Residents of Provence Bay, a mainland community of Spanish revival townhomes and villas a mile south of the 17th Street Bridge, are up in arms over the Florida Inland Navigation District’s plan to store 163,000 cubic yards of dredged muck in a huge earthen structure next door to their homes.
Less than a month ago, the residents were notified that FIND intends to dig a canal and construct a dredge material basin just south of their community to hold muck that will be removed from a stretch of the Intercoastal Waterway running from Grand Harbor down to the St. Lucie County line.
Homeowners say they fear construction noise and dust, foul smells from the muck that FIND plans to remove from the Intracoastal Waterway, toxic material, flooding, swarms of mosquitoes due to standing water, and reduced property values…