Editor:

Back in the early '60s we wintered in the Keys and met a commercial photographer from Tampa. We had friends in Tampa we wanted to visit so we offered him a ride there.

On the way up U.S. 41 (now I-75) he had to stop to shoot photos of a new development. Off of U.S. 41, down a dusty unpaved road. We came to a small A-frame with a sign "$25 down - $25 a month" selling lots while the pumps were going 24/7 pulled up sea bottom to make land and leaving canals.

When sold to folks up north they moved in and laid sod and a sprinkler system to keep it green (grass it not native to Florida). Some 50 years have gone by of fertilizing to keep it green. Seems to me that over time the sea bottom is sponge-like and now saturated backing into the canals. It will produce blue-green algae to feed red tide. So, Cape Coral, when is enough, enough?

Mary J. Tekip

Port Charlotte

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At the regular meeting on January 14, 2020, the Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved the rezoning of a 20.2-acre parcel on the southeast side of Sterling Hills Boulevard, approximately 900' of its southern terminus. The entrance to the parcel will be an extension of Windance Ave from Sterling Hills Blvd.

The proposed name for the subdivision was not mentioned during the meeting.

The land is currently zoned agricultural (AG) and will be rezoned as Planned Development Project (Single Family) (PDP(SF)) to accommodate 80 lots for single-family residences, defined in the petition as 13 60-foot lots with a minimum area of 7,200 square feet and 67 50-foot lots with a minimum area of 6,000 square feet. The overall density for the project is 4 dwelling units per acre.

Attorney Darryl Johnston represented the petitioner and owner of the property, Christopher Wert. The Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) recommended approval of the petition with the modification of adding a 30-foot vegetation buffer of 80% opacity along the north and east borders of the property.

The eastern border includes a masonry wall that currently separates this property from the Pristine Place subdivision.

Another requirement is that the project includes a gated emergency access meeting the design requirements of the Fire Department in the southwest corner of the site to connect with Sterling Hills Phase IV.

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By Steve Geliot

Hundreds of people have signed a Brighton photographers petition calling on Brighton and Hove Albion to stop lighting up the night skies around the Amex.

The club has been using lights and heaters to promote grass growth in the winter months so it can meet Premiership pitch standards for the last three years.

But the light spills into the night sky, and the orange glow can be seen as far away as the Long Man of Wilmington a distance of more than eleven miles.

As well as light pollution, scientists have now made a link between lights such as these and the deaths of insects which are vital to our eco-system.

Artist Steve Geliot complained last year and says he received a courteous reply from the club. But when the nightlights were switched back on this winter, he decided firmer action was needed.

At the time of publication, 779 people have signed his petition asking the club to put the lights out.

Mr Geliot, who lives near Preston Park, said: I have been becoming increasingly aware and upset by it over three years but last year I particularly noticed it and I did contact the club.

I got a courteous response but I can see that its as bright as ever this year.

What has changed this year is the science. And people like me are saying this isnt right, and Im not putting up with it.

I completely get that theres a lot of loyalty to football and to the club and Im not not anti the club or football.

But the glow shows up in photos I took at the Long Man of Wilmington. The Amex is even brighter than Newhaven Harbour. Its just unbelievably visible.

I dont think its that difficult to fix it, it just needs reflective panels so its lighting up the pitch and not the sky.

If Albion is a progressive club, and I think it is, how wonderful would it be if they were the first to fix it?

A spokesman for Brighton and Hove Albion said: Like most businesses, the football club must balance its concern for, and responsibility to help protect, the environment with our need to practically run our business as a Premier League football club watched by tens of millions of people across the world.

You will appreciate that, with millions of pounds worth of athletic and footballing talent on display each home match day, we must not only meet and maintain league regulations for the quality of our playing surface, but we also have a duty of care to our players and those of visiting teams.

Beyond our responsibilities to the athletes, and to the fans who pay to expect to watch a high quality football match, the quality of our pitch can significantly influence our performance and therefore our results. Indeed, its quality can create a (legally) competitive advantage or a disadvantage.

Our results on the pitch govern the overall health of our business, and with it the thousands of directly and indirectly created jobs (90% of which are local), not to mention the overall local economic impact, independently measured as being worth 212 million in the 2017/18 season alone.

The success of the football club also supports an important local charity, Albion in the Community, which runs more than 60 different health and educational programmes for over 40,000 local participants and makes a further local economic contribution of nearly 30 million each year.

In the winter months, whilst we may at times experience high rainfall and high winds, with little or no natural sunlight, a grass pitch misses a key element of its natural ability to re-generate and grow after use. We must therefore replicate that loss of light artificially.

Clearly, we will always limit the use of artificial light for all the reasons highlighted but Im afraid we are unable to further limit or eliminate its use completely. To do so, would be to significantly neglect the other responsibilities.

Please be assured that we take our responsibilities for the environment very seriously indeed, but like airlines, car manufacturers, supermarkets, consumer goods factories, and other businesses we all use every day, it is impossible for us to eliminate our environmental footprint altogether.

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by Karen Rubin, Travel Features Syndicate, goingplacesfarandnear.com

My first look at Badlands National Park is not anything I expected or visualized. The Pinnacles entrance to the national park, where the Wilderness Voyageurs guides have taken us for our first ride of the six-day Badlands and Black Hills bike tour of South Dakota, is aptly named for the spires that form this otherworldly landscape.

Badlands National Park is 244,000 acres of sharply eroded buttes, pinnacles and spires and the largest, protected mixed-grass prairie in the United States. The Badlands Wilderness Area covers 64,000 acres, where they are reintroducing the black-footed ferret, the most endangered land mammal in North America. Just beyond is The Stronghold Unit, co-managed with the Oglala Sioux Tribe where there are sites of the 1890s Ghost Dances. But as I soon learn, Badlands National Park contains the worlds richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 23 to 35 million years old, a period between dinosaurs and hominids.

The name Badlands was intentional, for the earliest inhabitants and settlers found the extremes of climate and landscape extremely harsh. The American Lakota called this place mako sica, or land bad and early French trappers called it les mauvaises terres a traverser, both meaning badlands. Those very same French trappers would be the first of many Europeans who would, in time, supplant the indigenous people, as they were soon followed by soldiers, miners looking to strike it rich with gold, cattlemen, farmers, and homesteaders recruited from as far away as Europe.

We get our bikes which our guides James Oerding and John Buehlhorn make sure are properly fitted, and outfit us with helmet, water bottle, Garmin. They orient us to the days ride essentially biking through the national park on the road (Dont stop riding as you go over the cattle guards; when the van comes up alongside, tap your helmet if you need help). We will meet up at the 8.2-mile mark where there is a nature walk and the van will be set up for lunch.

And then we are off at our own pace down an exquisite road (the cars are not a problem). That is a mercy because the vistas are so breathtaking, I keep stopping for photos. And then there are unexpected sightings like bighorn sheep.

At the 8.2 mile mark, we gather at the van where James has set out a gourmet lunch.

There is a boardwalk nature trail (I note the sign that warns against rattlesnakes and wonder about the kids who are climbing the mounds with abandon). I realize I am in time for a talk with Ranger Mark Fadrowski, who has with him original fossils and casts of fossils collected from the Badlands for us to look at and touch. We can see more and even scientists working at the Fossil Prep Lab at the Visitor Center further along our route.

There are no dinosaurs here, Ranger Fadrowski explains. This area was underwater when dinosaurs lived. But these fossils gathered from 75 million years ago and from through 34 to 37 million years ago (there is a 30-million year gap in the fossil record), fill in an important fossil record between dinosaurs and hominids (that is, early man). Teeth, we learn, provide important information about the animal what it ate, how it lived and the environment of the time.

The Pierre Shale, the oldest layer when this area was under a shallow sea, is yielding fossils from 67-75 million years ago. He shows us a fossil of a Mosasaur, giant marine lizards, an ancestor of the Komodo dragon, and one of the biggest sea animals.

We dont have fossils from the 30-million year gap either the sediment was not deposited or it eroded. Indeed, we learn that these tall spires of rock with their gorgeous striations, are eroding at the rate of one inch each year, and will be completely gone in another 100,000 to 500,000 years. But the erosion also exposes the fossils.

The environment changed from a sea to a swamp during the Chadron Formation, 34-37 million years ago. That was caused when the Rocky Mountains formed, with a shift in Teutonic plates. That pushed up and angled the surface so water drained into the Gulf of Mexico. It was formed by sediments carried by streams and rivers flowing from the Black Hills, deposited in a hot and humid forest flood plain.

Alligators lived during this time. The alligator fossils found here show that the animal hasnt changed in 30 million years. The alligators migrated when the environment changed, so survived.

During the Brule Formation, 30-34 million years ago, this area was open woodlands, drier and cooler than during the Chadron Formation; in some areas, water was hard to find. Animals that lived here then include the Nimravid, called a false cat because it seems to resemble a cat but is not related. The specimen he shows was found by a 7-year old girl just 15 feet from the visitor center and is the most complete skull found to date (imagine that!); there are two holes in the skull that show it was killed by another Nimravid. Also a three-toed horse (now extinct); and a dog.

In fact, it turns out it is not at all unusual for visitors to the park to come upon important fossils (there is a whole wall of photos of people and their finds just from this year). In fact, one visitor, Jim Carney, a photographer from Iowa, found two bones sticking up and reported the location. They thought it would be a single afternoon. It turned out to be a tennis-court sized field, now known as the Pig Dig; the dig lasted 15 summers and yielded 19,000 specimens, including the Big Pig.

It was found at the beginning of the Brule Formation when the area was drying out. We believe it was watering hole drying up. Animals caught in the mud were prey for other animals.

This is a place of Archaeotherium, Oredonts, Mesohippus, Subhyracodon, Hoplophoneus, Metamynodon, Cricid and Palaeologus.

The Sharps Formation, 28-30 million years ago, is where they have found Oreodont fossils. The name means mountain teeth because of the shape of its teeth, not the environment. Fossils are identified mostly because of teeth which are most common to survive and reveal clues about behavior and what the animal ate, which speaks to the environment.

He shows us the fossil of an Oviodon. It is weird, there isnt anything alive like it. The closest relative is camel-like the weird cousin that no one knows how related. It is the most commonly found fossil which means it was probably a herd animal. And a Merycoidodon (ruminating teeth), which he describes as a sheep camel pig deer.

The Badlands are eroding, so will reveal more fossils. Fossils are harder than rock, so they wont erode as fast. Interestingly, only 1 percent of all life is fossilized. We have to assume there are missing specimens.

The Badlands is particularly lush for fossils because of the types of sediment that preserves them well. 600,000 specimens have been collected from the Badlands since paleontologists first started coming here in the 1840s. Just about every major institution in the world has specimens that were originally found here, including the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

They provide clues to the Golden Age of mammals halfway between when dinosaurs ended and today horses, camels, deer.

I had no idea.

Im so grateful that John (elected the sweeper for todays ride) has not rushed me away and, in fact, waited patiently without me even realizing he was there.

I continue on, stopping often to take photos of the extraordinary landscape with its shapes and textures and striations. I barely miss a dead rattlesnake on the road (I think it was dead) and am too rattled to stop and take a photo.

I get to the visitor center which has superb displays and an outstanding film (must see). Again, no one is rushing me away, so I stay for the film, The Land of Stone & Light.Native Americans have been in this area for 12,000 years; the Lakota came from the east around 1701 following buffalo, their culture was so dependent on buffalo. They would pray for the buffalos well being rather than their own.

Treaties were signed that defined the borders, but they were broken. The white settlers demanded more and more of the Indian land, especially after gold was discovered in the Black Hills. (I later learn it was William Custer, the famous General of Custers Last Stand, who discovered the gold.)

The buffalo so precious to the Lakota were hunted nearly to extinction. The white men put up fences for their ranches and farms, preventing the buffalo from migrating. What happens to the buffalo, happens to Lakota they were forced to cease their traditional life, settle down and farm or ranch. Resistance led to tragedy (Battle of Wounded Knee). (There is a photo of the Wounded Knee Massacre at the Trading Post.)

By the turn of the 20th century, the federal government was inviting homesteaders to come out and settle the West. They would get 160 acres if they could last five years on the land. They advertised abroad, enticing immigrants to the luscious plains in the Dakotas.

Lumber and stone were rare in the Badlands, so the settlers built their shanties of sod, called sodbusters.

Living was hard; small-scale farming couldnt succeed. They endured blistering summers, cruel winters, extreme wind. Many left, especially in the Great Depression. I think, how ironic.

Before the Lakota, before the dreams of homesteaders ended, paleontologists came here 150 years ago. The layered landscape of the Badlands told the story of geologic change, of climate change, that is still continuing. The Badlands are eroding fast at the rate of one inch per year, so in 100,000 to 500,000 years, all will be gone. The earth is a dynamic and changing system.

The ecology is complex. This is a mixed-grass prairie it may look dry, but the tangled roots store nutrients. Animals help sustain it the bison churn up the soil, mixing the moisture and scattering seeds; prairie dogs are critical to the ecosystem, too they also stir up the soil, and the burrows they dig are used by other animals like owl and ground squirrel. The black-footed ferret lives in abandoned burrows and also eats prairie dogs.

The farmers attempt to eliminate prairie dogs resulted in the near-extinction of the black-footed ferret. They have been reintroduced along with the swift fox, bighorn sheep.

The mission of National Parks is to preserve and restore but we cant restore the biggest animals that once were here the prairie wolf and grizzly bear.

Im about to leave when I stumble upon the Paleontology Lab, which is open to the public, where we can watch as two paleontologists painstakingly work to remove sediment from the bone their efforts magnified on a TV screen.

I am working on a Merycoidodon, an oreodont, which is a group of hoofed mammals native to North America, the sign says in response to what must be the zillionth time a visitor asks. Although they have no living relatives in modern times, oreodonts are related to another native North American mammal: the camel. Oreodonts are sheep-sized and may have resembled pigs, but with a longer body, short limbs and with teeth adapted for grinding tough vegetation. The skulls of Merycoidon have pits in front of the eyes, similar to those found in modern deer which contain scent glands used for marking territory. Oreodonts lived in herds and may at one point have been as plentiful in South Dakota as zebras are in the African Serengeti.

But the paleontologists are happy to answer questions, too. One tells me she has part of an ear canal (very unusual) and ear bones. Its unusual to have the upper teeth. This is a sub-adult I can see wisdom teeth and unerupted teeth. She is working on a Leptomerycid relative of mouse deer an animal the size of house cat.

It has taken her 170 hours to extract teeth from the rock.

This is the second time anyone got an upper row of teeth for this species. It may change scientists understanding. Were not sure if it is a separate species it has a different type of tooth crown. But having a second fossil means we can compare.

Just then, the senior paleontologist, Ed Welch comes in and tells me that because teeth are used to determine species, the work being done could prove or disprove whether this animal is a separate species.

Welch says it so far looks like a species that was named in 2010 based on the lower teeth. Now we have upper teeth and part of the skull. The difference could be variation by ecology (for example, what it ate). It was found at the same site so it would have been contemporary. We looked at several hundred jaws. This one could be an ecomorph just different because of what it ate.

The Badlands have some of the oldest dogs ever found, and the most diversity. In the display case is one of only eight specimens ever found the other seven are at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City but they are not displayed; this is the only specimen that can be viewed.It is the oldest one of its kind, 33-32 million years old and was found by a college student from Missouri.

He says the seven-year-old girl who found the sabercat fossil that the Ranger showed, came back this year, now 16 years old.

We ask visitors to leave the fossil where it is and report to us, give us photos, a GPS, so we can locate. Some of the fossils were found right on the trail, not even in remote areas.

Probably the most famous a hero around the lab is photographer Jim Carney of Iowa who found two bones that ended up being a big bone bed that so far has yielded 19,000 specimens.

Judging by a wall of photos of visitors and their finds just in 2019 it would seem that people have great odds and probability of finding an important fossil.

The fossils collected here since the 1840s are in every major institution. While fossils of dinosaurs and early man might get everyone excited, these fossils the middle of the Age of Mammals are important to fill out that story of ecological and evolutionary change.

The Badlands is in the middle of the earths transition from greenhouse to icehouse and the fossils found here show how animals responded to the ecological change: adapt, migrate or go extinct.

Welch made the decision to open the paleontology lab so people can see scientists at work. We decided to do more than a fishbowl, to make it a great education tool.

The Fossil Preparation Lab in the Ben Reifel Visitor Center is typically open from 9 a.m. 4:30 pm daily from the second week in June through the third week in September. The national park is open all-year-round.

For more information on the Badlands National Park visit nps.gov/badl/planyourvisit/events.htm

During our ride through the Badlands National Park, I spot the major animals that are residents here, including the bighorn sheep, American bison, pronghorn (also called antelope), mule deer, and black-tail prairie dog. The one I miss is a coyote (yet to come).

We have 12-miles further to bike to our accommodation for the night, the Circle View Guest Ranch, which proves to be an amazing experience in itself.

Wilderness Voyageurs started out as a rafting adventures company 50 years ago but has developed into a wide-ranging outdoors company with an extensive catalog of biking, rafting, fishing, and outdoor adventures throughout the US and even Cuba, many guided and self-guided bike itineraries built around rail-trails like the Eric Canal in New York, Great Allegheny Passage in Pennsylvania, and Katy Trail in Missouri.

There are still a few spots left on Wilderness Voyageurs Quintessential West Cuba Bike Tour departing on March 21.

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A pair of Indiana union representatives have pleaded guilty to beating a group of McHenry County-based ironworkers at a church in 2016.

Former Ironworkers Union Local 395 President and business agent Jeffrey Veach and his fellow business agent, Thomas Williamson Sr., accepted plea deals Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana in the Hammond division.

Each man pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy to commit extortion, the charges of which stemmed from a January 2016 attack that broke the jaw of an employee of the union-based company D5 Iron Works, court records show.

Sometime before the confrontation, Veach and Williamson learned that D5 was completing a construction job for a Baptist church in Dyer, Indiana, federal plea agreements show. According to Veach and Williamsons plea agreements, the church site was within Local 395s territory, but D5 did not have a labor contract with the union.

On the morning of Jan. 7, 2016, Veach and Williamson visited the church in an attempt to persuade the D5 owner to either sign up with Local 395 or stop work on the job, records show.

When the owner refused, Williamson called the man profanities, grabbed his jacket and threatened to take things back to old school, plea documents show.

Williamson and Veach later returned to the job site with more union members that afternoon and struck several D5 employees with loose pieces of hardwood, kicked and punched them.

One D5 worker was hospitalized as a result of the attack and required several surgeries for a broken jaw, according to the plea deal.

Both Williamson and Veach face between two and 4 years in prison. The U.S. probation office must complete individual pre-sentence investigations into the backgrounds and current circumstances of both men before a sentencing hearing is set.

Neither mans attorney could be reached for comment Friday.

A related federal lawsuit has been on hold since June awaiting the outcome of the criminal proceedings.

According to the 20-count civil complaint, Local 395 employees wore steel-toed boots and shouted This is union work! This is 395s work! This is 395s territory and Dont come back! at D5 employees during the attack.

Robert Hanlon, the attorney representing D5 Iron Workers in the lawsuit, could not be reached for comment Friday on how Veach and Williamsons guilty pleas might affect the federal lawsuit.

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Those lucky enough to score tickets to President Trumps Tuesday night rally in Wildwood will face traffic, just based on the sheer numbers of people attending, and one bridge construction project in a key location that may likely slow things down.

Those numbers are the 7,400 people the Wildwoods Convention Center holds, a claim from Congressman Jeff Van Drew who Trump is coming to stump for that 100,000 tickets had been issued, and possibly thousands of protesters who are planning to demonstrate. But only three bridges carry traffic on and off the barrier islands that make up the Wildwoods.

The George Redding Bridge that carries Route 47-Rio Grande Avenue is under construction as part of Cape May Countys Rio Grande Avenue Gateway project, which has temporarily reduced the bridge from four to two lanes one in each direction, said Robert Church, county engineer. Route 47 is the most direct route between the Garden State Parkway and the convention center.

Construction work takes place between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. but as of late Thursday, officials have not been asked to stop the project for the rally, Church said. The rally starts at 7 p.m. and convention center doors open at 3 p.m. The city expects there will be an overflow area nearby with screens for viewing outside and rally-goers are already talking about plans to arrive at least by Monday if not earlier.

Originally we had intended on changing the traffic patterns on Jan. 28 for the next phase of the project, but were asked to delay this until Jan. 29, due to the Presidents visit, so that there would no confusion with the new traffic patterns leading up to the event, Church said.

Route 47, which is normally two lanes in each direction, connects the Garden State Parkway and the Wildwoods. Sinkholes closed a small section of Route 47 located west of the Parkway and Route 9 which is an area that isnt used by most people traveling to Wildwood from other parts of the state.

Headed into Wildwood, those two lanes will merge into one at the top of the bridge. Drivers leaving the rally will also have to funnel into one lane on Rio Grande at Arctic Avenue until the top of the George Redding Bridge about a half-mile distance when it opens back up to two lanes headed west, Church said.

The project, which began in 2019, includes elevating a portion of the roadway above flood level and widening it, Church said.

Drivers thinking about taking a short cut through North Wildwood and into Stone Harbor and Avalon to leave will also face a closed bridge. The Ingrams Thorofare Bridge will be closed from 7 p.m. through 5 a.m. due to ongoing construction between Jan. 28 and Jan. 29, Avalon police said in a Facebook post. Avalon Boulevard also will be closed during those hours.

For the trip to the rally on the Garden State Parkway or Route 9, it should be smooth sailing as far as encountering any construction.

Im not aware of any additional closures around the time of the event on any NJDOT-maintained roads, said Steve Shapiro, a DOT spokesman.

Once supporters arrive, parking may not be an easy task. All the parking lots surrounding the convention center are not going to be available, said Wildwood Mayor Pete Byron. Drivers may have to go at least two or three blocks away. Some commercial establishments that are typically closed for the off-season and a sizable parking lot may reopen just for the rally parking.

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Peconic Estuary Program has devised a preliminary plan to construct a 1.2-acre wetland to filter road runoff entering Meetinghouse Creek in Aquebogue.

Meetinghouse Creek has been identified as an impaired water body with low dissolved oxygen levels, Peconic Estuary Program program coordinator Sarah Schaefer told the Riverhead Town Board at its work session Thursday morning. Its impairment is the result of past agricultural practices and road runoff. Currently, a 24-inch drainage pipe discharges road runoff collected by drainage structures on Church Lane onto a 2.6-acre town-owned parcel on the south side of Main Road in Aquebogue at the headwaters of Meetinghouse Creek.

To improve the creeks water quality and its ability to support marine life, PEP is proposing to create a new 1.2-acre wetland on the town property. Wetlands already exist on the site but they are choked by phragmites and are not functioning to adequately filter stormwater runoff before it enters Meetinghouse Creek, Schaefer said.

Peconic Estuary Program paid for a watershed management plan for Meetinghouse Creek that was completed in 2006, Schaefer said. In 2017, PEP funded a conceptual design plan, which it presented to the town board Thursday.

The plan is to build a meandering wetland that will provide sufficient transit time to filter out sediment and physical structures to filter out trash before runoff passes under an berm and enters the Meetinghouse Creek system.

PEP will pay the estimated $154,000 in engineering design costs for the new wetland construction, Schaefer said.

Construction costs will run an estimated $530,000, according to the presentation. PEP and the town would apply for state grant funding for the actual construction, she said. The project stands a good chance of being funded, according to Schaefer.

The towns role in the wetland construction and its potential responsibility for the cost of the project will have to be worked out, Schaefer said after her presentation to the board. An operation and maintenance plan will be developed by the engineering firm. The towns share of the project cost could be in-kind services associated with maintenance, she said. The terms of a grant usually address that, she said.

The firm hired to undertake the project will obtain all necessary permits, including permits from the Army Corps of Engineers, the N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation, the N.Y. State Department of Transportation and the Town of Riverhead.

Construction is anticipated to take place in 2023.

The Peconic Estuary Program is a cooperative effort between the state, Suffolk County, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the scientific community, and the citizens of the Peconic Estuary watershed, according to the State DEC.

The Peconic Estuary is the body of water between the two forks of eastern Long Island, comprising more than 100 distinct bays, harbors, embayments and tributaries, including Flanders Bay, Great Peconic Bay, Little Peconic Bay, Shelter Island Sound, and Gardiners Bay. It was designated an estuary of national significance by the EPA in 1992.

PEP is responsible for creating and implementing a comprehensive management plan to protect the Peconic Estuary. Its first Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) was formally approved by the EPA administrator in 2001.

The CCMP promotes a holistic approach to improving and maintaining the estuary. Priority management topics include Brown Tide, nutrients, habitat and living resources, pathogens, toxic pollutants, and critical lands protection, according to the PEP website.

The Peconic Estuary Program is working to update the 2001 CCMP to address the most current threats.

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If you drive in the heart of Salt Lake City, the downtown building boom is about to get very real.

City crews, meanwhile, will also embark on several major street repairs as part of a $87 million road reconstruction bond approved in November including upgrades to 200 South from downtown eastward to the University of Utah.

Fourteen cranes over the city on six different projects, said Dee Brewer, executive director of the Downtown Alliance, an arm of the Salt Lake Chamber. There are lots of moving parts here."

Traffic planners with Salt Lake City and business leaders at the chamber are focused on detailed and constantly evolving plans to manage the intermittent lane closures and spates of heavy truck traffic along many of the citys go-to thoroughfares.

Pedestrians, bicyclists, e-scooter riders and other street travelers will also be dealing with covered sidewalks, fencing and temporary diversions for safety reasons.

Some congestion and inconvenience will be inevitable in light of the unprecedented surge in commercial development in Salt Lake City as the states population continues to grow and downtown gains new residents.

The important thing for people to know is that were aware of it and were coordinating it, said the citys transportation director, Jon Larsen.

Dozens of city experts, developers, construction managers and officials with the Utah Transit Authority are meeting regularly on ways to minimize bottlenecks and set up alternate UTA bus routes around construction sites.

There are plans for traffic signs to help drivers cope and for regular updates online. Officials are also offering early advice to the nearly 200,000 drivers who flow in and out of the city each day. Theyll need to be patient and, at times, creative.

Key messages are: Use TRAX and FrontRunner more often, plan alternative routes and parking spots well ahead of time, and stay up-to-date via various media outlets.

There are worries, nonetheless, that hassles of navigating cramped downtown streets could lead some to steer elsewhere.

We want the millions of people that visit, shop, dine, play and work downtown to continue to enjoy the vibrancy, art and experiences that can only be found downtown, said Brewer.

The alliance is in something of a lead role, officials said, with a full-time construction ombudsmen on staff to coordinate among building site managers, the citys experts and businesses and residents near construction sites.

The business group is also adding a construction and development page at its website, downtownslc.org

Officials at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are already warning motorists and pedestrians to expect occasional lane closures westbound on North Temple between State Street and West Temple, as drilling between now and February presages what will be four years of work overhauling the 126-year-old temple.

Throughout this entire project, we will do all we can to limit traffic or other disruptions, a spokesman with the churchs Public Affairs Department said.

We want to be good neighbors, church spokesman Daniel Woodruff wrote via email. Our community wants to be part of this project and while this may be uncomfortable for some of us at times, we will do all we can to limit and communicate about disruptions.

Parts of West Temple and South Temple near that project will be closed temporarily for utility work, as will some of the sidewalks around Temple Square, Woodruff said.

Church officials also plan to set up several viewing areas around Temple Square where the public can observe construction.

But between that project and another high-rise development going up one block west in what is known as The West Quarter at 300 West and 200 South, congestion could get hairy on those blocks at times, forcing drivers onto adjacent east-west streets sporadically over the next three years, officials said.

For a sense of magnitude when thinking of the skyscraper construction, Larsen pointed to the week after Thanksgiving, when what seemed like an unending parade of mixers poured tons and tons of concrete for a new office tower known as 95 State at City Creek, just west of Harmons Grocery City Creek.

It was insane, he said of the impressive scale. There were just hundreds of concrete trucks flowing through there in like a 36-hour period.

Multiply that several-fold and you get a picture of potential traffic peaks from now until mid-2023 or beyond.

95 State at City Creek, being built by City Creek Reserve, a real estate development firm owned by the LDS Church, is one of three skyscrapers now being pursued within a three-block stretch of State Street between South Temple and 300 South with potential to aggravate future headaches on that north-south route through downtown.

As if thats not enough, at least two more residential skyscrapers both potentially exceeding 25 stories are in the early planning stages in the same general neighborhood.

Though neither of those towers has a firm construction schedule yet, either or both could conceivably start within the next three year, judging from city documents.

Though the new decades downtown building rush is unprecedented, officials say theyve seen the transportation piece coming.

Using information that developers are required to submit to obtain their demolition and building permits, Larsen said, traffic managers are coordinating street signals and staggering any closures, limiting them to one lane at a time.

Theyre also spreading truck hauling over the citys chief routes for getting excavated materials, equipment and building supplies in and out of the downtown area.

The city will bar any lane closures during peak holiday shopping and downtown sightseeing between Thanksgiving and New Years Day.

Thanks to early LDS Church leader Brigham Young and other urban planners, Salt Lake Citys latticed street network provides a variety of alternative routes to most city locales. Theres mass transit to boot.

We have a really good street grid, Larsen said. We have the best multimodal network and the best well-connected street grid in the state. So theres a lot of options for people to still get around.

In downtowns looming tsunami of orange barriers, patience and advance planning will come in handy, too.

Correction: 10:40 a.m., Jan. 23, 2020 A massive concrete pour in downtown Salt Lake City in early December was for the skyscraper project called 95 State at City Creek. A prior version of this story incorrectly attributed that to another project.

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122 Rena Drive, Lafayette; Breezeway LLC; $162,000.

122 Rena Drive C, Lafayette; Breezeway LLC; $162,000.

609 Greyford Drive, Lafayette Parish; Colony Homes LLC; $459,000.

108 Waterhouse Road, Lafayette Parish; Magnolia Construction & Roof LLC; $315,000.

129 Gentle Crescent Lane, Lafayette; DSLD LLC; $193,500.

1113 Eleventh St., Lafayette; Lemoine Disaster Recovery LLC; $193,000.

415 Biltmore Way, Lafayette; Laviolette General Contracting Inc.; $598,500.

201 Sparrowhawk St., Broussard; DSLD LLC; $220,500.

302 Stanwell Ave., Lafayette Parish; DSLD LLC; $207,000.

215 San Domingo Drive, Youngsville; Triple D Homes LLC; $247,500.

118 Gentle Crescent Lane, Lafayette;DSLD LLC; $198,000.

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1100 Deer Meadow, Broussard; DSLD Homes LLC; $208,426.

112 Chloe St., Broussard; DSLD Homes LLC; $202,818.

230 Whispering Meadows, Broussard; AM Design Inc.; $225,417.

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