Leaders in Manatee County receive update on Piney Point during Council of Governments meeting
Piney Point update at Council of Governments meeting By Rick Adams | May 4, 2021 at 10:14 PM EDT - Updated May 4 at 10:14 PM
PALMETTO, Fla. (WWSB) - It’s a meeting that was all about getting important Piney Point information to city leaders in Manatee County. The discussion at Tuesday’s Council of Governments meeting at the Bradenton Area Convention Center focusing on all the different stages of the Piney Point scare, where they were, where they are and what’s next.
“We’re looking at about ten to twelve months for Manatee County to have the deep well drilled,” said Dr. Scott Hopes, Manatee County Administrator. “And the pre-processing equipment to put on that well with a wellhead, in order to begin injecting the pre-processed water from Piney Point into that well.”
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Two Export council members want the borough to keep its word and remove an $8 surcharge on sewage customers that was originally intended to expire after a year.
But ongoing expenses related to its long-term flood control plan and its participation in a state environmental consent order kept that from happening.
Council voted 5-2 this week to keep the surcharge, imposed in March 2020 in response to requirements in the state Department of Environmental Protection’s 2019 consent order with the Franklin Township Municipal Sanitary Authority and its client communities. Council members John Nagoda and Vince Harding voted no.