South Indian River Water Control District urges Solid Waste Authority to help repair alleged collection-related damage

Seth Bain, an attorney for the South Indian River Water Control District, told the Palm Beach County Solid Waste Authority board during a public-comment period that the district has documented widespread damage to roads, swales and canals that it attributes to SWA collection operations and asked the authority to help repair the most serious sites.

Bain said the district’s engineers cataloged 1,196 damaged sites, estimated the missing material at roughly 764 cubic yards of soil and about 4,600 square yards of sod, and identified 120 sites as “major” damage. He said the engineers estimate repairing the 120 major sites would require about $70,000 for materials and labor and asked the authority to direct staff to work with the district to share repair costs and to develop an operations plan to prevent repeat damage. “The SWA collections have caused extensive, pervasive,…