Stormwater, GoPasco transit, horse hurricane safety announcements
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The county’s agenda for Planning Commission, Sep 21, 2023
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They serve, as I did, to fight for our freedoms. We here at GoPasco want to return the favor by serving you. GoPasco offers all active duty military and veterans unlimited free rides on our fixed-route buses. When you step on the bus, just show the driver one of these forms. Military ID card, DD Form 2, Valid VA card, V on your driver's license, or GoPasco Veteran ID. Go Pasco, where veterans ride free.
Roughly ninety thousand dogs in Pasco County create more than five tons of waste every year, When left on the ground, stormwater carries bacteria and nutrients from pet waste into waterways, causing algae blooms and unhealthy conditions for fish and other aquatic creatures. Polluted waters are also unsafe for swimming and recreation. Please do your part to keep Florida waters clean by disposing of your pets waste in the trash. For more information, contact Pasco County Department of Public Works at seven two seven eight three four three six one one.
One of the primary questions that we are often asked is, should I keep my horse indoors or outdoors during a hurricane? So if we have an impending storm coming, where is the best place to house these horses during that event? It depends a little bit on what type of housing you have available for your horses. But most of our horses do very well actually staying outdoors in a large paddock or pasture during a storm as long as you're securing some potential projectiles if you've got some
equipment or things around the pasture or outdoors that might be a danger to the horses. Just making sure that you're tying down or securing those items. Or removing those items and placing them somewhere safe where they can't become projectiles. Horses are really good at evading some of the worst weather. A lot of the times, if they're housed as small groups or larger herds in a pasture, they'll actually gather together and kind of just turn their hindquarters to the wind and the rain. Housing horses indoors is an option, but usually we only recommend that if
you know with your construction. Or your design of the barn if it's actually going to withstand hurricane force winds. What we get into trouble with is if horses end up getting trapped in a barn or housing structure that becomes damaged during a hurricane, again, that debris can cause injury or death, or it makes it harder to reach those horses and get them out after the storm has passed. So outdoor housing is perfectly fine, depends a little bit on your Situation and the type of pasture or paddock or type of barn that you have at your facility.
A lot of horses end up with eye injuries, and eye injuries are very serious in horses, and they cost a lot of money to treat and to care for, so we certainly want to try to avoid that. So sometimes owners can actually place a fly mask on the horse's face during that hurricane if those horses are going to be left outdoors. That's just how