During the January 16th meeting, numerous citizens voiced concerns over the contamination of well water. Most of the area called Redlands, Florida, is serviced by water from wells on individual properties.
More about this can be found here:
The group from Public Works said that the plans for this West South West Trash and Recycle Center were part of the Miami Dade County Development Master Plan.
The question that arises after the brief research outlined below is:
How is the county handling water supply and waste water treatment from the facility, which includes storm run off, to keep waste water out of our well supply?
When blog author called Commissioner Bell's office to ask about city water lines planned for the Redlands area, the office said that Miami Dade County has NO plans to provide city water lines to the Redlands Area at any time. This means that the Redlands will continue using well water.
The CDMP expresses the County’s general objectives and policies addressing where and how it intends development or conservation of land and natural resources will occur during the next ten to twenty years, and the delivery of County services to accomplish the Plan’s objectives. It provides for "sustainable development" - allowing for land capacity to meet projected needs, preservation of wetlands and agricultural areas and protection of (drinkable) water well fields.
The CDMP establishes the broad parameters for government to do detailed land use planning and zoning activities, functional planning and programming of infrastructure and services. As such, it is a framework for use by other programs to be developed to support it's long-range planning goals. For each of the master plan elements, there are goals, objectives and policies, measures to be monitored and maps of planned future facilities.
Link to more about CDMP is here:
The CDMT has about water conservation:
New water supply or wastewater collection lines should not be extended to provide service to land within areas designated Agriculture, Open Land, or Environmental Protection on the Land Use Plan map. New water or wastewater lines to serve land within these areas should be approved or required only where the absence of the facility would result in an imminent threat to public health or safety. The use of on- site facilities should be given priority consideration. In all cases, facilities should be sized only to service the area where the imminent threat would exist, to avoid inducing additional urban development in the area. This policy will not preclude federal, State or local long-range planning or design of facilities to serve areas within the Urban Development Boundary (UDB) or Urban Expansion Area (UEA). Public health and safety determinations will be made in accordance with Chapter 24 of the Code of Miami-Dade County (Environmental Protection) and Section 2-103.20, et seq., (Water Supply for Fire Suppression) Code of Miami-Dade County.
More about this can be found here:
Most of the Redlands is considered Agricultural:
http://www.miamidade.gov/business/agriculture-redland-raised.asp
