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TO: James E. Chandler <br />County Administrator <br />DIVISION HEAD CONCURRENCE: <br />7 <br />Robert M. Rea ing ICP <br />Community Development Director <br />THROUGH: Stan Boling AICP <br />Planning Director <br />FROM: John W. McCoy <br />Staff Planner, Current Development <br />DATE: January 14, 1992 <br />SUBJECT: Indian River County Department of Utility Services <br />Request for Special Exception Approval to Construct an <br />Effluent Disposal Site <br />It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal <br />consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at its regular <br />meeting of February 18, 1992. <br />PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AND LOCATION: <br />Professional Engineering Consultants, Inc. has submitted a special <br />exception site plan application on behalf of the Indian River <br />County Department of Utility Services to construct an unmanned <br />effluent disposal (percolation) facility on the former Bent Pine <br />utilities site. <br />The subject property is located south of, and adjacent to, the Bent <br />Pine development at the northwest corner of the North Relief canal <br />and the Lateral G canal. The proposed facility constitutes a <br />limited utilities use. <br />Formerly used, in part, as a percolation pond site for the Bent <br />Pine project, the subject site is zoned RM -4. In the RM -4 <br />district, a limited utility use requires special exception <br />approval. Along with a special exception use request, the <br />applicant has submitted an administrative approval site plan <br />application which has been approved by the Technical Review <br />Committee subject to special exception use approval by the Board of <br />County Commissioners. If the Board of County Commissioners <br />approves the special exception use request, the site plan approval <br />will then become effective. <br />It is county policy to dispose of treated effluent through <br />irrigation reuse projects. Such projects are planned or in-place <br />at golf courses such as Grand Harbor, Hawks Nest, Bent Pine and <br />Sandridge. According to Department of Environmental Regulation <br />requirements, all entities using effluent reuse irrigation systems <br />must have a secondary disposal site. This secondary disposal site <br />serves to dispose of the treated effluent (through percolation) <br />during periods of heavy rainfall when the golf courses cannot <br />accept any additional irrigation water. The subject site will <br />serve as a county -wide effluent disposal site for all county <br />wastewater treatment plants. This site will handle only treated <br />effluent and will be used only when the sites using the effluent <br />for irrigation cannot accept the effluent. <br />15 <br />wi3 k'(' ` a phi <br />