Pollution is a dirty word.By attending last Wednesday nights MPN (Maitland Progress Now) meeting I learned a little more about our community. Statements made by the various developers (see prior post for comments) caused me to research some information, both on the Internet and by calling our city officials (see links below) and I learned that:
* Storm water is one of the largest sources of pollution of Florida’s waterways.
* We currently have highly polluted and untreated stormwater being dumped directly into our Lake Lily and a similar scenario exists for our Lake Minnehaha.
* Because of new Trevi and Ravinia development we’re getting a 3 ½ acre filtration/retention pond that should directly benefit the health of our Lake Minnehaha
* Because of the new Village of Lake Lily development’s plan, they will be instialling seven separate exfiltration trench systems, a nutrient-separating baffle box and stormwater filtration system in-line with the proposed outfall pipe to provide treatment of runoff collected and conveyed in the roadway stormsewer prior to discharge into our Lake Lily.
* The Brossier Company development plans include a total of 3 acres of “green roof” with the potential benefit’s being: reduced stormwater runoff; filtering pollutants and CO2 out of air; filtering pollutants and heavy metals from water; increase wildlife habitat.
So now I’ve begun to glean a better understanding about why the federal, state and local guidelines that govern new building development, such as the EPA, FDEP & SJRWMD regulations, are requiring much higher standards in order to approve permitting. These ever changing laws and regulations direct new development to provide plans and measures to stop or greatly curtail currently recognized polluted areas from advancing, avert future problems and, preferably, advance the refinement or rehabilitation of already polluted areas.
Therefore it seems extremely logical to me that NEWER development that replaces older development - especially the projects already underway along with the proposed downtown redevelopment project - will actually HELP our environment in many wonderful and innovative ways.
The Problem ~ unfortunately we’re not a pristine and ecologically balanced virgin environment anymore.
The Facts ~ Maitland is already developed but with grossly outdated or non-existent pollution controls.
The Solution ~ redevelopment appears to be THE best answer, perhaps the only answer, for cleaning up our environment.
Let’s work together to make the MOST of what we have by:
Re-Building Our Community
Re-Developing Our DownTown
Re-Newing Our Natural Resources
Maitland, Florida Re-ally can become an extremely unique and progressive niche.
I have the vision...do you ?
Ann Lanier
(407) 622-1165
JustAskAnn@aol.com
"Our city seems poised on the brinks of a Re-birth; a wonderful nouveau Re-naissance period."
The Brossier Co./Bob Reese:
http://www.brossier.us/brossier.us/
The Trevi Development Company/Vince Pellicane:
http://www.thetrevi.com/index.html
Broad Street Partners/The Ravinia:
http://www.maitlanduptownwest.com/
The Morgan Group/The Village of Lake Lily:
http://www.morgangroup.com/florida.html
Green roof information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_roof
Stormwater Woes ~ One of the biggest threats to Florida waterways:
http://sjr.state.fl.us/welcome/index.html
SJRWMD – Local (St. Johns River Water Management District):
http://www.sjrwmd.com/govboard/pdfs/2007/rg0705/rg0705_056.pdf
FDEP – State (Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection):
http://www.dep.state.fl.us/
EPA – Federal (Environmental Protection Agency):
http://www.epa.gov/
City of Maitland Engineer – Joe Oriolo (407) 539-6260
Email: JOriolo@ItsMyMaitland.com
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