SUGAR CANE GROWERS COOPERATIVE OF FLORIDA, ROTH FARMS, INC., and WEDGEWORTH FARMS,
  INC., Appellants, v. SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, Appellee, and FLORIDA WILDLIFE
     FEDERATION, INC., DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION, the UNITED STATES OF
     AMERICA, THE FLORIDA AUDUBON SOCIETY, THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY, the DEFENDERS OF
             WILDLIFE, and the MICCOSUKEE TRIBE OF INDIANS OF FLORIDA, Intervenors. 

                                        CASE No. 92-2250 

                         COURT OF APPEAL OF FLORIDA, FIRST DISTRICT 

                                     1993 Fla. App. LEXIS 7728 

                                                    
                                         July 8, 1993, Filed 

SUBSEQUENT HISTORY:  [*1]  

Rehearing Denied August 18, 1993. Released for Publication August 18, 1993. 

PRIOR HISTORY: Appeal from an order of the Division of Administrative Hearings. 

COUNSEL: For Appellants: Robert P. Smith and William H. Green, of Hopping Boyd Green & Sams, Tallahassee. 
  
For Appellee - South Florida Water Management: Irene K. Quincy, Abner Cooper, and Stanley J. Niego, Office of Counsel
of South Florida Water Management, West Palm Beach, and R. Benjamine Reid and Paul L. Nettleton, of Popham, Haik,
Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd., Miami. 
  
For Intervenor - United States: Vicki O'Meara, Acting Asst. Attorney General, Ellen J. Durkee, and Geoffrey Carver, Gary
Guzy, Keith E. Saxe, Washington, D.C.; Linda Collins Hertz, Acting United States Attorney and Suzan Hill Ponzoli, Assistant
United States Attorney, Southern District of Florida, Miami. 
  
For Intervenor - Department of Environmental Regulation: Timothy A. Smith, Deputy General Counsel, and Stacey D.
Cowley, Assistant General Counsel, Tallahassee. 
  
For Intervenor - Environmental Groups: Kenneth B. Wright and David G. Guest, of Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund,
Tallahassee. 
  
For Intervenor - Miccosukee Tribe of Indians: Jerry C. Strauss, of Hobbs, Strauss, Dean, & Wilder, Washington D.C., and
Michael S. Tammaro, of Carlton, Fields, Ward,  [*2]  Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, West Palm Beach. 

JUDGES: BOOTH, BARFIELD, and KAHN, JJ., CONCUR. 

OPINIONBY: PER CURIAM 

OPINION: 
  
PER CURIAM. 

AFFIRMED. 
  
BOOTH, BARFIELD, and KAHN, JJ., CONCUR.