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Sarasota News Leader March 22, 2013 Page 49 county work that will be delayed by the real- $378,000 when it is ready to start on improvelocation of funding to cover the shortfall in ments at the Siesta Public Beach park. the stormwater project funds. Additionally, she said, the number of dump ���Make sure I have a big clear picture of where truck trips needed to remove the material this extra $3 million is coming from,��� Robin- would be reduced by 670. Likewise, she notson added. ed, 670 fewer dump truck loads would be required to bring fill onto the island for the park STOCKPILING THE DIRT project. Altogether, the key would see 1,340 In regard to the 26,000 cubic yards of spoil fewer dump truck trips for the projects. material that would result from excavating the new stormwater retention pond, East- The stockpile, which would be about 4 feet wood explained that if the County Commis- high, would be seeded for erosion control; it sion agreed to stockpiling about 10,000 cubic would cover about 2.5 acres. ���It���s really going yards of it for approximately one year next to to look more like a grass berm,��� Eastwood Beach Road, that would save the county about pointed out. Carolyn Eastwood/Photo by Rachel Hackney