Palm Tran bus Rt. 62 is returning to the beach in Lake Worth Beach!

Mayor Pam Triolo and Vice Mayor Andy Amoroso have been working very hard for a very long time to bring back the public bus service to the public ocean beach and with the City agreeing to commit 250K to alter the traffic infrastructure and construct a new bus stop/shelter both the County Commission and Palm Tran are on board with the plan as well.

This information about extending bus Rt. 62 was provided by Public Works Dir. Jamie Brown at the work session last evening on discussion of sales tax proceeds (see video below).

Rt. 62 serves Wellington, Greenacres, Palm Springs, Palm Beach State College and all areas in between on Lake Worth Rd. In Lake Worth Beach the bus makes the turnaround on Dixie Hwy. near City Hall (except on Sundays when the turnaround is at Golfview Rd. just west of the Robert Harris Bridge). To download the existing Rt. 62 map and schedules click on this link. Connections with Rt. 62 are routes 1 (serving Dixie Hwy.), 40, 43, 46, 52, 61, 63, and 64.

With a new Palm Tran bus stop at the beach in LWB many more from the public will have public access to the ocean, e.g., Royal Palm Beach and West Palm Beach of which neither municipality actually has a beach for their residents to enjoy.

Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars according to Dir. Brown is the very high end of the cost estimate and he believes the cost to the City will be much lower. Changes will have to made to widen the circle traffic flow at the north corner of the Casino building and then the bus will proceed west off the dune towards A1A to a dedicated bus stop with a shelter and retaining wall next to the County’s Kreusler Park.

Mayor Triolo sees a huge benefit for the City in promoting a bus service to the beach and she explains so in the video. This discussion lasts just about ten minutes and strongly encourage everyone interested in public transportation to hear the entire discussion:

Elected leaders setting the bar high in Greenacres: Making education, families and children a high priority.

Just recently we learned the City Council led by the honorable Mayor Joel Flores and the administration in the City of Greenacres deserve a lot of credit for creating one of the best After School and camp programs in the United States and the honor of receiving Florida Gold Seal Designation as well. Here is recent news published on the front page in the Coastal and Greenacres Observer headlined, “Greenacres After School Program Receives National Accreditation”:


The Council on Accreditation (COA) has proudly recognized the City of Greenacres After School and Camp Programs (a licensed, year-round, K-12 grade program) as an outstanding provider.

National accreditation demonstrates that the program successfully implements high performance standards and delivers the highest quality services to all of its children, youth and families. In addition to this achievement, the City of Greenacres After School Program was expedited through the Pre-Commission Review Report (PCR) process as a result of not receiving any out of compliance ratings in any of the fundamental practice or core standards.

The assessors were extremely impressed with the City’s operations, extended learning and enrichment programs, community partnerships and resources available. They travel all over and country, and even internationally, and claimed it was one of the best programs they have ever assessed.

COA accreditation allows the City to obtain the Florida Gold Seal Designation, that provides for a higher per child/per day, rate of reimbursement, from the Early Learning Coalition. For more information on the program visit the City’s website at www.greenacresfl.gov or call 561-642-2193.

The COA is an independent not-for-profit international accreditor providing a full continuum of community-based behavioral health care and human service organizations.

Congratulations to the City of Greenacres!


To learn more about the City of Greenacres click on this link.

And in other recent news Greenacres reopened their renovated gymnasium at the City’s Community Center at 501 Swain Blvd. You can learn more about that on the Greenacres official Facebook page.

For more information about all the public parks in Greeenacres, including helpful maps and directions, click on this link.

The Coastal and Greenacres Observer is a FREE weekly publication published by the Lake Worth Herald Press, Inc. To download the Observer click on this link and then use the Options tab to download the PDF. For more information contact the editor at 561-585-9387 or send an email to: Editor@lwherald.com

Heeding the advice below can save you a lot of time, money, and effort.

Are you considering a new project here in Lake Worth Beach? Or are you considering a renovation? A new restaurant? A new retail opportunity?

If so, you need to learn about the Neighborhood Assoc. Presidents’ Council (NAPC). Find out
more about the NAPC below.

They can help you engage the neighborhood and the public prior to or even after approaching the City staff with your idea. The NAPC can help you engage the neighbors and neighborhood, provide as much information available at the time to the public, and maybe even quell the rumor mill from churning out one rumor after another.

How do I know this can actually be accomplished? Because there is a lot of proof that this approach works. Use this link for just one example:


The Planning and Zoning Board approved the site plan unanimously and recommended the rezoning request be approved by the City Commission. These approvals were made with conditions which addressed many of the issues which had been discussed between the developer, the City and the neighborhood beforehand.

In the excerpt above, the words ‘and the neighborhood beforehand’ are what one needs to focus on.

So “beforehand” consider approaching the NAPC. What you’ll discover is that sometimes the neighborhood understands their neighborhood much better than the City does. For the NAPC website click on this link, for their Facebook page use this link, or send an email to: napcinfo@gmail.com

Sports news in Lake Worth Beach: Upcoming registration for youth basketball.

Support your LOCAL newspaper and LOCAL community journalism.

For most recent front page headlines click on this link. The Herald serves Lake Worth Beach, suburban Lake Worth and nearby cities, towns and villages here in coastal Central Palm Beach County.

The Herald is still just ¢50! For subscription rates use this link. Have community news or an update to share? Call the editor at 561-585-9387 or send an email to Editor@lwherald.com

Besides LOCAL meetings, events and club news also published in this week’s paper is the 2019 Lake Worth High School football schedule, the public school dress code for students (proper jackets, shirts, pants and shoes), and an article on school health requirements (immunization requirements and physical examination).

Here is the news about youth basketball registration:


The City of Lake Worth Beach will begin holding early registration for their Youth Basketball League August 31 through October 5. Ages 3–6, $45; 7–16, $65.

Regular registration will be held October 6–December 20. Ages 3–6, $50, 7–16, $75. Late registration, December 21–January 4. Ages 3–6, $55, 7–16, $85. The draft will be held on January 11. All games begin at 9:45 and are played at the Norman J. Wimbley Gymnasium located at 1515 Wingfield Street. Shirts will be provided.

You do not need to be a Lake Worth Beach resident to participate, however identification is required.

Registration will be available at the Wimbley Gym, at the Osborne Community Center located at 1699 Wingfield St., or online by using this link.

For more information contact Anthony Marshall at 561-227-4518 or by email at AMarshall@lakeworthbeachfl.gov

News vans are packed and ready for the next major storm.

Scenario.

You are a young and eager weather reporter.

The assignment editor wants you to do a quick news segment along the seawall at the beach in Lake Worth Beach but when you get to the scene nothing is really going on. Just a normal beach day but really crowded. But you have to do something because you’re a weather reporter!

But there is a solution. You can create your own weather if you want. Find out how below.

So a week or so earlier hotter than normal water and wind churned off the Ivory Coast and went heading west. Some claim they can feel a storm coming and those people are feeling something.

Being safe Lake Worth Beach sends out a press release advising the public to be careful of swimming in the ocean and of course everyone then heads to the beach. Not much is happening at the moment except for some brisk wind and surfers taking advantage of the higher waves. So the reporter, with his or her back to the ocean, needs something to air and quick!

What a reporter could do is just deliver the press release from LWB.

But another method will get you noticed called the “gale force” approach.

This approach is not advised in most situations but it certainly will get attention from the public (note the ‘gale force’ method may be encouraged in some newsrooms when assigned to report on anything that looks red-tidish or anything blue-green in the water).

So to quickly go Live with the news which isn’t news but you have to do something please take a few moments and watch a CNN segment, an example of the gale force method being employed.

“Don’t Do It!”

Hope you enjoy this video and remember,
“Don’t Swim In the Sea! Incredibly. . .”

Front page news this week in the Observer: “Greenacres City Manager Praised and Thanked”.

Support LOCAL journalism and your LOCAL newspaper!

The Coastal/Greenacres Observer is a FREE weekly newspaper published by the Lake Worth Herald Press. To see this week’s front page headlines click on this link.

The Lake Worth Herald Press, headquartered at 1313 Central Terrace in Lake Worth Beach, also publishes the Lake Worth Herald. To contact the editor call 561-585-9387 or send an email to: Editor@lwherald.com

Here is the front page news this week, above the fold in the Observer:


Andrea McCue, the roll up the sleeves and get it done City Manager of the City of Greenacres sat through being reviewed by the City Commission Monday night [Aug. 5th]. As it would be, McCue was also filling in for the City Clerk, doing double duty as she faced a performance review.

Comments from the Council contained phrases such as, ‘Professionalism’, ‘exemplary’, ‘City is in good hands’, ‘never disappointed our City from day one’, ‘exceeded expectations’, ‘creative thinker’, ‘came here very qualified and far exceeds all expectations’.

After casting these complementary appraisals of McCue’s performance, Council members thanked her and approved an increase in her salary.

Council members expressed a willingness to keep McCue and would hate to lose her to another municipality.

In other action, the Council unanimously approved changing the name of Leisure Services to Community & Recreation Services, in order to better express what they do.

The department does everything from providing seniors with meals to running youth programs.

and. . .

Council members praised Michele Thompson, Leisure Services Director, or now Community & Recreation Services Director for the success of the programs. Thompson pushed the credit to the “wonderful team” she works with.


To learn more about the City of Greenacres browse their continually-evolving and updated website.

For sake of comparison and scale here in Central Palm Beach County, many of you will be interested to learn that Greenacres exceeds Lake Worth Beach in both area and population size and is one of the fastest growing municipalities in Palm Beach County.

“There’s a rich history here. If you don’t do anything to preserve it, it’s gone.”

Newspaper clipping from The Palm Beach Post, September 3rd, 2003.

Click on images to enlarge: 

The CDC is not to be confused with Lake Worth Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). The CDC went defunct many years ago.

“One part of the plan will involve interviewing lifelong residents to compile an oral history of the neighborhood.”

The plan, “[A]ims to boost community pride, improve property values and stave off gentrification.”*

“The Osborne neighborhood is one of the target areas for the CDC, a nonprofit organization charged with improving blighted areas of the city.”

*Let’s take on that loaded word. . .

‘Gentrification’ is called a “loaded word” in that it’s used to confuse and frighten the public (learn more about that by clicking on this link).

There is no accepted definition of that word and therefore fuels the “politics of fear” just like another loaded word used to confuse and frighten the public: ‘sanctuary city’.

Whilst on the topic of ‘gentrification’, Joan Oliva became the executive director of the CRA back in January 2008 and she remains the leader of that agency to this day.

And also to this day former members of the CDC criticize the CRA for increasing property values which have steadily risen in this City. Ironically, as cited in the newspaper clipping above, one of the goals of the CDC was to “improve property values” whilst at the same time promising to ‘stave off gentrification’.


Ironic is it not?


The former CDC never accomplished much and not much remains from what they did actually do. However, how much do you know about the $23M NSP2 Grant the CRA received in 2010? Learn more about that below.

Enjoy the video (below) about the CRA’s NSP2 Grant. You’ll recognize more than a few people if you were here in Lake Worth during that time. At one point, if you pay close attention, you’ll see a few campaign yard signs of people you might know, including a current city commissioner. About the video:


“This video is one in a series of case study videos intended for NSP grantees and partners interested in learning about how other grantees are successfully implementing NSP. In Lake Worth, FL, the NSP2 consortium has taken a comprehensive approach in their stabilization efforts. Nonprofits and community leaders featured in this video demonstrate the keys to running their NSP program, including homebuyer counseling, home-purchase assistance, and connecting stabilization with broader economic development and revitalization initiatives such as the Cultural Renaissance Program.”





Now, about all those people who thought the NSP2 was a bad idea, like former city commissioners who didn’t make the effort to apply for the grant. But the CRA did step up and apply. Here is an excerpt from this blog:


“Both the City and the CRA were eligible to apply for the funds. Leading up to the grant application’s deadline, it became apparent that the City administration (Susan Stanton was the city manager in September 2009) and the City Commission (which included Cara Jennings, JoAnn Golden, and Susan Mulvehill) had demonstrated no interest in assisting the CRA or applying for the grant money itself. Wanting to make sure Lake Worth didn’t miss out on this opportunity to address slum and blight in a big way the CRA went ahead and made the application itself, without any help from the City Commission at the time.”


Want to learn more about Lake Worth Beach Community Redevelopment Agency? Click on this link.

La Guía News y WPTV (NBC5): “Autoridades investigan homicidio en Lake Worth Beach”.

To follow La Guía News on Twitter click on this link. To read the following news report in English go to La Guía and use the translate tool:


LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. — La Oficina del Sheriff del Condado Palm Beach (PBSO por sus siglas en inglés) está investigando lo que parece ser un homicidio, sucedido el miércoles en Lake Worth Beach.

El incidente sucedió a las 5:40 p.m. cuando los agentes recibieron una llamada al número de emergencia, de un negocio en Lake Avenue.

Los agentes arribaron al bloque 1500 de Lake Avenue, y hallaron a un empleado que había recibido impacto de balas. El personal del Departamento de Bomberos e Incendios que acudieron al lugar confirmaron que el empleado había fallecido.

Los detectives de la División de Crímenes Violentos se encuentran en el lugar investigando.

Hasta el momento no hay sospechosos y se desconocen los motivos.

Cualquier persona con información sobre este suceso llamar a Crime Stoppers al 1-800-458-TIPS.

WPTV contribuyó a esta historia.

Two homicides in Lake Worth Beach: PBSO and Crime Stoppers need tips.

The homicide yesterday in LWB is near another unsolved murder from last April off Lake Ave. on South E St. For more information about the murder of Alonzo Recinos Ramirez use this link. If you have any information about either of these two crimes contact Crime Stoppers and become eligible for a reward. That information is at the end of this blog post.

Here is an excerpt from yesterday’s breaking news report in the Sun Sentinel by reporter Tony Alanez:


A hang-up call to 911 drew sheriff’s deputies to a novelty store in Lake Worth Beach where they found a clerk dying from a gunshot wound, authorities said Wednesday.

After the 5:40 p.m. call, the scene in the 1500 block of Lake Avenue was cordoned off with yellow crime-scene tape, a CSI motor home arrived, as did detectives from the violent-crimes division of the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Stay anonymous and collect a reward:

To learn more about Crime Stoppers in Palm Beach County use this link.

Barefoot Mailman: Newspaper clipping, Lake Worth Herald, March 6th, 2003.

In the caption below it’s described
“Lantana Town Manager Michael Bornstein. . .”

Click on clipping to enlarge:

Of note on April 16th, 2012 Bornstein was hired to be the city manager in the City of Lake Worth which this year became Lake Worth Beach. 

A short time after Bornstein was hired as city manager back in April 2012 to manage this City long-time Palm Beach Post journalist Willie Howard wrote this opening line in a news report,


After six weeks on the job [Bornstein] is cutting through the tension at city hall, bringing a sense of calmness and teamwork to a city commission known for heated debates and red-eye meetings.

News from Delray Beach headlined, “Delray continues to lower city tax rate”:

The excerpt below is from journalist Jane Smith at The Coastal Star datelined July 31st:


Delray Beach commissioners have unanimously approved a slight cut in the tax rate, keeping a promise to city property owners to reduce the tax rate for 10 consecutive years.

The July 9 vote capped the total tax rate at $6.86 per $1,000 of taxable value for the financial year that starts Oct. 1.

This marks the seventh consecutive year that Delray Beach is lowering its tax rate.

“I know we are trying to get things done, but I think we can drop the tax rate,” Mayor Shelly Petrolia said. “Dropping the rate would make us more attractive to people coming in.” [emphasis added]

Commissioner Adam Frankel agreed. “We will have additional fees from the new hotels opening,” he said to justify his decision.


To read the entire article published in The Coastal Star click on this link.

A back and forth.

From last January at the Lake Worth Beach City Commission is an interesting exchange between Vice Mayor Andy Amoroso and Lake Worth Electric Utility Dir. Ed Liberty.

They discuss the issue of residential solar energy and at one point Amoroso says the City needs to “stop the bleeding”, paying much more for locally-generated solar energy than the cost of energy on the open market.

A little later there is discussion of possible gunshot damage at Electric Utility facilities and what can be done to better fortify and protect these important assets.


Click on play to watch the proceedings for yourself:

Quiz: “How long is the beach in Lake Worth Beach?” And why a “BEACH” on the ocean really does matter.

The answer to the question, “How long is the beach in Lake Worth Beach?” is a little later in this blog post.

Why a “Beach” really does matter:

How many tourists, visitors and investors thought over the years — or maybe many still think to this day — that West Palm Beach has a beach? West Palm Beach likes people to think they have a beach. But they don’t. Imagine the surprise someone packing the family in the car one day to spend the day at the beach in West Palm Beach to discover there is no beach in West Palm Beach. West Palm Beach is not even on the ocean. Really, shouldn’t that be one of the requirements to be called a city with a beach? Imagine a surfing museum in West Palm Beach. Imagine a mural of a beach in West Palm Beach. Imagine a newspaper headquartered in West Palm Beach called the. . . Well. You get the idea.

However, there are many future residents of the City of Lake Worth Beach who do not know West Palm Beach does not have a beach. And with so many new and exciting housing projects on the horizon this City is getting a tremendous amount of attention from Millennials and young professionals that actually want to live in a municipality with a beach.

And to emphasize that point an elected leader in this City said at City Hall about renaming this City as “Lake Worth Beach”:


[I]t’s really interesting when you look at a lot of the names here in Palm Beach County. For example, Royal Palm Beach doesn’t have a beach. However we’ll have to give them credit for being proactive on sea level rise issue because maybe that will catch up with them one day. But Royal Palm Beach doesn’t have a beach. West Palm Beach really doesn’t have a beach.

We have a beach. And if there is one thing that folks that come to Florida are attracted to oftentimes is the word “Beach”. So if you’re visiting Palm Beach County or thinking about Palm Beach County and your kind of looking through all the thirty-nine municipalities and you don’t know any different you might just pass Lake Worth over because the word ‘Beach’ isn’t affixed to our name.


Now as to the question, how long do you think the beach in Lake Worth Beach is?

The answer is below following
a short quiz.

Setting the quiz parameters.

Below is a short video by VisitFlorida of the open coast beaches in the State of Florida. When you add up the total miles of Atlantic Ocean beaches, the Straits, and the Gulf of Mexico it totals 825 miles. If you total the northeast, central, and southeast regions of the Atlantic Ocean beaches the total is 362.7 miles of beach.

How many of that 363 miles of Atlantic Coast beach do you think the Lake Worth Beach comprises?


POP QUIZ: Is our BEACH. . .

1. Two miles long?
2. 5¼ miles?
3. 1½ miles?
4. 0.26 miles (1,280 feet)?
5. One mile and 98 feet?

STOP HERE. Watch two short videos; think about it.

The answer is 4! 0.26 miles/1,280 feet (approximately).

In other words, 1,280 feet more beach

than West Palm Beach has:

A party at the Lake Worth Beach! Photoshop by the inimitable former City blogger Tom McGow.

For some perspective, Florida’s Atlantic coastal beaches total approximately 363 miles.

But regardless, West Palm Beach still does not have a beach! And never will.

For people who are really, really sick of having their bike stolen (or ‘ganked’ as this crime is called in Britain).

FYI: The blog post below is from June 2016 when the City of Lake Worth, now called Lake Worth Beach, was going through a particularly bad time with bike thefts. In response the City Commission and PBSO came up with new ordinances and went about putting together a successful public relations campaign.

Yes, bike theft was a very big deal. But so was getting people to lock up their bikes! People reporting their bikes stolen was skewing the crime rate which City Manager Michael Bornstein pointed out often. Bike locks work. If you use a good one and know how to use it.

Anyhow, here is one idea that thankfully, in retrospect, never shot off here in this City. And momentarily you’ll find out why.


The excerpt below is from an article in CityLab. If this item becomes available locally, like at my bike shop Relentless Bicycles downtown, it won’t be a secret for long. Fire in the hole!

Our PBSO Cpt. Baer’s thoughts on this idea would be interesting to hear. Deputies on patrol can ride around and just listen for the explosions and race to the scene.

Take note of the link in the first paragraph below; this was a KickStarter campaign in case you’re interested (by the way, this is what the word “ganking” means):


     To prevent a thief from ganking your bike, you can try securing it with a U-lock or heavy-duty chain. Or, for fans of the bombastic approach, there’s now an alarm that detonates when disturbed, rousing the whole neighborhood with an echoing boom.
     The “Bike Mine” is the dastardly creation of London’s Yannick Read, a longtime bike-hacker who’s also made a cycle with a deafening train horn and another that shoots flames at motorists who get too close. The device consists of a bit of titanium wire, a spring-loaded trap, and a “saluting cartridge” typically shot off at military ceremonies and royal birthdays. It latches onto your frame with Velcro and, when somebody moves the bike, detonates in a 150-decibel cacophony of sparks and smoke, like so:

Disturbing. The number of septic tanks west of Lake Worth Beach.

UPDATE.

The issue of septic tanks in coastal Palm Beach County is an important topic in The Coastal Star this month, here are two excerpts from a recent editorial by editor Mary Kate Leming headlined, “Sewage disposal issues leave no time to waste”:


A perfect day in paradise can be spoiled by a backed-up toilet. An out-of-order sign on a bathroom door can turn a pleasant outing into an anxious search for functioning facilities. And after a storm, I can’t imagine anything more discombobulating than being told not to flush.

It’s indisputable: We all depend on smooth-functioning wastewater disposal to keep life clean and simple.

Over the next few months, our newspaper plans to explore what happens after we flush the toilet.

We plan to take a close look at how local municipalities are working to stay ahead of population and development increases during a time when that very growth is challenging the environment that defines the popular Florida lifestyle. Adapting to this change will not be cheap. Already we’re seeing municipalities struggling to make necessary improvements.

For August, Rich Pollack spent time talking with the people who manage our waste-processing plants and gives an overview of the improvements they are making, how much it all costs and what potential disasters keep them awake at night.

Next month, Pollack plans to illustrate problems with septic systems on small, urban lots and show how new technology is attempting to address environmental concerns.

and. . .

Sewage may not be a topic most of us like to discuss, but it’s about to hit us all in the wallet. Hard.


To read the entire editorial in The Coastal Star click on this link.

On the topic of septic tanks what follows is a blog post from last month:

Lake Worth Beach has very few parcels left on septic tanks and that is very good news. But the news west of Lake Worth Beach is anything but good news and this should alarm everyone in this City, especially those concerned about the environment, water quality and threats of blue-green algae in local lakes (e.g., Lake Osborne), canals and waterways all of which drain into the Lake Worth Lagoon, also referred to as the Intracoastal Waterway.

Many of you will be shocked by the number of septic tanks just in one unincorporated area called Lake Osborne Estates (see map below).

The issue of septic tanks became an issue last year when Vice Mayor Andy Amoroso requested a map of all septic tanks in the vicinity of the City and you can read all about that by clicking on this link.

Here is the latest: From Budget Work Session #2 held last Thursday, June 20th at the LWB City Commission on the topic of the City’s water and sewer funds we learned that Palm Beach County Environmental Resources Management is working on a septic tank “Heat Map” and this map of septic tanks in the County will be completed in the near future.

The topic of septic tanks came up several times at the City Commission last Thursday. For example, from the City’s YouTube video (see below) is a back-and-forth between Vice Mayor Amoroso and Brian Shields, P.E., the director of the Water Utilities Dept.

But it was later in the workshop that the surprising numbers came out. According to Shields there are 1000–1200 property parcels still on septic tanks west of this City and of that number there are four hundred and sixty-six just in Lake Osborne Estates alone. Also from the budget work session last week Vice Mayor Pro Tem Scott Maxwell wants to make it a priority to get these properties off septic tanks working with the state and the possibility of grants to aid the conversion from septic to sewer which can be very expensive.

Not only will septic-to-sewer conversion be a huge benefit for the environment but the additional customers will be a benefit for the City and the utility as well. Here is the exchange between Vice Mayor Amoroso and Dir. Brian Shields:



Very important for readers to understand. The actual City of Lake Worth Beach is approximately six square miles but the utility service areas (electric, sewer and water) cover many areas west in parts of the Village of Palm Springs and suburban (unincorporated) Lake Worth. For example, Lake Osborne Estates is in suburban Lake Worth.

Click on map to enlarge (note Lake Osborne, PBC Park Airport and John Prince Park to the west, all located in unincorporated PBC):

In this map Lake Worth Beach is shaded yellow, the Town of Lantana is shaded red. The unshaded area east of Lake Osborne is the unincorporated area called Lake Osborne Estates where there is a high concentration of septic tanks (note Lantana Rd. to the south).

For reference, to look over all the utility service areas (water, sewer and electric) click on this link for the online GIS maps.

Are all the septic tanks in Lake Osborne Estates being inspected on a regular basis? What affect are all these septic tanks having on the water quality in Lake Osborne?

The public concern about algae and water quality is very real. Many of you will recall what occurred back in 2016. Because of reports of toxic blue-green algae in the C-51 Canal, reports that turned out to be false, the July 4th Raft Race festivities in the Intracoastal were cancelled.

Stay tuned for more information. In the meantime contact your elected leadership in Lake Worth Beach and let them know that septic-to-sewer conversions west of the City are a concern of yours.