Work has started on a $1.3 million water control system near Page Field. The project aims to stop flooding in Island Park. Workers will add new controls to the Ten Mile Canal to manage water before storms hit the Florida Gulf Coast.
“What we want to do is replace it with an operable weir where we can, before a storm, lower water levels, let water out and create storage behind that so that when the storm does come, we have less water going downstream at the time,” Phil Gillogly, operations manager for Lee County Natural Resources, said, according to Gulf Coast News.
The state approved money for the work. The project will take 18 months. New gates will control water flow and create more storage space north of Island Park…