Sarasota News Leader
September 13, 2013
Siesta Key Association President Catherine
Luckner said during that organization's Sept.
5 meeting that representatives of the Florida
Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
(FWC) told her the island has had 30 inches
of rain since late June.
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CONDO RESIDENTS' COMPLAINTS
The site of the new retention pond is at the
end point of the upstream drainage system on
that part of Siesta Key, Boudreau explained,
which has exacerbated the rainwater pooling
effect.
"We have had an exorbitant amount of rain Residents and the manager of the Gulf & Bay
this season," Boudreau agreed.
Club condominium complex, adjacent to the
"Way out of the ordinary," is how Curtis Smith, stormwater project site, complained to Comanother manager of the stormwater project, missioner Nora Patterson about the pumpcharacterized it during an interview with the ing of water from the site before the work
News Leader on Sept. 11. "We plan for how to stopped.
handle water," Smith said, "but you plan for Smith said county staff have strived to deterwhat you can reasonably expect."
mine the best way to handle those complaints.
A graphic shows plans for vegetation mitigation after the Beach Road Drainage Project has been completed on Siesta Key. Image courtesy Sarasota County
