22-131 Water Reuse Week resolution
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Um resolutions. I'm sorry, resolution.
Okay, same.
All right.
Um is anyone here for Water Reuse Week? Great. If you could step up to the podium please and I will read the resolution.
Morning. Chairman Starkey, members of the board. Um, Jason Mickle, Director of Utilities, Operations, and Maintenance. That's Chris Picardy, he's our reclaimed supervisor. Uh, we just wanted to stop in today and say thank you for all your support over the years. Um, quick fact. The Southwest Florida Water Management District, 16 County Region, has known named Pasco County, the largest residential reclaimed water system within that region. We have 24,000 residential accounts, which the good part about that, just to put it in perspective,
is about 15 million gallons a day of offset of potable drinking water. So your efforts over the years. And we have the
head of Tampa Bay Water here somewhere.
Yeah, it's it's a it's an excellent accomplishment to have that um within our utility. That's that's con conserved water, that's dollars saved, um it's an e excellent accomplishment, and you know this board um as well as past boards has supported us and made our job a lot easier. So we just want to say thank you and appreciate all the support. support. Chris?
All right, so we're gonna read the re oh, go ahead and speak, then we'll read the rest of it. Thank
you as well, and uh
we appreciate Appreciate it.
Thank you. Um I wish I had it, but I don't Alright, you want to read the resolution?
Resolution number 22-131, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the third week of May as Water Reuse Week in Pasco County and calling upon citizens and businesses to help protect our precious water resources. Whereas water water recycling is an integral part of wastewater management, water resource management, and ecosystem management in all of Florida. And RAS reused water is purified using science-based standards to meet specific needs, including
environmental restoration, irrigation, industrial operations, and energy generation. And RAS, there are many benefits to using reclaimed water, such as reducing potable water use, decreasing fertilizer application, reducing discharge into rivers and bays from the waterway. What wastewater plants, and most importantly, ensuring a sustainable and cost-effective water supply. And whereas Florida has risen to be the nation's leader in water reuse, using eight hundred and twenty
million gallons of reclaimed water per day to conserve fresh water supplies and replenish our rivers, streams, lakes, and aquifers. And whereas Florida's permitted reuse capacity is more than Than 1.8 billion gallons per day, representing approximately 70 percent of Florida's total permitted capacity for all domestic wastewater treatment facilities. And REST 44 percent of the wastewater in our water management district is currently being reused, exceeding both the state and the national averages.
Pasco County has implemented a dynamic reclaimed water program, which
Too public. Treats wastewater to public ask access standards more than seven hundred and twelve million gallons to two reservoirs and eleven tanks and delivers approximately twenty-five million gallons per day of high-quality reclaimed water to twenty-four thousand four hundred and forty-seven residents and a variety of other customers and locations. Now therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that said board here. By declares the third week of May 2022 as re as Water Reuse Week in
Pasco County and calls upon citizens and businesses to help protect our precious water resources by practicing water saving measures and using reclaimed water in an effective and efficient manner. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present and voting the 17th day of May 2022. All
in favor? Aye. Opposed? Jack, um, I'm not feeling well.
Okay.
So um and if Commissioner Oakley wasn't ill, I wouldn't be here. But so I'm gonna let you touch these and take these down. You don't want me to come down there.
They're right here. Wait, they're right here. No, no, I handed it up. Oh you got it too. That was locally. You get to do this one too.
Congratulations gentlemen. Great job on the same one.
yeah, I guess. We'll just stay it up for a time.
Okay.
All right, everybody. One, two, three.
Thanks.