Hialeah promised Miami-Dade County that it would build a desalination plant as a condition of the application by Codina et al. to move the Urban Development Boundary in 2004 (2003 cycle). I thought it was a reuse plant, but apparently my memory is faulty. According to a Department of Environmental Protection Notice in the paper, Hialeah now wants to construct 2 injection wells, at the soon to be built plant site, at 166th Street and NW 102 Avenue. The well will inject 7.39 millions gallons of water from the desal plant per day (leftover brine from the process). They will be injecting 5,130 gallons each minute into a deep aquifer. About 40% of the water they desalinate must be disposed of -- too salty. (The second well is a backup well in case the other malfunctions).These injection wells are near our Northwest Wellfields and it has been found that there is river-like movement underground. Does anyone remember the pink water?
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Renfrow is now head of DERM.....Yes, I remember the Pink well. Renfrow stopped the investigation.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2008-03-20/news/poisoned-well
Renfro was the past Director of DERM, he is now Director of WASA.
You're not crazy Genious. I was at that hearing and ex mayor Martinez and the city of Hialeah and the applicant all said they were going to install a re-use facility at their expense. Later Miami-Dade ponied up the money. Now it's not that at all but injection wells. But they knew that from day one; it's the people and our tax dollars that were duped-again!
I seem to remember Armando Codina / Sergio Pino there too.
Flush it out to sea. No problem there with this county.
renfrow is a puppet,,, actually, all county directors and employees are because they are afraid to disagree with the mayor and county manager. Everyone is just doing what it takes to get to retirement at this point. professionalism went out the door when the mayor and staff came through it.
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