A GRASSROOTS EFFORT to improve local environmental water quality, starting at the neighborhood level, is beginning to bloom big-time.  Building on a successful pilot program that has helped about a dozen Sarasota County homeowner communities bolster (and beautify) their stormwater retention ponds, Solutions to Avoid Red Tide—or START—has secured a major grant from Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation to create a regional “Healthy Pond Collaborative.”     Read the entire article……………………………….