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that practically every agency of the many they have had to work <br />with has caused them to modify their plan in some respect. <br />Mr. Muller also stressed that this project is a dock <br />facility for the residents to maintain their own private boats; <br />it is not a commercial marina and has none of the facilities <br />associated with a marina. He emphasized that if the Commission <br />is determined to stop them, they cannot fight it, but he felt <br />they can work together to work out a solution. Mr. Muller asked <br />what specifically it would take for them to make Commissioner <br />Bowman and the others happy. The dredging appears to be the main <br />concern, and he believed this is in jeopardy from the new law. <br />Chairman Lyons stated that he had no problem with trying to <br />find out the best way to do this project. <br />Commissioner Bowman asked the biologists if the main concern <br />is dredging. <br />Mrs. Van Oss agreed that the dredging is a major concern, <br />but we also have the manatee in this county. In addition, in <br />regard to a marina siting plan for the county, this is a marina, <br />and all this will have to be addressed. Dredging, however, is <br />the major concern. <br />Planner Keating asked if it was being said that there are no <br />problems with water quality in the basin, and Mr. Muller felt the <br />question of water quality should be left up to Atlanta at the <br />federal level and the DER, and they both agree it is not a <br />problem. He stated that he would resent someone else coming <br />along and saying these agencies don't know what they are doing. <br />Commissioner Bowman did not think we are saying they don't <br />know what they are doing, but that the people of the area are <br />more familiar with this estuary and know more about it. <br />Mr. Muller informed the Board that if we could identify the - <br />sea grass beds that may or may not exist and limit the problem to <br />the dredging, they have another alternative. They may be able to <br />dig a channel, not as originally suggested by Planner Challacombe <br />and turned down by the DER, but a channel on their own land - not <br />67 <br />JUN 19 19,115 BOOK P",CF �9 e� <br />