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RESOLUTION NO. 83-10 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIMER COUNTY, FLORIDA OBJECTING TO THE SEWAGE EFFLUENT DEEP WELL INJECTION PROPOSAL FOR SOUTHERN BREVARD COUNTY. WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County believes that programs that have a possible major impact on the environment must be carefully planned, evaluated and studied, before implementation, and WHEREAS, all the possible negative impacts on the environment must be weighed against the benefit to be received from the project overall, and WHEREAS, geological data regarding underground formations in Southern Brevard County are incomplete and predictions on the lateral movement of the effluent cannot be considered reliable, and WHEREAS, the testing mechanises as planned for the project do not give an accurate test of the movement or harmful effects of the effluent and will only show the contamination of an aquifer after it is too late, and WHEREAS, the injection of 7-1/2 to 8-1/2 million gallons of sewage a day could have a disastrous effect or_ other aquifers and ground water generally, and WHEREAS, the urgency to correct this problem is a result of the population of lands beyond their natural carrying capacity; methods to solve this problem should be utilized that do not burden other lands or potentially destroy other resources, and WHEREAS, Indian River County shares contiguous aquifers with Brevard County as well as the well waters of the St. Johns River and is concerned about the effects of this project on Indian River County's water supply, and WHEREAS, sewage effluent should be utilized as a resource for irrigation and replenishment of the shallow aquifer thereby decreasing the need for potable water and eliminating potentially hazardous future situations which may result from the expensive injection system, and WHEREAS, the preservation of water resources is by far