NOTICE
OF PUBLIC HEARINGS
FLORIDA
KEYS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY
CONCH KEY
WASTEWATER
Conch Key
Fire Station, 10 S. Conch Avenue, Conch Key, Florida
33050
THURSDAY,
AUGUST 12, 2004, 6:00 P.M. And TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2004,
6:00 P.M.
The
purpose of the Public Hearings is for Revisions
to FKAA Rules and Regulations relative to
Wastewater Rates, Fees and Charges specific to
the Conch Key Sub-district of the Conch Key/Duck
Key Wastewater District.
Information
is available upon request from Kathryn Ovide,
Director, Executive Department, P.O. Box 1239,
Key West, Florida 33040, 305 296-2454 Ext. 202,
email: kovide@fkaa.com.
I.
Information from Jane Marter
On
July 15, 2004 at 10:51am -0400, Ray Shimokubo
<rshimokubo@fkaa.com> wrote:
A
utility coordination meeting for the Duck Key
Wastewater System was held at the City of Layton
City Hall on 14 July 2004 at approximately 1:35 pm.
In attendance were those to whom the correspondence
is addressed "To". Those "CC" were not in
attendance, and are copied for information
purposes. A summary of the topics cover is:
*
Scope of Work
The
FKAA described the scope of the work that currently
includes a gravity collection system and the
potential of reclaimed water mains throughout the
Duck Key neighborhoods, and a transmission system
to the existing Hawks Cay treatment plant (WWTP).
Schedule is dependent on the Hawks Cay WWTP
upgrades, but anticipated that design would be in
early 2005 with construction starting up in late
2005 lasting for ~ 12-months.
*
FKAA
Ed
Nicolle explained that FKAA's water mains are old,
mainly 2-inch throughout the neighborhoods.
Therefore, FKAA will replace the mains in this
wastewater project with new 6-inch PVC water mains
for improved service and fire fighting. Design
needs to be coordinated with the sewer and
reclaimed water mains designs.
*
FKEC
John
Dye of FKEC explained that service to the
neighborhoods is by aerial/poleline. Power to the
lifts stations: 3-phase on the "main" island
however, the "oceanside islands" are single phase
(220 V). It is not cost effective to route new
3-phase service to these islands. Power to WWTP:
Aerial 3-phase is available and would accommodate
the expected greater than 100 HP connected load.
Slow/staggered equipment start up would be needed,
and the transformer placed as close as possible to
the WWTP.
*
Bellsouth
Jim
Yeager of Bellsouth explained that service
throughout the neighborhoods is aerial/poleline.
*
FDOT
Kevin
Baker of FDOT explained there are no facilities in
Duck Key under FDOT's jurisdiction.
II. July
2004
Additional Information - two e-mail responses by Ed
Nicolle, Distribution Design Manager as result of e-mail
inquiries.
The
majority of water mains on Duck Key were installed in
1973. There is presently a short piece of 8" water
main that crosses the bridge on Bimini Drive, there it
turns into a 6" C.I. main that loops a portion of
Center Island and continues on to supply water to
Plantation Island and Yacht Club Island VIA West and
East Seaview Drive.
There
are presently two subaqueous crossings one located
appox. 300' East of Neptune St. on Plantation Island
and the other located appox. 100' North of Melaleuca
Street on Yacht Club Island.
The
remainder of the streets have a 2" water main with a
few small sections of 4". The PVC portion of these
mains is Class 200 which is a thin wall pipe (a good
product in it's day)and is considered substandard
compared to today's C-900 PVC.
In
order to provide Hydrants to the area a majority of
the 6" mains will require being upgrading to 8" and
the 2" mains will be replaced with 6" or 4" mains
depending on their length and location. The subaqueous
crossings will be eliminated.The permitting process
makes a underwater pipe line next to impossible to
construct. The Mains will be 8" along Bimini and West
and East Seaview Drive to provide the flow necessary
for the hydrants which will be more than enough for
the domestic use.
III.
Information from the FKAA website
"The
Board of County Commissioners was required under
Chapters 163 and 380 of the Florida Statutes to
develop and adopt a Comprehensive Plan for Monroe
County. After lengthy litigation through two
separate Administrative Hearing Processes, the final
adoption of the Monroe County 2010 Comprehensive Plan
occurred on July 17, 1997.
The
2010 Plan requires that the County complete a Sanitary
Waste Water Master Plan for the entire unincorporated
area of Monroe County. The 2010 Plan also
requires that the County complete the development of a
Waste Water Facilities Plan for the Marathon area and
implement it by seeing that recommended wastewater
facilities are constructed.
Because
the County is not ideally suited to implement design
and construction phases in either planning effort, the
FKAA has an agreement with Monroe County wherein the
County will identify priority areas and establish
treatment plant sites. Then, pursuant to FKAA
Enabling Legislation established under the Laws of
Florida (Chapter 76-441), the FKAA then steps in to
implement the County's Plan by being responsible for
the design, construction and operation of the area
wastewater system."
IV.
Additional Information on the FKAA website
Duck
Key Wastewater Report
In
March 2004, FKAA met with Duck Key residents to
discuss implementing the Duck Key wastewater system.
On
March 25, FKAA held a neighborhood meeting where
residents voiced opinions and concerns over moving
forward with the system. From that meeting, Duck Key
formed a wastewater task force and requested that FKAA
move forward with the system.
In
April 2004, FKAA advised the BOCC of Duck Key's
request, and also requested that the BOCC provide the
needed funding of $150,000 in order to complete the
preliminary information to develop a design build
(D/B) document. The document would be suitable for
proposers to submit qualification and cost proposals
for designing and constructing the Duck Key wastewater
collection system.
The
wastewater would be collected in this system from Duck
Key and sent to the Hawk's Cay wastewater treatment
plant (WWTP) for treatment to advanced wastewater
treatment (AWT) standards.
The
timing of the project is fortuitous as through an
agreement between Monroe County and Hawk's Cay, the
Hawk's Cay WWTP was deeded to Monroe County who in
turn has now deeded the WWTP over to FKAA. Thus FKAA
is reviewing the potential of upgrading the WWTP to
meet the AWT standards while serving Duck Key, Hawk's
Cay, and Conch Key. Hence a central treatment
facilities for the middle keys now is becoming a very
viable and cost effective solution.
Project Costs
Cost
estimates are very preliminary at this point.
The cost estimate will be updated throughout the
design of the project.
Construction
Cost : $5,600,000.00
Equivalent
Residential Connections (EDU's) : 385
Cost
per EDU before grant funding : $14,500.00
The
Monroe County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC)
recently designated $150,000 for the Authority to move
ahead with planning for this project. Otherwise,
no grant funds are currently available for this
project. We are closely monitoring activity at the
state and federal levels to ensure that this project
is included in any appropriations designated for
wastewater. The BOCC has said that it is
committed to making wastewater projects in the County
affordable and has contributed to other similar
projects to reduce the cost per EDU.
Project
Schedule
The
project schedule is as follows:
Develop
D/B Documents August 2004
Proposals
from D/B Firms December 2004
Construction
with D/B Firm Early 2005
Begin
Construction Fall 2005
For
more information please contact the FKAA at (305)
296-2454 or e-mail us at:
info@fkaa.com
