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Old 08-11-2019, 01:28 PM
 
Location: Davie, FL
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Played golf earlier this week, tee box was next to a tiny lake (75 ft X 250 ft)........not one but 2 gators in the lake (18 inch one in the water and a 4 footer on the bank). This was a 20+ year old course, houses lined one side of the lake. Dark water (not clear) is ripe for the scalely dinosaurs!

With Weston on the border of the Everglades, I'd expect to see them.

Take a tour with the gator boys:
https://www.evergladesholidaypark.co...medium=organic

Spooky place, really deep/dark rim canals loaded with gators!

I can't imagine how many bodies got dumped out there in the 70s-80s!
Are you a member of Weston and beyond? When a gator is seen in Weston, it's blasted all over. It's not really that common. I ride my bike all through Weston, including in the evenings and never have I seen one personally. They are certainly around, but to suggest they are all over the canals and lakes in Weston is not correct.
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Old 08-12-2019, 08:11 AM
 
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Thanks All - this helps
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Old 08-13-2019, 10:22 AM
 
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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How is Weston not in a flood zone?

They literally filled in part of the Everglades to build Weston.
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Old 08-13-2019, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Davie, FL
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How is Weston not in a flood zone?

They literally filled in part of the Everglades to build Weston.
That's now how they did it. They don't fill it in. They dig it out. Which is why you have lakes/canals EVERYWHERE in Weston. You end up with the houses several feet above the water level as the dirt/muck that is dug out is pushed up where the houses are built. And with all that water, it also acts as storage and drainage to move the water out of the area quickly. That's what happens when you have a master planned city like that. You'll notice that's how just about all of the new-ish communities are built. The water would have to come up 7 - 8 feet or so to flood my house. You would have to essentially flood all of South Florida to flood these houses, rain isn't going to do that.
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Old 08-14-2019, 11:40 AM
 
Location: Weston, FL
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How is Weston not in a flood zone?

They literally filled in part of the Everglades to build Weston.
If you drive on Griffin Road between Southwest Ranches and Weston, you can see how much higher Weston sits.

As BNBR pointed out, they built it up with all the soil and rocks they dug up from the everglades (and brought from quarries, well, that's also from the Everglades)
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Old 12-19-2019, 08:36 PM
 
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Are there more mosquitos on a lakefront home? Curious as nobody mentioned a con ...
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Old 12-20-2019, 07:54 AM
 
Location: Davie, FL
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Are there more mosquitos on a lakefront home? Curious as nobody mentioned a con ...
Not really.
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Old 12-23-2019, 12:44 PM
 
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Moderator cut: Personal attack

It’s reclaimed swampland no matter how much you dress it up.
Whether you like his approach, facts are facts. Below is the the sea level rise viewer. It's an interactive map that allows you to adjust the sea level in 1 foot increments. If you look at Weston you'll see that the water doesn't affect the houses until about 7 ft of rise. Even though the bodies of water start rising at 2 feet and the the surrounding area starts to be flooded at 5 feet.

https://coast.noaa.gov/slr/#/layer/s...h/midAccretion

Below is the interactive flood map. If you look at most Weston addresses you see they are at 6 NVGD elevation. Used all the fill from digging out the lakes to build the land up higher. It doesn't matter if its on swampland or not.

http://bcgis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/On...3d688bb79f063#

And if the water level increases by 7 feet the entire South Florida region is under water.

Last edited by harry chickpea; 12-28-2019 at 08:12 AM..
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Old 12-23-2019, 03:52 PM
 
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Please keep the topic to lakefront property and avoid yet another climate change thread. Those get deleted here as they are not unique to Ft. Lauderdale. Thanks
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Old 12-25-2019, 04:18 PM
 
Location: In the elevator!
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Whether you like his approach,
It’s not an opinion - WESTON is built on reclaimed swampland. Someone claimed it wasn’t, which I corrected. Blue herons was correct when they stated that Weston is literally built upon swamp.
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