The city of Venice took the first step toward improving persistent flooding issues in the Golden Beach neighborhood on Oct. 28, when it purchased a drainage easement to an undeveloped quarter-acre lot on Flamingo Ditch.

Purchase of the lot, which will be used to improve the retention capacity of Flamingo Ditch, as well as a location for real-time water-level monitoring of the drainage outfall, was one of several recommendations made by Coastal Protection Engineering in a feasibility study on drainage improvements for Flamingo Ditch.

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