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Ernest Martin
From: jveber@aol.00m
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 6:35 AM
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Subject: Fwd: To Be Read At Commission Meeting From Rick GRITZ
Ernie,
These are the comments that Rick would like to have read into the record.
Jay
Original Message
From: Rkgrtz
To: ]Veber
Cc: jbroton@miami.edu
Sent: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 7:12:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time
Subject: To Be Read At Commission Meeting From Rick GRITZ
Gentleman: Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Richard Gritz a resident of Spring Garden for twenty five
years. 111 be brief. I live at 945 N.W. 7th Street Road, my properties being on The Seybold Canal. There is no
doubt In my mind that a clean up and dredging of Wagner Creek and The Seybold Canal is decades overdue,
and there are three points I wish to draw your attention to. However, before I do, let me just mention that this
unkept gem in the heart of Miami Is home to a dozen different types of fish, and also water fowl such as Ibis,
Hawks, Eagles, Pelicans, Cormorants, Ducks, Egrets, and many others. We've had at times one to three families
of Manatees, ranging in numbers from six to eighteen living In the canal, some years, all year around. Also
Iguanas which range from The Miami River all the way up The Wagner Creek, and at times alligators, which If left
alone, seem to fit in just fine. Now, since I've observed this waterway for 25 years I've been witness to a slow
degradation of all the things I've just mentioned, which brings me to my three points:
Point I Since being here I have pulled our of the canal; tires, compressors, beds, bed springs, c`omputers, begs
of medical waste and filled approximately one to three 33 gallons drums with general trash per week. I dare say,
over the years, I, one man, probably have collected enough trash to fi11 this building.
Point II For Your mental picture: I have a boat slip that has a solid bottom. To touch the bottom you have to go
through three to four feet of sediment and the way it has been deposited, at low tide one third of the slip is out of
the water. 1 have thought about having ft pumped out, but that would be of no use since the canal bottom would
then be higher and would simply flow back into the slip. Therefore I'm left with using it for just a row boat.
Point III The Seybold Canal is home to thirty to forty small independent fisherman and marinas all that add
revenue to our community. Boaters many times have to wait for the tide to move out or in, because at low tide
they hit the bottom. It is not only a beautiful waterway to lire on, but has a long history of Import to the seafood
business as part of the Miami River marine comununity.
This gentleman is all I have to say and would just add an invite to any one or all of you to Spring Garden and my
back yard for a look at what "WE" are allowing to be destioyed. The time to fix this problem Is now, and I trust
that the proper funding will be found to include the historic Seybold Canal.
7/28/2005
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