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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 3/ISSUE 31
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
SFWMD to swap Palm City land with county
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2015
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County to build new stormwater treatment area to clean All American Ditch Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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PALM CITY — Some of the dirtiest water flowing into the St. Lucie River comes from Palm City, but that could change after some horse trading between the South Florida Water Management District and Martin County. “All American Ditch has long been recognized as one of the most polluted tributaries to the St. Lucie River,” Deborah Drum, the county’s manager of ecosystem restoration, said. At a recent meeting, the district’s governing board voted to swap Martin County 38 acres it owns along Mapp Road for the county’s share of Allapattah Flats alongside Southwest Martin Highway near Indiantown. The Mapp property is just south of Piper’s Landing. The county aims to construct a stormwater treatment area on the Mapp property. As it is, the
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer U. S. Army and Air Force veteran Morton Goode greets Jeannette Mazzella of Palm City while being escorted by Elisabeth Glynn, also of Palm City, through the gauntlet of supporters that came to greet the vets returning from Honor Flight at Palm Beach International Airport. Honor Flight brings veterans to Washington, D.C., to see the monuments built in their honor for the wars in which they fought.
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