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Comprehensive Plan Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element <br />Eby, Vero Beach serves those areas outside its corporate limits based on interlocal <br />agreements with the county and the Town of Indian River Shores. For the unincorporated <br />county, the city water and waste water agreement expired in 2017 and is currently being re- <br />negotiated. For the Town of Indian River Shores, its agreement with the city for water, <br />wastewater, and reuse expired and was renewed in 2012. That agreement is for an initial term of <br />15 years. Unless Indian River Shores provides notice of its desire to renegotiate or terminate four <br />years before the expiration of that 15 year period, the agreement will automatically renew for <br />another 15 . , <br />the 2017 teffninatien dale— <br />Currently, the Indian River County water and waste water service area is comprised of the <br />followiniz: <br />• Majority of unincorporated Indian River County <br />• City of Sebastian <br />• Town of Orchid <br />System Evaluation and Maintenance <br />The sanitary sewer collection system is evaluated with each application for new development, <br />and as each package treatment plant is decommissioned. That evaluation is done using a <br />computer modeling program, known as the "WaterCad" model that evaluates several factors, <br />including pipe capacity, lift station capacity, horse power requirements for pumps, and hydraulic <br />pump pressure. In contrast to the City of Vero Beach, which is largely built -out and has <br />provided utility service for many decades, sewer service is still relatively new to the rapidly <br />Community Development Department Indian River County 28 <br />Appendix A <br />