CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ITEM
Memo Date: October 4, 2024
Agenda Date: October 8, 2024
Prepared By: Jack Walsh, Utilities Director; Stockton Whitten, City Manager
Through: Councilwoman Weeks, District 3
Requested Action:
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To Provide Direction to Staff for Funding and New Policies, if Necessary, for the Indian River Drive Septic to Sewer Conversion.
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BACKGROUND:
Councilwoman Weeks requested the placement of this item/subject on the October 24, 2024 agenda. This agenda item and/or subject was previously reviewed by Council on May 24, July 26, August 9, November 29, 2022, May 23, 2023, January 23, 2024, and July 23, 2024.
Two areas within the City of Cocoa along Indian River Drive have been identified for funding from the Save Our Indian River Lagoon (SOIRL) tax adopted by Brevard County. The areas are known as Area "J" and "K" and consist of a total of 88 single family homes that can be elgible for reimbursement to remove their septic systems and replaced with a city owned gravity sewer system.
The SOIRL study conducted by Tetra Tech identified 5 major areas of pollutents into the Indian River Lagoon;
1. Stormwater runoff
2. Baseflow/septic, leaking sewer, reclaimed water
3. Atmospheric deposition
4. Point sources
5. Muck flux
SOIRL currently has approved an allocation of approximately $6.1M for 88 lots toward the design, construction of a new gravity sewer system to eliminate existing septic systems assuming 100% participation. That amount is reduced by $545,373 if no additional match funding is received by October 25, 2024. Therefore the total would be $5,467,559. The final design and plans are complete. The opinion of probable costs was prepared by the Engineer of Record and the costs vary based on the method of construction used by a contractor to install the sewer mains. The last cost estimates place the costs of construction of the new gravity system at $6.6 to $8.2M. This estimate does not inlcude homeowner on site costs.
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