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Springs Protection Initiatives Update February 21, 2014

Planning Determined utility service areas Regionalized Advanced Waste Treatment (AWT)

Facilities Eliminate old deteriorated plants Reduce Operations and Maintenance costs AWT reduced nutrient loading in effluent

Increase Public Access Reclaimed water use Offset groundwater withdrawals

Service Area Planning

Planning

Progress Reduced Wastewater Treatment Facilities from 11 to 6

Spruce Creek South – capacity in The Villages WTF Loch Harbor – interconnect with Stonecrest Marion Oaks – interconnect with Oak Run Summerglen – interconnect with Oak Run Spruce Creek Preserve - interconnect with Oak Run Eliminate need for WTF at Kunal II – NW Subregional

Cooperatively funded project: Silver Springs Regional to Silver Springs Shores, reducing facilities to 5

Further Progress Stonecrest and Oak Run Advanced Waste Treatment

Facilities - $27M in expenditures Stonecrest reclaimed to Stonecrest golf course Oak Run reclaimed to Spruce Creek Preserve and Oak

Run golf courses Salt Springs Waste Treatment Facility – new plant

using membrane technology for AWT - $1.5M Silver Springs Shores – Renovation underway $5M

SJRWMD funding reclaimed water to Spruce Creek G&CC & Baseline Golf Courses - $3M

Oak Run WRF

Stonecrest WRF

Package Plant Removal County Staff monitoring compliance reports for all 120

permitted facilities within the County. Interconnecting with AWT facilities where possible

Pilot Oil 326/I-75 – Both plants now interconnected with NW Subregional

Jasmine Plaza (SR 200) – Interconnecting with Oak Run Circle Square Commons – Interconnecting with Oak

Run Baseline Plaza connected to SSS WRF – 5 more in line

Continuing to work with distressed system owners to interconnect to AWT facilities

Septic Tank Abatement FDEP cooperatively funded a 2009 Silver Springs

Water Quality Report Identified package plants and high concentrations of

septic tanks within 5 miles of Silver Springs Prioritized abatement actions SSR – SSS force main is the first step Targets phases for septic tank removal near and around

the Springs – CRA, CBDG, and other cooperative funding required to implement

Proposed legislation may provide $378M in funding

Successes Marion County Utilities has spent in excess of $53M to:

Upgrade all operating facilities to AWT standards Regionalize wastewater operations Offset ground water withdrawals with reclaimed

While reducing operating costs from $15.3M to $11.4M Improved Bond Ratings Reduced customer rates

2013 National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) Environmental Achievement Award winner

FRWA also named Marion County Utilities Best Tasting Water – represented Florida in national comp.

What’s in the Future Continue to remove packaged WWTFs Seek opportunities to remove phases of septic tanks Exploration of Lower Floridan Well Fields

Interconnecting water systems Marion Oaks WRF Other large development infrastructure - $1B problem

Rolling Hills Rainbow Lakes Estates

Questions?

Flip Mellinger Marion County Utilities Director 352-671-8549 [email protected]

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