Smoke testing is not complicated. You pump smoke into a sewer line, you watch where it comes out, and you find the cracks before the ground finds them for you. It is cheap. It is routine. It is the kind of thing a city does quietly, every year, so nobody ever has to talk about it.
Palm Coast stopped.
Not slowed down. Stopped. And now the city is spending real money just to figure out how far behind it fell.
On July 7th, council signed off on an engineering contract that includes roughly six hundred grand just to plan the catch-up. Not to fix anything yet. Just to plan it.
Somebody kept the tax rate looking good those years. Give them that.
Alfin. Danko. Klufas.
Thanks, guys.
The Jacobs Engineering Master Services Agreement. Approved 5-0 on July 7, 2026. $4.7 million, not-to-exceed. Task 6 — $623,540 — is the Inflow and Infiltration mitigation plan. It does not pay for a single smoke test.