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Sarasota News Leader September 27, 2013 Page 31 that the county would restore the complex's Fastiggi explained that for many years, stormbeach property. water flowed along the north side of the Gulf & Bay Club property into a swale that ran In June, Fastiggi told the board, the contractor "unwittingly pumped water into a swale be- across Siesta Public Beach and then into the tween our two properties, and it had flooded Gulf of Mexico. Records of that swale's existence go back at least to 1995, he added. our beach area." More than 3 acres of beach that belongs to HEALTH RISKS the Gulf & Bay Club is covered "with a brown "What we are most concerned about are the mucky substance," Fastiggi pointed out. "With solids, the sediment that's running onto the each rain, we get more of it." property and the composition of the solids," Last week, before the heavy downpours be- Fastiggi told the County Commission. gan, he continued, the complex's 850-foot wide beach was flooded all the way down to On Sept. 13, he emailed Patterson the preliminary results "of the most recent water samples the Jamaica Royale condominiums. The stained sand in front of the Gulf & Bay Club contrasts with the white public beach area. Photo courtesy Sarasota County