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JUL BOOK 65 Ff,Jt 1,N 6 1986 The Chairman stated that he would like to identify Commissioner Bird as the lead person on this project in order to keep the other Board members from being presented with questions to which they do not have the answers or the background information. DISCUSS ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY FOR NORTH COUNTY UTILITIES Utilities Director Pinto reported that staff has been working towards putting together a project for service of utilities from the north boundary of the county, the.Roseland area, down into Sebastian. They also looked closely at the area just south of Sebastian starting at Reflections all the way down to Pelican Point and found that we have in operation there some 8 wastewater treatment plans and some developments on septic tanks. In that small area there are an existing 1;000 units that could connect to a wastewater plant immediately, plus a potential 2,298 units in the developments approved in that area. In coordinating the two projects, they found there is a good possibility of tying the entire project area together to build a subregional plant. Director Pinto informed the Board that they have located a piece of ground they feel is adequate to serve this purpose, and what they need now is authorization from the Commission to negotiate with its owners, and get an appraisal and some minor engineering tests, to get to the point where they have dollars and cents figures to bring back to the Board and possibly get some options on the ground. The ground in question consists of 151 acres on top of the sand ridge, and he did not believe there is anywhere else on the sand ridge where you can find 150 acres owned by one person in one piece of property. Chairman Scurlock confirmed that we have had interest identified in a North County utilities system and the overall indication is that we could end up with one subregional system upwards to 6 million gpd to service the entire county north of Wabasso and Winter Beach. 82 M M M