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BOOK �� P��E <br />JUL 291981 - <br />ALSO, HE CONTINUED, VILLAGE GREEN HAS'PUT IN ROADS AND CURBS, SO THE <br />COUNTY DOES NOT HAVE TO BEAR THAT COST. <br />MIKE PATTERSON, OF POST, BUCKLEY, SCHUH & J ERNIGAN, CAME <br />BEFORE THE BOARD AND EXPLAINED TABLE 20-9 OF THE REPORT. HE THEN <br />COMPARED WHAT SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WOULD GENERATE COMPARED TO MOBILE <br />HOMES, AND THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF REVENUE; A MOBILE HOME <br />COMMUNITY HAS A LARGER PER UNIT INVESTMENT. MR. PATTERSON �TATED <br />THAT IN LIEU OF AD VALOREM TAXES ON THE MOBILE HOME ITSELF, THERE ARE <br />TWO LICENSES PER UNIT. AFTER FURTHER EXPLANATION, HE FELT HE HAD <br />DEMONSTRATED THAT IT WAS NOT A GLARING DEFICIT. <br />DISCUSSION FOLLOWED ABOUT THE FIGURES PRESENTED IN THE <br />REPORTS THAT THE BOARD HAD REVIEWED. <br />JIM BEINDORF, ENGINEER, APPROACHED THE BOARD, HE GAVE A <br />BRIEF HISTORY OF VILLAGE GREEN SINCE IT BEGAN IN 1973. HE ADVISED <br />THAT THEY DID A GREAT DEAL OF TESTING OF THE WATER SUPPLY. PHASES <br />1, 2 AND 3 OF VILLAGE GREEN WERE LOCATED IN OLD CITRUS GROVES AND <br />IN 1974, THEY DECIDED TO GO TO REVERSE OSMOSIS AND USED SOME OF THE <br />OLD EXISTING WELLS THAT WERE IN THE GROVES. THE STATE INSISTED THAT <br />THEY DISCHARGE ALL THE DRAINAGE AND GROUND WATER INTO THE LAKE SYSTEM <br />IN VILLAGE GREEN, PHASE 1. MR. BEINDORF EXPLAINED THAT THEY ARE NOT <br />EXPERIENCING HIGH CHLORIDES OR WATER DEGRADATION, AND THE DER HAS <br />VARIOUS PROCEDURES SET UP SO THAT THEY CAN WATCH WHAT IS HAPPENING <br />WITH THE DISCHARGE. <br />LENGTHY DISCUSSION ENSUED ABOUT CHLORIDES, AND COMMISSIONER <br />SCURLOCK QUESTIONED THE FIGURE of 40 PARTS PER MILLION ON PAGE 13 <br />OF THE REPORT. <br />MR. PATTERSON EXPLAINED THAT THEY HAVE INSTITUTED A TESTING <br />PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE AREA - NONE OF THESE LAKES SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED <br />AS POTABLE WATER SYSTEMS BUT THEY ARE RATED AS RECREATION AND/OR <br />IRRIGATION WATER. HE STATED THAT THEIR PERMITTING PROCEDURES TAKE <br />THEM THROUGH ALL THE AGENCIES AND THEY HAVE BEEN GRANTED A CONSUMPTIVE <br />USE PERMIT, THEY HAVE BEEN PERMITTED FOR THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT, <br />AS WELL AS THE DISCHARGE INTO THE LAKE SYSTEM, MR. PATTERSON STATED <br />THEY ARE FAIRLY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT. <br />