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December 2024 Year in Review

| Staff Reporters
City of Milton starting over on wastewater treatment plans

Looming deadlines, possible fines, and losing more than $47 million in awarded grants didn’t sway the city council from a unanimous vote to reject all bids on the wastewater treatment plant and disposal system. For months now discussion has centered around whether the locations of spray fields 1 and 2 would be a risk for contaminating the wellfield protection area. Citizens of Milton implored the council to move their plans elsewhere. The current location puts the effluent spray field over a wellfield protection area, which leads to the Florida aquifer. Without a plan to eliminate or reduce the amount of PFAS in the water, there is a risk of contaminating the aquifer.

City Manager Ed Spears and Councilman Mike Cusack go back and forth on the location for an effluent spray field.

 

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