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Sarasota News Leader August 23, 2013 Page 92 Siesta Seen & Bay Club (beach side) property? It's a com- dunes to enjoy the beach must walk through plete disaster. (accumulated) standing scum water 6-8 inches deep. It smells and attracts bird waste. De"I respectfully request your immediate attenspite sending the occasional County official to tion [all the italics are the writer's emphasis] test the new and accumulated pond water for to rectify the lack of county preparation and mosquito larva, the dirty water is a complete contractor neglect to mitigate project water health hazard. Moreover, this total oversight run-off from county property onto the beach by the county (and its contractors) has now [in] front of residential property. The contracallowed significant soiled water to taint the tors (removing brush, trees, etc. to install the beautiful white sand and the magnitude of the new retention pond) are piping … water via drainage effects has actually begun to change a diesel pump directly westward (beach side) the contour of the beach." and it's draining directly from county property (project construction area) to the front The owner added, "If a project of this magnifootage of Gulf & Bay beach dunes. The result tude was being managed by a residential propis profound!!! Residents wanting to cross the erty owner and they affected their neighbor Gulf & Bay Club condominium towers rise in the background of the site where the stormwater retention pond will be built near Siesta Public Beach. Photo by Rachel Hackney