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The staff at Sandridge Golf Club recommends we install a 5" artisian <br />well on our property to use as a recharging system, this will help <br />eliminate the old gasoline pump. <br />I have received verbal quotes concerning this well and I am told <br />that for the size well and the amount of water we need will run <br />us about $7,500.00 to have one installed. <br />I recommend using $7,500.00 from our capital equipment account <br />(418-221-572-066-49). This account currently has a surplus of <br />$15,000. I would also like to recommend to the board that we <br />except three written quotes in place of the normal bid process, <br />which could take months. <br />Commissioner Bird explained that when we designed the golf <br />course we put in a series of lakes, one of which was designated as <br />an irrigation lake. That is where we have the large pumps and <br />where we draw water from to irrigate the golf course. A normal <br />daily watering is approximately 600,000 gallons. We did that with <br />the understanding that Utilities would get effluent up there <br />sometime in the future and we would recharge that lake with <br />effluent and everything would be fine. However, we are probably <br />two years away from getting effluent, and this year's drought <br />conditions have brought on an emergency situation because we don't <br />have a way to recharge that lake. We have a hodge podge system of <br />transferring the water from another lake, but it is a very <br />expensive process as the fuel bills on that pump are running <br />$300-$350 a week. The request today is to get permission to go <br />ahead and put down a 5" well at the irrigation lake site and <br />recharge that lake until such time as we get the effluent. Then <br />if we don' -t need it, we will just valve it off, but it will be <br />there in an emergency situation. <br />Roger Welker, Golf Course Superintendent, explained that the <br />well would be approximately 600 feet deep. <br />Commissioner Bowman was concerned about putting chlorides <br />into the shallow aquifer, but Mr. Welker estimated that the <br />chlorides would be only about 660 parts per million. They do have <br />a permit from the St. Johns River Water Management District. <br />rte?. <br />AUG 8 1989 35 ��o 9/ �., c 55 7 <br />