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florida kaya aquduct authority
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uppor keys
upper keys
City of Iayton
middle keys
middle keys
c1tyo1' luly colony beach
city of marathon
CIty of marathon
Iowetkeys
lower keY'
lower keys
Jowerkeys
lower keys
lower keys
key W8$t
all monroe CO.
all monroe co.
percent
of total
KEY lARGO I TAVERNIER CENTRAL
ISLAMORADA. VlL.LAGE OF ISLANDS
CITY OF LAYTON / LONG KEY
CONCH KEY
HAWK'S CAY I DUCK KEY
KEY COLONY BEACH (Total)
CITY OF MARATHON CENTRAl
L.ITTlE VENICE
BIG PINE, LITTlE TORCH, RAMROD
SUMMERLANO,CUO~E,UPPERSUGARLOAF
LOWER SUGARlOAF
SAY POINT & SADDLE BUNCH
STOCK ISlAND (KWRU WWTP)
BOCA CHICA. BIG COPPITT, ROCKLANO'
KEY WEST (Total)
ON-SITE SYSTEMS (North Key Largo, et. al.)
MONROE COUNTY STORMWATER
13.4%
13.8%
0.8%
0.1%
12%
0.2%
15.9%
0.6%
12.5%
7.7%
2.10/.
0.2%
1.5%
4.7%
10.3%
3.2%
12.0%
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estimated
under cum"t
federal
fUnding
S 13,400,000
13,600,000
800,000
100,000
1,200,000
200,000 ....
15,900,000
600,000
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7.700,000
2,100,000
200,000
1.500,000
4,700,000
10,300,000
3,200,000
12,000.000
TOTALS FOR ALL PROJECTS
100% S 100,000,000
585% S 58,600,000
13.8% 13,800,000
0.8% 800,000
0.2% 200,000
16.5% 16,500,000
10.3% 10,300,000
100% S 100,000,000
summary by area:
unincorporated monroe county
Islamorada
city of layton
city of key colony beach
city of marathon
key west
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febnrarg 21, 2001
My name is Joe Harris and I am Chairman of the AEFFK - the Artists
Environmental Foundation of the Florida Keys. Our two goals are facilitating
the building of a Upper Keys Cultural Center and protecting our county's
most important resource - WATER!
WATER, in all if s forms, is the most important issue facing all of us
because it involves every citizen and every visitor and because it is the most
limited and most costly item on everyone's' list of concerns.
Past County Commissions have, in the AEFFK's opinion, not taken the
issue of WATER - Quality and Conservation - seriously or responsibly. On
behalf of the AEFFK I have, for the past 18 months, addressed this and prior
commissions on the need for a Water Quality Action Group and I again urge
you five, who represent the majority of Monroe County citizens, to tackle the
issue of water quality and water conservation with the utmost of reality,
accountability, urgency, and seriousness. Funding is only one part of the
water quality puzzle.
The AEFFK board has asked me to appear before you today to make
sure you are aware of how wastewater issues in Islamorada will affect all
citizens of Monroe County.
While The Village of Islands wastewater plan is not directly under
your jurisdiction, Village decisions regarding wastewater are of immediate
concern to you because the village contains many county facilities including
county offices, sheriffs facilities and county public schools. These facilities
will share the cost burdens and, more importantly, these facilities are part of
county water conservation dictates.
Depending on whose interpretation of EDU's you use - in Islamorada -
Monroe county facilities account for anywhere from 245 to over SOO EDU's.
At an estimated cost of anywhere from 8 - 13 thousand dollars per EDU for
the system development fee alone - that is anywhere from 1.9 to over 6
million dollars in costs to the county tax base. Then there are the monthly
operating costs.
While we are hoping the county is aware of the county-wide operating
and tax implications, I'm not here to discuss costs. The AEFFK has left those
concerns and discrepancies to others .
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KEY LRRGO, fLORIDR
F.-. the Desk of Joe Hams - CbalnnaD
E-lDall: aeflk8aoLcoDt visit us at www.aeflk.com
Februarg 21, 2001
Rather, I am here to point out the county's continued - lack of vision,
especially in the area of water quality and water conservation. While it is nice
that Commissioner Williams is thinking about Federal funding, it is
abhorrent that she and others are not doing something constructive about
water conservation, especially with today's current and tomorrow's predicted
water restrictions.
We are in the midst of building a new Upper Keys High School in
Islamorada. That project is not taking into account the wonderful - and
visionary - opportunity for water reuse. Considering current and future
water restrictions and wastewater fees, the cost of installing water reuse
plumbing now, while the facilities are being constructed, is only pennies
when compared to the long term costs of not demanding water reuse. The
same might be said for the Old Mariners Hospital as it is converted into new
county facilities, and who knows what other facilities now or soon to be
under renovation or construction.
While neither the Key Largo or the Islamorada wastewater plans
mandate reuse, how can you five commissioners continue to ignore the
mistakes of prior commissions? With water restrictions a permanent part of
our future - how can we continue to build and rebuild without demanding
the minor expense of some additional PVC plumbing for future water reuse?
What good are water reuse studies for pending wastewater projects if we are
not requiring current and future construction projects to prepare for re-use.
Without requiring reuse plumbing, such studies are simply lllip-servicell and
a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Islamorada might not be your concern; and the Coral Shores High
School might be the direct concern of the school board - but Water Reuse is a
county-wide issue and WATER is a five letter word. that should be foremost
in your mind every hour of every day. For it to be otherwise is for you to
abdicate your responsibility to your electorate, to admit openly that you share
no vision for a sustainable future, and admit you have no respect for this or
any future county commission.
Again, I thank you for your time.
Letter to request that the Miami-Dade Commission
Support the U.S. Air Force Record of Decision regarding the mixed use development of the Homestead Air
Force Base land, which denies development of a commercial airport.
The Miami-Dade Commission is being asked to join in a lawsuit against the decision. We would ask that
the concerns of our citizenry be considered in coming to any decision on that matter.
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