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Orange Beach sewer plant wrongly built on state property
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When the City of Orange Beach began construction on its current sewer plant in 2008, the plan was to put it on a 40-acre parcel near the city Sportsplex and east of Powerline Road.
According to Orange Beach Coastal Resources Director Phillip West, a few years later — the summer of 2010, he guesses — Greg Lein of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources discovered something was amiss with the location. He brought it to the attention of Barnett Lawley, conservation commissioner at the time.
“The whole thing’s on state land,” West said. “We’ve got title to the 40 acres next to the Sportsplex and we’ve not got title to the 40 where the sewer plant is.”
Exactly how did a $23 million sewer plant for the city end up on Gulf State Park property?
Read more: https://lagniappemobile.com/orange-beach-sewer-plant-wrongly-built-state-property/