{"id":6567,"date":"2025-10-16T13:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6567\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T13:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:45:30","slug":"1-6-billion-stormwater-management-project-is-moving-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/6567\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.6 billion stormwater management project is \u2018moving ahead\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale mayor touts city&#8217;s $1.6 billion stormwater management project <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Mayor Dean Trantalis said the $1.6 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortlauderdale.gov\/government\/departments-i-z\/public-works\/engineering-division\/fortify-lauderdale\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fortlauderdale.gov\/government\/departments-i-z\/public-works\/engineering-division\/fortify-lauderdale\">Fortify Fort Lauderdale <\/a>project will transform the city\u2019s stormwater management system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s broken up into two phases and spread out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortlauderdale.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/87811\/638757580254570000\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.fortlauderdale.gov\/home\/showpublisheddocument\/87811\/638757580254570000\">across 25 areas<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Saturday evening report:<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale: $1.6B stormwater management project is \u2018moving ahead\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have our work cut out for us, but we are definitely moving ahead quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alexander Florence, who rides down Northwest Ninth Street in the Progresso Village, said heavy rain can flood the area anytime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen that water is coming up, that\u2019s all your thinking is, \u2018What am I going to do if it comes in my house?\u2019 Because sandbags can only do so much,\u201d Florence said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The city is installing a new stormwater pump station along with thousands of feet of pipes underground. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Florence still remembers the 2023 catastrophic flooding that shut down the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, and it damaged homes and vehicles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur Toyota Corolla &#8230; I had to drive it through one of those massive puddles, and the car got totaled,\u201d Florence said. \u201cThank God the water stopped before it got into our house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">King tides are also a concern in areas like Riverwalk. The total project won\u2019t be complete for about 10 more years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThese are things that we are trying to catch up,\u201d Trantalis said. \u201cFort Lauderdale has been behind in its commitment to infrastructure. Things that really should have started 10, 15, 20 years ago, we\u2019re trying to make up for lost time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related external links<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Brett Knese\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d3b079d0-0444-499b-8cb7-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brett Knese<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brett Knese joined the Local 10 News team as a general assignment reporter in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM Updated:\u00a0September 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM Fort Lauderdale mayor touts city&#8217;s $1.6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","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=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}