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Comprehensive Plan Potable Water Sub-Element <br /> <br /> <br />Community Development Department Indian River County 40 <br />projects will be added as needed. The current Five Year Capital Improvements Plan for Potable <br />Water and Sanitary Sewer is shown in Appendix A. <br /> <br />Almost all of the capital improvements needed for the 2025 expansion were included in the 2008 <br />expansion. As part of the 2008 expansion, all of the 2025 needed wells, all of the 2025 needed <br />membrane skids, and all but one of the 2025 needed membranes were put in place. Therefore, the <br />only needed capital improvement for the 2025 expansion will be the addition of one membrane to an <br />existing membrane skid. Since the county’s water plants are interconnected, the utilities department <br />has flexibility as to which plant is expanded to accommodate projected demand. <br /> <br /> <br />Service to New Development <br /> <br />The Utilities Department Master Plan identifies main lines that must be installed along major <br />corridors. Unlike other distribution lines, “Master Plan” lines usually do not connect directly to a <br />potable water user. <br /> <br />Besides the assessment process, another way to expand the distribution system is through platting <br />and site plan approval requirements of new development. For example, current land development <br />regulations mandate that each new subdivision within the Urban Service Area connect to the <br />centralized potable water service system if the proposed subdivision meets either of the following <br />criteria. <br /> <br />• It is within one-quarter of a mile of existing water lines; or <br />• It contains 25 or more lots. <br /> <br />For non-residential projects, only those located more than ¼ mile from the existing system and <br />demanding less than 2,000 gallons per day are not required to connect to the regional system. <br /> <br />Those requirements must be maintained to ensure that expansion of the regional potable water system <br />occurs in a logical manner and to ensure that the costs of system expansion are paid by the <br />beneficiaries of the expansion. Even when a development project does not meet the above criteria, <br />the project must connect to the regional potable water system if the project is deemed unacceptable <br />for service by private wells due to increased health risks. <br /> <br /> <br />SUMMARY OF ANALYSIS <br /> <br />The county potable water system has sufficient existing and programmed capacity to accommodate <br />Average Daily Demand through 2030. <br />