Price of Everglades restoration project keeps rising
Restoring about 2.4 million acres of the Florida Everglades is costing more than expected, federal and state overseers told a House subcommittee Thursday. The initial $1.1 billion estimate for two of the first major projects now approaches $1.6 billion.
The costs have added to the massive 30-year restoration effort's initial price tag of $7.8 billion, which is to be split 50-50 among the state and federal governments.
The two projects involve building reservoirs and stormwater treatment areas and reclaiming 260 miles of roads. The projects set up the broader restoration effort by helping control or capture water from canals and roads in southern Florida.
At a hearing on their costs, Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn., asked why projects that don't "directly benefit" the Everglades were slated first.
Duncan, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee on water resources and environment, also questioned why the cost estimates had grown and the state had paid $915 million so far - six times as much as the federal government's $150 million....
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The Florida Everglades are subtropical marshland located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, specifically in parts of Monroe, Collier, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, and Broward counties.
Though much modified by agricultural development in central and southern Florida, the Everglades is the southern half of a large watershed arising in the vicinity of Orlando known as the Kissimmee River system. The Kissimmee flows from Taylor Creek, Nubbin Slough, and Fisheating Creek, and discharges into Lake Okeechobee, a very large (730 mi² or 1,890 km²), shallow (10 ft or 3 m) fresh water lake. Water leaving Lake Okeechobee in the wet season forms the Everglades, a shallow, slow-moving sportsbook flood at one time 40 miles (60 km) wide and over 100 miles (160 km) long moving southward across a nearly flat limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state. The Everglades extends from Lake Okeechobee on the north to Florida Bay on the south and was once bordered by Big Cypress Swamp on the west and the Atlantic Coastal Ridge on the east. It has been called River of Grass (Douglas, 1947) because of the slow flow of water from Okeechobee southward and the predominance of a sedge known as sawgrass. Slightly elevated points in this extremely flat area are covered with trees, usually cypress and red mangrove.
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Everglades National Park is a national park in the U.S. state of Florida. The largest subtropical wilderness in the United States, it contains the southern 25 percent of the original Everglades marshland region of southwestern Florida. It is visited by one million people each year,and it is the third-largest national park in the lower 48 states after Death Valley National Park and Yellowstone National Park.costa rica fishingIt has been declared an International Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and a Wetland of International Importance, only one of three locations in the world to appear on all three lists.
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Everglades for thousands of years, not until 1882 did the region begin to be drained for agricultural or residential use.Costa rica toursIn the 20th century the water flow from Lake Okeechobee was controlled and diverted to the explosive growth of the South Florida metropolitan area. The park was established in 1934 to protect the quickly vanishing Everglades and dedicated in 1947,
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