Jack Mariano that goes all the way down there. was one that is an integral part as far as water quality goes. That would actually take stormwater out into the Gulf and create more flow into the Gulf. The other channels to above would help with water quality substantially. And Commissioner Weightmany times, and you made the comment before, as far as I am okay to do dredging with with stormwater funds and and to making sure we are dredging these canals out there, they are going to help with the with stormwater. And the Commission supported step uh the state expenditure plan for part three for the Port Ritchie outfall. Everybody's seen the map and I want to say staff is doing a phenomenal job tying those in together working with Swift Mud. Uh in the meeting we had with David Deloche, the mayor, the manager, and our team, we talked very clearly about how the water quality would be affected and the stormwater benefits to it. Now when the presentation was done with Swift Mud from what I understand, we broke it into parts. You can break it down, you can combine it together. The benefit was probably doing one large project
Jack Mariano well. Instead of running down this narrow little walkway, um the narrow little uh culvert that then it has to go out to another canal down to the south. Now we can go there, treat the water so it's a clean project, treats your water well so the water goes into the Gulf. Cleaner and better all the way down.
Jack Mariano all together. Having said that. Something when I look at the narrative That's being submitted to Treasury. It talks about the opening as far as having 25 severely impacted water bodies and finger canals within the city limits. Channels fourteen through eighteen will directly connect into a stormwater pond along Old Post Road. Has a connection and can be a potential connection that will definitely help with the stormwater flow. It will also help the water. With all the properties on there, which there's been a lot of willingness for people to donate into it. dredge out those canals, which will help with water quality, which is what this thing's all about. So knowing that we are looking at twenty-five civilian impacted channels, we've got a project that abuts working with Swift MUD right now to it. And even if we can't use it with the stormwater benefit, the water quality benefit is there. And that should be looked at before we pick make this thing going forward. Um when you look at the Waterley Overlay District,
Jack Mariano We can take a major project and get this thing all the way done and save Let's say it's eight hundred homes there, but there's even another two or three hundred uh homes around it that are all gonna benefit from it. So that overview, guys.