The town of Fort Myers Beach is considering three locations for its pump out boat, which is the boat that services the waste from the mooring field boats. Those 3 locations are canals on Virginia Avenue, Chapel Street and at Bay Oaks.
Town staff plans to reach out to residents near all three locations, show them the plan, with the hope that one location can be chosen soon. Residents that live around the area will be notified and called in for a mini town hall meeting so they can fully explain what would take place if one of the three locations are chosen.
Town of Fort Myers Beach Environmental Project Manager Chadd Chustz says there is no smell when the boat is emptied out and it’s not a noisy process. “Peristaltic pumps are not noisy. They have the same equipment at diversified and Pink Shell.”
We asked Chustz how often the boat would be pumped out in the neighborhood chosen, if one of the three finalists are chosen. “The routine would be to pump the black water out when docking the pump out vessel, after a pump out, weekly on average. We would want to minimize black water being stored while docked. The holding tank is treated after pumping it out.”
The pump-out vessel would then be docked in the location chosen in on a boat lift.
The Matanzas Pass Mooring field is permitted for 89 mooring systems. There are currently 77 balls operational.
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