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The NRC recommended improving planning on the state and federal levels, evaluating each CERP project annually, and further acquisition of land for restoration. Everglades restoration was earmarked $96 million in federal funds as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 with the intention of providing civil service and ...
The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) [2] provides a framework and guide to restore, protect and preserve the water resources of central and southern Florida, including the Everglades. It covers 16 counties over an 18,000-square-mile (47,000 km 2 ) area and centers on an update of the Central & Southern Florida (C&SF) Project ...
The highway elevation is part of a massive state-federal project, approved by Congress in 2000 with bipartisan support, that aims to undo damages wreaked upon these wetlands. “This is the biggest, most complicated and most expensive ecosystem restoration project in the world," said Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades.
Charlie Martinez, the representative for Miami-Dade on the South Florida Water Management District governing board, called it a “major part of the Central Everglades Restoration Project that ...
Progress in Everglades restoration has been outrageously slow, and even Graham was accused of not being aggressive enough. At the groundbreaking of a restoration project decades ago, Stoneman ...
While some Everglades Restoration projects have been completed, critical plans remain incomplete. Further, pre-CERP components of current plans overestimated the hydrologic and ecologic benefits of these plans, and restoration projects to be complete by 2027 that address these "benefit setbacks" lack timely funding. [146]
The latest Everglades Restoration project will pass more water through the Old Ingraham Highway. The Everglades needs more fresh water moving south. This new project will help
The Indian River Lagoon-South, the Central Everglades Planning Project and the C-43 Reservoir being built by the South Florida Water Management District are all underway and focused on restoring ...