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Editorial: Help Elect Cedar Key News` Board of Directors April 13th, 2003
Editorial: Cedar Key News: A Progress Report March 11th, 2003
Editorial: Mercedes Meets the Mud February 28th, 2003
Editorial: Happy New Year to All December 29th, 2002
Editorial: Letter to the Editor - Thank You C.K. Police for Doing Your Job December 15th, 2002
Editorial: Poll Results: Fact, Fiction, or Propaganda? December 4th, 2002
Editorial: WANTED November 27th, 2002
Editorial: 1,2,3,4 What Are We Fighting For? October 10th, 2002
Editorial: Do We Really Want Law Enforcement in Cedar Key? August 15th, 2002
Editorial: Levy County Emergency Management July 26th, 2002
Editorial: We Have Our Own Heroes July 17th, 2002
Editorial: Take a Little Time! July 3rd, 2002
Editorial: Water Management District Trying Its Best June 26th, 2002
Editorial: Bribery and Misuse of Public Office June 25th, 2002
Editorial: Police Officer`s Improper Conduct Case Fades Away June 24th, 2002
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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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