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BEUTTELL SOD FARM ACQUISITION (EFFLUENT & SLUDGE DISPOSAL SITE) <br />Utilities Director Pinto reviewed the following: <br />TO: CHARLES P. BALCZUN / 1 DATE: JANUARY 22, 1988 <br />COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR <br />THRU: TERRANCE G. PINTO <br />DIRECTOR OF UTILITY SE VICES <br />FROM: JOHN FREDERICK LANG <br />ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIAI.tIjST <br />DEPARTMENT OF UTILITY SERVICES <br />SUBJECT: BEUTTELL SOD FARM ACQU <br />ON <br />BACKGROUND <br />The Department of Utility Service's West Regional Wastewater <br />Treatment Plant is rated at one million gallons per day. Our <br />current site can comfortably dispose of .13 million gallons per day. <br />The absolute maximum that can be disposed of on-site is .33 million <br />gallons per day. The wastewater treatment plant is slated for <br />expansion, a doubling of its capacity, within five years. <br />ANALYSIS <br />The West Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant needs a home for its <br />effluent. There is a 150 acre sod farm directly west of the plant <br />that has been soil tested to have a water disposal capacity of .58 <br />million gallons. This property is also currently our sludge <br />disposal site. The Department is also looking at other methods of <br />effluent disposal. Storage facilities and pumping facilities would <br />need to be built for a "Conserve II" type of operation which would <br />pump effluent to groves west of I-95. Acquisition of this land would <br />better the wastewater plant's blowers and pumping facilities noise <br />pollution. <br />A possible plus would be some minor profits from sale of sod to <br />developers. A large plus would be to prevent acquiring close <br />residential neighbors as well as to guarantee a sludge .disposal <br />site. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />The Department of Utility Services recommends acquisition of this <br />strategic acreage. The effluent and sludge disposal opportunities <br />mandate serious consideration for the Board of County Commissioners <br />to authorize negotiations for outright purchase. <br />Director Pinto urged that the Board authorize appropriate <br />staff to enter into hard negotiations for purchase of the subject <br />property and also investigate financing aspects. He clarified <br />that he is not asking the Board to buy the property at this time, <br />but is saying there is a need in the West County treatment system <br />to accommodate effluent disposal up to as much as 6 million gpd, <br />and it is felt it would be wise for us to buy it at this time. <br />The owners are willing to sell under the right conditions, and we <br />would have to negotiate those conditions. <br />39 <br />FEB 2 1988 <br />fk00r 76 PA E768 <br />