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DR. DAVID SMITH AND .JAMES BEINDORF, COUNTY CONSULTING ENGINEERS, <br />APPEARED TO DISCUSS A WATER SYSTEM FOR THE COUNTY. MR. BEINDORF USED <br />THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN MAP TO POINT OUT AREAS THEY HAD DISCUSSED <br />AND STATED THE HIGH POINTS OF THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS ARE (1) TO SUGGEST <br />AN AREA BE PICKED OUT, (2) TO GET PERMISSION FROM THE BOARD TO ACQUIRE <br />EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY WHEN THE AREA IS DETERMINED, AND (3) TO PROCEED <br />WITH THE NECESSARY ENGINEERING TO SECURE FUNDS TO INITIATE THE BEGINNING <br />OF A WATER SYSTEM FOR THAT AREA. <br />MR, BEINDORF CONTINUED THAT THE FIRST AREA TO CONSIDER IS THE <br />AREA AROUND THE NEW HOSPITAL AND GIFFORD, INCLUDING THE INDUSTRIAL PACKING <br />HOUSE AREA AND THE AREAS SERVED BY U.D.U. HE NOTED A PROBLEM IS THAT AT <br />THE PRESENT TIME WE WOULD BE USING SOLELY WATER ALLOCATED BY THE CITY OF <br />VERO BEACH AND HE WOULD SUGGEST APPLYING OUR ENTIRE REMAINING WATER <br />ALLOCATION TO THIS AREA. THE NEXT AREA UNDER CONSIDERATION IS THE WABASSO <br />HOBART PARK AREA, POSSIBLY INCLUDING THE NORTH BEACH AREA OF INDIAN <br />RIVER SHORES. HE POINTED OUT THAT HERE THEY WOULD BE THINKING IN TERMS <br />OF A WELL FIELD AND TREATMENT PLANT WHICH WOULD ULTIMATELY SERVE GIFFORD <br />AS WELL AS WABASSO AND THE NORTH BEACH AREA AND STATED IT IS A HIGH <br />POTENTIAL GROWTH AREA WITH A LOW INITIAL LOAD. THE MOST REMOTE AREA <br />UNDER CONSIDERATION IS THE AREA SOUTH OF VERO BEACH, WHICH WILL REQUIRE <br />A LOT OF TRANSMISSION LINES AND A GREAT MANY RIGHT-OF-WAYS. MR, BEINDORF <br />NOTED THAT THERE WOULD BE AN IMMEDIATE CUSTOMER LOAD IN THIS AREA, BUT <br />THERE ARE A MULTITUDE OF SMALL UTILITY SYSTEMS IN THIS AREA. HE CON- <br />CLUDED <br />CLUDED THAT IT IS THEIR FEELING THAT THE REAL NEED FOR THE WATER SYSTEM <br />IS IN THE GIFFORD AREA AND THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD START FOR THE COUNTY <br />TO CONSIDER. <br />MR..BEINDORF WENT ON TO DISCUSS THE ACQUIRING OF EASEMENTS AND <br />NOTED THAT WE ARE STYMIED FROM GOING ANY FURTHER WITH U.D.U. UNTIL CERTAIN <br />EASEMENTS CAN BE OBTAINED, PRIMARILY ACROSS THE AIRPORT AND A FEW SMALL <br />EASEMENTS FROM OWNERS OF PRIVATE LAND, <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT SAID HE FELT THE FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS WOULD <br />BE TO PICK OUT AN AREA, AND HE PERSONALLY FELT GIFFORD SHOULD BE SET AS <br />THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY, ESPECIALLY DUE TO -THE POSSIBILITY OF RECEIVING <br />GRANT FUNDS TO HELP SET THIS UP, <br />DR, SMITH REPORTED THAT THERE APPEARED TO BE TWO POSSIBLE <br />ROUTES THE COMMISSION COULD FOLLOW TO FUND AN IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM OF THIS <br />19 <br />OCT 2 0.1976 <br />