Ten Mile Canal floods in Lee County despite countermeasures

Reporter: Asha Patel Writer: Joey Pellegrino
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Ten Mile Canal floods over a weekend of heavy rainfall in September 2022. Credit: WINK News

Ten Mile Canal in Lee County overflowed over the weekend, flooding communities west of US-41 where neighbors believed this was a thing of the past.

Heavy rainfall over the weekend of Sept. 17 sent water from Ten Mile Canal flooding into Terraverde Country Club. People even had kayaks out on the water.

After severe flooding occurred in 2017, Lee County dredged out sediment, installed surface water measuring tools and developed what is now called the Southern Lee County Flood Mitigation Plan in order to fix the problem.

Because of this plan, neighbors did not expect that they would have to deal with severe flooding in the area.

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