{"id":41037,"date":"2016-08-31T19:13:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T23:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41037"},"modified":"2016-08-31T19:13:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T23:13:28","slug":"lee-county-approves-funding-for-flooded-area-near-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/08\/lee-county-approves-funding-for-flooded-area-near-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Approves Funding For Flooded Area Near Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41038\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41038\" title=\"dt-dumping01\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dt-dumping01-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dt-dumping01-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/dt-dumping01.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Lee County Commission declared a state of emergency for a 7.3-square-mile area in east Lee County that\u2019s been affected by flooding, but an official emphasized that the declaration has nothing to do with Tropical Storm HERMINE.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the declaration allows the county to spend $30,000 to lay gravel on private dirt roads that have become impassable because of rain that has fallen throughout the summer. The idea is to ensure ambulances, fire trucks, postal trucks and other vehicles can, if necessary, access residents in the zone,\u00a0known as the Wildcat Drive area and located between State Road 82 and Corkscrew Road. <a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Wildcat-Drive-Area-visual.pdf\">Click here<\/a> to see a map\u00a0of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee County Commission declared a state of emergency for a 7.3-square-mile area in east Lee County that\u2019s been affected by flooding, but an official emphasized that the declaration has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}