MANASOTA & PEACE RIVER BBDs Meeting Notebook 10-21-09.docx

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Peace River Facility Expansion
Construction continues on the facility and is considered 96 percent complete. The project appears to be on schedule for
completion well ahead of the March 2010 Final Completion of Construction deadline. Current activities include upgrading
the high service pumps in the pump building, and addressing punch list items.
It the request of the Office of Governor Charlie Crist, the District has been communicating regularly with the cooperator
concerning the Governor's Accelerate Florida initiative to stimulate Florida's economy. An information request was sent
to the cooperator on October 15, 2008. District staff followed up with an email and phone call regarding the cooperator's
efforts to accelerate the project. The cooperator responded, "PRMRWSA and their construction subcontractors have
agreed and executed contracts with early completion incentives. The District has allocated $8,205,398 in FY2009 funding
toward this project to assist meeting this accelerated schedule. This project met its accelerated schedule milestone - the
new facilities have been used to treat over 1.5 billion gallons of water."
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