The Memorial Day Flood

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On Memorial Day Weekend the Country Club of Miami experienced the most serious flood in its history, at least until that point in time.This flood revealed numerous shortcomings of flood mitigation planning and execution. The CCM WorkGroup is attempting to work with county officials to do whatever is possible to prevent or lessen the impact of future flood events. Some of the shortcomings that we are trying to address are:

Irregular groundwater level monitoring
Irregular rainfall monitoring
Inadequate flood mitigation pumping capacity at the North Augusta and West Oakmont pumping stations.
No generator backup for pumping stations
Weed, debris and silt-choked drainage canals
Insufficient coordination between the county and the S Florida Water Management District

As bad as this flood was, it would soon be eclipsed the flood caused by hurricane Eta on November 9, 2020. To see drone footage of this event click here.

The following photos were taken by Marcos Gonzalez of West Lake Dr. Be sure to look at the very interesting drone photos in the middle of the group.