{"id":171,"date":"2017-02-23T09:37:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=171"},"modified":"2017-02-23T09:37:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T14:37:02","slug":"lake-kissimmee-sp-bridge-topic-of-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Lake Kissimmee SP bridge topic of meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have visited Lake Kissimmee State Park recently, you may have noticed some construction along the Zipprer Canal.\n<\/p>\n<p>There are two things going on. One is construction of a new water control structure on this canal between Lake Rosalie and Lake Kissimmee. Next will be construction of a new bridge across the canal.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting from 5 to 7 p.m. March 14 in the pavilion near the park&#8217;s marina to explain the project.\n<\/p>\n<p>The current bridge is substandard, according to an evaluation of local bridges FDOT conducted a few years ago. It, for instance, cannot be used by heavy vehicles, such as fire trucks. (Interestingly, I was at the park one day and saw a Polk County fire truck parked near the bridge while the crew walked over the park&#8217;s cow camp.)\n<\/p>\n<p>The old bridge will remain because it is considered historic, according to park officials. The new bridge will span the canal nearby.\n<\/p>\n<p>For additional information, contact project manager Andra Diggs at <a href=\"https:\/\/mg.mail.yahoo.com\/neo\/b\/compose?to=Andra.Diggs@dot.state.fl.us\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family:Helvetica; font-size:10pt\">Andra.Diggs@dot.state.fl.us<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Helvetica; font-size:10pt\"> .<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have visited Lake Kissimmee State Park recently, you may have noticed some construction along the Zipprer Canal. There are two things going on. One is construction of a new water control structure on this canal between Lake Rosalie and Lake Kissimmee. Next will be construction of a new bridge across the canal. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}