{"id":3087,"date":"2026-01-22T07:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:54:10","slug":"se7en-wetlands-education-center-construction-to-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=3087","title":{"rendered":"Se7en Wetlands Education Center  Construction To Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_21-1-2026_64446_www.lakelandgov.net_.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_21-1-2026_64446_www.lakelandgov.net_.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_21-1-2026_64446_www.lakelandgov.net_.jpeg 608w, https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot_21-1-2026_64446_www.lakelandgov.net_-300x229.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The long-sought environmental education center at Se7en Wetlands Park is a go.<br>The Lakeland City Commission has approved a $1.2 million contract with Rodda Construction to build the center near the 1,600-acre park&#8217;s northern entrance.<br>The work will be funded with a $977,165 grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and $259.927 in city funds.<br>The park, which opened in 2018, contains a trail system that is popular for wildlife viewing. It contains a number of treatment wetlands designed to remove nutrients from the city&#8217;s sewer discharges before the water reaches the North Prong of the Alafia River and a pipeline that supplies cooling water to TECO&#8217;s Polk Power Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-sought environmental education center at Se7en Wetlands Park is a go.The Lakeland City Commission has approved a $1.2 million contract with Rodda Construction to build the center near the 1,600-acre park&#8217;s northern entrance.The work will be funded with a $977,165 grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and $259.927 in city funds.The park, [&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-3087","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\/3087","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=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}