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THE WATER DEPTH RECORDS IN THE VISTA IMPOUNDMENTS, AND RAINFALL DATA. <br />UNDER THE BIOLOGICAL PARAMETER, THE ENTOMOLOGY LABORATORY HAS SOME <br />OF THE PLANT REQUIREMENTS, BUT THERE HAS BEEN NO WORK DONE IN THE AREA <br />OF MACRO INVERTEBRATES, SEDIMENTATION, HEAVY METALS, PESTICIDES, ETC. <br />WE HAVE SOME INFORMATION ON SALINITY AND DISSOLVED SOLIDS, BUT WE HAVE <br />NO CHEMICAL ANALYSES. MR. ROBBINS INFORMED THE BOARD THAT WHEN THEY <br />FOUND THEY WERE SHORT OF DATA, THE NEXT STEP WAS TO ASK DER AND EPA <br />HOW MUCH DATA THEY DID NEED, AND IT WAS INDICATED THAT THEY THOUGHT <br />THREE MONTHS OF TESTING PROBABLY WOULD BE AN ADEQUATE TESTING PERIOD; <br />THE ORIGINAL REQUIREMENT WAS ONE YEAR. <br />MR. ROBBINS REPORTED THAT THEY HAVE CONTACTED SOME LABORATORIES <br />TO DO THE TESTING AND BASICALLY THE PROGRAM THEY HAVE COME UP WITH IS <br />TO GO TO THE DER IN ORLANDO AND GET THEIR BLESSING AND THEN GO TO <br />TALLAHASSEE TO GET THEIR APPROVAL. TO DEMONSTRATE COMPARABILITY, IT <br />IS SUGGESTED THAT DATA BE COLLECTED AT THE VISTA PROPERTIES IMPOUNDMENT <br />AND THEN IN THE NEIGHBORING IMPOUNDMENT WHICH DOESNIT HAVE ANY <br />EFFLUENT AND WHICH WOULD REPRESENT THE IMPOUNDMENTS THE COUNTY IS <br />GOING TO USE. MR. ROBBINS ESTIMATED THAT THE LAB WORK WOULD RUN ABOUT <br />$2,600. HE NOTED THAT THE GAME AND FRESH WATER FISH COMMISSION HAS <br />INDICATED THEY WOULD DEVOTE THEIR TIME TO PERFORM THE PLANT TRANSECTS, <br />MACRO -INVERTEBRATE ANALYSIS, ETC., BUT THEY NEED TO BUY SOME PIECES <br />OF EQUIPMENT TO DO THIS WHICH WOULD COST ABOUT $300.00. THE LABOR <br />FOR THEM TO DO THEIR COLLECTION HE ESTIMATED AT $1,500, AND THEY WILL <br />SEND A LETTER STATING THAT THEY ARE DONATING THEIR TIME. MR. ROBBINS <br />INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE WOULD RECOMMEND THE JOINT VENTURE ENGINEERS <br />COLLECT THE DATA RATHER THAN GOING TO SOMEONE ELSE. IN THAT WAY THEY <br />COULD COLLECT THE SAMPLES AND DELIVER THEM DIRECTLY TO THE LAB WHICH <br />IS IN FORT PIERCE. THE EXPENSE FOR THEIR TIME IS THE ONLY ITEM THAT <br />HAS NOT BEEN ADDED IN AS YET BECAUSE THEY NEED THE BOARD'S DIRECTION <br />AS TO WHETHER THEY WISH TO PROCEED RIGHT NOW AND SUBMIT A PETITION <br />WITH THE LIMITED MATERIAL AVAILABLE. MR. ROBBINS DOUBTED, HOWEVER, <br />THAT DER WOULD SAY YEA OR NAY WITHOUT DATA TO BACK IT UP AND HE DID <br />BELIEVE THAT THREE MONTHS TESTING IS REASONABLE. <br />35 <br />AUG 2 71980 <br />saox 44 PACE 382 <br />