UXO Sweep for Florida Pipeline

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

CC Finds $80k and SJRWMD Confirms Lowry Lake Option


Karen Lake
Lake Region Monitor (FL)
April 01, 2004


SJRWMD weighs in with two caveats before feasibility is certain.

There was good news and better news coming out of the stakeholder's
meeting on March 26 at city hall.

Under old business, option three - a 2,000-foot pipeline from Southwest
Lake to Blue Pond - got an initial blessing when the Clay County Budget,
Finance and Personnel Committee shuffled its Capital Improvement Plan
and found $80,000 for an undetonated ordnance sweep (UXO).

Finding the money was difficult, said Glenn Lassiter, Clay County
Commissioner, especially since the price tag of the project has gone up
to $230,000.

There are several hoops the county must go through including gaining the
approval of the board of county commissioners at its next commission
meeting and holding a public hearing at the same meeting, to finalize
the allocation.

...

Karen Padgett, of the Clay County engineering department, said the
county would be taking it as a complete project (labor and materials)
although the county will be supplying and purchasing the materials.

In addition, Davis will have to meet insurance liability requirements
and any other requirements as all county contractors are required to do.
The UXO sweep must go out for bid as well.

Over the next two weeks and before the commission meeting, the county
will prepare an easement contract to send to the Armory Board for review
and the UXO bid documents.

Col. Jeff Hetherington said it would take approximately two weeks for
the Guard to scrub it, send it to the quartermaster (supply person) and
JAG (Judge Advocate General).

...

for the entire story, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11212748&BRD=2150&PAG=461&dept_id=416089&rfi=6

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org