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The Everglades Forever Act is a Florida law passed in 1994 designed to restore the Everglades. [1] The law recognized, the “Everglades ecological system is endangered as a result of adverse changes in water quality, and in the quantity, distribution and timing of flows, and, therefore, must be restored and protected.” [2] The law was codified in § 373.4592, Florida Statutes.
Much of the water reclaimed from the Everglades was sent to newly developed areas. [80] With metropolitan growth came urban problems associated with rapid expansion: traffic jams; school overcrowding; crime; overloaded sewage treatment plants; and, for the first time in south Florida's urban history, water shortages in times of drought. [81]
A portion of the C-38 canal, finished in 1971, now backfilled to restore the Kissimmee River floodplain to a more natural state. An ongoing effort to remedy damage inflicted during the 20th century on the Everglades, a region of tropical wetlands in southern Florida, is the most expensive and comprehensive environmental repair attempt in history.
The Central and Southern Florida (C&SF) Project, [3] which was first authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1948, is a multi-purpose project that provides flood control, water supply for municipal, industrial, and agricultural uses, prevention of saltwater intrusion, water supply for Everglades National Park, and protection of fish and wildlife ...
He is also Florida senator-elect for District 24. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Save the 'Savings Clause' to protect Florida water availability Show comments
The following year, the state of Florida created the agency which eventually became the South Florida Water Management District, responsible for water quality, flood control, water supply and environmental restoration in 16 counties, from Orlando to the Florida Keys. [18] To control flooding, the Kissimmee River was straightened from 1962 to ...
These days, we often hear about the importance of failure and the role it may play in launching or advancing our careers. It seems, after eons of lambasting people for even the most miniscule...
Water Conservation Area 3 (WCA-3) is the largest existing WCA covering a total of 915 square miles within Western Dade and Broward Counties. [1] Lying southwest of WCA-2 and just north of Everglades National Park, WCA-3 is used primarily as an area to receive flood waters from adjacent areas and store them for beneficial municipal, urban, and ...