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ORKSHOP IvEE,TING OF THE COUNCIL
LAGE OF TEQ ESTA, FLORIDA
May 19, 19 1
A Wowas held b the Village of Tequesta,
orida , uesday, N y 19, 19$1 in the Village
all, 357 , Teque ta, Florida. Councilmembers
resent were : Brown, Cook, Ma s and Stoddard. Also present
ere Robert Harp, Village M ager, Cyrese Colbert, Village
C erk and John C. Randol , Village Attorney.
he purpose his meeting was to discuss Gee & Jenson 's
Prelims Dort- Evaluation of the Potential for Raw
Water Supply Development for the Village of Tequesta , ha_ y, 1981.
Heidi Vandor, Hydrogeologist with Gee & Jenson and John McKune,
Gee & Jenson were present to present the report to Council.
Ms. Vandor opened the meeting by presenting charts and
graphs to Council of Gee & Jenson 's findings and reviewed
the Executive Summary of the report.
In 1978 the Village of Tequesta contracted Gee & Jenson
Engineers to begin an evaluation of our wellifields and potential
for supplying the Village 's potable demand. Before that time
we had USGS do the evalutions and monitoring. Gee & Jenson found
that the existing monitoring network was providing erroneous
water level and quality information due to poor well construction
and lack of adequate maintenance. Gee & Jenson 's testing found
there is in fact a significant freshwater zone underlying the
eastern peninsula. There is a potential for withdrawing up to
2. 88 MGD of potable water on the eastern peninsula providing
strict operating and management practices are implemented.
Ms. Vandor told Council that the north half of the western
peninsular appears to have significant water supply development
potential.
Gee & Jenson believes there are several _options available
to the Village. The first was that the Village can continue
to purchase their raw water from the Town of Jupiter Water
System supplementing only peak demands with their own wellfields.
Second, the Village can continue to purchase water from Jupiter
and supplement any future demands with Tequesta 's well. field.
The purchase price from Jupiter would remain the same. Third,
the Village could anticipate long-term projected demands by
having an in-depth knowledge of their existing wellfield system.
Gee & Jenson believes that by developing additional sources of
supply in the North West area the Village has the rapacity of
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providing all of their demands through the year 2000 and
maintaining the connection with the Town of Jupiter Water
System for meeting peak demands and emergency use.
Ms. Vandor also reviewed the programs that the Village
should have for wellfield rehabilitation.
Council discussed at length with themselves and several
residents what the Village should do as to the enlarging
of the franchise and service area.
There was discussion of the possibility of acquiring
Jupiter Island Water Company.
It was the concensus of Council that the enlarging of
the franchise area or the acquiring of any new water system
should be kept in the background for present.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:00 P.M.
4Cy se Colbert