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Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 172 • One Section
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Plans for Roosevelt Square surface
‘using the Right water for the right use ‘
Some JEA customers using reclaimed water
JEA has installed a reclaimed water system in areas of recent residential and commercial development.
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By Max Marbut Staff Writer There’s only so much of it, so you’ve got to make the most of it. When it comes to water, JEA takes that concept a step further. “It’s using the right water for the right use,” said Rob Zammataro, water and wastewater system planning manager. More than 107 million gallons of potable water (purified for drinking) are delivered each day to more than 330,000 commercial and residential customers. The water is drawn from 137 artesian wells drilled deep into the Floridan aquifer. It’s aerated to remove sulfur, disinfected in accordance with health standards and then tested for quality and safety at 37 treatment facilities before being delivered through 4,300 miles of pipes. After the water is used and goes down the drain, about 82 million gallons of water and solids are collected through the sanitary sewer system and sent to 11 wastewater treatment plants. That’s where the “right water for the right use” comes into play. Most of the 25 million gallons that don’t make it back to the system are used for watering lawns and other landscape irrigation. But you don’t really need to water your lawn with drinking water. To reduce the amount of potable water used for sprinklers, JEA offers customers in certain parts of its service area the opportunity to connect to a source of reclaimed water. The reclaimed water is delivered through a dedicated pipe system from treatment JEA continued on Page A-3
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Roosevelt Square’s owner appears to be contemplating another upgrade at the 55-year-old property that was redeveloped more than a decade ago. Two proposed site plans — one from the fall and another dated April — show Dewberry Capital Corp. is pursuing a vision for the Westside center. The vision coincides with the news Thursday that Belk Inc. is closing its 63,000-square-foot store at the Roosevelt Mall shopping center in January. Atlanta-based Dewberry has not commented about the plans, which are designed for potential retail tenants. The April plan indicates the Belk store will be removed and other shops built there, including a 35,000-square-foot Stein Mart. The Jacksonville-based company now occupies a smaller store within Roosevelt Square. Stein Mart investor relations Director Linda Tasseff referred questions to Dewberry. “It’s certainly our intention to stay in the center,” she said. Both plans show the existing retail square footage of about 228,000 square feet would be increased, possibly by more than 100,000 square feet. That total square footage wouldn’t be too different from the size of the original Roosevelt Mall that Dewberry Capital recast from an enclosed center to an open-air plaza. However, because the recent master plans differ, it appears Dewberry has not decided the precise increase. The major design change comes where the Belk store sits at 4535 Roosevelt Blvd. The older plan shows a potential theater while the new one shows the Stein Mart. Both included adjacent shops. Both plans also show the additional Mathis
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Rotary president: ‘We’re going to try new things’ Cooksey wants more members and more diversity
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Bryan Cooksey III Rotary Club of Jacksonville president
tary Academy at West Point. After earning a degree in nuclear engineering, he served as an officer with the 7th Infantry Division in Fort Ord, Calif., before coming home to Jacksonville in 1988 to work with his father and brothers at McCall. Cooksey and his brothers, David and John, took over management and operations in 2003
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when their father decided to step away from the business. Cooksey gave Rotary members and guests an overview of some of his goals for the club in the next year, including expanding membership. He was inspired to grow the club’s roster during his trip to Seoul, South Korea, in June for Rotary continued on Page A-2
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Following in his father’s footsteps. That’s a way to describe J. Bryan Cooksey III, who called the meeting of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville to order Monday for the first time as the organization’s president. His father, J. Bryan Cooksey Jr., served as the club’s president in 1989-90. Cooksey also followed in his father’s footsteps at the family business, McCall Service Inc. After graduating from Wolfson High School in 1979, Cooksey was appointed to the U.S. Mili-
It’s exciting to be in an organization that’s growing. I want ours to be a vibrant, leading club in the Rotary world.
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By Max Marbut Staff Writer
Rotary Club of Jacksonville President J. Bryan Cooksey III, left, and William Hoang, president of Downtown Rotaract.
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