News The city of Cape Coral is working on yet another project to fend off any future droughts.
The city of Cape Coral is working on yet another project to fend off any future droughts.
The city wants to put a weir at the mouth of the Midsummer Canal on NE 24th Avenue.
The dam would hold back 3,000 acre-feet of water in the Cape’s canal system, instead of letting it flow into the Yellow Fever Creek and out to the Caloosahatchee.
This would leave the Cape with 3,000 million gallons of water a day to pull from during the dry season.
"The key to reliability in our irrigation system is storage," utilities director Jeff Pearson said.
"Being able to store more water in those canals is a great bang for our buck project."
This weir joins the reservoir at the southwest aggregate mine in Punta Gorda, the FGUA pipeline, and the reclaimed water agreement with Fort Myers, as ways the Cape is working to keep water in its canals.
The weir is the Cape’s part of an inter-local agreement with Lee County.
The county will be building a retention pond and pump station in the Yellow Fever Creek Preserve, to help with water retention and cleanup.