Assessment nearly complete for Doughboy Dump, staff says

Speaker 1, a staff member, told attendees that the environmental assessment of Doughboy Dump and several nearby ash disposal sites in Jacksonville is nearly complete and that the city will put the work out for bid as a design-build project after completing a hydraulic evaluation.

The assessment aims to determine whether contamination in buried ash is migrating from groundwater into surface water and the St. Johns River system. "If we don't have any [groundwater-to-surface-water connection], then all I have to do is put a clay cap here," Speaker 1 said. "If I do have a true groundwater, the surface water connection with respect to impacts, then I'm probably gonna have to put an actual mechanical wall there to prevent migration from the waste into the river system." Speaker 1 also said the procurement will follow once the hydraulic evaluation is complete:…