Temporary Construction Easement – Tampa Bay Water – East Pasco Wellfield Feasibility Study – No Funding Required

1:38:00R forty nine. Uh good morning. Who's this guy?

1:38:03Oh yeah.

1:38:04Who's this guy? Good morning for Chair Starkey. Um we oh David Allen utilities director currently um hopefully that changes here shortly but um uh you know the past presentation by um Mr. Harding and Mr. Hogg from Tampa Bay Water kind of spilled into this item here. So I'm just gonna briefly uh present this um for your consideration um today. Um Again, this is a temporary construction easement that would allow Tampa Bay water

1:38:34to move forward with drilling two exploratory wells in the East Pasco area. And a couple of things I do want to clarify, I know in the staff memo it talked about growth in East Pasco County to this project would help support not only just this project specifically, but the menu of projects that Tampa Bay Water has outlined previously. And for us in Pasco County, when we're we're talking about East Pasco County, that's really kind of the area just uh to the west of Dade

1:39:04City and Zephyrhills. So our Wiregrass, Epperson, Marathas, Village of Pasadena Hills, Two Rivers, that's really where our foreseeable growth is happening right now, and that's where um the supply projects would really support the growth in those areas. And then secondly, I just want to mention that again, this is a temporary construction easement. The data is important for Tampa Bay water as well as Swift Mud to get additional data in this area. There's not a whole lot of uh groundwater data, particularly

1:39:35in the deep Florida aquifer. And the results of this investigation will help decide whether or not this is a viable solution or long-term water supply alternative. Could very well be that other projects would um rank higher in this process. But again I think that the the information gathering the information is is valuable not only for today but also potentially further down the road in the future.

1:40:01So is that site the three hundred acres that we bought right when I was becoming commissioner in twenty twelve? Um for the Lakuchi it was for a wastewater treatment facility. Uh and we needed like thirty acres but the cellar Wouldn't sell a portion, so we bought the whole thing. Is that that three hundred acres? Yeah.

1:40:21Yes. Okay.

1:40:25I I know Commissioner Schrader before I took office drove me around that area but I I don't remember where it was. Okay. Um So we don't need a mo do we need a motion? Yes. We do need a motion.

1:40:38Saka.

1:40:39Okay. All in favor? Aye. Opposed?

1:40:42Nay.