Stormwater storage and water quality project complete in Lehigh Acres

Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District (LAMSID) just completed the Moving Water South Phase II: Blackstone Preserve Project.

It plays a pivotal role in improving flood control, “we’ll have upwards of 700 acre feet of water that won’t make it to the Caloosahatchee River,” said David Lindsay, District Manager, Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District.

The project is designed to take water from a canal that would otherwise go into the Caloosahatchee River, but instead it'll pump it into the Blackstone Preserve.

“It's 70 acres has a berm all the way around the outside, and there’s no way for that water to leave except to percolate through the sand and the soils,” said Michael Cook, Assistant District Manager, Lehigh Acres Municipal Services Improvement District.