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I ` <br />MAR 1 <br />61981 <br />DEPUTY CLERK HARGREAVES SWORE IN WILLIAM BOSTWICK, DISTRICT <br />ENGINEER, FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION, PERMITTING <br />SECTION, ORLANDO. <br />THE BOARD QUESTIONED WHY, SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN DEFICIENCIES <br />IN THIS PLANT -IN THE PAST, THE ACTION HAS NOT COME TO THIS POINT <br />PRIOR TO THIS TIME, AND MR. BOSTWICK EXPLAINED THAT THE DEADLINE FOR <br />REQUIRING SECONDARY TREATMENT WAS 1973. SINCE THAT TIME THERE HAS <br />BEEN A REORGANIZATION WITHIN THE DER; THEY HAVE GONE THROUGH ALL KIND <br />OF PROCESSES; THEY HAVE ISSUED SOME CONSTRUCTION PERMITS RELATIVE TO <br />THIS; AND IN ADDITION, THEY HAVE DEALT WITH THREE DIFFERENT OWNERS <br />SINCE 1975. ALL OF THIS TAKES TIME, AND THEY HAVE LIMITED PERSONNEL, <br />QUESTION THEN AROSE AS TO THE STATEMENT IN THE FLYER PASSED <br />OUT BY TSR. SALTER, WHICH STATES THAT 877 OF THE SEWERAGE PLANTS IN THE <br />U.S.A. DO NOT COMPLY WITH DER STANDARDS, AND MR. BOSTWICK REPORTED <br />THAT THEY HAVE THREE PLANTS IN INDIAN RIVER COUNTY THAT ARE NOT IN <br />COMPLIANCE WITH SECONDARY TREATMENT, ONE OF WHICH THE COUNTY IS <br />CURRENTLY TRYING TO SOLVE. <br />COMMISSIONER BIRD ASKED IF THE ORDER SHUTTING DOWN THE PLANT <br />WAS A DIRECT RESULT OF DER ACTION, AND MR. BOSTWICK EXPLAINED THAT <br />THEY GO THROUGH ALL THEIR REGULAR PROCEDURE; IF THAT FAILS, THAT THEY <br />GO TO THE .BUDGE, WHO TAKES ACTION AS HE SEES FIT. THE DER DID NOT <br />PROPOSE CLOSING THE PLANT AS A REMEDY FOR THE SITUATION; THE .BUDGE <br />ISSUED THE ORDER BECAUSE HE RULED TREASURE COAST IN CONTEMPT OF HIS <br />PREVIOUS ORDER. <br />IT WAS ASKED IF THE DER HAS RUN INTO OTHER SITUATIONS WHERE <br />THERE IS EXCREMENT A FOOT DEEP AROUND THE SEWAGE PLANT AND WHETHER <br />IT IS A HEALTH HAZARD. MR. BOSTWICK STATED THAT THEY HAVE RUN INTO <br />SIMILAR SITUATIONS, AND IT IS A DEFINITE THREAT TO HEALTH; IN ADDITION <br />EVIDENCE WAS GIVEN IN REGARD TO THE PUMPING OF RAW SEWAGE ONTO THE <br />GROUND, AND THIS ALSO IS A HEALTH HAZARD. <br />COMMISSIONER BIRD ASKED IF A TEMPORARY PUMP WAS PLACED IN <br />THE LIFT STATION AND RAW SEWAGE PUMPED OUT ONTO THE GROUND WITH MR. <br />SALTERS KNOWLEDGE. <br />MAR 1 � <br />"I - <br />