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Sarasota News Leader October 25, 2013 Page 114 Siesta Seen pumps will need to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, until the dewatering is completed. Staff will do what it can to attenuate the noise, he wrote. Commissioner Nora Patterson — who lives on Siesta — wrote back, "Since it has now stopped raining is all this really necessary?" Brownman responded, "The nature of the project is such that due to the depth the pond has to be dug to [15 feet], the contractor will continuously encounter a lot of tidally influenced groundwater that will need to [be] removed [— plus any residual from rainfall events —] to be able to excavate to the bottom depth with least amount of interruption from groundwater and runoff. The first effort will be the most substantial, to remove the surface water contained on the site." A Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. drawing shows the site of the new stormwater pond on property next to Siesta Public Beach. Image courtesy Sarasota County