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CBIRS Request 747
 
Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #747
Keystone Heights FL Central wastewater Treatment Facility
 
Requester: Lloyd A. Green, Mayor Organization: City of Keystone Heights
 
Project Title: Keystone Heights FL Central wastewater Treatment Facility Date Submitted 1/10/2003 4:56:27 PM
 
Sponsors: Lynn
 
Statewide Interest:
The city of Keystone Heights sits on a high recharge area of the Florida Aquifier. The project will provide a centralized treatment facility that will reduce the need for septic tanks, which can potentially become sources of bactorlogical contamination in groundwaters, storm water run-off, lakes and other surface water bodies. A treatment facility is also more resistant to upset than septic tanks and will provide a efflucnt, that is treated, monitored and regulated.
 
Recipient: Lloyd A. Green, Mayor   Contact: Lloyd A Green, Mayor  
  555 S. Lawrence Blvd.   Contact Phone: (352) 473-4807  
  Keystone Heights 32656
 
Counties: Clay
 
Gov't Entity: Yes Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit):  
 
Project Description:
A municipal central wastewater treatment facility a comprehensive system for collection, transmission, treatment and disposal of sewage from the non-residental service area.
 
Is this a water project as described in Chapter 2002-291, Laws of Florida? Yes
Has the project been submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection? Yes
DEP Identfying Number: WW20023002
 
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
The project will reduce pollutant loadings in two surface water bodies, Lake Keystone, Lake Geneva as it is an extended treatment plant that reduces organic matter, nutrients, and bacterological constituents from raw sewage.
 
Amount requested from the State for this project this year: $1,200,000
 
Total cost of the project: $2,712,000
 
Request has been made to fund: Construction
 
What type of match exists for this project? Local
  Cash Amount $2,200,000  
 
Was this project previously funded by the state?   Yes
  Fiscal Year: 2002-2003 Amount: $229,630
 
Is future-year funding likely to be requested?   No
 
Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?   No
 
Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget? No
 
Is there a documented need for this project? Yes
  Documentation: Wastewater Program of The City of Keystone Heights
 
Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?   Yes
  Hearing Body: Keystone Heights City Council
  Hearing Meeting Date: 12/18/2002