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The survey results are as follows: <br />AGENCY <br />CHARGES <br />MAINTENANCE <br />Metro -Dade <br />None <br />Fire Dept performs all <br />Orlando None <br />Fire Dept performs hydrant flow <br />maintenance, flows, painting. <br />and painting, utility performs <br />Fire Dept charges $140 for a flow <br />Tampa $30 <br />Fee includes all maintenance and <br />test. <br />Broward Co. <br />None <br />Hydrants flushed by Fire Dept <br />at a location other than where <br />twice annually <br />Hollywood <br />None <br />Hydrants flushed by Fire Dept <br />assessed. Maintenance done by <br />twice annually <br />Ft. Lauderdale None <br />Hydrants flushed by Fire Dept <br />twice annually <br />Pompano <br />None <br />Hydrants flushed by Fire Dept <br />twice annually <br />Sunrise <br />None <br />Hydrants flushed by Fire Dept <br />twice annually <br />Martin Co. <br />None <br />Maintenance by utility entity <br />Stuart <br />None <br />Maintenance by utility company. <br />Fire Dept did pay in the past, <br />but argued that confined space <br />and haz mat demands created by <br />utility well offset any hydrant <br />fees. <br />St. Lucie Co. None <br />Maintenance by utility entity <br />Melbourne $40 <br />Fees include all maintenance, <br />Fire Dept. does annual flows. <br />Orlando None <br />Fire Dept performs hydrant flow <br />and painting, utility performs <br />all maintenance. <br />Tampa $30 <br />Fee includes all maintenance and <br />testing. <br />Pensacola None <br />If Fire Dept wants a fire hydrant <br />at a location other than where <br />utility puts one, a one-time <br />installation fee of $2,500 is <br />assessed. Maintenance done by <br />Fire Department twice annually. <br />As reflected above, the majority of Fire Departments or Districts <br />surveyed do not pay an annual per hydrant fee. The two which do, pay <br />a minimum amount and certainly not the $170 per hydrant fee the <br />Emergency Services District now pays in this County. <br />The hydrants are a part of the utility system which are installed for <br />the benefit of the property owners, not for the benefit of the <br />Emergency Services District. The Insurance Services Office (ISO), <br />which calculates the fire rating for the County, does not evaluate <br />the Emergency Services District in terms of fire hydrants, they <br />evaluate the utility for this part of the rating. The Emergency <br />Services District is evaluated in terms of training, apparatus, <br />staffing, response, equipment, etc. <br />77 <br />May 16, 1995 <br />BOOK- 95 pma 103 <br />