BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
KEYSTONE HEIGHTS, March 25, 2022— The executive director of the Lake Region Development Corporation said the Black Creek Water Resource Development Project is still on track to break ground in August and should be operational two years later.
Scott Kornegay said during the March 24 meeting of a Clay Chamber group in Keystone Heights that the St. Johns Water Management District is awaiting one last permit from the Army Corps of Engineers before proceeding with bidding.
When complete the 17-mile pipeline will pump up to 10 million gallons of water a day from Black Creek to a recharge area in southern Camp Blanding.
“Twenty-four months from the time they start digging,” he said, “we should be pulling water from the south prong of Black Creek into Lake Brooklyn.”
