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11-01-1973 Supporting DocumentsMINUTES N4 979 SPECIAL MC•ETING A Special Meeting of the City Council of the City of Clermont was held in the Council Chambers on Thursday, November 1, 1973. The meeting was called to order at 4:00 P. M by Mayor Claude E. Smoak, Jr. with the following members present: Councilmen Beals, Controller Flemingrd , CityhClerrkher officials Carroll, Directorent were: of CommunityyServices Smer ythe, City Director of Public Utilities Mitchell and Chief of Police Tyndal. Others present were: The Messrs. Black, Drees, Boone, Oswalt and Crowson. A representative of the Sentinel/Star was also present. Mayor Smoak announced the purpose of the meeting was to discuss temporary sites for spreading of the effluent from the sanitary sewage treatment plant, and more particularly, the possible sites of the municipal cemetery and ball field. Mayor Smoak advised that City Manager Hopkins had been requested to make a brief survey of these two sites, and he then inquired of his findings. City Manager Hopkins reported that samples had been taken manually, limited to 12 feet, in three different locations of the cemetery proper with findings on the east hill at 811 feet to clay, on the west hill at 7 feet to clay and in the low section going to the depth of 12 feet, it was all sand. Mr. Hopkins then commented as follows: The desirability of this particular of property is city owned; plant toathiseexpense location;inTheredisoande the irrigatioping n system existing within the cemetery proper; There is some questions to to the desirability of landspreading over that portion of the cemetery where burials are located; The portion existing now where no burials have been made is less than 10 acres, and that he had related this information this date to Dave Crowson, consulting engineer, who could offer information as to how this relates to the ground water table or the aquifer and also possible inherent requirements which would have to be met as per the Department of Pollution Control. Mr. Hopkins still further reported that the entire municipal ball field was covered with 14 inches of clay with 711 feet of sand below that, and that drainage was so poor at this location that it had been necessary to construct a drainage inlet at the back part of the field. Without an actual cost analysis, definite and professional boring samples, etc. it was the opinion of Mr. Crowson that Council pursue finding a permanent location for effluent disposal by landspreading and offered several opinions as follows: That one of the requirements of Pollution Control was a 150 foot buffer strip from any existing or potential residential areas, which in the .:case of this location, it would be a severe curtailment; That according to the elevation at the low spat, it would iddicate that it does enter fairly directly with the upper level of the Florida aquifer and if this be the case would require close scrutiny of the Department of Rehabilitative Services and substantial proof that there would be no jeopardy with respect to viruses to the water supply; That the cost of getting from the treatement plant to this location is non -recoverable for a long time permanent solution; That the area involved is not adequate to accommodate all the flow coming to the treatment plant and therefore this would just be another interim approach to the problem; and That based on measurements taken from the map, and other assumptions as pumping rates and repumping requirements that the cost would be in the neighborhood of $50,000 to pump 200,000 gallons per day to this location. Mayor Smoak reported that he had contacted the Lake County Pollution Control Board Director, Mr. Hennessey, with regards the interim solution of using the municipal cemetery and that he had replied by letter to the effect that this location being high and well drained with a complete cover of various grasses, from a pollution control view, is the type of land best suited for spray irrigation, and, that upon making inquiry to the St to Department of Pollution Control for their comments, they had been most favorable. (The letter was read in its entirety by City Clerk Carroll and shall become a part of these minutes. Upon inquiry by Councilman Byrd as to length of time involved, once a suitable site Hesthenninquireddhowomanyp14tmonths wouldibeaallowedibeforeestrictdenforcement oofhs. MINUTES W 980 requirements by Pollution Control, whereupon Mr. Crowson advised that the City has been requested to submit a schedule to them for their consideration as per the recent workshop session with them, and he was of the opinion that unless such a schedule is submitted, they would be reluctant to reactivate the existing permit. City Manager Hopkins again recommended that Council investigate the desirability of whatever parcels of land the city wants to consider and get some information that can be measured, that for a year it has only been discussed and that he would remind once again that the regulatory agencies are relaxing their requirements only so long as the city moves toward a final solution to the problem. It was consensus of Council that the committee of Messrs. Hopkins, Fleming and Czech meet with officials of Green Valley Country Club with regards possible acquisition of that p'property as soon as possible and report back to Council on November 13th, as well as receive a schedule from Mr. Crowson for accomplishment of the proposed program. It was also suggested that Council members present any other proposed sites which they might know of for consideration at the meeting on November 13th. in order to conclude that evening and authorize the engineers to proceed with finding suitable land for additional facilities. The meeting was adjourned by Mayor Smoak. Claude E. Smoak,Jr. - Dolores W. Carroll, City UturX TAKE Deparlrucnt of Pollutlon Control COUNTY" W.K. Hennessey, Acting Director 4 y�l!; ai .tr....... .. p+ /� 1.0• Uox 1110 TnvnraFL O IDA 904/3e, I'IorlA, xt%%2 90A/0A3•GIG2, Ext. 02 "Printed on 100 % Recycled Papor" October 30, 1973 Honorable Claude Smoak, Mayor City of Clermont 1 Westgate Plaza Clermont, rL 32711 He: Interim Method of STP Effluent Disposal Gentlemen: It has been my pleasure to meet with various mombers of the City of Clermont Council recently to discuss the problem that is being ex- perienced at the City Sewer Plant. The efforts made to date have been hampered by the lack of available well drained soil on which to spread the water that steadily collects in the percolation eva- poration pond at the plant site. In a recent discussion with Mayor Smoak, he brought up the fact that the city owns some twenty two acres adjacent to the cemetery and ball diamond. Upon inspection by this office, I found this property to be , growing a complete cover of various grasses as high and well drained well as many oak trees and pines. Strictly from a pollution control view, this is the type of land we feel best suited to spray irrigation of sewage treatment plant effluents. At Mr. Smoak°s request I made inquiry to the State Department of Poll- ution Control for their comments, and they were most favorable. Accord- ing to Mr. Davenport of the Regional Office Of the DPC, the area to be irrigated must be fenced and posted to avoid Ithe possibility of people Lendrove coming in contact with the effluent spray. of the Lake County Health Department, and it was his reccomendation to make a survey of the area to ascertain if any shallow waterwells were present that may possibly become contaminated. It was also requested that the pressure line to the feild must be isolated from any potable water supply lines. These rules did not appear to be difficult to live with, and Mr. Smoak, Mr. Hopkins, and I discussed the situation father. It then came out that a more ambitious system of pipes ndght allow the city to dispose of these effluents over various other plots of city and privately owned property. In the view of this office again, this is a very good idea, but I do feel that before we take that larger second step toward what amounts to a seperate system of water lines to supply irrigation water to the citizens of Clermont, we must have an in depth meeting with the Health Department and other interested agencies. RECEIVED n 7 ^ 3 lionorablo Claude Smoak, Mayor, October 30, 1973- 2 I do fool they may have a lot more to cay about that ayotom than 'they have caid about the interim oyatem we have already diecuccod. I hope thin letter in nome help, and I look forward to helping in any way poccibla in the future. Sincerely, LAKE COUNTY DLTAR' '111T Ob' POLLUTION CONTROL gv_' , D� J DILL II6 ESSEY, ACTING DIRECTO lh cc: 14r. W. C. Wood Mr. Joe Hill