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Sarasota News Leader October 11, 2013 Page 111 Siesta Seen sent me an email on Oct. 4 saying he was incorrect in telling members of the Siesta Key Village Association (SKVA) on Oct. 1 that the completion of the work would lead to less water standing on Beach Road during torrential downpours. "The Beach Road Drainage project is not a flood control project, but a water quality project," he wrote in the email. A series of ponds have been constructed, he pointed out, so the contractor — Forsberg Construction Inc. of Punta Gorda — can pump the water from one to the next. That will allow the sediment to settle out and enable the ultraviolet light from the sun to lower the unhealthful levels of bacteria before the water can be directed into the Gulf of Mexico through the new 3,000-foot pipeline that is As of Oct. 4, the stormwater work had been part of the project, he added. on hold for three weeks, Boudreau told SKA members at their monthly meeting. "There's Any bacteria of a harmful nature that might no place to put this water [standing on the be left in the water would be diffused once site] until we can get the turbidity out of it it combined with saltwater in the gulf, and the bacteria out of it," he added. Boudreau said. Heavy equipment sits idle under cloudy skies at the stormwater site next to the Siesta Fire Station. Photo by Rachel Hackney