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Monday, January 24, 1983 The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River ,County, Florida, met in Special Session at the County Commission Chambers, 1840 25th Street, Vero Beach, Florida, on Monday, January 24, 1983, at 4:00 o'clock P.M. Present were Richard N. Bird, Chairman; Don C. Scurlock, Jr., Vice Chairman; Alfred Grover Fletcher, and Patrick B. Lyons. William C. Wodtke, Jr. was unable to attend. Also present were Michael LA. Wright, County Administrator; Gary Brandenburg, Attorney to the Board of County Commissioners; and Virginia Hargreaves, Deputy Clerk. The Chairman called the meeting to order and announced that it was called to discuss Brevard County's proposal for deep well injection of sewage effluent. He - asked that -Commissions r Fletcher, who has been following this proposal with a great deal of concern, report to the Board. Commissioner Fletcher informed the Board that he had belatedly learned that at 7 o'clock this evening there will be -a public hearing at Indian Harbour Beach City Hall at which time the Brevard County Commission will make a decision whether to go to a deep well injection program. Commissioner Fletcher was greatly concerned that most of the technology being applied is to make sure that the sleeve of the well itself is completely leakproof-, but that there is not sufficient data to be sure what will happen at the depth of 3,0001, which is the depth at which they are proposing to inject 7h to 8h million gallons of waste daily. He noted that the monitoring programs to date consist of placing observation wells around the injection well at depths which really would not warn what is happening until the contamination was up into the aquifer that is being used. In addition, he was concerned about the possible lateral movement of this proposed waste injection program and further noted that apparently Harris Corporation also JAN 24 198