Actually Hialeah DOES need the water treatment plant. That was the deal their politicians made to expand the Urban Development Boundary to the benefit of Armando Codina, Julio Robaina, Sergio Pino and Raul Martinez. Otherwise, Miami Dade taxpayers foot their bill. Let them pay what they owe!
That deal was very convoluted though. That is, perhaps, a good cause for a blog in and of itself. I believe they were calling it "R and O". You know how they throw those letters around. It was one of those public/private things that sounded like it was going to end up costing the tax payers more.
The area where M&M Liquors is located has hit by an ordinance where Mayor Robaina's administration hopes to redevelop 5to 9-story buildings of mixed used with more low-income housing added to the equation. The ordiance was approved by the city council and affects most of SE Hialeah, extends to 4 other areas, including both major avenues where Hialeah Park is located and extends from 21 to 49 streets. Another ordinance that followed more recently affects the enterior of the park itself. There is no intent on behalf of Julio Robaina's administration to preserve, beautify and enhance the existing structures. Money that should be spent on repairing roads in existing areas is being used on the new water plant and roads in the new, annexed area west of Miami Lakes. AND, these facts are just pudding in the cake...
The new plant will not be pumping from the Biscayne Aquifer; the saline water it will pump will be treated and blended with the good tasting water in Hialeah so that in the end, the people of Hialeah will have foul tasting water like you get out of the tap on the west coast of Florida. This project should be stopped for the sake of the residents who will have to drink this stuff.
One can argue that this reverse osmosis water plant is needed; with growing population and frequent droughts in South Florida. Brackish water will be drawn from the Floridian aquifer, cleaned by R/O and then blended with water from the Biscayne aquifer. Personally, I do not drip tap water. Too many remnants of stuff we flushed down our toilets; medicines, hormones, and chlorinated, flouridated by- products of water treatment. It is the way this water plant project was promulgated, with very little information broadcast to the public. Most Hialeah citizens and Hialeah employees didn't even know that the plant was being built, and it is still somewhat nebulous as to where the funds are coming from. That the sign states the plant is not needed, well, it wasn't needed placed more on the backs of the Hialeah taxpayers than other county residents...let's call it poetic license, that the sign says the plant is not needed. More communication, more accountability, more oversight is needed....and the water plant...okay, it is needed. My bad.
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Please tell me Bechtel is not involved in this. We do not want privatized water, people. It is a license to steal.
I am so truly in love with the person/people from M&M, and I don't even know who he/she is!
Anyone in the area, spend your money there! Even if you don't drink "adult beverages", buy something for a friend!
OMG, they are doing a great public service. It kind of reminds me of a harder core Rascal House! Remember those signs?
Thanks for the photo.
Actually Hialeah DOES need the water treatment plant. That was the deal their politicians made to expand the Urban Development Boundary to the benefit of Armando Codina, Julio Robaina, Sergio Pino and Raul Martinez. Otherwise, Miami Dade taxpayers foot their bill. Let them pay what they owe!
That deal was very convoluted though. That is, perhaps, a good cause for a blog in and of itself. I believe they were calling it "R and O". You know how they throw those letters around. It was one of those public/private things that sounded like it was going to end up costing the tax payers more.
The area where M&M Liquors is located has hit by an ordinance where Mayor Robaina's administration hopes to redevelop 5to 9-story buildings of mixed used with more low-income housing added to the equation. The ordiance was approved by the city council and affects most of SE Hialeah, extends to 4 other areas, including both major avenues where Hialeah Park is located and extends from 21 to 49 streets. Another ordinance that followed more recently affects the enterior of the park itself. There is no intent on behalf of Julio Robaina's administration to preserve, beautify and enhance the existing structures. Money that should be spent on repairing roads in existing areas is being used on the new water plant and roads in the new, annexed area west of Miami Lakes. AND, these facts are just pudding in the cake...
The new plant will not be pumping from the Biscayne Aquifer; the saline water it will pump will be treated and blended with the good tasting water in Hialeah so that in the end, the people of Hialeah will have foul tasting water like you get out of the tap on the west coast of Florida. This project should be stopped for the sake of the residents who will have to drink this stuff.
One can argue that this reverse osmosis water plant is needed; with growing population and frequent droughts in South Florida. Brackish water will be drawn from the Floridian aquifer, cleaned by R/O and then blended with water from the Biscayne aquifer. Personally, I do not drip tap water. Too many remnants of stuff we flushed down our toilets; medicines, hormones, and chlorinated, flouridated by- products of water treatment. It is the way this water plant project was promulgated, with very little information broadcast to the public. Most Hialeah citizens and Hialeah employees didn't even know that the plant was being built, and it is still somewhat nebulous as to where the funds are coming from. That the sign states the plant is not needed, well, it wasn't needed placed more on the backs of the Hialeah taxpayers than other county residents...let's call it poetic license, that the sign says the plant is not needed. More communication, more accountability, more oversight is needed....and the water plant...okay, it is needed. My bad.
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