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Sarasota News Leader September 27, 2013 Page 34 — should wash his feet in the Gulf of Mexico afterward. A person with an open wound on a foot would be advised to avoid such areas and find another route to the gulf, he said. said. "It was pretty clear that the old pattern of drainage has been disrupted by the work that has been done, and I assume that it will be restored." COUNTY ACTION However, the rainfall even prior to this week's downpours put the project on hold, she pointed out — a fact county Project Manager Alex Boudreau explained to the News Leader earlier this month. It is impossible to build the new 1-acre retention pond on the site without pumping water out of the area, Patterson noted, "which is a fairly ludicrous attempt at this point." Following Fastiggi's remarks, Patterson told her colleagues that she and county staff members, along with a consultant from Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. — one of the firms that designed the new Beach Road stormwater project — met at the site about a month ago to survey the conditions. "We also walked on the Gulf & Bay property," she A Kimley-Horn and Associates engineering diagram shows the location of the Siesta stormwater project next to the public beach. Image courtesy Sarasota County