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Comprehensive Plan <br />ANALYSIS <br />Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element <br />The analysis of the Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element focuses on the three components of the sanitary <br />sewer system: collection, treatment, and disposal. <br />COLLECTION SYSTEM <br />The principal components of the sanitary sewer collection system are pipes, manholes, and pump <br />stations. Because Indian River County has a relatively new sanitary sewer system, those pipes <br />and pump stations are generally in good condition. Overall, most of the major lines are in place <br />and sized to accommodate future growth. <br />The county's long range plan for growth and development is reflected in the Future Land Use <br />Element of the comprehensive plan. That element defines where the community will grow and <br />where growth will be limited. As indicated in the Future Land Use Element, the urban service <br />area is the area deemed appropriate for future urban type development. Accordingly, it is within <br />the urban service area that utility lines and other infrastructure components will be available. <br />Although regional sanitary sewer service should generally be limited to lands within the urban <br />service area, there should be some exceptions. Historically, the county has allowed sites <br />contiguous to the urban service area boundary to connect to the regional sanitary sewer system, <br />and that is appropriate. <br />There are also other types of development allowed outside the urban service area, where regional <br />sanitary sewer service is appropriate and in some cases necessary. These include clustered <br />development in agricultural planned development projects, new town projects, traditional <br />neighborhood design projects, agricultural businesses, and agricultural industries. For these <br />uses, the county should allow connection to the regional sanitary sewer system or construction of <br />a privately owned system, where connection to the public system is not feasible. In those cases <br />where a privately owned system is allowed, the county should require that a franchise be <br />obtained from the county and that any plants and collection systems be built to county standards <br />and, where deemed appropriate by the county, be dedicated to the county without compensation. <br />The major collection system issues include service area, system evaluation and maintenance, <br />system expansion related to serving areas presently served by septic tank systems, and system <br />expansion to serve new development. <br />Service Area <br />set fer- many years, meent events have inifieAed interest in r-eeensider-ation of the FM�. <br />by the City of Vere Beaeh-. <br />Community Development Department Indian River County 27 <br />Appendix A <br />