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Sarasota News Leader November 1, 2013 Page 103 Siesta Seen After a three-hour meeting on the morning of Oct. 29, he had lots of details. First, Florida Power & Light Co. had employees working on the site between midnight and 8 a.m. on Oct. 28 to locate a transformer and take the necessary steps for power to be supplied to electric pumps that will dewater the area where the new 1-acre stormwater pond will be located. Two electric pumps will be used for that work, Boudreau said, so the contractor had employees taking steps this week to run electrical wire from the FPL power source to the pumps and burying the lines. One pump already has been delivered, he added, and the other is expected to come in by the end of this week. "We're actually waiting on the switches," he noted, before the dewatering can begin. The target date to have the pumps up and running is Nov. 4, A schematic shows the location of a new 3,000-foot pipeline leading from the stormwater site into the Gulf of Mexico. Water removed from the project area will be pumped into that pipeline after sediment is allowed to settle out of it, the project manager says. Image courtesy Sarasota County