Sarasota News Leader
June 14, 2013
ages stormwater issues within the city limits,
per an interlocal agreement — has asked the
Southwest Florida Water Management District
for the right to dredge the ditch, install sediment sumps and remove the vegetation.
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the bay and that the county doesn't even have
the right to the whole ditch property anyway.
Achim and Erika do not own the entire ditch,
and in the eyes of some they do not own any
of it, but they claim that a parcel of submerged
land in the inlet that they purchased in 2010
But Achim and Erika are vigorously opposed in fact includes a section of the ditch. They
to the project, insisting that it won't ease the bought the submerged land, and another nearflooding, that it will degrade water quality in by parcel, as a place to moor their sailboat.
An aerial view shows the canal.
