MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2012 – 6:00 p.m.
Markham Woods Church, 505 Markham Woods Rd., Longwood FL 32779
A formal public meeting to receive input regarding the Draft Wekiva River Aquatic Preserve Management Plan will be held. This plan strives to bring together under the Florida Department of Environmental Protection all the work of the various working groups regarding nutrient loading in the Wekiva River Area, including 20 miles of the St. Johns River. All along, we have been attending many of the meetings held by these groups and monitoring activity as it impacts our septic systems. The entire survey of these activities is presented in the link below.
Please go to Page 57 of this draft. It gives a broad description of these groups, their activities, and the draft is a preliminary step to rule-making based on the findings and recommendations contained in this draft. Although the draft gives a nod to the on-going DOH Nitrogen Reduction Strategies Study which is supposed to provide nitrogen reduction alternatives for conventional septic systems, it is particularly disturbing that the draft has recommended and named “performance-based technology” as a solution to reduce nutrient loading from septic systems. TRI-County Association will be addressing this and related issues at the meeting.
Public meetings are typically held in advance of rules being developed and adopted. Homeowners cannot be silent and unrepresented, or as in the past, rules will be promoted and passed that are inappropriate and devastating to our home asset values and basic property rights. Please plan to attend!
Andrea Samson, President
TRI-County Association H.E.L.P., Inc.
P.S. If you have friends in the Volusia County area, please pass along this information. There is a second meeting planned for Tuesday, October 2, at the Volusia County Administration Bldg., 23 West Indiana Avenue, DeLand, FL 32720. More information on time, etc. is available atwww.dep.state.fl.us/coastal/
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