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

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

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

The county applied for the permit to dredge the channel in 11 separate segments, hoping for a fast-track of the review. But ...

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

In March, Sarasota County commissioners directed staff to pursue an emergency dredging project for Phillippi Creek. It’s ...

Dredging is rare for Phillippi Creek dredging. Anderson detailed that the county's 2001 ordinance established a resident-initiated petition-driven process for dredging services.

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

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.

Sarasota County plans to spend $75 million in hurricane recovery grants on dredging Phillippi Creek and other local waterways to prevent flooding.

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