h2. District, County Cooperate to Help Manage and Treat Stormwater
Residents of the Garden Grove neighborhood in the Cypress Gardens area will see less flooding and better water quality in nearby lakes thanks to a project funded by Polk County and the "Southwest Florida Water Management District's(Southwest Florida Water Management District)":/ "Governing Board(Governing Board)":/about/governingboard.
Construction began this fall on the project, which will help reduce flooding and improve water quality in the Garden Grove subdivision near Lake Florence. The project will improve the existing stormwater management system, which must accommodate runoff from an 80-acre drainage basin. Workers will add a gravity pipe system, which will route the stormwater to a new 2.5-acre stormwater pond.
When the project is complete, polluted runoff will enter the pond from the western portion of the neighborhood, allowing some of the pollutants to settle. Water leaving the pond will enter an existing wetland system, filtering out more pollutants, then flow to the Lake Florence outfall ditch.
The $600,000 project should take six months to complete. Polk County funded $400,000 of the project's cost, with the District's Peace River Basin Board supplying the rest.
Residents of the Garden Grove neighborhood in the Cypress Gardens area will see less flooding and better water quality in nearby lakes thanks to a project funded by Polk County and the "Southwest Florida Water Management District's(Southwest Florida Water Management District)":/ "Governing Board(Governing Board)":/about/governingboard.
Construction began this fall on the project, which will help reduce flooding and improve water quality in the Garden Grove subdivision near Lake Florence. The project will improve the existing stormwater management system, which must accommodate runoff from an 80-acre drainage basin. Workers will add a gravity pipe system, which will route the stormwater to a new 2.5-acre stormwater pond.
When the project is complete, polluted runoff will enter the pond from the western portion of the neighborhood, allowing some of the pollutants to settle. Water leaving the pond will enter an existing wetland system, filtering out more pollutants, then flow to the Lake Florence outfall ditch.
The $600,000 project should take six months to complete. Polk County funded $400,000 of the project's cost, with the District's Peace River Basin Board supplying the rest.