power plant intake canal.
2. Indian River, FPL Frontenac Power Plant
				Area: All waters in the vicinity of the Florida Power and Light (FPL) Frontenac
				power plant southerly of a line connecting the northern guy wires of the power
				poles immediately north of the FPL Unit 2 discharge area from the western
				shoreline of the Indian River to the third power pole east of the western
				shoreline (approximately 1,650 feet east of the shoreline), and westerly of a
				line running from said third power pole to the easternmost point (approximate
				latitude 28° 28' 07'' North, approximate longitude 80° 45' 19'' West)
				of the jetty on the north side of the FPL intake canal.