Riviera Beach s aging water treatment plant continues to vex representatives from PepsiCo., an important employer in the city that has had to shut down operations to clean out a filtration system it uses to provide additional treatment to the city s water.
Emails obtained by The Palm Beach Post indicate PepsiCo. has reached out to City Councilman Tradrick McCoy and other city officials in an effort to resolve the problem, which officials stress has not threatened the safety of drinking water for residents.
So far, efforts to solve the problem have not been successful, as PepsiCo. is left with a type of lime sludge after it runs the city s treated water through the company s filtration system, emails show.
RIVIERA BEACH Turning Riviera Beach s waterfront into a sparkling municipal centerpiece has been a dream and challenge for city officials here for several years.
The first phase, with its blue-roofed, Bahamas-styled event center by the marina, opened in 2016. But it has stood pretty much by itself, set back from a broad, dockside esplanade of brick pavers and coiffed greenery, awaiting the rest of its promised accompaniment a $300 million Marina Village with new apartments, a hotel, garage, restaurants and shops along
with people and activity.
Now, as negotiators and Community Redevelopment Agency staff work behind the scenes, a new challenge has arisen for the City Council members, who sit as the CRA board of directors. A series of Atlanta Journal-Constitution articles from 2015 surfaced in the past two weeks that cast one of the main, tentatively selected developers in an unfavorable light.
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