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P. O'Reilly, Director, Region II Office of Inspection and Enforcement U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta Street, Suite 3100 Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Dear Mr. O'Reilly:

Re:

Turkey Point Units 3

4 Docket Nos.

50-250 and 50-251 Non-Radiological Environmental Monitoring Report No.

12, Supplemental Report FPL submitted the Non-Radiological Environmental Monitoring Report for Turkey Point Units 3 and 4 for the period July 1, 1978 through 'December 31, 1978, to you by my letter dated March 29, 1979 (L-79-74).

A recent review of the document revealed some pages which had been inadvertently omitted in the reproduction process.

Enclosed are two.(2) copies of pages III.B.1-47 through III.B.1-61 with which to complete the report sent to you earlier.

Yours very truly,

)7 Rober '. Uhrig Vice President Enclosures cc:

Director, Office of Inspection and Enforcement (1)

,Dj.rector-, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (17)

Robert Lowenstein, Esq.

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Table l.

A list of Birds observed in the Study Area for 1978.

(CONT'D)

COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME RELATIVE ABUNDANCE SEASON OF OCCURRENCE White Pelican Brown Polican Pelecanus er throrhynchos Pelecanus occidentalis carols.nensa.s Rare Uncommon

. Winter Permanent, Double-crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritis Common Permanent Red-brested Merganser Blue-winged Teal:

I American-Coot Florida Gallinule Mottled Duck Pied-billed Grebe Herring Gull Ring-billed Gull Laughing Gull Least Term Belted Kingfisher

~Ner us serrator Anas discors Fulica americana Podilymbus

~odi.ce s

Larus delaware nsis Larus atricilla Sterna albifrons Common Uncommon Common Common Uncommon Common Fairly Common Fairly Common Common Common Common Winter Winter Winter Permanent Permanent Permanent Winter Winter Permanent Summer Permanent

Table l.

A list of Birds observed in the Study Area for 1978.

(CONT'D)

,COMMON NAME SCXENTXFIC NAME RELATIVE ABUNDANCE SEASON OF OCCURRENCE Turkey Vulture Black Vulture Gray Kingbird Red-winged Blackbird Cathartes aura

~Cora y s 'atratus

~T rannus dominicensis dominicensis E"

Common Common Common Common Permanent Permanent Permanent Permanent House Sparrow Savannah Sparrow:

Passer domesticus Passerculus sandwichensis Common Common

'ermanent Winter Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Common Crow White-crowned Pigeon Rock Dove Mourning Dove Ground Dove Hirundo rustica Crovus brach rh nchos Columba leucocephala Columba livia" Zenaidura macroura Columbi ullina asserina Uncommon Common Common Uncommon Common Common Common Winter Fall Permanent Summe r Permanent Permanent Permanent

Table l.

A list. of Birds observed in the Study Area for 1978.

(CONT'D)

COMMON NAME SCIENTIPIC NAME RELATIVE ABUNDANCE SEASON OF OCCURRENCE Northern Waterthrush Yellowthroat Blue-Gray Gnat Catcher Seivrus noveboracensis Rare Uncommon Uncommon Winter Permanent Winter Palm Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Pine Warbler House Wren Bobolink Indigo Bunting Mockingbird Catbird Dendroica palmarum Dendroica strata Dendroica pinus d

Passerine

~c anea Mimus porc lottos Dumetella carolinensis Common Uncommon Fairly Common Common Fairly Common Uncommon Common Common Winter Spring 6 Fall Permanent Winter Spring 6 Pall Spring 6 Fall Permanent Permanent Cardinal Richmondena cardinalis Common Permanent Eastern Meadowlark Sturnella

~acana Common Permanent

Table 2.

A list of Reptiles and Amphibians observed in the Study Area for 1978.

COMMON.NAMl'CIENTXFXCNAME.

PREFERRED HABXTAT American Crocodile Florida Softshell Crocodylus acutus Trionyx ferox Salt or brackish-water

Lakes, ponds,

canals, roadside ditches Florida Snapping Turtle Any permanent body of freshwater Eastern Xdigo Snake Mangrove Water Snake Black Rat Snake

~Ela be obsolete obsolete Extremely variable Near thickets of dense natural vegetation Natrix fasciata com ressicauda Salt or brackish water Mud Snake Reef Gecko Farancia abacura S haerodactylus notatus notatus Swamps and lowlands Around buildings South Eastern Fivelined Skink On spoil banks Brown Anole Green Anole Cuban Tree Frog Spadefoot Toad Anolis ~sa rei Anolis carolinensis

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Table 3.

A list of Mammals observed in the Study Area for 1978.

COMMON NAtlE SCIENTIFIC NAME PREFERRED HABITAT Cat Marsh Rabbit Felis domestica

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Associated with man

Berms, swamps, and hammocks Raccoon Black Rat

~Phoo on loton Rattus rattus Along streams, berms Buildings 6 occasion-ally. in fields.

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Table 4.

A comparison of Study Area Bird species 1978, to Surrounding Area species.

TURKEY POINT SURROUNDING AREA American Bittern American Coot American Goldfinch American Kestrel American Redstart Anhinga Bald Eagle Barn Swallow Belted Kingfisher Black-bellied Plover Black-crowned Night Heron Black-necked Stilt Black Skimmer Black Vulture Blackpoll Warbler Black-whiskered Vireo Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Blue Jay Blue-winged Teal Boat-tailed Grackle Bobolink Broadwinged Hawk Brown Pelican Cardinal Caspida Tern, Catbird Cattle Egret Cedar Waxwing Chuck-Will's Widow Clapper Rail Common Crow Common Egret Co~amon Flicker Co~on Grackle Common Nighthawk Common Snipe Double-Crested Cormorant Downy Woodpecker Eastern Meadowlark Eastern Phoebe Florida Gallinule Glossy Ibis Gray Kingbird Great Blue Heron Great White Heron I

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Table 4;

,A comparison of Study Area Bird species (CONT.'D)'978, to Surrounding Area species; TURKEY POINT SURROUNDING AREA Green Heron Ground Dove Herring Gull House Sparrow House Wren Killdeer Laughing Gull Least. Tern Little Blue Heron Louisana Heron Magnificent Frigatebird Marsh Hawk Merlin Mockingbird Mottled Duck Mourning Dove Northern Waterthrush Osprey Palm Warbler Peregrine Falcon Pie-billed Grebe Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Red-bellied Woodpecker Red-brested Merganser Reddish Egret Red-shouldered Hawk Red-winged Blackbird Ring-billed Gull Roseate Spoonbill Rock Dove Royal Tern Sanderling Savannah Sparrow Screech Owl Semipalmated Plover Sharp-shinned Hawk Snowv Egret Tree Swallow Turkey Vulture White-crowned Pigeon White-eyed Vireo White Ibis i

X X

X, X

X X

X X.

X X

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X X

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X X

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Table 4.

A comparison of Study Area Bird species (CONT'D) 1978, to Surrounding Area species.

A TURKEY POXNT SURROUND1NG AREA White Pelican Willet Wood Duck Wood Xbis Yellowlegs Yellowthroat Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Yellow-crowned Night Heron Yellow-rumped Warbler Yellow Warbler X

X X

X X.

X X

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Table 5.

A comparison of Study. Area Reptiles and Amphibians for 1978, to Surrounding Area species.

TURKEY POINT SURROUNDING AREA American Alligator American Crocodile Bahaman Bark Anole

, Black Rat Snake Brown Anole Corn Snake Cuban Treefrog Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake Eastern Indigo Snake Everglades Racer Florida Cricket Frog Florida Softshell Florida Snapping Turtle Florida Water Snake Green Anole Green House Frog Green Treefrog Key West Anole Mangrove Water Snake Mud Snake Cuban Tree Frog Pig Frog Reef Gecko South Eastern Five-lined Skink Southern Leopard Frog Spadefoot Toad X

X X

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Table 6., A comparison of,Study Area Mammals for l978, to Surrounding Area in species.

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'Yt ) io'IQ99g TURKEY POXNT SURROUNDING AREA Black Rat Bob Cat Cotton Rat Dolphin Domestic Cat House Mouse Manatee Marsh Rabbit Raccoon Rice Rat White Tailed deer X

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REFERENCES 5'0 BBO/QS J 0 I11090WQ Applied Biology, Inc. 1978.

Evaluation of Ecological Studies Conducted at Turkey Point and South Dade Area.

Atlanta, Georgia.

r Applied Biology, Inc. 1978.

Baseline Ecological.Study of a Subtropical Terrestrial Biome in Southern Cad

County, Flori da.

Atlanta, Georgi a.

Florida Power and L'ight Company.

1976.

Turkey Point Units 3 & 4 Semiannual Environmental t1onitoring Report No. 9.

Hiami,

,. Florida.

Florida Power and Light Company.

Unpublished.

Environmental

Report, South Dade Plant Units 1

5 2. Vol. 1,2.

Miami, Florida.

Peterson, R.T.

1947.

A Field Guide to the Birds.

Houghton Nifflin Company.

Boston, tlassachuetts.

Robbins, C.S.,

B.

Br uun, and H.

S. Zim.

1966.

Birds of North America.

'Hestern Publishing

Company, Inc.

Rocaine, Wisconsin.

I I I. B. 1-58

Induced Reve etation Method The 30 species of grasses,

shrubs, and trees plant d during the p

1973-74 Initial Study Project were checked quarterly for survival

~ and vitality (Table 1).

The parameter of vitality was an attempt to single out plants which could survive, but were in some manner inhibited in growth.

Dis cuss i on and Concl us ions Growth rates and vitality continued to be higher in the more organic areas and lower in the mucky clays.

These trends were best observed in the species with excellent survival rates.

For example, the Coccoloba uvifera (sea grapes),

planted in organic soils, were as tall as 3.5 meters and ocvered areas of 9m or more.

These large 2

plants produced an abundance of seeds, resulting in numerous seedlings.

Sea grapes planted in the mucky clays, although seeming healthy, remained, small and exhibited little new growth.

No plantings of the Initial Study remained in the clay areas.

Several of the sites have b

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~C erectus (buttonwoods), with a resulting loss of vigor and increase in mortality to the test species.

Plants in the "Excellent" and "Good" survival categories generally exhibited "Good" vitality, thus indicating a tolerance to wind ex-posure and saline conditions on the berms.

An exception, Cocculus laurifolius, showed only "Fair" survival, but "Excellent" vitality.

It survived only in organic soil areas that were protected from extreme sun and wind by native-vegetation.

Generally, the patterns of mortality and vigor are unchanged since 1975.

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Average survival rates and vitality of the Initial Study Plantings quarterly during 1978.

See Figure 1 for test site locations.

Vitality EXCELLENT (90% survival)

Good Good Good Exc.

Coccoloba uvifera Scaevola frutescens

~Zo aia ~aonica Sea Grape Silver Button Bush Scaeval Shrub Zoysia Grass GOOD (60-89% survival)

Fair Good Good Rhoeo discolor Zamia inter rifolia Green Piitosporum Oyster P ant Cootie Evergreen FAIR (30-59% survival)

Fair Good Good Cocos nucifera Crinum asiaticum Coconut Plam Variegated Pittosporum Crinum Lily Fair Exc.

Cocculus laurifolius Bitter Blue Grass Snail Seed POOR (30% survival)

Fair Poor Poor Eucuenia uniflora Cortaderia selloana a~

2 Florida Cherry Pampas Grass Spider Lily I I I. B. 1-60

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induced Revegetation test sites at the Turkey Point Cooling Canal System.

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SAMPLING SOUTH AND WEST'OF COOL'ING CANAL SYSTEM (ETS 4.2.2.3)

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Introduction The purpose of the soil study was to conduct limited sampling of soil nutrients to the south and west of the Turkey Point canal system.

Materials and methods Soil samples were taken from the midpoint of Transects 1, 3, 5, 7~ and 9 (Soil Study Figure 1).

A small coring'of several grams was taken after removal of the first inch of soil.

A second sample was taken 12 inches below the 'first.

All samples were preserved on ice and sent to the laboratory'.

An,acidified sodium chloride extraction procedure was used for nitrite and nitrate procedures

-(Jackson, 1958).

Nitrate'as reduced to nitrite by a cadmium column and the nitrite was analyzed using the diazotization method (APHA, 1976).

Nitrite and nitrate values were reported as nitrogen in mg/g of dry weight of sample (Soil Study Table 1).

All values were less than 0.2 mg/g which is the limit of detection for this method.

Summar and conclusions There was no increase in nitrite and nitrate values in sediments when compared with analyses performed in earlier years.

LITERATURE CITED APHA.

1976.

Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater, 14th ed.

American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.

1193 pp.

Jackson, N.L.

1958.

Soil chemical analysis.

Prentice-Hall, Incorporated, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

pp. 193-194.

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Vegetation transects, Turkey Point Plant, 1978 (soil samples were collected from transects 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9).

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SOIL STUDY TABLE 1

LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF TEN SOIL SAMPLES TURKEY POINT PLANT DECEMBER 1978 Tr ansect Number

, Soil De th in Nitrite N m

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Ve etation Stud (ETS 4.2.2.3)

Introduction The purpose of this study was to determine if the vegetation to the west and to the south of the Turkey Point Plant cooling canal system has changed as a result of the system's operation.

Communities resent - The vegetation was sampled initially in 1972, using traditional botanical survey methods, to provide a base-line characterization of the local communities (FPL, 1972).

This data has been used for qualitative comparisons with subsequent data.

Based on the 1972 baseline survey and on interpretation of aerial photographs, the vegetation has been classified into three community-types.

The community-type to the south of the cooling canal system is a mangrove community which occupies the transition zone between the

'reshwater communities to the west of the study area and the salt-water communities to the east.

The dominant community-type to the west of the cooling canal system is a grassland characterized by

sawgrass, salt rush and salt grass', this is interrupted by the third community-type, which consists of tree islands characterized by mangrove species and buttonwoods.

Each of these community-types has been sampled for this study.

'~E'd' i -I 1975.

h d

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di between vegetational changes attributable to the cooling canal system and those not caused by the system; that is, caused by natural factors such as 'frost or succession or caused by the L-31 levee and borrow canal.

The key to detecting the operational impact of the cooling canal system is the assumption that this impact is the only effect which should decrease with distance from the system.

The locations for the sample quadrats were chosen according to the principles of statistical experimental design.

Thus, the effects of the cooling canal system can be tested for significance by analysis of frequencies for the community composition data and by analysis of variance for the biomass data.

This statistical study design has been used for each study since

1975, so the data sets are directly comparable between years.

Since 1976, the data have come from permanent transects.

This has reduced the sampling error and, from a practical point'f view, has increased the ability to detect even small changes in vegetation.

Parameters monitored - The vegetational communities could re-spond to the effects of the cooling canal system by changes in composition, that is, the species present; or by changes in structure, that is, the amount of biomass available to capture solar energy and transfer the energy up the food chain.

For the present

study, coranunity composition has been estimated by relative frequency, which is defined as the number of quadrats in which the species occurred divided by the total number of quadrats.

Thus, the resulting values estimate the probabilities of encountering at least one individual of the species in one quadrat.

Biomass has been estimated by a volume-density index developed for this study.

This index estimates the volume (height x radius

)

2K and weights it by the density of individuals within the volume.

This method is analogous to traditional measures of yield (Greig-Smith, 1964) and shares the advantage of the traditional measures in that it can be determined easily in the field.

The volume-density index has the further advantage of making possible comparisons of 'species with different growth forms.

Materials and Methods Transect lines - Nine transect lines were established; six transects ran east-west, adjacent to the western border of the canal system and three transects ran north-south, adjacent to the southern border of the canal system (Vegetation Figure 1).

The transect lines were then divided into quadrats.

Eight quadrats, 5x5 m (2 m

)2l were delineated, so that four quadrats lay north or west of the transect and four lay south or east.

Thus, 72 quadrats were laid

'ut encompassing a sample area of 1800 m

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The six transects west of the canal system were chosen so that three transects sampled tree islands and three sampled grasslands.

The transect lines were specifically selected so that the first and last quadrats were in either woody or graminoid areas.

The remaining quadrat locations were a fixed distance from the predetermined quadrats and were thus random in relation to the habitats between two points.

Control uadrats - The South Florida Water Management District L-31 levee and borrow canal lies just west of the Turkey Point canal system.

Because much of the sampled vegetation lay between this active drainage canal and the Turkey Point canal system, suitable control quadrats had to be located outside the influence of both systems.

To prevent potential impacts of the i-31 levee and borrow canal from confounding the study results, control quadrats for east-west transects 1 through 5 were located west of the canal.

Control quadrats for Transect 6 were located east of the canal because the distance between the cooling canal system and the L-31 canal was too great to place them to the west.

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.vfaan; J bacaclrolf J Persea borbonl J ascer sp.

xyrsfne gufanensfs high eed low low Iced red (not reported in 1974)

(not reported in 1974)

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VEGETATION TABLE 3 DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL tlUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 1

1978 S

echoes 1Al lA2 1B1 uadrat 1B2 1Cl 1C2 1Dl 1D2 Totals Aster Sp.

Cladium jamaicensis Conocarpus erecta Distieblis spicata 1

Eleochari s cellulosa 801 Ipomoea saggi ttata present 10 54 58 48 193 161 59 20 14 1,291 222 234 153 662 398 444 2,113 831 3,948 319 244 19,791 421 340 25,894 Juncus roemeri anus Typha Sp.

216 129 42 14 142 2,870 27 543 2,897 TOTALS 1,018 1,236 4,275 584 3,570 20,480 847 798 32,808

VEGETATION TABLE 4 DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL QUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 2 1978 S ecies 2A1 2A2 2B1 2B2 Uadrat 2C1 2C2 2D1 2D2 Totals Acrosti chum aureum Bacchari s glomeruli folia Cladium jamaicensis Corocarpus erecta Ipomoea saggi ttata Juncus roemeri anus Lagunculari a rac'emosa 8ikania scandens Rhi zophora mangle Solanum blodgettii 1,747 13,348 2,239 3,081 291,169 1,067 present 839 6

117 1

5,264 77 216 present 1,165 391 110 5,353 147 present present 5,591 13,859 10,664 2,660 2,412 2,442 352 2,027 7,042 57,150 178 302,728 77 6,444 607 7,774 5

Tillandsia circinata Tillandsia flexuosa present present present present present present TOTALS 6,832 304,914 3,533 13,357 21,565 11,026 5,127 7,827 374,181

VEGETATION TABLE 5 DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL gUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 3 1978 S

echoes 3Al 3A2 3Bl 3B2 uadrat 3C1 3C2 3D1 3D2 Totals Aster Sp.

Cladi um jamaicensi s 804 2,086 Conocarpus erecta Ipomoea saggi ttata Juncus roemeri anus 9

1 2

12 3,310 1,437 13 present 137 137 108 4,884 245 213 1,953 640 4,643 917 747 12,003 TOTALS 804 2,086 3,545 3,391 777 4,890 917 747 17,157

VEGETATION TABLE 6 DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL QUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 4 1978 Species 4Al 4A2 4B1 4B2 uadrat 4C1 4C2 4D1 4D2 Total s Acrosti chum aureum Aster Sp.

Bacchari s angustifolia Bacchari s gl orner ulif1ori a Bacchari s hali mifolia Blechnum serrulatum Casuari na equi stifolia Cladi um jamaicensis Conocarpus erecta present present present present present 567 1,584 2,946 12,994 49 7

79 2,653 Eupatori um capillifolium present present present 137 present 661 102 7

1 241 661 present present 18 14 34 4,604 14,275 14,922 1,355 53,247 20 531 1,460 2

4,801 1

1 Hyperi curn Sp.

Ipomoea saggi ttata Iagvncularia racemosa tudvigia repens Hikani a scandens present present present present 41,497 2

3 present 1

present 41,499 5

1 present 1

present 1

present present

VEGETATION TABLE 6

( continued)

DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL QUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 4 1978 S ecies 4A1 4A2 4B1 4B2 uadr at 4C1 4C2 4D1 4D2 Totals proserpi naca Sp.

Rhexi a mariana Rhi zophora mangle Rhus radi cans Sabal palmetto Salix longi pes Sebi nus terebi thifolius Solanum blodgettii Thelypteris sp.

Xyris Sp.

1 78 present present present 10,140 76 present present present present 2,662 42 59 194 1

present 115,706 216 2

1 78 128,508 42 11 545 616 1,745 3,026 25,794 49,055 15,679 132,411 1,360 229,686

VEGETATION TABLE 7 DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL QUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 5 1978 S

echoes 5Al Uadrat 5A2 581 5B2 5Cl 5C2 5Dl 5D2 Totals Aster Sp.

Bacchari s glomerufoli a Cladi um jamaicensis Conocarpus erecta Ei eochari s cellulosa I'pomoea saggi ttata present 7

2 2

present 956 2,369 663 1,858 441 3,812 1,573 451 243 7,182 14,176 1,419 1

106 21 272 present present 15 12,123 23,127 293 TOTALS 1,199 2,369 7,853 16,036 1,862 3,813 1,704 723 35,559

VEGETATION TABLE 8 DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL QUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 6 1978 S

echoes 6Al 6A2 6B1 6B2 uadrat 6C1 6C2 6D1 6D2 Totals Acrosti chum aureum Aster Sp.

Baccharis SP.

Blechnum serrulatum 3,696 Causuari na equi seti folia preSent 31 3,148 122 95,173 70,423 10 209 1

3,179 1

10 4,027 165,599 Cephalanthus occidentali s Chamegsyce SP.

Chiococco alba Cladi um jamaicensis Conocarpus erecta Cyperaceae Dichronena floridensis Dipholi s salicifolia Eugeni a buxifolia present present present present 1,104 2,290 9,800 2,235

. 991 29 4,790 23 14,129 23 702 204 present present 1.772 5,605 13 26,844 15,094 18,750 18,750 1

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VEGETATION TABLE 8 (continued)

DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL OUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 6 1978 S ecies 6A1 6A2 6B1 6B2 uadrat 6C1 6C2 6D1 6D2 Totals Eugeni a confusa Ilex cassine Jacquemonti a recli nata Lantana involucrata Lagunculari a racemosa Magnolia virginiana Metopi um taxi ferum Myrica ceri fera Passi flora subserosa Persea borboni a Phlebodi um SP.

Pingui cula pumila Pluchea rosea Randia aculeata 1,566 present 10,289 51 1,026 218-present present present 5

16 present present 92 2

400 400 3,409 21,688 11,132 98,452 15 150 270 present 1,838 present 1,244 1,566 21 51 400 134,693 10,724 1,838 494

VEGETATION TABLE 8 (continued)

DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL OUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 6 1978 S ecies 6A1 6A2 6B1 6B2 uadrat 6C1 6C2 6D1 6D2 Total s Rapanea guianensi s Rhizophora mangle Rhus Sp.

Sabal palmetto Schinus terebi thifolius Solanum blodgettii Soli dago microcephal a Swi eti ennia mahogani Torrubi a longifolia Trema mi crantha Vittaria Sp.

Vitis rotundifolia Xyris brev'folia 28 78,400

-present ll 355 6,970 36,125 9,943 13 137 6,542 1

1,044 106.

present 3,520 present 25 214 213 24 144 124 74,471 477,669 9,126 173 91 present present present present present present 8,076 6,970 118,045 9,968 736 144 552,140 9,299 91 TOTALS 83,239 116,833 73,344 72,682 98,779 503,676 19,269 123,954 1,091,776

VEGETATION TABLE 9 DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL qUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 7 1978 S ecies

- 7Al 7A2 7Bl 7B2 uadrat 7C1 7C2 7D1 7D2 Totals Aster Sp.

Baccharis Sp.

Borrichia frutescens Cladium jamaicensis Conocarpus erecta Di stichli s spica ta f I@peri curn SP.

Ipomoea saggi ttata Laguncul aria racemosa Xyris Sp.

present 1,793 present 770 1,335 2,136 present present present 224 226 1,288 4,958 1,029 1

2 21 11,194 1,575 present present present 14 87 101 80 16 6

1,022 4,835 861 20,668 21,529 TOTALS 1,793 2,907 1,335 2,864 5,039 1,269 882 21,799 37,888

VEGETATION TABLE 10 DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL QUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 8 1978 S

echoes 8A1 8A2 8B1 uadrat 8B2 8C1 8C2 8D1 8D2 Totals Cladi um jamai censi s Conocarpus erecta Cuscuta Sp.

575 216 259 1,675 3,288 51,200 8,563 3,634 1,620 1,824 1,816 3,993 2,503 106 1

Distichlis spi cata Hyperi curn Sp.

Juncus roemeri anus Laguncul aria racemosa Rhi zophora mangle Salicornia virginica Solanum biodget tii 150 128 215 302 30,095 9,934 37 167 43 4,613 43 72 2,505 1,483 303,195 97 9

48 69 present Acrostichum aureum Borrichia frutescens casuari na equi seti folia 7,000 11,281 3,288 2

69,481 16,432 10,356 1

4,656 1

608 337,580 10,125 69 170 TOTALS 7 984 1 3 300 20 830 92 i41 4 4

1 66 4 537 6 ~ 251 303 287 452 769

VEGETATION TABLE 11 DENSITY-VOLUME INDEX OF VEGETATIONAL QUADRATS ADJACENT TO THE TURKEY POINT. CANAL SYSTEM TRANSECT 9 1978 S ecies 9Al 9A2 9B1 982 Uadrat 9C1 9C2 9D1 9D2 Total s Acrosti chum aureum Aster sp.

Bacchari s angustifolia Borrichi a arborescens Borrichia frutescens Cladi um jamaicensi s Conocarpus erecta Disti chlis spi ca ta Juncus roemeri anus Laguncul ari a racemosa Rhi zophora mangle Schoenus nigricans 2,714 495 65 662 506 15 1,071 37 43 9,025 76 55 42,364 42,360 477 3

present 578

. 229 4,953 277 249 48 10 244 914 157 2,141 4,014 2,051 83 2

42 22 present 4

present 201 6

136 63 14 2,714 1

5 42 28 761 10,335

.1,331 43 44,012 56,483 659 TOTALS 96,527 1,401 837 5,016 2,483 2,794 4,336 3,020 116,414
VEGETATION TABLE 12 ANALYSIS OF ALL TRANSECTS TURKEY POINT PLANT 1978 Factor level Degrees of freedom Sum of s uares Mean Calculated F ps F py s uare F
Transects guadrats Interaction-Error 24 36 121.7 X 10 15.21 X 10 2.82 4.984 X 10 1.661 X 10 0..31 137.7 X 10 5.738 X 10 1.06 193.6 X 10 5.738 X10'.33 3.17 2.92 1.89
VEGETATION TABLE 13 ANALYSIS OF GRASSLAND TRANSECTS TURKEY POINT PLANT 1978 Factor level Degrees of freedom Sum of s uares Mean s uare Calculated F ps F
Transects guadrats Interaction Error 12 53.29 X 10 26.65 X 10 26.02 X 10 8.672 X 10 84.11 X 10 14.02 X 10 142.0 X 10 11.83 X 10 2.25 0.73 1.18 3.89 3.49 3.00
VEGETATION TABI E 14 ANALYSIS OF MOODY TRANSECTS TURKEY POINT PLANT 1978 Factor level Transects guadrats Interaction Error 12 134 4 X 10e 197 6
X 10e 195.7 X 106 44.79 X 10 32 93 X 10e 16 31 X 10e Degrees of Sum of Mean freedom s uares s uare 2
24 63 X 10e 12 32 X 106 0.76 2.74 2.02 3.89 3.49 3.00 Calculated F
0 F
.05
VEGETATION TABLE 15 ANALYSIS OF SOUTHERN TRANSECTS TURKEY POINT PLANT 1978 Factor level Degrees of freedom Sum of s uares Mean s uare Calculated F
F Transects guadrats Interaction Error 12 12.14 X
10'.024 X 10~
23.21 X 10~
51.45 X 10~
6.071 X 10~
3.008 X
10'.868 X 10~
4.288 X 10~
1.42
0. 70 0.90 3.89
3. 49 3.00
VEGETATION TABLE 16 FOUR-YEAR COMPARISON OF GRASSLAND TRANSECTS TURKEY POINT PLANT 1975-1978 Factor level guadrats Transects Degrees of freedom 1975 3
25.72 2
30.69 1.77 1.33 4.53 0.59 Calculated F for ear 1976 1977 1978 2.25 0.73
(}uadrats x
transects Error 12 24.29 1.26 0.73 1.18 Significant at F
=.05.
III.B.2-42
VEGETATION TABLE 17 FOUR-YEAR COMPARISON OF WOODY TRANSECTS TURKEY POINT PLANT 1975-1978 Factor level Degrees of freedom 1975 Calculated F for ear 1976 1977 1978 guadrats Transects guadrats x
transects Error 12 2.65 0.26 4.05 0.51 0.42 1.65 0.34 0.32 0.58 0.76 2.74
2. 02 Significant at F
=.05.
III.B.2-43
VEGETATION TABLE 18 FOUR-YEAR COMPARISON OF SOUTHERN TRANSECTS TURKEY POINT PLANT 1975-1978 Factor level Degrees of freedom 1975 1976 1977 Calculated F for ear 1978 Ouadrats Transects guadrats x
transects Error 12 48.83 37.59 25.58 10.32 13.56 6.36 1.32 4.403.72'.42 0.70 0.90 Significant at F
=.05.
III.B.2-44
I 3.
ANNUAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS ETS 4. 2. 2. 1 )
Due to consistently overcast skies, the annual aerial infrared photograph for 1978 was not taken until February, 1979.
Because of this delayed accomplishment, the photographs have not I
yet been analyzed and are therefore not included with this report.
The analysis will be submitted in a supplementary report by April 30, 1979.
III.B.3-1
4' 0
IV.
CHANGES IN SURVEY PROCEDURES ETS 5.4.1 3
None
V.
STUDIES NOT REQUIRED BY THE ETS (5.4.1(4))
A.
DILUTION PUMPING PROJECT The Turkey Point plant condensers have experienced non-biological calcium carbonate scaling to such a degree that unit efficiencies have been impacted.
A dilution test was conducted in 1978 to examine the effectiveness of add-ing sea water from Card Sound to the cooling canal water as a
means of diluting calcium concentration 1n the cooling water.
Dilution water was pumped over the closure dam into the cooling canal system from Card Sound Canal.
It mixed with cooling system water as it flowed north toward the plant intake.
Pumping began July 25, 1978 and continued through early
November, 1978.
Three
pumps, each with a nominal output of 100 cfs we'e used; however, this capacity was rarely reached by any of the pumps.
Average pumping rates were approximately 200 cfs or less throughout the test.
The ground water monitoring program was reviewed with the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) prior to initiation of this test and temporarily augmented for the brief test period.
No changes to. FPL's official agreement V.A-1
with SFWND were made.
This augmented program showed no evidence of adverse changes in.the ground water regime
.as a result of the dilution test.
The effectiveness of the test for reducing calcium carbonate scaling 'is still being evaluated.
V.A-2
VI.
VIOLATIONS OF THE ETS A.
I 5
E REPORT ¹50-250/50-251/78-22 One item of non-compliance was cited in I E Report
¹78-22.
This involved review of the groundwater monitoring schedule by FPL in conjunction with the South Florida Water Management District and the USGS.
Appendix B Technical Specification 4.A.2.a (prior to Amendments 41 and 33 to OL ¹'s DPR-31 and DPR-41) required that this review occur quarterly.
Contrary to this, the review was being performed semiannually.
Amendments 41 and 33, issued by NRC Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, on November 6,
1978 deleted the required frequency for review.
VI.A-1
0
VII.
UNUSUAL EVENTS, CHANGES TO THE PLANT, ETS, PERMITS OR CERTIFICATES A.
NPDES PERMIT A renewed NPDES permit was issued by EPA for the Turkey Point Plant, NPDES No.
Fl 0001562, on June 14, 1978.
This permit became effective on July 1, 1978 and will expire at midnight on September 30, 1980.
A copy was forwarded to the NRC office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation with FPL letter 0 L-78-380.
VII. A-1
B.
AMENDMENTS 41 AND 33 TO OL 8's DPR-31 and DPR-41 The subject amendments revise in its entirety, Appendix B
to OL //'s DPR-31 and DPR-41.
The amendments reduce the requirements of the environmental monitoring program based on data collected during five years of plant operation, remove reference to various studies that have already been completed, make several administrative
changes, and d'elete the monitoring programs and limiting conditions for open-cycle operation.
VII.B-l
"1 0
0'
C.
REPORTABLE EVENT NO. 250/251-B-78-01 This event invo1ved the discovery of a breach in the intake area dam.
This breach has been repaired.
A ful1 account was given in the subject report.
VII. G-1

L-79-314, Forwards Pages of Nonradiological Environ Monitoring Rept, for Jul-Dec 1978, Omitted from 790329 Submittal

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