News
on Duck Key Wastewater - September, October, November
2004 E-mails
CONTENTS
Information
from Jane Marter Duck Key Wastewater Advisory Committee
Chairperson. There are two representative from each
island.
Also
E-mail correspondence with Aquaduct Authority.
From: "Jane Marter"
<jhmarter@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat Nov 20, 2004
15:26:30 US/Eastern
To:
info@duckkeyonline.com
Subject: Duck Key
Wastewater Treatment Committee:
Dear Duck Key
Property Owners:
We have an appointment
with Thomas Willi, the new county
administrator,
on November 29th at
11:00 a.m. at his office in the Gato Building on
Simonton
St. in Key West. The
purpose of this meeting is to demonstrate our unity
and
eagerness to receive a
portion of the $20 milion dollar bond issue which
the
County is in the
process of obtaining for wastewater treatment. You are
all
invited to come with
us. If you are interested in helping us lobby the
county
administrator, please
let Roy Enquist (743-0115) Ed Gottschalk (743-2799)
or
me (743-3137)
know.
The Florida Keys
Acqueduct Authority is going to hold a seminar on
the
technical/engineering
aspects of the proposed wastewater treatment system
for
Duck Key including the
upgrade and expansion of the Indies Island
plant,
sometime during the
second week of January. No location has been
decided
upon. We would like
your help in preparing an extensive outline of
questions
to be answered by the
FKAA staff. Please get them to me by December
15th,
hard copy preferred. A
copy of the questions will be given to everyone
who
attends the seminar.
FKAA personnel will be given the questions
before
Christmas.
We would like to make
this process as open as possible, with
participation by all
the Duck Key property owners. Please pass
this
information/invitation
on to anyone you know who is not a DKPOA member or
who
does not have
e-mail.
Thank you.
Cordially,
Jane Marter
From: Ed Nicolle
<enicolle@fkaa.com>
Date: Tue Oct 12, 2004
10:37:35 US/Eastern
To: Richard Adler
<info@duckkeyonline.com>
Cc: Kerry Shelby
<kshelby@fkaa.com>, Ray Shimokubo
<rshimokubo@fkaa.com>
Subject: RE: waste water
and Duck Key
Dick
Adler,
Duck Key has not been
put on the Back Burner. Progress is still
continuing
on the waste water
system. I do not know of the money situation. It
would
seem that most of the
money congress pledged to Jeb Bush will finance
the
states hurricane
losses (my personnel opinion).
Ed
-----Original
Message-----
From: Richard Adler
[mailto:info@duckkeyonline.com]
Sent: Monday, October 11,
2004 3:32 PM
To: Ed Nicolle
Cc: jane
marter
Subject: waste water and
Duck Key
To Ed
Nicolle,
A resident who has to
upgrade his sewer system related a recent
conversation he had
with someone in FKAA administration.
1. No money coming
from the state as a result of hurricane
costs.
2. Duck Key lacks
political clout when it comes to getting funding.
Cities will get
priority.
3. Duck Key
residential more than likely will be serviced
last.
4. There probably will
be an extension on the 2010 date from the state
on sewering the entire
Keys.
I also read a copy of
a September communication to Jane Marter from
Kerry Shelby which
seemed to indicate progress was continuing and
residential Duck Key
was not on the back burner in terms of waste
water.
QUESTION:
What is the current
situation regarding residential Duck Key's
becoming part of the
waste water system? Has the situation changed as
a result of the
hurricanes?
Dick Adler
E-mail
with correspondence with Aquaduct Authority and other
parties.
Sep 18, 2004
From: "Jane
Marter" <jhmarter@bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat Sep 18, 2004
17:25:59 US/Eastern
To:
info@duckkeyonline.com
Subject: Fwd: RE: Use
of county 1-cent infrastructure sales tax fund on Duck
Key:
On September 15, 2004
at 11:10am -0400, Kerry Shelby
<kshelby@fkaa.com> wrote:
Good morning,
Jane.
Even though they are
exhausting (and expensive), three hurricane
"drills"
are better than one
actual hurricane. So far, so good.
Jane, I believe that
Laurie was referring to the $150,000 that the
County
approved in April of
this year for the FKAA to use to begin planning for
the
Duck Key project. I am
not aware of any other funds that have been
budgeted
for Duck Key at this
point.
As far as Hawk's Cay
goes, we are waiting on a couple of very
important
pieces of information
to complete the transfer. As you know, Hawk's
Cay
wants an idea of their
share of the plant upgrade costs prior to
transfer.
Due to irregularities
in their water flow data (substantial water leaks)
and
wastewater plant data
(substantial inflow and infiltration due to
leaking
pipes), we have not
been able to arrive at a good estimate of their
demand
on the overall system.
Per our discussions with them, the leaks
were
repaired by December
2003. We want to look at a minimum of 12 months
worth
of data (December
2003-November 2004) for purposes of determining
their
demand. We are also in
the process of obtaining a price quote on
the
upgrade project. We
hope to have that sometime in the next few
weeks.
Hope that answers you
questions. Please let me know if you need other
info.
Kerry
Shelby
September 14,
2004
-----Original
Message-----
From: Jane Marter
[mailto:jhmarter@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Tuesday,
September 14, 2004 7:44 PM
To:
kshelby@fkaa.com
Subject: Use of county
1-cent infrastructure sales tax fund on Duck
Key:
Dear kerry,
I hope your hurricanes
are not too wretched.
On August 20th Laurie
Karnatz wrote in the Key West Citizen as
follows:
" Money from that fund
is currently budgeted for other wastewater
projects in the
county, including Conch Key, Bay Point, Big Coppitt
and Duck
Key."
For what project on
Duck Key have funds been budgeted by the
county
commission? Have you
concluded your negotiations with Hawk's Cay? If
you
wish, I can fax you
the entire article (Sewer Money Sent to Upper
Keys).
Thanks. Jane
Marter
