The department and its agents shall have general control and supervision over underground water, lakes, rivers, streams, canals, ditches, and coastal waters under the jurisdiction of the state insofar as their pollution may affect the public health or impair the interest of the public or persons lawfully using them.
Fla. Stat. § 403.062
Pollution control; underground, surface, and coastal waters
Known as the Florida Electric Transmission Line Siting Act
The act spans §§ 403.011 to 403.973 (336 sections).
History.--s. 2, ch. 29834, 1955; ss. 26, 35, ch. 69-106
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