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2800 Yacht Club Blvd. Saturday, April 11, 2020 Heather Moraitis Jack & Harriet Kaye Park Chris Lagerboom (Next to George English Park) 12:00 Noon Many Eggs to Collect!!! Fort Lauderdale, FL 33339 33339 FL Lauderdale, Fort P.O. Box 11298 11298 Box P.O. Coral Ridge Association, Inc. Inc. Association, Ridge PageCoral 1 Page 2 March 2020 Coral Ridge Association, Inc. Page 3 From Our President Mary Peloquin The George English Park sewer This will create new sections of all the eggs to be found. If you plan pipe break was terrible. Watching south bound Bayview closures and on attending, don’t be late. Once it waste water, gray water, sewage or new detours in Coral Ridge, each starts there’s no stopping it, and IT whatever it is called rapidly gush into taking three to four weeks. Once this IS FAST! the lake at the park was heartbreaking. information is available it will be The Coral Ridge General Membership While it took several days to fix it, emailed out to all members of the meeting will be held on April 23rd at we were fortunate it was less than a Coral Ridge Association, and posted 7:00pm at the Coral Ridge Yacht week. This goes as well for the closure on the Coral Ridge Facebook page Club. Our City Commissioner of the intersection at Bayview and as well as the Coral Ridge website Heather Moraitis and City Manager Sunrise Boulevard. This is all thanks (coralridgeassociation.org). Chris Lagerbloom will be featured to the teams of city employees working Note the current detours in our speakers. Topics will likely be the neighborhood will be via NE 25th pipes, parks, homelessness and Street, Middle River Drive and NE upcoming traffic projects in the 18th Street. I ask everyone to drive neighborhood. Both of them will be slowly and courteously through available for questions. There will be these areas. There is no reason any some light food and a cool raffle! resident of Coral Ridge should drive Only members of the Coral Ridge like a maniac while these detours are Association and invited guests may in place (or at anytime really). attend. So if you are not a member, Likely we will have plenty of cut feel free to go to coralridgeassociation.org 24/7 to fix the break. The on-the-spot through traffic and out-of-area frustrated to sign up. Alternatively, tear out the emergency operational meetings drivers behaving badly. Let’s not membership form in this newsletter were impressive to see in their add to it. As this work moves north and send it in filled out with the knowledge and teamwork to get the to subsequent sections, the next detour payment. job done as quickly as possible. might be your street. Drive accordingly! Please make sure to read Anthony From top to bottom I cannot thank The 2020 Easter Egg Hunt will Gross’s article in this newsletter. He these people enough for their relentless be held at Harriet and Jack Kaye is a resident of Coral Ridge and a work in a less than ideal situation. As Park at “NOON on April 11th.” The Master Gardiner who is helping us residents of this city, we are lucky to park is just north of George English make Bayview Drive spectacular have them. Park and is open to all Coral Ridge and beautiful again. This exciting Here is the good news: Right now families. Inge and Otto Grossman’s project is going to take some time Coral Ridge is getting a new, redundant grandson, Sebastian, along with a and exploration, but in the end it sewer pipe. This was a future project few of his friends and family, put will be worth it. If you have any that has been fast tracked by the city. this event together and have done so suggestions, feel free to reach out to Work is starting at NE 21st Street for many years. Stuffing every plastic us through coralridgeassociation.org. and Bayview Drive and will head egg with a prize or candy, setting up All of our board members and north towards NE 25th Street. This the event and buying prizes are all officers are listed on that website stretch will take three to four weeks done by Sebastian. He is a great along with contact information. to complete. That affected portion of example of a younger person getting Meanwhile, everyone have a Bayview Drive will be closed south involved in the neighborhood. Make healthy and happy spring and bound and open north bound. Once sure to thank him if you go to the remember to be this section is finished there will be Easter Egg Hunt. This fun event is nice…..especially two more sections of Bayview Drive divided up by age. It takes all morning while driving! in Coral Ridge set for pipeline installation. to set it up and about 48 seconds for www.coralridgeassociation.org Page 4 March 2020 Coral Ridge Association, Inc. Page 5 From Our Mayor Dean Trantalis Over the past two months, our city dismissed my suggestions that something access to all the information available has experienced the best of times and needed to be done. They said concern about existing conditions of our water- the worst of times. was unwarranted. They denied the ways. This is about transparency in We christened our new Oceanside blooms posed any health hazard even government, and such information is Park and experienced innovative though test results my office obtained important to boaters, fishing enthusiasts, entertainment venues such as The from Broward County showed the kayakers, paddle-boarders and those Wharf and pop-up places in both the opposite. who live along the water. MASS Art District and FAT Village. The attitude at City Hall changed We are determined to take such Yet, we also were met with challenges dramatically when this new City steps to promote a healthier environment. that truly tested the mettle of our city Commission was elected. It’s important to our residents and staff and our neighbors as we suffered In the current year’s budget, we our visitors and to us as stewards of break after break in our sewer and agreed to invest in research on the both our natural surroundings and water systems. blooms and to hire contractors to native wildlife. We are a proud city because of the mitigate their impact. We also Several months after I became talent and commitment our city funded free pump-out facilities for mayor, I signed a compact with other workers have shown in responding to boats in case any of the high level of coastal cities around the world to this crisis. We are equally proud nutrients was due to illegal waste- recognize the urgency to re-balance in knowing that members of our dumping by boaters. the relationship between human community for their patience and Following recent events, the commission development and our natural perseverance. I personally want to has committed itself to additional environment. We must place a thank both our staff and our steps. premium on our natural resources. neighbors for working together as we The city will be undertaking an Let me turn to an update on our pull through this challenge. environmental analysis of the conditions progress upgrading our infrastructure. Construction crews are making of George English Lake and the rivers We have commenced work on great progress, and soon we will impacted by the sewage spills. Based replacing the fragile, 50-year-old have an infrastructure system second on these results, we will determine a sewer main that has proven so to none. While this work continues, course of action to restore them. In problematic in recent months. This the City Commission and I also have addition to cleaning the waterways, 7½-mile project will be completed on instructed the city administration to we also must determine any long- an aggressive, 18-month timetable. look at ways to improve the quality standing sources of pollution and As sections are laid, we will switch of our waterways. address them. the surrounding areas over to the new I have long said that the city’s Immediate, emergency action is line as quickly as possible. Also, as environment needs special focus and already underway. the project progresses through have championed efforts for clean The city has deployed dozens of neighborhoods, contractors will work waterways. It is our beaches, rivers aerators to improve water quality by with residents to maintain access to and canals that make Fort Lauderdale boosting oxygen levels in the water, individual properties. such an amazing place to live and increasing circulation, breaking We expect an assessment of the visit. We are the Venice of America down organic matter in the discharge entire sewer force main system to be and must do our utmost to protect and helping to control odor. Crews completed by March so we will be these vital natural resources. have skimmed waterways and aware of where our problems are and My concerns were initially heightened installed turbidity curtains to collect the degree of their severity. A new several years ago when green algae and remove debris. pump station is being brought online blooms mysteriously appeared in While typically the state and downtown that adds 1 million gallons canals in the Las Olas neighbor- county take the lead on water quality of additional daily sewage capacity hoods. We never witnessed this before, testing and reporting, the commission to the area. and it pointed to a need to prevent has stated that we would like our Upgrades to our deep-injection the degradation of our waterways.