ECUA board members Dale Perkins and Lois Benson did vote for the mandatory recycling. They listened to the voters and took strong stands on the issue. Please email them and let them…
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PYP, LEAP win on curbside recycling
The Pensacola Young Professionals and Leadership Pensacola Class of 2008 won big yesterday when the ECUA board voted for a compromise measure that would allow voluntary curbside recycling. It wasn’t complete victory…
ECUA figures out recycling
Emerald Coast Utilities Authority board will vote Thursday on whether to offer curbside recycling to its 62,500 residential customers in its garbage pickup area. Two board members, Elvin McCrovey and Larry Walker…
302 Million Dollar Questions
How much of the $302 million for ECUA project to relocate the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant will go to local contractors? Will out-of-town companies be required to use a percentage of…
How sad
The News Journal lets groups post articles to its website. There is one from Friends of the Community Maritime Park entitled “Promise made, promise kept: The Main Street wastewater treatment plant will…
Please be consistent, Mark
In his column today, Mark O’Brien praises the relocation of the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant. Call me crazy, but I feel optimistic about Greater Pensacola’s economy. The official ground-breaking takes place…
No more sewage dumping in bays or sound
ECUA may have had to relocate the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant if a bill that is currently in the Florida Senate becomes law. The utility will definitely have to stop pumping…
ECUA blocking curbside recycling
Everything with Emerald Coast Utility Authority is a negotiation. Cleaning up the water that it supplied the to Gulf Breeze in the 1990s; the IP pipeline to clean up Perdido Bay; Relocation…
Recycling hot
Expect recycling to heat up in the Pensacola area. Our cover story (Trash Talk) frames the issue and the players. The Pensacola City Council and Escambia County Commission will discuss it at…
Sorrell may leave ECUA
Stephen Sorrell, executive director of the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority, is a finalist to manage the nation’s largest desalination plant. The plant recently has passed a final round of testing and is…
Main St. Plant relocation should be ok, too
While the PNJ mentions that the relocation of the Main Street Sewage Treatment plant may be in jeopardy because of the Florida Supreme Court Ruling (Ruling may affect park plan), that plan…
What is the ECSO budget
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office proposed budget for 2007-08 can not be found anywhere online. From the Escambia County website we can learn that from the general fund ECSO gets $79,700,000 plus…
NAS does what ECUA should have done
The Monday edition of the News Journal has an article on how NAS Pensacola decided to forego building a new wastewater treatment plant on the base after Hurricane Ivan. They realized how…
A bunch of garbage
The Pensacola City Council will vote on Thursday to raise its garbage pick-up fees. The monthly rate will increase $2.35 from $19.85 to $22.20 and a $1.30 fuel surcharge will be added…
IN letter dead wrong on ECUA
From Jim McClellan: Rick, the letter in this week’s IN regarding Steve Sorrell was way wrong. I’m going to do a letter for next week, but I would appreciate it if you…
County confirms
My sources inside Escambia County confirmed that Main St. Plant is a done deal. Kevin White will still vote against it, but ECUA director Steve Sorrell and Co. Administrator George Touart have…
Main St. Plant is done deal
ECUA board and its citizens advisory committee approved in principle the financing plan for the relocation of the Main St. Sewage Treatment Plant. They will vote 5-0 when the interlocal agreements are…
Talking Points 1/3/07
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Is the Main St. Plant vote by Co. Commission legal?
There is some question whether the Escambia Co. Commission has the right to force ECUA to enter into a 20 year contract with the county’s Perdido Landfill. ECUA is a government entity….
