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Editorial: What Have We Learned? September 3rd, 2005
Editorial: Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace August 17th, 2005
Editorial: What Is a Consultant to Do? July 5th, 2005
Editorial: Six Land Use Petitions in Play June 25th, 2005
Editorial: Poaching & Plagiarism June 13th, 2005
Editorial: Upward and Onward in 2005 May 24th, 2005
Editorial: Farewell Maureen May 17th, 2005
Editorial: Speaking About Speak Out May 10th, 2005
Editorial: Informed Voters Wanted March 26th, 2005
Editorial: Health Needs Survey Well Received February 12th, 2005
Editorial: Fire Protection, Fire Insurance and Tax Justice January 25th, 2005
Editorial: Cedar Key Health Service Survey January 14th, 2005
Editorial: New Year`s Resolution December 31st, 2004
Editorial: Do We Need Better Healthcare in Cedar Key? December 16th, 2004
Editorial: Help Defend Us October 29th, 2004
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Cedar Key Plantation: Albatross or Opportunity | Cedar Key Plantation: Albatross or OpportunityRobin McClary Let's begin with a given. Cedar Key Plantation is not going away. People are buying the lots and eventually they are going to build houses and live there. And they're going to generate sewage. So let's skip over that part of the argument. Everybody agrees that the sewer system for Plantation is the way to go, but no one wants to run it. How curious. What is it about the waste material from seventy-five houses that seems so monstrous to everyone? The developer is willing to build a state-of-the-art plant to state specifications. The residents there would pay for a crew to operate it. Mr. Stuart I. Cullen, Vice-President of Brown and Cullen, Inc., has stated that, "it will be a state-of-the-art installation that either the City of Cedar Key, the Cedar Key Water and Sewage District, or Levy County would love to own, operate, and benefit from..." Where's the downside? Something seems to be wrong here. Apparently the issue runs much deeper and may have little to do with honey buckets. The City turned down the annexation flat. Levy County doesn't want to get into the sewer business. The Suwannee River Water Management people are sidling away from the project like a fiddler crab seeing Big Bird. The Cedar Key Water and Sewer District isn't leaping at the idea of expanding its boundaries and taking responsibility for the plant. Nobody wants any part of the Plantation's sewer and water system. If it's such a good deal and nobody wants it—but won't say why—that makes me nervous. I don't think we are getting the whole story. Until all the facts become known, I think that we should closely monitor the standoff, just to see who flinches. This is a very important issue in more ways than one. |
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