Summary The City Commission received a presentation and ceremonial check for $400,000 from the Suwannee River Water Management District (SRWMD) Executive Director Noah Valenstein at its regular meeting on February 13, 2017. The presentation was to announce a SRWMD award to the City of Alachua as partial funding of a project to improve water quality recharging the Upper Florida aquifer at the Mill Creek Swallet and to preserve and protect the Mill Creek Sink and Mill Creek Cave System.
An application made by the SRWMD to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to fully fund the projected total Project cost of $1,400,000 has brought notice of a FDEP award of $1,000,000 that is now being brought to final form. The City and SRWMD have, by the attached agreement here presented and recommended for approval by the City Commission, agreed the $400,000 SRWMD funds will be allocated to eligible Engineering and other expenses necessary to develop the scope of work and other deliverables necessary to establish the cost of full project design, construction and other support for the FDEP grant of funds.
The attached City - SRWMD agreement will be amended to incorporate the requirements and scope of the FDEP grant and brought back to the City Commission for presentation and request for approval at a future meeting. |