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(ONSINT <br /> 1TE11 <br /> C:1 I. <br /> INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA <br /> INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM <br /> TO: Joseph A. Baird <br /> County Administrator <br /> DEPARTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: <br /> Stan Boling, AICP <br /> Community Development Director <br /> FROM: Roland M. DeBlois,AICP <br /> Chief, Environmental Planning <br /> DATE: May 26, 2015 <br /> RE: Consideration to Approve a Cost-Share Agreement with the St. Johns River Water <br /> Management District for Repair/Plugging of Abandoned Artesian Wells <br /> It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners formally consider the following information at <br /> the Board's regular meeting of June 2, 2015. <br /> DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS <br /> From 1990 through 2009, Indian River County participated in a cost-share program with the St. Johns <br /> River Water Management District (SJRWMD) to plug abandoned artesian wells countywide, including <br /> wells on private property (subject to authorization from the private landowner). As a result of the <br /> program, an estimated 395 wells were plugged or repaired in Indian River County, saving millions of <br /> gallons per day of groundwater. In fiscal year 2009-2010, however, the cost-share program came to an <br /> end due to a lack of funding as a result of the economic downturn at that time. <br /> On March 3, 2015, the Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to notify the SJRWMD of <br /> the County's interest in reinstituting the cost-share program to plug abandoned artesian wells. The <br /> SJRWMD has since agreed to re-activate the program, at the previous funding level of $20,000 per <br /> agency per year. To that end, attached to this report for the Board's approval consideration is a proposed <br /> cost-share agreement with the SJRWMD for controlling/plugging abandoned artesian wells. <br /> ANALYSIS <br /> The proposed contract agreement re-opens and extends the well-plugging cost-share agreement for three <br /> fiscal years, including the current fiscal year 2014-15, with each agency (the County and SJRWMD) <br /> allocating$20,000 toward the program each year contingent upon annual budget allocations. <br /> Similar to past agreements,the agreement outlines responsibilities of the County and the District. The list <br /> of responsibilities reflects the process that evolved during the years the cost-share program was <br /> 1 <br /> 84 <br />