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Article: Effort to shore up island walls reliant on shaky state funding. (Spotlight On Naples).
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 4, 2003
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NOT so long ago, the small waterfront community of Naples wits literally sinking into the ocean. The slippage has been halted for now, but residents are concerned that the state's budget difficulties could dry up the trickle of funding now dedicated to fixing the problem.
The island off the southern tip of Long Beach is anchored by the Long Beach Yacht Club. Its well-heeled residents have known for years that the land was subsiding, because oil companies that dredged its wetlands in the 1950s took oil out of the ground without replacing it with water.
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By the 1990s, sidewalks along Naples' quaint canals appeared to be ...