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THE PROCESS ITSELF HAS LIMITATIONS AND ALTHOUGH THERE MAY BE SOME <br />SHORT TERM ECONOMIC GAINS, THEY CAN SEE RIGHT NOW THE NET EFFECT <br />WOULD BE COMPLETELY UPDATING THE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY WITHIN JUST A <br />FEW YEARS AS THE AQUIFER CONTINUES TO DEGRADE. IN ADDITION TO THAT, <br />HE STATED THAT A NEW FACILITY, AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, WOULD HAVE TO <br />HAVE WATER RECLAMATION EQUIPMENT WHICH THE CITY OF SERO BEACH DOES <br />NOT HAVE CURRENTLY, MR. ROBBINS ADVISED THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF <br />ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION WILL NO LONGER ALLOW YOU TO DISCHARGE LIME <br />SLUDGE INTO THE SHALLOW AQUIFERa THAT WOULD ALSO ADD TO THE OVERALL <br />DEGRADATION OF THE WATER QUALITY IN THE AREA. HE CONTINUED THAT THERE <br />IS AN OVERLAP OF THE WELL FIELD — THE ZONE OF INFLUENCE OF THE DRAW <br />DOWN OF THE WELL FIELD — IN THE CITY OF VERO BEACH WHICH EXTENDS INTO <br />THE SOUTH COUNTY TAX DISTRICT. MR. ROBBINS REITERATED THAT FOR THE <br />OVERALL WELL FIELD — THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE REQUIRED UNDER THE SHALLOW <br />AQUIFER SCHEME FOR THE SOUTH TAX DISTRICT, WILL ALSO OVERLAP INTO THE <br />CITY OF VERO BEACH WELL FIELD — IT THEN BECOMES A MATTER OF APPLYING <br />FOR ISSUANCE OF A WATER USE PERMIT. HE ADDED THAT IT WOULD THEN <br />BE TWO ENTITIES COMPETING FOR THE SAME RESOURCE, AND WITH THE PRESENT <br />INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW, IT IS FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, MR. ROBBINS <br />COMMENTED THE COUNTY WOULD BASICALLY BE IN THE POSITION OF NOT <br />NECESSARILY HAVING THEIR RESOURCE SECURED FOREVER, AND THIS ALSO HAD <br />TO BE CONSIDERED IN THEIR RECOMMENDATION. MR. ROBBINS THEN STATED <br />THAT HE WOULD BE VERY HAPPY TO SIT DOWN WITH ANY OF THE COMMISSIONERS <br />AND GO OVER THE ENTIRE REPORT'IWITH HIS DOCUMENTS AND EVIDENCE. HE <br />WOULD BE WILLING TO DO THIS EITHER AT A SPECIAL HEARING, OR ON A ONE <br />TO ONE BASIS, IN ORDER FOR THE BOARD TO HAVE THE BENEFIT OF THE <br />18 MONTHS THAT THEY DID SPEND ON THE REPORT. MR. ROBBINS FELT THAT <br />THIS SHOULD BE DONE VERY QUICKLY, SO THEN CAN DETERMINE WHETHER OR <br />NOT THEY WILL CONTINUE ON THEIR PRESENT SCHEME, HE ADVISED THAT THEY <br />ARE IN THE PROCESS OF OUTLINING ALL OF THEIR REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE <br />FMHA TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT, AND GETTING VERY CLOSE TO ISSUING THE <br />BONDS TO FUND THE PROJECT. MR, ROBBINS THEN RECOMMENDED THAT THEY <br />DO THIS QUICKLY, IF THAT WAS THEIR WISH. <br />NOV 191990 <br />35 <br />