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CBIRS Request 1266
 
Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #1266
Keystone Heights, Central Wastewater Treatment Facility (plan, design, & construction)
 
Requester: Lloyd A. Green, Mayor Organization: City of Keystone Heights
 
Project Title: Keystone Heights, Central Wastewater Treatment Facility (plan, design, & construction) Date Submitted 1/13/2004 3:49:36 PM
 
Sponsors: Lynn
 
Statewide Interest:
The City of Keystone Heights sits on a high recharge area of the Florida Aquifer. The project will provide a centralized treatment facility that will reduce the need for septic tanks, which can potentially become sources of bacteriological contamination in groundwaters, stormwater runoff, lakes and other surface water bodies. A treatment facility is also more resistant to upset than septic tanks and will provide an effluent that is treated, monitored, regulated and controlled prior to its release to the environment.
 
Recipient: City of Keystone Heights   Contact: Lloyd A. Green, Mayor  
  555 S. Lawrence Blvd. (P.O. Box 420)   Contact Phone: (352) 473-4807  
  Keystone Heights 32656   Contact email:  
 
Counties: Clay
 
Gov't Entity: Yes Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit):  
 
Project Description:
A municipal central wastewater treatment facilities ( a comprehensive system for collection, transmission, treatment, and disposal of sewage from the non-residential service area). A gravity collection system with pump stations, to collect wastewater in the non-residential areas primarily along SR100 and SR21 within or adjacent to the City, and pump (through pressure mains) to a wastewater treatment plant and disposal facility equipped with percolation ponds. The proposed wastewater treatment plant is an extended aeration plant which pumps air into the wastewater to 1) remove the nutrients, 2) add chlorine, and 3) send it to the percolation ponds. Cost to build the new wastewater treatment plant at the proposed site, along with the collection and transmission system and treatment disposal, planning, design, surveying, permitting, engineering, administration, and land acquition, will be approximately $2.712 million. The City will receive a grant in the amount of $2.2 million from the DEP State Revolving Fund Grant Program.
 
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: WW20023003
 
Measurable Outcome Anticipated:
The project will reduce pollutant loadings to two surface water bodies. Lake Keystone and Lake Geneva, as it is an extended aeration treatment plant that reduces organic matter, nutrients and bacteriological constituents from raw sewage. Expected reductions for total suspended solids and biological oxygen demand range from 85 to 90% and 60 to 80% for nutrient removal. These reductions are achieved through the efficient operation of the treatment plant.
 
Amount requested from the State for this project this year: $512,000
 
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: Local WW program, for non residential areas of the City of Keystone Hts. approved 05/21/02
 
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: 12/18/2001