Don't know about anyone else, but the longer this goes on, the madder I get. A few observations/questions, I can't think of any other section of county maintained highway that generates as many sales and bed tax dollars as the 17 miles of 30A, yet I can't recall any seeing any tax dollars expended, beyond minor maintenance, in the last 3 years. As someone who travels between Blue Mountain Beach and Watercolor Publix on a daily basis, it has been obvious for almost 2 months that the water on the North side of 30A at Big Redfish has been dangerously high, yet absolutely nothing was done about it. Does this qualify as negligence on the part of the County Public Works Department, or just neglect. And this is not just a local concern, every taxpayer in Walton County is on the hook now for a $25 or $30K problem that has been turned into a $500,000 problem. You have to wonder if FEMA will look at this situation and say "You allowed the problem to exist for two months, fix it yourself". And don't think that similar problems don't exist other places on 30A. The sinkhole another poster referenced East of Ed Walline is simply being patched on a monthly basis, with no attempts to address the actual problem. And the patching only began after the fatality at that location a year ago. The counties liability for that could dwarf any cost of fixing the situation. It's time for out elected representatives, county employees to start answering some questions about priorities and decision making processes on the local and county level.
