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The 6-month program is focused on improving water quality in Park View Canal
Work is underway as part of a 6-month “urgent” program to address the street-level-pollutants and outfalls from an 81-acre watershed to help advance water quality in the Park View Canal, a shallow human-made body of water at 73 Street and Dickens Avenue surrounding Park View Island. The Miami Beach City Commission unanimously approved the project in March.
“Clean water is essential to human life. Protecting our water and waterways is one the most critical responsibilities we have,” said Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner. “Operation Clean Water is a decisive step to protect our community.”
The city will host a community kickoff on Parkview Island (7300 Dickens Ave.) on Monday, May 19 at 6 p.m. The event will include a neighborhood shoreline cleanup in partnership with the Park View Island Sustainable Association. Trash buckets and gloves will be provided to volunteers. To sign up, click here.
“For years, I’ve led efforts to prioritize North Beach infrastructure funding around Park View Island with one clear goal — to restore the health of the canal,” said Miami Beach Commissioner Alex Fernandez. “Those investments are finally beginning to pay off, with contamination levels starting to decline and renewed hope that clean, safe water is within reach. ‘Operation Clean Water’ is an all hands-on deck, commitment to break the cycle of no-contact advisories and return the Park View Canal to the community as a source of natural beauty, safety, and pride.”
“Operation Clean Water” is part of a comprehensive long-term action plan of the City of Miami Beach which has committed more than $8 million in water quality-related infrastructure funding in North Beach. In addition, the North Beach Town Center/North Shore D, a large infrastructure project with modern water quality treatment, is under design after receiving a $10 million Resilient Florida grant. Community stakeholders have been essential to move the program forward and provide education and awareness across the 81-acre watershed which extends from Collins Avenue to the Park View Canal.
Operation Clean Water focuses on urgency in the short term and includes a robust educational and awareness campaign. It also includes actions to engage regulators to address private outfalls, double the rate of stormwater system cleaning, increase code enforcement to address areas of potential runoff like leaky dumpsters as well as conducting neighborhood and shoreline inspections and cleanups. The city is developing a block-by-block Stormwater Influence Index to monitor and address litter, pet waste and runoff that can impact the stormwater system and surface waters.
Additional longer-term efforts already complete or underway include lining the North Beach sanitary sewer system and additional improvements, retrofitting existing stormwater infrastructure with hydrodynamic separators, dredging the canal to improve water flow and increased street cleaning by sanitation crews.
For additional information on the city’s efforts to address Park View Canal water quality, visit www.mbrisingabove.com/parkview.
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