{"id":334692,"date":"2026-07-09T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334692\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:31:09","slug":"fort-myers-beach-gets-state-money-for-stormwater-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334692\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Beach gets state money for stormwater improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h971110-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Fort Myers Beach is getting $400,000 for infrastructure and stormwater improvement projects as part of Florida\u2019s recently approved and signed $117.6 billion state budget.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h971110-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Of that money, $250,000 is to cover construction costs associated with repairing and improving streets, curbs and sidewalks throughout the Lee County barrier island.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h971110-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">These will be repairs and improvements not already funded.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h971110-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The other $150,000, according to a statement, will be used to continue the construction of stormwater improvements in and around the Times Square area.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h971110-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The project, according to town officials, will focus on improving stormwater infrastructure within the downtown business district and mitigation efforts to reduce the impacts of floods in the future.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h971110-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">Fort Myers Beach is still working to recover from the massive damage it suffered during Hurricane Ian September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Beach is getting $400,000 for infrastructure and stormwater improvement projects as part of Florida\u2019s recently approved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-334692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334692","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=334692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}