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we hope to have 5 sub -regional plants to cover the entire county, <br />but there are still some small treatment plants in existence. <br />Referring to a map, he pointed out all of the small wastewater <br />treatment plants that the County was trying to deal with when he <br />came here 8 years ago. The north county wastewater treatment <br />plant being built at Hobart will replace 16 of those small <br />treatment plants, and there will not be any treatment plants left <br />along the river in the county and there won't be any direct <br />discharge into the river by any private or public system. The <br />west wastewater treatment plant is already in operation; the <br />Gifford wastewater treatment plant, an FHA project, is now in <br />operation; and to service the south county area, we will either <br />build a wastewater treatment plant or purchase the existing <br />General Development Utilities' plant. What we have to do now is <br />plan what to do with the effluent when the plants are built. In <br />the central and northern portion of the county we have golf <br />courses which can use the effluent, but the big unknown is the <br />south county area. So, we are looking to reduce the building of <br />water plant capacity, and we are even looking at supplementing <br />our effluent with some other type of raw water for irrigation <br />purposes, whether it be out of the canals or out of shallow <br />wells. At the costs involved in wastewater treatment, it seems a. <br />shame to have to treat water to irrigate. There is a great <br />irrigation need in this county just for landscaping because <br />people wish to protect that investment in their property. So, <br />what we have named "Project Green Thumb" is to see how we can <br />reuse every last drop of effluent by distributing it out over the <br />county and the City. We certainly do not want to put any into <br />the river and we do not want to go into a deep well situation. <br />Although the deep well method is probably the most cost effective <br />way of getting rid of effluent, he didn't feel that is something <br />that Indian River County wants to do regardless of the savings. <br />He stressed <br />that everyone in the entire county will <br />benefit by <br />J N <br />2 21990 <br />3 BooK <br />0 i,,{1,E 4 5 <br />