Laserfiche WebLink
UNIT" WHICH TAKES THE FINE PARTICLES AND GETS THEM INTO A STATE WHERE <br />THEY CAN BE FILTERED OUT. HE ESTIMATED THAT SUCH EQUIPMENT WOULD COST <br />IN THE RANGE OF $375,000, BUT INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE DID NOT FEEL <br />IT WOULD BE PRUDENT TO MAKE SUCH AN INVESTMENT FOR THIS SYSTEM AS THIS <br />MONEY WOULD BE SPENT TO UPGRADE WATER ON WHICH THE SOURCE OF SUPPLY <br />IS VERY UNRELIABLE. <br />MR, FOX CONTINUED THAT THE PLANT SITE CANNOT ACCOMMODATE <br />ANY MORE WELLS DUE TO THEIR PROXIMITY, WHICH WOULD CREATE A "DRAW- <br />DOWN." HE REITERATED THAT THE IMPORTANT POINT IS THAT THE CONDITION <br />OF THE ACQUIFER ITSELF IS TOO UNRELIABLE TO WARRANT THIS TYPE OF CAPI- <br />TAL EXPENDITURE. HE FURTHER POINTED OUT THAT THE TYPE OF PLANT HE <br />QUOTED ON IS FOR THE EXISTING CAPACITY, AND THERE IS NO POTENTIAL <br />GROWTH AS THE PLANT -CANNOT ACCOMMODATE -IT. <br />ATTORNEY GATLIN ASKED IF REPLACEMENT OF PIPE IN THE DISTRI- <br />BUTION SYSTEM WOULD SOLVE THE PROBLEMS, AND MR, FOX STATED THAT, IN <br />HIS OPINION, IT WOULD NOT, <br />CHAIRMEN WODTKE ASKED MR.FOX TO CONFIRM THAT HE IS NOT AN <br />EMPLOYEE OF GENERAL WATERWORKS, BUT'EMPLOYED BY THEM AS A CONSULTANT <br />WITH A CONTRACT TO REPRESENT THEM. <br />MR. FOX STATED THAT HE WAS REQUESTED TO INVESTIGATE THIS <br />SITUATION, AND IS BEING PAID FOR DOING SO. HE CONTINUED THAT HE HAS <br />BEEN AT THE PLANT BUT HAS NOT PERSONALLY MADE ANY TESTS OF THE WATER. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE ASKED MR. FOX IF HE ASSUMED THE TESTS HE <br />SAW WERE DONE CORRECTLY AND FEELS THIS WATER IS TYPICAL OF THE COUNTY, <br />MR. FOX ANSWERED THAT HE FEELS THE TESTS WERE DONE CORRECTLY <br />AS THEY WERE DONE BY INDEPENDENT LABORATORIES, AND FROM PEOPLE HE HAS <br />SPOKEN TO .AND THINGS HE HAS READ ABOUT WATER CONDITIONS OF THE STATE <br />OF FLORIDA AND THIS PARTICULAR PART OF THE EASTERN SEABOARD, BELIEVES <br />THE WATER CONDITION IS REASONABLY CONSISTANT WITH THE WATER IN THIS <br />AREA. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE HANDED TO MR. FOX WATER TESTS THAT HAVE BEEN <br />RUN ON BEHALF OF THE COUNTY, HE INFORMED MR, FOX THAT THESE TESTS <br />WERE RUN ON SAMPLES THAT WERE TAKEN AT THE CUSTOMER LEVEL AND ASKED <br />IF MR. FOX FELT THESE FIGURES WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE. <br />MR. FOX READ OVER THE TESTS AND AGREED THAT THERE IS NO <br />QUESTION THAT THERE ARE THINGS THAT EXCEED THE STANDARDS. HE NOTED <br />THAT THEIR ANALYSES ALSO INDICATE THIS AND SAID HE THOUGHT HE HAD MADE <br />4. 6 <br />71977 MOK 31 PA. -it- 159 <br />