LEE COUNTY, Fla. -- In an effort to Protect Paradise, Lee County commissioners have accepted a state grant to improve water quality in North Fort Myers.
The $774,000 grant is from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
It'll help with the construction of a project for the Powell Creek Bypass Canal and a 10.5-acre site southwest of Old Bridge Road, near the Caloosahatchee River.
The project will divert water through a detention area and to remove nutrients before the water flows into the Caloosahatchee River.
