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One Panama City Beach community is doing away with septic tanks. That’s after the city approved a plan that would install a public sewage line.
All the new airport construction is causing runoff that is penalized by the Department of Environmental Protection. Those penalty funds are being used for improvement projects approved by the D.E.P.
Panama City Beach was approved to receive funding. City Leaders are deciding to move forward with a new sewage line. City managers say it could bring an end to a big problem on Grand Lagoon.
Al Davis has called South Lagoon Drive home for about 11 years. He says living on the water is great but it is not the same anymore.
“Since I moved here 11 years ago I can barely get my boat out,” Davis said.
Residue from several places, including waste from old septic tanks, started leaking into Grand Lagoon.
Panama City Beach City Manager Richard Jackson says when septic tanks are that close to a body of water, it can create poor conditions for the water.
So, community members decided to take action to fix the problem.
Davis is on the board of directors for “Friends of the Grand Lagoon.” He says they started campaigning to use some of the money from the fines at the airport to help improve the lagoon for the residents months ago.
Panama City Beach was approved by the E.P.A. to get that penalty funding for small projects. Thursday, city planners convinced the city council to adopt the plan that would fix Grand Lagoon.
Residents on South Lagoon Drive will be able to take advantage of a safer public sewage line. The new sewage system would affect about 80 to 90 homes. Hook up would be free, but line service would cost the homeowner.
The line fee would be the same monthly cost as other beach homeowners on the public system.
City manager Richard Jackson says the engineering department is unsure of the direct costs of the project now.
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