City Administrator Eric Olson has changed his position on the public safety concerns at city’s Government Street Stormwater Project, two blocks from City Hall. Two weeks ago, Olson told Councilwoman Sherri Myers…
Category: Environment
City makes more updates to Government Street project page (update)
The City of Pensacola made additional updates to its page concerning the Government Street Stormwater Project. For the first time, residents can see on the city’s website drawings of the park and…
Government St. Stormwater Project new completion date: Summer 2017
The residents of Pensacola’s Tanyard neighborhood may have to endure the Government Street Stormwater construction another six months, according to the City of Pensacola website. The ‘Pardon Our Dust’ project page now…
Pensacola Dysfunction Junction: Tanyard Day Six
Sorry to report, no change at in Tanyard neighborhood near the Mayor Ashton Hayward’s Government Street Stormwater Project, which is being construction only two blocks west of City Hall. The filtration system…
What is in the future for Triumph Gulf Coast [podcast]
Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran has established a select committee to oversee the spending of $300 million in RESTORE funds the state will receive next year. “We wanted to make it very…
City of Pensacola misses Tanyard deadline
When Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May and County Administrator Jack Brown toured the Tanyard neighborhood and the City of Pensacola’s Government Street Stormwater Project on Wednesday, Dec. 14, they and the residents…
Pensacola mayor has not responded to Tanyard violations [podcast]
On “Pensacola Speaks,” Emerald Coastkeeper Laurie Murphy said that last week she sent Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward a list of code violations at the Government Street Stormwater Project in the Tanyard neighborhood….
Olson misses the point about Tanyards
Yesterday, Pensacola City Administrator Eric Olson didn’t meet with the residents of the Tanyard neighborhood, but he did meet with City Councilwoman Sherri Myers. Myers said that Olson brought up the Tanyards…
Commissioner May listens to Pensacola Tanyard residents, Mayor Hayward skips tour
Escambia County Commissioner Lumon May toured the enormous Government Street stormwater pond and listened to local residents’ and business owners’ fears of soil contamination and complaints about round-the-clock work at the project…
DEP honors Gulf Power and Whiting Field
Yesterday, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Northwest District recognized the city of Tallahassee, Gulf Power and Naval Air Station Whiting Field for outstanding environmental stewardship. “On behalf of DEP and the…
County Commissioner questions Pensacola Tanyard soil test
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill has questions about the soil sample tested at the Government Street stormwater site in the Tanyard neighborhood. Mayor Ashton Hayward has insisted that the soil at the…
Test sample shows Government Street soil relatively free of Lindane
The plume from the old Escambia County Mosquito Facility is contaminated with Lindane, which was in the pesticides used at the facility. A test of one sample on the soil taken in…