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Safety Harbor pulls narrow dredging plan, moves toward comprehensive Mullet and Bishop creeks strategy
Summary
After public comments and earlier engineering work, the City Commission withdrew a single-site dredging item and directed staff to pursue a comprehensive approach to flood-prone Mullet and Bishop creeks, seek partner funding, provide monthly progress reports and formally contact state and federal representatives.
The Safety Harbor City Commission on Feb. 3 withdrew a narrowly focused dredging item for Mullet Creek and Bishop Creek and agreed to pursue a comprehensive stormwater plan, civic leaders said. Commissioners instructed staff to continue planning, add monthly status reports to commission meetings and prepare formal outreach to state and federal elected officials and the county to help secure funding.
The move comes after residents and longtime neighborhood volunteers pressed the commission for a larger approach. "You can't ask individual owners to come down here and start dredging the creeks," resident Tom Tracy told commissioners, saying homeowners associations lack the funds and expertise to fix extensive drainage failures that have repeatedly flooded streets and yards.
Why it matters: Commissioners and residents said piecemeal fixes would not address the scale of the drainage problems affecting multiple subdivisions. The record references…
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