Sunset Vista Trailhead Park - Treasure Island
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debbado
N 27° 45.346 W 082° 45.874
17R E 326098 N 3071395
This park is a result of two barges and a freighter colliding in Tampa Bay in 1993. The hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil that was spilled resulted in millions of dollars in damages.
Waymark Code: WM5P5B
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 01/28/2009
Views: 16
The park sign says...
Property for Sunset Vista Trailhead Park was purchased with funding from the Florida Communities Trust Preservation 2000 Program, and assistance of the Trust for Public Land. Construction of the Park was funded in part with Natural Resource Damage Funds recovered by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for Public Recreational Losses caused by the 1993 Tampa Bay Oil Spill.
A plaque in the park says...
Sunset Vista Trailhead Park
May 2003
This park was made possible by a Florida Preservation 2000 land acquisition grant, a NOAA oil spill grant and the dedicated actions fo the following people between 1998 and 2003:
Leon G. Atkinson, Mayor
Barbara Blush, Commissioner
Mary Maloof, Commissioner
Irving "Butch" Ellsworth, Commissioner
Stephanie Lavino, Commissioner
Charles S. Coward, City Manager
Hal Bruce, Grant Administrator
Phil Graham & Company, Project Design
Linda Fisher, Grant Writer
Henry Woodroffe, Architect
Tampa Contracting Services, Contractor
The Trust For Public Land
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NOTE: There is no parking directly adjacent to this park. Try parking across the street in one of the businesses.
Name: Sunset Vista Trailhead Park
Street Location: Gulf Blvd. & W. Gulf Blvd.
Local Municipality: Treasure Island
State/Province, etc.: FL
Country: USA
Memorial/Commemoration: The 1993 Tampa Bay Oil Spill
Date Established: May 2003
Picnic Facilities: none
Monuments/Statues: none
Art (murals/sculpture, etc.): none
Fountains: none
Ponds/Lakes/Streams/Rivers/Beach: Treasure Island Beach
Web Site: Not listed
Recreational Facilities: Not listed
Special Events: Not listed
Traditional Geocaches: Not listed
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