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Sarasota News Leader October 11, 2013 Page 112 Siesta Seen This plan also seems to be the cheapest rem- recorded at Sarasota-Bradenton International edy for the situation, Boudreau indicated, as Airport, 6.9 inches of rain fell from Sept. 23 well as the most effective one. through the late afternoon of Sept. 25. "Dewatering to this extent was not in the original contract," he pointed out to the approximately 20 people present for the SKA meeting. However, Boudreau noted, no one had anticipated how rainy September would be. Patterson told me after the meeting she was not sure whether measures taken at the site in response to the heavy rainfall would end up making the project more expensive. The contract the County Commission awarded Forsberg on April 23 was for $4,550,683.28 — about three times the $1.5 million estimate Sarasota County Commissioner Nora the consulting firms that designed it had figPatterson, who was a guest at the meeting, ured on before the project went out for bid. added that in one 24-hour period, 3 inches of rain fell. According to National Oceanic and Patterson was hopeful no additional county Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data funds would be required. Smaller ponds constructed to allow the dewatering of the stormwater retention pond are brimming with rainwater on Oct. 3. Photo by Rachel Hackney