Protesting residents close to the city’s Yellow Fever Creek Preserve were told Wednesday that the potable and irrigation water storage and pumping facility to be constructed there has a design that is nearly completed, making it a costly project to stop now.
Utilities Director Jeff Pearson said in the wake of resident protests at the Cape Coral City Council meeting that the master plan for the park was adopted on Dec. 7, 2022, and predates that by many years. solar collector water heater
“We were originally going to put it along Del Prado, but that site was taken to extend a road,” he said, “so we looked at the properties in that area. We have been designing the reclaimed and potable water system around that site. All the infrastructure is in place.”
A comprehensive plan was established in 1989 for the park, which is nearly 200-acres with a primary use for passive recreation and nature study.
The Public Works Department and the Utilities Department for the city identified a portion of the park as an “ideal site” for an irrigation and potable water storage and pumping facility, which would have two booster stations, two potable water storage tanks, two reclaimed water storage tanks and a 4,375 square foot storage building.
Pearson said the design is currently at 90%.
“My department has literally billions of dollars of CIP projects on the horizon. We work very hard to keep cost at a minimal and be good stewards with limited rate payer dollars,” he said. “By removing this project this far along would be extremely costly to ratepayers and all of our citizens.”
The project is not new, as they have had town halls and answered questions, Pearson said. He said now that they are almost able to do construction on the site there are some objections, which he understands.
“Drinking water and reclaimed water is extremely important. This site helps us continue our worldclass reclaimed water service,” he said.
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