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Steve@PalmerRanch.net

Good morning.

We are trying to avoid an issue with stormwater run-off into Catfish Creek. The area in question is the exit culvert from the large industrial lake behind Clark Center Avenue (Sarasota, FL) into Catfish Creek which is all county property. Just outside the culvert, into the beginning of the creek, there is so much build up of silt from the lake, that it is effecting the drainage ability of the creek and allowing too much water to enter the creek instead of being mitigated by a deeper channel to where our beneficial vegetation can work its magic. We have an Aquatic conservation team treating the area but they are unable to get the proper equipment in there due to the shallow nature of the creek at the culvert inlet. I was hoping that we could get the creek 'area' dredged by the county, as per the Sarasota County Private Stormwater Conveyance Maintenance Ordinance." (Ord. No. 99-050, § 2, 7-14-1999) so as to avoid any future issues. It isn't a large area that would need the dredging; perhaps 100' in length at most to where the silt is a non factor in the creek.