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1. Provide relief to Fellsmere Drainage District Lateral M dike by constructing an opening from the North end of Lateral M Eastward to open marsh water; 2. By removing the obstructions and silt in Fellsmere Drainage District Park 'L'ateral canal from the City of Fellsmere North to the main canal of said District to eliminate the flood condition of the City of Fellsmere; 3. To repair and strengthen three miles of Indian River Farms Drainage District dike system extending Southward and Eastward from the Northwest corner of Section 27, Township 33 South, Range 38 East, to the Southeast corner of Section 349 Township 33 South, Range 38 East. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said District Engineer be furnished with two (2) copies of this Resolution, together with a map of Indian River County, Florida, indicating the work immediately requested. Motion for the adoption was made by Commissioner Waddell and unanimously adopted. R E S 0 L U T I 0 N_ Commissioner Stewart introduced the following Resolution and moved its adoption as Follows, to -wit: WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, to cooperate with the affected land holders in Indian River County, the general public., the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, the State Board of Conservation of the State of Florida, division of Vater Surveys and Research, and the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army of the United States of America, in connection with the Central and Southern Florida Comprehensive Plan for Flood Control and other purposes; and, WHEREAS, the affected land owners have presented to the Board of County Commissioners their recommended plan with respect to this project insofar as the same affects Indian River County; and, WHEREAS, it is the considered opinion of this Board that the recommended plan of said land owners is to the -best interest of Indian River County to relieve flood conditions in this County and to provide storage areas for water conservation purposes; and, WHEREAS, said land owners and this Board are in accord in the fact that in the development in recent years of the lands lying West of the respective drainage districts in this County and extending to the divide between the Kissimmee River Water Shed and the St. Johns River Basin and in the construction of numerous canals,drains, dikes and restrictions in the flow of water in said St. Johns River Basin to the end that flood waters now flow off said divide and into the St. Johns River Basin and against the West dikes of the respective drainage districts of this County at a much more rapid rate of flow with the resultant hazard to said system of dikes and with the further result in time of drought that said former natural storage basin furnishing waters for irrigation purposes is seriously depleted; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, this thi's Board does recommend to Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, the State Board.of Conservation of the State of Florida, Division of dater Surveys and Research, and said Corps of Engineers, that the Comprehensive Plan for such flood control and other purposes insofar as the same affects Indian River County, Florida, include the drains, dikes, breakwater, outlets and other works as indicated on the attached map of Indian River County, Florida, or such other or further works as a study of the problems of this bounty, as indicated in this Resolution and said map, may iddicate or require to aocomplish the relief required. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy.of this Resolution be forwarded to the Honorable Claude Pepper and the Honorable Spessard L. Holland, United States Senators from Florida, the