To: Doug Underhill, Escambia FL County Commissioner
Save Bayou Chico
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Petition To stop the development of Jackson’s Lakes Diversion & Wakeboard Park, which jeopardizes a Bayou Chico water quality restoration effort that will, after 40 years, remove Bayou Chico from the 303D Impaired Body of Waters list.
Why is this important?
We, the citizens of Escambia County, demand that the Commissioners of Escambia County and the RESTORE Committee Members do not support the development of the Clark Sand Pit property for any use other than what was agreed upon in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the North West Florida Water Management District (NWFWMD) and Escambia County. And that the Clark Sand Pit not be developed for a Wakeboard Park or other recreational use for the following reasons:
a. The north lake is the only lake in the Clark Sand Pit that may be used for Bayou Chico Sediment.
b. If the Clark Sand Pit is developed for recreational use, Bayou Chico sediment will not be permitted in the Pit and the restoration of Bayou Chico will become too costly to fund.
c. Escambia County agreed to use the Clark Sand Pit for Bayou Chico dredge sediment and storm water retention as its primary use. See MOU with NWFWMD.
d. Recreational use of the Clark Sand Pit jeopardizes the restoration of Bayou Chico and is not in the best interest of the home owners and businesses within the Bayou Chico water shed district comprising of over 24,000 privately owned business and residential land partials.