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of irrigation water, new water that we would be pulling out, is about an eighth (1/8). Regarding <br />the question of using the reservoir for potable water, his understanding was that South Florida <br />Water Management District's recommendation was that it comes from Floridan Aquifer. <br />Tom Holdeck said, "No," they had not looked at using the existing reservoir for potable <br />water. However, the Surficial and Floridan Aquifers were preliminary looked at and the Floridan <br />Aquifer was the best source for potable water at this stage. <br />Commissioner O'Bryan asked, "How many acres/feet can you get if you go up with a <br />berm or go down, what is the depth?" <br />Mr. Ulevich said they would have to do a combination of reservoirs and stormwater <br />treatment areas, and in the old days they did not like things deeper than 4 feet (or 4-6 feet) and <br />they realized how expensive land was, so now they are looking at 10-12 feet. <br />Commissioner Grande sought to clarify his understanding of Mr. Ulevich'S comments <br />that they were "seriously considering the concept of using Indian River County's portion or <br />selling it in effect and having it become part of a much improved water system, and iat the end of <br />the day what we would wind up with is a 30,000 person city, which for visualization is about 3/4 <br />of the size of the City of Fort Pierce, working on a dirt road to the south and Indrio toad east and <br />west, and nothing else." <br />Mr. Cauffmann clarified that they are interested in discussing the sale of the property <br />but in all the discussions they have had they have talked about maintaining a corridor where they <br />could still build the Oslo Road connector. <br />Commissioner Grande said it was good thinking. <br />• <br />February 19, 2007 19 <br />Joint Workshop/St Lucie <br />