By Steve Plunkett
Buoyed by a $6 million drop in the cost estimate, Boca Raton City Council members enthusiastically approved a plan to refurbish long-neglected canoe trails and a boardwalk at Rutherford and Lake Wyman parks.
The plan carried a $15.5
By Steve Plunkett
Construction prices more than double what was expected have forced the city and the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District to delay plans to rebuild the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center observation tower and refurbish Lake Wyman and Ru
Brent Robinson picks up a can near a shopping cart he found filled with trash at Lake Wyman.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By April W. Klimley
Bruce Hurley discovered something when he organized a cleanup day for the shore along Lake Wyman: Envir
By Steve Plunkett
Boca Raton’s environmental advisory board supports moving quickly on getting money from the Florida Inland Navigation District and the county to restore Lake Wyman.
Steve Alley, chairman of the panel, showed City Council m
By Steve Plunkett
The Lake Wyman restoration project, dropped with a 4-1 vote by the Boca Raton City Council, could still be brought back to life.
“It’s never actually dead,” said Daniel Bates, the county’s deputy director of Environmental Reso
By Steve Plunkett
The clock may be down to its final few ticks on $2.5 million in grants and county money to make over Lake Wyman.
Rob Robbins, director of the county’s Environmental Resources Management Department, told City Council members that th
The existing boardwalk areas of the parks would be
expanded to provide more access to picnic areas and
the mangrove stands. Photo by Jerry Lower
By Steve Plunkett
The county plans to convert an overgrown spoil island in Lake Wyman into a seagrass
