Florida Power & Light and Miami-Dade (Fla.) County have tentatively agreed to build a new wastewater plant to provide reused water for the utility’s massive cooling canals at its Turkey Point nuclear power plant in Homestead.
The plan, which must be approved by the county commission, would reduce the need to draw from the Floridan Aquifer for Turkey Point’s 5,900 acres of cooling canals as well as help FPL meet a 10-year state timeline to clean up saltwater in the canals that has been creeping into drinking wells. Further, the proposal would help the county meet a state mandate to reduce the amount of wastewater it disposes into the ocean.