What are we doing?
Drilling a 12-inch diameter well into the Floridan aquifer system. This is the third, and believe to be the last such well to be drilled at Seacoast's central office at 4200 Hood Rd. Floridan aquifer water is salty (same source as Jupiter uses for half its water supply) and will be treated using the proposed low pressure reverse osmosis system to be installed at the Hood Road Water Plant next to our offices.
Why are we drilling a well?
To provide water supply for the future. Regulators, specifically South Florida Water Management District, require that future water supply needs be met by using water from this deep and brackick auqifer.
Since it’s a well…how deep will it be?
Approximately 1,500 feet below land surface. Most of the drilling and development work will be done by June 2009. It may be July 2009 before the site is fully restored.
What will it look like from the road?
After the well, electrical, and above grade piping are completed, we will install a coated chain link fence around it and a hedge around the outside of that fence. Inside the fence, for all practical purposes shielded from view, will be a concrete slab; a large diameter (16-inch or so) ductile iron pipe extending upward to a height of about 6 ft., running parallel to the ground for about 15 ft. then re-entering the ground; a meter, valves and fittings on that pipe; and a few electrical panels. Passersby will see little if any of this through or over the top of the hedge once it grows in.