Notes: ECUA 5.21.08 – Walker was there

The May 21 ECUA Citizen’s Advisory Committee meeting opened with a short member forum and ended with an informative update about the replacement of the…

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ECUA spins dropping lawsuit

I love the title and subtitle of this PNJ article: Landfill lawsuit trashed – Moves Escambia closer to countywide curbside recycling . ECUA dropped the…

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Buzz: ECUA drops suit

We received a call today that Emerald Coast Utility Authority has dropped its lawsuit against Escambia County over being required to use the Perdido Key…

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Find Larry Walker

We are running a contest on IN Your Head Radio. Find the absent ECUA board member Larry Walker who missed the vote on countywide curbside…

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Perkins, Benson heroes

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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:…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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