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Neighborhoods along Phillippi Creek urge county to dredge after repeated storm flooding
Summary
Dozens of residents told commissioners that sandbars and silt from recent storms have repeatedly flooded homes and blocked channels on Phillippi Creek, and urged county funding and a dredging program to restore flow and reduce future storm surge damage.
Residents living along Phillippi Creek pressed the Sarasota County Commission on Jan. 15 to fund dredging and restore the creek’s outflow after three successive storms—Debbie, Helene and Milton—left sandbars and silt deposits that community members say repeatedly flooded homes.
Jim McWhorter, who said he has lived on Phillippi Creek for more than 50 years, told the commission that roughly 100 homes along…
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