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BCC AGENDA <br />February 4, 2014 <br />ITEM 14.D(1) <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br />INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Members of the Board of County Commissioners <br />DATE* January 28, 2014 <br />SUBJECT: Alternative Water Supply <br />FROM: Commissioner Bob Solari <br />The County currently uses the Upper Floridian Aquifer (UFA) as the source for <br />the County public water supply. There is a limit to the expansion of this water <br />supply as the County grows. <br />An Alternative -Water Master Plan was drafted for the County in June of 2007, in <br />part to address this limitation. It looked at three alternative possibilities for an <br />alternative water supply: desalinization, the Surficial Aquifer and fresh surface <br />water. <br />While noting that developing a fresh surface water supply would be work, the <br />report stated: "This report recommends the pursuit of a surface water source as <br />the Tong -range alternative supply for the County." <br />The recent presentation by Mr. Gross of the St. John's River Water Management <br />District (SJRWMD) of their "District Water Supply Plan,' is both a reminder and a <br />wake up call that the County needs to move forward and develop its alternative <br />water supply. <br />I am hoping that the Board will direct staff to come back to us as soon as <br />reasonably possible, with a proposal for a feasibility study to develop a fresh <br />surface water system complete with necessary reservoir system. This proposal <br />would include a request for funding from the SJRWMD <br />Thank you. <br />194 <br />