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Resident urges enforcement of golf-course waterway maintenance after neighborhood flooding

5774755 · August 19, 2025
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A Fairway Forest resident told commissioners that sediment and overgrowth in a golf-course waterway contributed to street and home flooding and urged the county to enforce maintenance requirements recorded in letters to the golf course.

At the Aug. 19 Pinellas County commission meeting, resident Ralph Hoffman of Fairway Forest, speaking on behalf of Tarpon Lake Village Homeowners Association, told commissioners his neighborhood suffered road flooding during recent storms and that two homes, including his, flooded during Hurricane Milton.

Hoffman said the community — developed in the early 1980s near the Lensbrook Golf Course — reported stormwater problems to…

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