{"id":240,"date":"2017-05-01T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=240"},"modified":"2017-05-01T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:00:03","slug":"7wetlands-park-may-get-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"7Wetlands Park May Get State $"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development of a 1,600-acre wetlands treatment area south of Loyce Harpe Park in Mulberry may advance, thanks to the Florida Legislature.\n<\/p>\n<p>The current budget includes $500,000 for the project called 7Wetlands Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>The area was used by Lakeland for 30 years to provide additional treatment of its sewer discharges before they reached the Alafia River.\n<\/p>\n<p>Plans for the park have been under discussion since 2014. The park would extend the existing trail system and provide some additional wildlife \u2013viewing opportunities.\n<\/p>\n<p>The status of the appropriations will depend on the final vote on the budget this week and what action Gov. Rick Scott takes after he receives the budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of a 1,600-acre wetlands treatment area south of Loyce Harpe Park in Mulberry may advance, thanks to the Florida Legislature. The current budget includes $500,000 for the project called 7Wetlands Park. The area was used by Lakeland for 30 years to provide additional treatment of its sewer discharges before they reached the Alafia [&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-240","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\/240","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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}