A Sarasota County flood project was halted by federal regulators. Public Works Director Spencer Anderson has caught much of the ensuing heat.

Imagine growing up along the shores of Sarasota’s Phillippi Creek, back in the more bucolic 1950s and ’60s, in a house ...

For years, homeowners living near Phillippi Creek warned Sarasota County the sediment-choked waterway needed dredging, then ...

Sarasota County's bid for an emergency dredging project on Phillippi Creek was denied by federal officials; advocates say ...

Sarasota County's bid for an emergency dredging project on Phillippi Creek was denied by federal officials; advocates say there is a lack of urgency.

But on June 24, Phillippi Creek dredging advocates learned that the Corps had denied the emergency permit. Instead, the county will have to wait for a more extensive six- to eight-month federal ...

Residents discovered a memo from the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers that appears to show Sarasota County could get around ...

Sarasota County has outlined plans to spend $75 million to dredge local waterways, but flooded residents are wondering why it wasn't done before.

Hurricane season is here, yet one project many Sarasota residents anticipated to help cur flooding this year won't be ...

SARASOTA COUNTY (WFLA) — In March, Sarasota County commissioners directed staff to pursue an emergency dredging project for Phillippi Creek. It’s something residents who live along the creek, who ...

We live on Phillippi Creek, just north of Bee Ridge Road. We have lived in this particular house since 1998 and on the creek since 1979.Our house had 6 inches of creek water in it as a result of ...

Sarasota County commissioners have made clear at that the dredging of Phillippi Creek is at the top of their hurricane recovery checklist.