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 public work's director said there is a plan and funds ready for dredging, but the U.S Army Corps of Engineers ...

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

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

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 ...

Phillippi Creek itself is one of Sarasota County's central arteries. It stretches from Little Sarasota Bay, through the Mennonite communities off Beneva Road, and southeast past Interstate 75.

The hopes of Phillippi Creek advocates to have any lowering of the stream bed completed before hurricane season begins in earnest are pretty much dead. They were not happy with the news.

Sarasota County continues to work through scheduled maintenance while addressing emergency repairs throughout the stormwater ...

Sarasota County's biggest priority as hurricane recovery efforts proceed will be dredging Phillippi Creek to help prevent future flooding, and it has a huge infusion of cash expected to pay for it ...