About deliver-the-preserve-we-deserve
Our Mission
Get the developer, Lennar Corporation, to redesign the Sierra Ranches Preserve to code, plans, best engineering practices and compensate any environmental mitigation required at the offsite bank. This will reduce the burdens imposed on Sierra Ranches residents who are supposed to own and maintain the preserve in perpetuity.
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80% will be covered with plants over the next two years.
Water channels around residential lots and in the preserve must be substantially intact through perpetuity, but the channels around residential lots have experienced catastrophic failure
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Regulated Depth vs. Design Depth vs. Actual Sep ‘23 Depth
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Spatterdocks dominating the open water buffer and the planted marsh beyond the 34 foot water buffer in front of Lots 26 and 27. Spatterdocks are native flow attenuating nuisance species that should not exist in a flowage channel and should be eliminated by early intervention.
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Open water channels in aerial images in 2022 appear to be much narrower in several places compared to the plans or as-built surveys provided by the developer that are over two years old (e.g. 19 feet vs 34 feet).
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Amateur Investigators at work
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Water Buffer being completely taken over by spatterdocks, pickerelweed and spikerush – View south from boatramp
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An exotic species will never grow this big if regularly maintained
