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Monroe County Presents $1 Million Check To Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District
Monroe County Presents $1 Million Check To Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District
KEY LARGO – Mon
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Good article, but it leaves out some very important underlying facts. The Key Largo sewer project serves 14,000 EDU’s. One EDU is equivalent to a single-family home in terms of the amount of wastewater produced. The sewer projects in the other unincorporated areas combined also serve 14,000 EDU’s.
Key Largo is unincorporated and is the second largest generator of the sales tax in the Florida Keys. Yet they received $126 million less from that sales tax to build the sewer project. As a result Key Largo citizens pay $26 million more for their sewer project. As you can imagine this has been a financial strain on this low-moderate income area.
You might be wondering why the BOCC would do this. My only theory is that Key Largo is served by the “wrong” special district. The FKAA provides wastewater service to the other unincorporated areas at extremely inflated costs. Key Largo is served by the Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District and the project came in under budget.
The county did everything they could to not only deprive Key Largo of local sales tax money but also of state and federal money as well. This swap agreement is the result of a lot of hard work by Key Largo and its allies. The county fought it every step of the way.
Just wanted to put that out there, because all this “kissy-face” on the county’s part is totally fake. Believe me, if it was up to them, Key Largo would have gotten $0 in state money. There’s no “continuing commitment” to the Upper Keys. Unless its the continuing commitment to lie, cheat and steal.