Legal moves by Florida’s top wildlife official for the right to develop submerged land he owns in the Lake Worth Lagoon drew blistering criticism from two dozen people at a meeting Friday of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)....
Florida's top appointed protector of wildlife wants to make millions by dredging up and filling in acres of the wildlife-filled Lake Worth Lagoon. Rodney Barreto, an influential lobbyist who chairs the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is pressing legal action to let his company fill, dredge and build hundreds of condos and houses on mostly submerged land off Singer Island. The company, Government Lot 1, LLC, based in Coral Gables, seeks to reopen and expand upon a 1990 circuit court order that gave previous owners the right to fill but not dredge the 19-acre site off Singer Island without requiring permits...
By Kimberly Miller Courtesy of Palm Beach Post A year-long study on the ability of a muck-collecting pit to keep sediment from choking the Lake Worth Lagoon found mixed results, leaving the embattled Palm Beach County estuary in a state of status quo. It was the first assessment of a unique experiment that began in 2007 to divert harmful sediments flowing from Lake Okeechobee and the watershed into an up to 18-foot deep gash at the bottom of the C-51 Canal – a firehose that when discharged can cover lagoon oysters and paddle grass in dark goo. The $77,000 study, contracted by the South...
A recent letter to the editor bemoaned the town of Palm Beach’s decision to increase parking rates along Worth Avenue. The writer’s opinion is that this will cause him and his wife, and many others, to stop going there. This was popular intuition in the 1970s and early '80s when urban dwellers and retail establishments fled to suburban housing developments and shopping malls....
An experiment to slow ecological Armageddon in the Lake Worth Lagoon was started in 2007 when thousands of pounds of licorice-colored goo was scraped from the depths of the C-51 canal to create a slime trap....