01-12-1973 Special Meeting
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-SPECIAL MEETING
A Special Meeting of the City Council of the City of Clermont was held in the
office of the City Manager on Friday, January 12, 1973. Mayor Smith called the
meeting to order at 1:00 P.M. with the following members present: Councilmen Beals,
Smoak, Byrd and Schroede1. Other officials present were: City Manager Hopkins,
City Attorney Langley, City Clerk Carroll, Director of Community Services Smythe,
Director of Public Utilities Asbury, and Building Official Nagel. Attorney William
Stone and representatives of the local Press were also present.
Mayor Smith announced the purpose of the meeting was to consider certain current
aspects of the sanitary sewer system.
City Manager Hopkins reported on a letter which he had just received from the State
Department of Pollution Control wherein they outlined certain provisions which the
city must meet with regards the possible environmental threat posed by the low
percolation rate presently existing at the sanitary sewerage treatment plant. They
advised that it would be permissible as a temporary and emergency measure to install
an irrigation system at the treatment plant site and spray into the city owned
1 acre grove immediately east of the site. They further advised that measures
should be taken to acquire an additional 5 acres of grove also adjacent to the site
for emergency landscaping (the Peter H. Johnson property), and, to pursue a
long term plan of utilizing the golf course west of the plant site. They further
advised that immediate steps should be taken to stabilize the pond dykes to prevent
seeping effluent and deteroriation.
City Manager Hopkins still further reported on measures being taken presently with
regards to relieving stress on the ponds:
Th~Counci1man Smoak had furnished a pump with necessary suction hose, power guns
and the labor to install same to spray irrigate the city owned 1 acre grove, with
the city assuming the labor cost - pump maintenance - fuel and oil, and that since
the pumping began the canal levels had decreased from 10J211 to ~II and that cores
which had been taken of this area had shown sand as deep as 14 to 17 feet, That an
initial meeting had been held with the Green Valley Country Club Board of Directors
with the following tentative proposal:
1. City to furnish and install an electric motor and pump.
2. City to furnish pop-up automatic sprinkler heads
3. City to modify clay pit wherein only north half shall be utilized
for holding area
4. Green Valley to assume e1ectric.l:ost and pump and motor maintenance
Motion was made by Councilman Smoak, seconded by Councilman Beals and unanimously
carried that City Attorney Langley be instructed to prepare the necessary Ordinance
to begin proceedings on condemnation of Lots 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10 in Block 142 and
Lots 1 thru 14 inclusive in Block 143 of Johnson's Rep1at to be utilized for temporary
1andspreading.
It was consensus of Council that City Manager Hopkins arrange a meeting of Council
with officials of the State Department of Pollution Control as soon as possible in
order that the measures being taken by the city, as outlined above, might be reported
to them.
The meeting was adjourned by Mayor Smith.
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Do ores W. Carrol ,City 1erk
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