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58 <br /> 1 <br /> 2 Commissioner Gordon: That would be helpful. <br /> 3 <br /> 4 Michael Fox: Yes. <br /> 5 <br /> 6 Commissioner Gordon: Because it was asserted, and I think it's important that we know. <br /> 7 <br /> 8 Pete Hallenbeck: Alright. Commissioner Price. <br /> 9 <br /> 10 Commissioner Price: Yes, I had a question about water. I was trying to find it in the— in my <br /> 11 packet, but I couldn't find it. You were mentioning — I don't recall seeing anything about drilling <br /> 12 a well or water on the property, but then you mentioned —well I'm think of in case there is an <br /> 13 emergency, or just the fact that you said you had to clean these panels twice a year with water. <br /> 14 But, are you going to be drilling a well. <br /> 15 <br /> 16 Michael Fox: Mike, you want to address that? <br /> 17 <br /> 18 Mike Wallace: No ma'am, no well. So the use of water only is to protect the environment, and <br /> 19 that will be done with a water truck or a local company to come in and complete that with a <br /> 20 squeegee or a rag apparatus that would do that. <br /> 21 <br /> 22 Commissioner Price: Okay, and then just following up on what one of the people in the <br /> 23 audience has said; what about—you might as well stay up there—watering the plants and <br /> 24 making sure that this buffer doesn't die when it becomes a hundred degrees here. <br /> 25 <br /> 26 Mike Wallace: Yeah, that's a great question. We do have a plan for that. So, our plan is <br /> 27 again, to hire a local landscaping company that would be located here in the County, in the <br /> 28 area, that would be responsible for not only planting the trees but making sure of the wellbeing <br /> 29 of the trees and that they take, as well as any care of the property during the 20 to 25 year life of <br /> 30 the facility. <br /> 31 <br /> 32 Commissioner Price: Okay, and one more follow up. Storm water; what is the risk of the <br /> 33 runoff, I mean if there is a slope? <br /> 34 <br /> 35 Mike Wallace: So what we would do typically in these installations is we would install a silt <br /> 36 fence to protect any areas such as the creek and the property, to ensure that no runoff made it <br /> 37 into any area that was of concern. <br /> 38 <br /> 39 Michael Fox: And if I might add to that, as the commission is probably well aware, you know <br /> 40 state law prohibits a developer from putting any more runoff on a neighbor's property than <br /> 41 already exists. So, those types of actions would be enforceable by numerous water quality <br /> 42 agencies and would have to go through the jurisdiction of your planning department as well to <br /> 43 be able to enforce that, along with the landscape buffer requirements. Your planning <br /> 44 department would have the authority to issue a - you know basically - an N.O.V., a notice of <br /> 45 violation for failure to comply with the requirements of your ordinance, which the company would <br /> 46 have to address; hence, their plan to contract with a local company to ensure that the buffer is <br /> 47 maintained. <br /> 48 <br /> 49 Pete Hallenbeck: Commissioner Rich. <br /> 50 <br />