Chad Gillis, Fort Myers News-Press Published 4:37 p.m. ET June 13, 2019 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is revising management plans that should eventually help water quality and quantity in southern Florida. Corps officials met Thursday with the South Florida Water Management District in West Palm Beach to talk about the changes and how the agency plans to get more water to Florida Bay, which has been damaged from a…
BY SAMANTHA J. GROSS AND ADRIANA BRASILEIRO HERALD/TIMES BUREAU JUNE 03, 2019 05:55 PM, UPDATED JUNE 04, 2019 04:53 PM TALLAHASSEE After years of work on the part of lawmakers and advocacy groups alike, a project aimed at reviving the natural flow of fresh water into the Everglades received the long-sought funding it needs to raise another 6.5 miles of the Tamiami Trail. The United States Department of Transportation announced Friday that $60 million, plus a nearly $40…
Tyler Treadway, Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 2:40 p.m. ET May 8, 2019 | Updated 2:40 p.m. ET May 8, 2019 WEST PALM BEACH — The newly appointed South Florida Water Management District board hinted Wednesday that besides building water-cleaning projects, they intend to impose stricter regulations on polluters. And the newest board member led the charge during a workshop on the district’s role in cleaning the state’s water. Increased nutrient pollution entering Lake Okeechobee…
Article: Jenny Staletovich Photo: Carl Juste WLRN So much rain so early in the wet season has led to a slow-moving crisis across South Florida: what to do with all the water before things get really bad. To avoid drowning wildlife in the central Everglades, and avoid fouling the Treasure Coast with dirty water from Lake Okeechobee later in the season, the South Florida Water Management District began back-pumping water into the…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Parts of Florida’s Everglades are so waterlogged that deer, wading birds and other animals are running out of dry ground. Heavy rains this month have left water levels 2 feet (0.6 meters) higher than normal in the wetlands in western Broward and Miami-Dade counties. The water levels top 11 feet (3.4 meters) in some areas, according to an emergency order from Florida’s Department of Environmental Protection.…
Jenny Staletovich Miami Herald So much rain so early in the wet season has led to a slow-moving crisis across South Florida: what to do with all the water before things get really bad. To avoid drowning wildlife in the central Everglades, and avoid fouling the Treasure Coast with dirty water from Lake Okeechobee later in the season, the South Florida Water Management District began back-pumping water into the lake over…
CBS Miami All that rain in the beginning of June is causing big problems in the Everglades. It’s flooded. “It’s about three and a half feet now,” Florida Wildlife Commissioner Ron Bergeron demonstrated as he stood in the Everglades, showing water up to his waist. “In a normal beginning of rainy season it would be below my knees.” More than 20 inches of rain has put the water level two feet higher than normal. “Imagine what…
Todd Tongen Local 10 ABC News MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Parts of Florida’s Everglades are so waterlogged that deer, wading birds and other animals are running out of dry ground. State officials said heavy rains this month have left water levels 2 feet higher than normal in the wetlands in western Broward and Miami-Dade counties. The water levels top 11 feet in some places. Wooded “tree islands” usually offer animals dry refuge when water levels…
Eric Chaney weather.com The Everglades are in the midst of a “catastrophic” flood event. So says Ron Bergeron, a 10-year commissioner with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, who has watched heavy rains in South Florida over the past month push water levels in the conservation areas of the swamp to historic heights. All but a few of the tree islands in the Everglades, which are used by white-tailed deer and other…
Nancy Smith Sunshine State News South Florida Water Management District staff were in emergency-operations mode Wednesday to control severely flooded Everglades water conservation areas (WCAs) and relieve inundated stormwater treatment areas (STAs). Heavy June rainfall throughout South Florida, with some areas receiving more than 2.5 times the average, has increased stormwater to more than triple the capacity of the STAs in the southern Everglades — particularly in Water Conservation Area 3A in western Miami-Dade and…
