This page
provides a great many links to information on the history
of wastewater that has occurred on Duck Key during the
period 2000 to recent time.
Some
links provide background information on a proposed
community sewer system that was tied to an expansion plan
for more villas at Hawk's Cay. The plan met with
community opposition. Singh and Company was able to build
the additional villas by using transferable development
credits gained through his purchased of the Overseas
Motel in Marathon. Many links lead to sections of the
Monroe County Wastewater Master Plan. Other links lead to
news' items.
YEAR 2006
WASTEWATER UPDATE - News from Duck Key Property Association on Florida Keys Aquaduct Auithority Meeting of April 12, 2006
YEAR
2005
Community
meeting with the Florida Keys Aquaduct Authority in
February. Several meetings with the Authority and one
with Sonny McCoy on Wastewater matters.
Summer Fall 2005 - News Highlights - After months of bickering the County Commissioners have finally forged an agreement over wastewater with the FKAA.
Duck Key propertry owners indicated that the Aqueduct Authority has had the support of the Property Owners' Association [DKPOA] through it wastewater advisory committee. DKPOA joined with several lower keys community groups to form the M-10 Coalition in an to attempt to restart wastewater projects. Bill McHale, represents the Duck Key Property Owners Association on the M-10 Coalition.
Letter to Florida Keys Aquaduct Authority from Tom Rooney
YEAR
2004
Information
on Wastewater - July 2004
Wastewater
Advisory - April 2004
In April
2004 the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners
acted on a request to approve the allocation of funds for
planning, survey, and conceptual design for Duck Key
wastewater system.
Board of
County Commissioners Agenda
Item Link - April 21 Key West meeting - Request for Approval to
allocate funds for planning, survey, and conceptual
design for Duck Key wastewater system together with
letter from Aquaduct Authority requesting action on
Agenda Item
Wastewater
Information - March 2004
Reminder
- March 25, 2004 - Florida Keys Aquaduct Authority
Wastewater Meeting - Hawk's Cay 7:30 PM -
PowerPoint
Content
On March
25, 2004 the Florida Keys Aquaduct Authority made a
presentation to the Duck Key residential community. A
committee of residents was formed shortly thereafter to
work with the Authority and the County. As information
from the committee becomes available it will be
distributed.
In 2004
the Duck Key Property Owners' Association assisted in the
formation of an AdHoc Wastewater Committee for Duck
Key.
In 2004
the Aquaduct Authority decided that Conch Key should be
connected to the Duck Key Cooperative Waste Water Plant
(Hawk's Cay Resort , Hawk's Cay Village, Indies Condo,
etc)
Monroe
County Sanitary Wastewater Master Plan approved in
2000
Most
links below lead to documents in Portable Document
Format. To be able to read pdf files you must have an
application called Adobe Reader. Adobe® Reader®
is a free software application for viewing and printing
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
The Links to
Monroe County Sanitary Wastewater Master Plan were accessible in the past. Now to gain access to you must log on using a name and a password will be sent to you.
http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/contents.pdf
Executive
Summary - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/exsum.pdf
Introduction
- http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter1.pdf
Public
Involvement - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter2.pdf
Wastewater
Treatment Evaluation - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter3.pdf
Wastewater
facilities Siting - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter4.pdf
Wastewater
Management Alternatives and Service Area Analysis
Spots - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter5.pdf
Water
Quality Hot Spots - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter6.pdf
Recommended
Sanitary Wastewater Plan - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter7.pdf
Funding
and Financing Options - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter8.pdf
Recommended
Wastewater System Administration, Management, and
Operation - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter9.pdf
Works
Cited - http://64.226.101.125/pages/hottopics/Waste%20Water/chapter10.pdf
YEAR 2002
- Information below deals with the Wastewater plan that
was not accepted
Wastewater
News Articles and related information - recent Items
added to top of list.
Hawk's
Cay gets the OK from BOCC - June 19, 2002
BOCC
JUNE 19 and 20
MEETINGS
- Hawk's Cay gets the OK from Board of County
Commissions at June 19 meeting to expand Hawk's Cay
Resort on Duck Key - Developer must find 46 ROGO units
for added housing - now rests with the City of
Marathon.
Letter
from Commissioner George Neugent
Board Of
County Commissioners - June 19 and 20, 2002 - Agendas -
Resort Expansion - Option Agreement for
Wastewater
MONROE COUNTY LINKS ITEMS THAT ARE NO LONGER ACTIVE HAVE BEEN REMOVED
1.
Monroe County Commissioners June 19, 2002 - Agenda
Approval
of Stipulated Settlement Agreement between the
Florida Department of Community Affairs, Monroe
County, Hawk's Cay Investors, Ltd., and Hawk's Cay
Developers, Ltd.
Public
hearing on the above - to consider the request of
Hawk's Cay Resort (MM61) to amend a Development of
Regional Impact (DRI) to implement a proposed
Settlement Agreement between Monroe County, the
Florida Department of Community Affairs, and Hawk's
Cay Resort - ( PASSED - 4 in favor, 1
opposed )
2.
Monroe County Commissioners June 20th Agenda
Items:
J.
Approval of Option Agreement for the Transfer of a
Wastewater System with Duck Key Wastewater
Cooperative, Hawk's Cay Investors and County. This
Option Agreement grants the County the option (but
does not require) transfer of the Hawk's Cay plant
to the County or its assignee to maximize
flexibility in providing central wastewater
treatment to Conch Key and Duck Key (
PASSED - 4 in favor, 0 opposed)
F.
Report by CH2MHILL on Conch Key/Hawk's Cay
wastewater management options
Option
Agreement for the Transfer of a Wastewater System
-
Pages 1 through 17 on Duck Key Online website in
jpeg format for those that you don't have Acrobat
Reader for reading PDF format
Agenda
Page
Pages
1 to 17 of Option Agreement starting with
page
2
Worst
Waters in Florida in Florida Keys - June 1,
2002
Board
of County Commissioners' Meeting May 22,
2002
Editorial:
DCA's slacking oversight endangers Florida
Keys
May
2002 News Article Keynoter - Hawk's Cay project
revisited
Free
Press May 2002 News article - Settlement with state
allows Duck Key development
PROPOSED
AGREEMENT FOR THE FUNDING AND CONSTRUCTION OF WASTEWATER
COLLECTION
INFRASTRUCTURE
- Feb 2002
PROPOSED
WASTEWATER AGREEMENT Feb 2002 .pdf
file
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YEAR
2000 - In 2000 wastewater became a goal of the Duck Key
Property Owners' Association under President John
Wolfe
Links to
background material relating to Duck Key's wasterwater
committee and developments in the year 2000.
Summary
by John Wolfe in DKPOA Newsletter Year 2000
Materials
from 8/28/2000 Florida Keys Aquaduct Authority Meeting
Letter
and Agenda for August 28, 2000 meeting with FKAA on
providing a plan or approach for cental sewer
treatment for Duck Key.
Attachment
A - Development of an RFP for Duck Key Central
Wastewater Treatment System
Attachment
B - Table of Contents - Development of an RFP for
Duck Key Central Wastewater Treatment
System
FKAA
letter to Monroe County dated 9/07/2000
Monroe
County letter to FKAA dated 9/11/2000
FKAA
letter to Duck Key Property Owners' Association dated
10/13/2000
MESSAGE
BOARD POSTING 2000 -2002
Posted by
webmaster
on December 27, 2000
With
reference to the master plan for sewering all of
Marathon, Marathon Mayor Bob Miller is quoted in a
December 20 Keynoter editorial as saying that the
recently approved Federal Funding for the Keys is , " ..
an early Christmas present," and that Marathon's
direction is " to prepare a master plan for sewering all
of Marathon and size it to serve Grassy Key and if they
want to be included, Duck Key."
Posted on
February 2002 - Letter written by Duck Key resident,
Lilo Hagbeck, and appearing in the letters to the
editor section of Keynoter entitled "Not all Duck Key
homeowners favor central sewage"
The
misinterpretation of a vote taken recently at an informal
meeting concerning sewage hookup on Duck Key borders on
fraud. Thanks to your newspaper, this falsity was
printed. This kind of misinformation gives journalism a
bad name. Did your reporter attend the meeting? Many
homeowners of Duck Key were not even invited, and the
homeowners association does not represent all the
homeowners, as it is not mandatory to belong. In this
massive project, a vote of all homeowners must be
taken.
The Duck
Key homeowners do not want and do not need to be coerced
by developer Pritam Singh and county commissioners Nora
Williams and George Neugent to have a hookup to a small
existing sewage treatment, which is nearly 50 years
old.
Who will
benefit from the coercion? Certainly not the homeowners
of Duck Key, who are not poor by any stretch, but they
are certainly not willing to put themselves, their
children and children's children into bondage by the
unscrupulous ambitions of a few outsiders.
The
teaser of a 30 percent discount to a hookup adds more to
the insult &endash; a discount to what? The games being
played are obvious. Mr. Singh abused his building
allocations on Duck Key but wants more. Mrs. Williams
wants state Rep. Ken Sorensen's job and needs a feather
in her cap by implementing sewage hookups, and Duck Key
should serve as game.
When I
moved to Duck Key there were 40 residences on the island.
Most of them had septic tanks by then. Where does that
fictitious number of 50 cesspits come from?
There is
no hurry. We have until the year 2010 to come up with
some brilliant ideas concerning our sewage. And we have
some good minds living right here.
Posted on
January 27, 2002
DKPOA
will have a meeting open to all residents of Duck Key on
February 3rd at 3 o'clock at the Club Duck Key Pavillion
to discuss the Hawk's Cay Resort DRI and waste water
proposals for the island.
Posted on
January 27, 2002
The
Planning Commission Hearing for the Hawks Cay DRI
Amendment has been continued to February 6,
2002. The January Planning Commission meeting
indicated they accept comments from the public from
individuals that were in attendance to address this issue
. There will be an opportunity for public comment at
the February 6, 2002 hearing.
Posted by
William
Paul
on February 09, 2002
Feb. 12
questions
Could
someone tell me where the exhibits a-e are to the
waste-water agreement? This seems highly irregular.
Posted on February 11, 2002
An
editorial in the Key West Citizen comments at its
conclusion,
" We (Key
West editors) do agree with planning commissioner Alicia
Putney, who voted against the project. She correctly
pointed out that the proposal has little to do with
wastewater, affordable housing issues or public input. '
To me,' Putney added, ' it is about whether there are any
units left.' "
For the
complete editorial go to
http://keysnews.com/kncom/kwc/current_editorials.bsp.htm
http://keysnews.com/kncom/kwc/274198924180533.bsp.htm
ADDED
2004 - Viewing articles in the archives of
www.keysnews.com was free in the past, Now it costs $1.25
per article to view. Links may have changes since 2002
and it may be necessary to use the newspapers website
search feature to locate the February Key West Citizen
editorial.
Posted by
dick
adler
on February 21, 2002
The
editorial "Duck Key project is a scandal in the making"
by Tom Tuell, Citizen Editor at
http://stories.keysnews.com/kwc/275259257594409.bsp
makes a number of valid points. I agree with Tuell's
assessment that County Attorney Hendrick's legal opinion
justifying additional development rights and the
Commissioners' adoption of a position statement to
convince the DCA to allow the project appears to be a
creative interpretation of the law.
I
disagree with Tuell's characterization of the Commission.
Back room deals, unholy alliances to get sewers built and
obtain cesspit credits to keep ROGO alive, yes, but
personally benefiting materially - "Keep an eye out for
new houses and expensive cars" - is dragging
Commissioners through the mud undeservedly.
Posted
on February 21, 2002
Keynoter
: "So far, wastewater remains just talk" Publication
Date: February 2, 2002 by Ann Henson Reporter
Staff Writer
"So far,
wastewater remains just talk. The only thing that's
certain with Keys wastewater is that by 2010, Monroe
County must have central sewers or each home come
equipped with a high-tech septic system that removes most
of the ... "
For
entire article go to the Keynoter URL above.
Posted on
February 28, 2002 - Commissioner Williams replies to
Editorial by Tom Tuell
Letters
to the editor of Key West Citizen "Sewer plant deal not
back-room " writes Nora Williams, Monroe County
Commissioner
"When The
Citizen devotes two editorial columns in a single week to
a single subject, it's usually a sign that you guys have
gotten a wee dot unhinged on something. The error-filled
commentary on the Hawk's Cay Development of Regional
Impact is a perfect example.
And for
those who haven't noticed that the same kinds of deals
made with people The Citizen likes ... haven't generated
a negative peep, be aware. "
ADDED 2004 - Viewing articles in the archives of
www.keysnews.com was free in the past, Now it costs $1.25
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and it may be necessary to use the newspapers website
search feature to locate Commissioner Williams
reply.
