A Letter to Pasco County Florida Neighbors
by Michael Coppola and Nancy Williams Dear Neighbor, You may have seen the many media reports of destructive flooding that has occurred in the Tampa Bay area over the last several years. You may have also seen flooding in your local neighborhood and along the roads as you drove through Pasco County. This is evidence that the effectiveness of our current storm sewer and retention pond system, which is required to be in place on all new developments, is not working to prevent flooding. Climate change brings greater rainfall over a shorter period of time and often over a much larger area. This more frequent and more severe flooding has been made worse by the poorly planned growth in development that has been going on in Pasco County, Florida, and the surrounding counties. The main focus of the insurance industry is to assess risk, and the risk of flooding is a top priority. They have determined that this risk has increased and will continue to get worse and as a result have expanded floo