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THREE BIDS - ONE FROM ASHTON UTIU TIES, WHO HAS BEEN IN THE BUSINESS 30 YEARS, IN THE AMOUNT OF $54,7801 FOR PURCHASE OF THE PLANT, REFURBISHING IT, DOING THE MINIMUM SITE WORK, INSTALLING IT - A TURN KEY OPERATION. MR: SALTER THEN COMMENTED THAT IT IS THE CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE TO PAY THE PIPER AND NOTED THAT THE DER WANTS HIM TO PUT IN ANOTHER WEL'LFIELD EVEN THOUGH THE COUNTY IS GOING TO BE IN THE WATER BUSINESS SHORTLY. HE STATED THAT SINCE THE COUNTY IS GOING FORWARD, HE IS WILLING TO WORK WITH THE COUNTY TO ACCOMPLISH AN ORDERLY PHASING OF AFFAIRS. MR. SALTER NEXT REFERRED TO THE "INFLAMMATORY" REMARKS MADE BY DR. FLOOD, WHICH HE DID NOT BELIEVE DR. FLOOD COULD BACK UP. HE AGREED THERE WAS A BOILED WATER NOTICE ISSUED IN 1979 WITH RESPECT TO ONE TEST SAMPLING, BUT STATED THAT OCCURRED WHEN HIS CONTRACTORS, INSTEAD OF TAKING THE SAMPLE TO A PRIVATE CHEMIST AS THEY WERE SUPPOSED T0, SENT IT TO THE STATE LABORATORY FOR FREE TESTING AND SOMEWHERE ALONG THE ROUTE, THE BOTTLES WERE CONTAMINATED. MR. SALTER WARRANTED THAT THE WATER IS SAFE IN EVERY RESPECT AS MANDATED BY THE STATE AND THE COUNTY AND THAT HE HAS THE CHEMISTS TESTS TO PROVE IT. QUESTIONS FOLLOWED AS TO WHETHER THE PLANT EVER HAS BEEN OPERATING SINCE MR. SALTER OWNED IT, AND MR. SALTER STATED THAT IT HAS NOT; IT HAS NEVER MET STATE COMPLIANCE AND DID NOT MEET IT WITH SOUTHERN GULF OR MR. LOHMAN. HE ALSO STATED THAT HE WAS NOT AWARE, OF THE' PROVISIONS -OF RESOLUTION 76-32 AT THE TIME HE PURCHASED THE USED PLANT LOCATED AT SILVER SPRINGS. COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK POINTED OUT THAT MR. SALTER HAS SAID HE IS NOT WILLING TO CONTINUE THE OPERATION ON A SEWER ONLY BASIS AND IN ADDITION, THIS SYSTEM HAS CONTINUED TO DEPRECIATE OVER TWENTY YEARS. OBVIOUSLY, THEREFORE, THERE IS VERY LITTLE VALUE LEFT; S0, WHY SHOULD THE COUNTY ALLOW HIM TO PUT IN A NEW PLANT AND HAVE TO MAR 1M1