Reconnecting McCoys Creek with the St. Johns River on Thursday was not as dramatic as Charlton Heston’s cinematic parting of the Red Sea in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments.
Instead, the removal of a steel plate between the muddy waters of both allowed the waterway to quietly rejoin the St. Johns River after its channel was moved east after decades of flowing under a nearby — but long gone — parking lot.
The city called the project the “McCoys Creek Outfall Realignment.” McCoys Creek used to flood the Mixon Town community before passing through Lackawanna and Brooklyn. The creek was rerouted in earlier phases of a six-year city project to restore it to a more natural state that was less flood-prone…