{"id":282139,"date":"2026-05-23T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282139\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:06:10","slug":"budget-conference-atlantic-beach-water-projects-prioritized-by-kiyan-michael-funded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282139\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget conference: Atlantic Beach water projects prioritized by Kiyan Michael funded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for the Northeast Florida beach town. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The state is set to chip in nearly $2 million for three priorities of Atlantic Beach, as Senate and House budget negotiators come closer to a final deal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalatlas.com\/creeks\/sherman-979771\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sherman Creek<\/a> Dredging is poised to get $650,000, the\u00a0Dora Drive Stormwater Mitigation Pond is slated for $212,500, and\u00a0Marshside Septic Tank Elimination Phase 2 is in line for $200,000.<\/p>\n<p>These projects are priorities of Rep.\u00a0Kiyan Michael, who is friends with Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/797706-desantis-fedsoc-budget-vetoes\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>, so it\u2019s hard to imagine them getting vetoed.<\/p>\n<p>The dredging will remove \u201caccumulated muck and debris from Sherman Creek\u201d and provide \u201clittoral planting to help stabilize\u00a0 creek banks and beneficial reuse of dredged material,\u201d per the Appropriations request.<\/p>\n<p>The Dora Drive retention pond is anticipated to protect 92 structures from 25-year flooding events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/states\/florida\/work-save-hub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-796632 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/728x903.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Marshside Septic Tank project will help the city continue to make progress in removing them. As of the date of the Appropriations request, only 46 remained in Atlantic Beach.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good news for the Northeast Florida beach town. The state is set to chip in nearly $2 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3912,28,30,29,66290,58764,120079],"class_list":["post-282139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-atlantic-beach","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-kiyan-michael","tag-septic-tanks","tag-sherman-creek-dredging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}