SARASOTA, Fla. (WFLA) — Multiple Sarasota residents showed up to a budget workshop meeting on Tuesday to express their concerns and frustrations surrounding flooding near Phillippi Creek and other areas.
Earlier this week, an emergency dredging project permit was denied by the Army Corps of Engineers, in part, due to the scale of the project. County officials said the request is now moving through a standard permitting process, which would likely lead to a 2026 start date for the dredging work.
“I am still not living in my home, and I had 32 inches of water from Debby. I had water from the other two storms, but Debby was the true issue and that wasn’t from surge, that was from conveyance of water being held up in a creek that was backed up, or as I like to refer to it, a ditch that wasn’t maintained,” homeowner Jacob Crabtree said…