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At a minimum this protocol should require water quality monitoring of <br />all known sources of possible pollution such, as the County's <br />package plant and all sites where there the dumping of biosolids is <br />permitted. <br />5. Presently it is estimated that the County's package plant might be <br />responsible for up to 34 pounds of phosphorus that could possibly <br />end up in the Lake. I would like us to ask staff to make <br />recommendations to the BCC as to how we might further reduce the <br />amount of nutrients which the package plant might possibly be <br />responsible for sending to the Lake. <br />Just as we are doing with the Indian River Lagoon, I believe the County <br />must aggressively address any nutrients that are impairing the water quality <br />of the Blue Cypress Lake. But, given the size and scope of what we are <br />dealing with at the Indian River Lagoon, two things are clear: first, given <br />what we know about the water quality problems in Indian River County and <br />the State of Florida, and given what we now know about the problems with <br />Class B biosolids, we cannot sit back and hope that somebody else or <br />some other agency will address the problem; and second, given what we <br />now know about how devastating nutrients can be to the quality of water, <br />and how expensive it is to remediate a water quality problem once the <br />problem is established, we must do all we can to make sure that the person <br />or entity, be it a landowner, hauler, out-of-town wastewater treatment <br />facility or government agency, which is responsible for causing the water <br />quality problem is responsible for paying the costs of remediation for the <br />problem. <br />Thank you. <br />149 <br />