Posted on May 12, 2025
Sediment has created sandbars in the middle of Phillip Creek near the South Gate Community Center. Some residents, who experienced flooding during Tropical Storm Debby in 2024, believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
Sediment has created sandbars in the middle of Phillip Creek near the South Gate Community Center. Some residents, who experienced flooding during Tropical Storm Debby in 2024, believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
Phillippi Creek looking south from the Webber St. bridge. Sediment has created sandbars in many places in the middle of Phillip Creek. Some residents, who experienced flooding during Tropical Storm Debby in 2024, believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
Sediment has created sandbars in the middle of Phillip Creek near the South Gate Community Center. Some residents, who experienced flooding during Hurricane Debby in 2024, believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
Bill Sermania’s floating dock on Phillippi Creek is no longer floating behind his home on Mineola Dr. in Sarasota.
Phillipi Creek on the north end of Mineola Dr. in Sarasota is filled in with sediment. Some residents, whose homes flooded during Tropical Storm Debby in 2024, believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
Bill Sermania’s floating dock on Phillippi Creek is no longer floating behind his home on Mineola Dr. in Sarasota.
Phillipi Creek on the north end of Mineola Dr. in Sarasota is filled in with sediment and water only flows through this narrow ditch. Some residents, whose homes flooded during Tropical Storm Debby in 2024, believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
A young girls runs across a sandbar in the middle of Phillippi Creek along Mineola Dr. in Sarasota. Some residents, whose homes flooded during Tropical Storm Debby in 2024, believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
Concerned South Gate residents meet behind the home of Jim and Tiffany Laughlin on Mineola Dr. on Phillippi Creek in Sarasota. Sediment has filled in much of the creek in some places. Some residents believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
Caprill Hembree stands in her home along Phillippi Creek on Mineola Dr. that is undergoing renovations following flooding from Tropical Storm Debby.
Seth Johnson walks through the backyard of his home on River Ridge Dr. along Phillippi Creek in Sarasota. The sediment has filled in the creek between the seawalls and now the creek is covered with weeds.
Abandoned vehicles sit in high water on Tuttle Ave. near the bridge over Phillippi Creek in Sarasota on Monday morning, Aug. 5, 2024, following Tropical Storm Debby.
Ethan Wilder, left, and Nick Davis watch traffic drive through floodwaters at Webber St. and Brink Ave., near the bridge over Phillippi Creek in Sarasota, Florida on Monday morning, Aug. 5, 2024, after Tropical Storm Debby passed offshore.
A near-by resident checks the bridge over Phillippi Creek to try and determine if it was safe to drive across on River Ridge Way, leading to homes along the creek on River Ridge Dr. Monday morning, Aug. 5, 2024 in Sarasota. Several homes were flooded following Tropical Storm Debby.
In 1998, sediment formed a sandbar below the Phillippi Creek Bridge on Bahia Vista Street, filling in more than a third of the width of the creekbed. When Phillippi Creek overflows its banks, the water backs up from the creek into the Bellevue Terrace and Oak Shores neighborhoods.
In 1998, a large sandbar was clearly visible in the middle of Phillippi Creek, just north of the Webber Street bridge.
This aerial view shows the flooding from Phillippi Creek north of Bahia Vista Street in 1962. The photograph, looking roughly west to east, shows S. Lockwood Ridge in the foreground, Locklear Park is at the lower left. The homes on the north side of Phillippi Creek were eventually purchased and demolished by Sarasota County and a levee was built in their place to try and control floodwaters in the Bellevue Terrace neighborhood.
Phillip Creek is just a shallow ditch behind homes on River Ridge Dr. and Brink Ave. in Sarasota. Sediment has filled in many places along the creek, reducing it to a narrow ditch. Some residents, who experienced flooding during Tropical Storm Debby in 2024, believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
Phillip Creek is just a shallow ditch behind homes on River Ridge Dr. and Brink Ave. in Sarasota. Sediment has filled in many places along the creek, reducing it to a narrow ditch. Some residents, who experienced flooding during Tropical Storm Debby in 2024, believe dredging the creek could help reduce future flooding and are urging Sarasota County to do something about it.
Phillippi Creek is now just a ditch filled with stagnant water on the north end of River Ridge Dr. in Sarasota. Some residents have taken it upon themselves to mow the weeds that grow past the sea walls where the creek has filled in with sediment.
