Water District launches a new 10-year, $2.87 billion Everglades ...
4 days ago · In an effort to clean the water in the Everglades and move water south, the South Florida Water Management District announced a $2.87 billion project to upgrade the embankment of the Everglades Agricultural Areas Reservoir. The district’s latest plans were given to the Thalle Construction Company. The project’s timeline is for 10 years.
Despite historic funding for Everglades restoration, work falls …
5 days ago · Despite historic funding for Everglades restoration, work falls behind schedule. Mounds of fill used to construct the 11,500-acre deep reservoir. It will be surrounded by a 38-foot high embankment wall, now scheduled to be completed in 2034. As Everglades restoration heads toward the quarter century mark, work to revive a wetlands the size of ...
Everglades report highlights restoration progress, areas for ...
6 days ago · The past two years have seen major accomplishments in the implementation of Everglades restoration projects, thanks to record state and federal investments in 2022 and 2023, according to a new report. Natural system restoration progress is evident in large areas of the Everglades ecosystem ...
Florida is building the world's largest environmental restoration ... - BBC
Aug 16, 2024 · Florida is embarking on an ambitious ecological restoration project in the Everglades: building a reservoir large enough to secure the state's water supply. In February 2023, a large digger broke...
A freshwater, saltwater tug-of-war is eating away at the Everglades
Aug 20, 2018 · The Everglades, nicknamed the river of grass, has endured its share of threats. Decades of human tinkering to make South Florida an oasis for residents and a profitable place for farmers and...
Florida plans $850 million in Everglades restoration projects
Apr 22, 2024 · Florida officials and environmental advocates on Earth Day touted major progress toward Everglades restoration, which has been advanced by dozens of state-funded projects. And more is coming.
Everglades restoration moves closer to reality with a crucial ...
Feb 27, 2023 · In the interim, Everglades restoration has made halting progress, with much of the delay centered around a key central component—a reservoir and filtration marshes that reconnect Lake Okeechobee...
Interior Department Establishes Everglades to Gulf Conservation …
Mar 11, 2024 · VERO BEACH, Fla. – The Department of the Interior today announced the establishment of the Everglades to Gulf Conservation Area in southwest Florida as the 571st and newest unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System, which is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Restoration Successes in America’s Everglades - The National …
Jun 22, 2023 · The bipartisan plan to restore America’s Everglades, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, was signed into law in 2000 and is among the most ambitious ecosystem restoration project in history.
Lessons on the limits of ecosystem restoration from the Everglades - NPR
Jan 27, 2024 · When the U.S. government and state of Florida unveiled a new plan to save the Everglades in 2000, the sprawling blueprint to restore the wetlands became the largest hydrological restoration...