Pinecrest Awash

Pinecrest, Miami-Dade County. THIS SOUTH FLORIDA SITE DOCUMENTS INLAND FLOODING and a CITY'S NEGLIGENCE

Five acres of wetlands filled & ELEVATED, permitted WITHOUT drainage, connecting to canals illegal re: sea rise, they top. Flooding + stagnant water + moatland, cesspool, mosquitoes = RISK. LInk to PINECREST FLOODS for full story and additional images.

UPDATE, A NEW YEAR ::: February 09, 2017 ::::

Update, A NEW YEAR ::: January, 2017, Update, A NEW YEAR :::

STILL NO DRAINAGE! Building of second luxury home inside development OK'd and nearly finished WITHOUT separate stormwater sewers or sufficient drains inside plat. (More Zika news. Two more species = 3)

Previous, June 2015. Hurricane Season 2015 is here ... and my city of Pinecrest will not fix the mess they created, filling in 5 acres of sumpland intended for new mansions that now floods us instead.

"You'll be safe," officials promised, assured us, way back in 2007. "Building codes mandate that water from a development must be contained."

They lied.
Won't fix.
Here is the evidence.
The main site showing all is Pinecrest Floods.
Now having launched, I am updating sites in a frenzy, time is closing in.
Yipes!

Entries from Pinecrest Floods:

Updated June 9, 2015

Pre-fab sign for holding permit posted. Large area at 72 Ave. and 96 St., illegally cleared by developer without one. Police arrived and stopped for now. City knew plans were in progress but had not permitted. Q: Knowing the land must be reclaimed, cost effective drainage is not possible, why were plans even considered? Pinecrest Afloat has photos of police on scene and flooding of area in 2013 recently found. Sumpland site is also popular. This site was first and contains more history. There are 7 total, listed below. All begin with Pinecrest.

Added June 19, 2015. Police stopped land clearing inside development.
No permit issued, drainage was not submitted because is impossible to do.

Entries from Pinecrest Floods:

October 2014. Chutzpah!

Yet another developer takes over, for sale signs up the day after climate conference that city officials attended. Talk about audacity!! No denying Pinecrest is GROUND ZERO for INLAND sea rise. Budget passed, city opts out of rising waters. Cost of drainage omitted. Link Dept. of Transportation, some inland roads soon underwater as limestone saturates. Miami in NYT World: Rising Seas

September 2014. WITHOUT a solution for stormwater drainage, platting remains intact. Full story below. Our united battle cry: Drainage before houses. The city tried it their way and look what happened! New rules: Drainage first. Prove it will work. Higher standards. Drainage before houses.

This is a picture of the sumpland adjoining my property. Water overtopped the berm sending water to 80 feet under my house.

This is a picture before the berm was added, my yard and the neighborhood AWASH

My yard and the neighborhood AWASH after the "protective" bern overtopped

(Top) This is a picture of land elevated. Now you tell me, why did Pinecrest promise we'd be safe? And when proven otherwise, deny, accuse us, ban the word sumpland from lowland that had never been filled?

Bottom: My immersed backyard