06/18/2022
If there is one thing we can all agree upon, it is that our water is the most important resource we have. Please help us keep the Wakulla River beautiful and fill out a brief email to our county using the attached form. Thank you all!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lnpYSrxV6pcJkRJbOW9c-xBAH2o53bs1/mobilebasic
Here's what's happening:
In recent years, the state has made an impressive multimillion-dollar commitment to clean up our rivers, fisheries, and Wakulla Springs. Most of the money has been spent removing high-polluting septic tanks in key areas of Wakulla County where the groundwater is considered "most vulnerable to pollution.
Now, our county commissioners want to undo this progress by adding pollution that will cost us $2.6 million to fix. Most commissioners are supporting a plan to place 88 conventional septic tanks in the bullseye of Wakulla's “most vulnerable" groundwater zone. This will erase $2.6 million worth of cleanup efforts (cost details below). Even worse, taxpayers will eventually have to spend millions more to restore the water to its current condition. The proposed subdivision should be connected to sewer, not septic tanks. We can make this happen.
Development location:
Northwest of the intersection at 98 and Spring Creek Highway, bordering land that was recently found unsuitable for the County's wastewater dumping site
Cost calculation:
The average cost per connection in the ongoing septic-to-sewer project at Wakulla Gardens is about $29,332.48, according to Wakulla County's engineering firm. We used this number for the expected cost to remove each of the 88 septic tanks at the proposed subdivision. That comes to $2,581,258.24, rounded to $2.6 million.
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