Dear Lido Shorians,
I trust everyone is having a happy and healthy summer wherever they may be. Life continues along on our little sand bar with surprisingly little angst or even significant weather challenges to date. Standard 90+ degrees every day with afternoon showers, after which it is cooler and life returns to the beach and pool. Amazing how one can adapt so readily and completely.
Some Announcements
The fall LSPOA Pot Luck has been rescheduled. It conflicted with Sarasota Mod weekend which some events will be in the Lido Shores neighborhood November 11 to 13. A great time was had last year at SarasotaMod and tickets are now available online for this year’s events. http//www.SarasotaMOD.com
Our Fall Pot Luck is now Sunday, October 16 at the lovely home of Carrie and Ken Cox. Further details to follow but I would like to thank Carrie and Ken for stepping up at short notice and hosting the event.
Alan Maio, Sarasota County Commission Chair, is visiting our little slice of Paradise on September 27 at my place, 150 Morningside, at 9am. Last two times he was a non starter, but maybe this time he'll show. We are going to discuss long term planning, community wide beach management and hopefully introduce him to as many of his constituents as we can. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Our beach consultant, Rob Young, toured our beach in July and has recommended that we get involved with long term community planning as it affects our shore, sand and beach. Young also suggested we liaise with our City and County Commissioners and with other coastal monitoring groups such as Suncoast Water Keepers and Save Our Siesta Sands (SOSS). Volunteers are needed to assist in this long term venture and will be greatly appreciated.
Young's other suggestions included routine and frequent monitoring of our beach with reports provided to us on a timely basis. He again stressed that we need a county wide, if not greater, master plan for further beach monitoring and renourishment. Young suggested that we try to coordinate and work with our elected representatives rather then start off in an adversarial position. He also said if dredging from New Pass continues, we should insist a fair proportion of that sand should go to North Lido as needed.
In that regard, New Pass dredging started this week. Thank you Ken Cox for the photos below. Sand from New Pass will be used to renourish south Longboat Key, which has suffered a lot of sand loss over the past year or so. Longboat Key has been trucking in sand to replenish the middle beaches and will dredge the northern pass in the near future. The good news for us is that our beach is now accreting sand...possibly the very same sand already trucked onto Longboat is drifting south and finding a more hospitable home on our sand bar. Hopefully this accretion will continue, but again we need long term monitoring and county wide planning.
For those who thought it might never happen, the permits to start dredging the shoal off Big Pass to our south are supposedly to be issued within 30 days. The Save Our Siesta Sands group is still trying to block this round of permits. New Pass has been dredged since the mid 1960’s but this will be a first for the shoals off Big Pass.
I look forward to seeing our peripatetic neighbors back in the autumn and safe travels to all.
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| Looking West - the new "Channel" is right in front of the Cox's house. |
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| South Longboat Key Renourishment Project |
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