(19 Dec 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
South Bay, Florida – 15 May 2024
1. Water control infrastructure
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Reynolds, South Florida Water Management District:
“So we’re here today, at the Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Project, and so behind me you can see the inflow/outflow canal, which is the water source for the project. This will connect the reservoir and the stormwater treatment area. It will bring water from Lake Okeechobee, store it in the reservoir, then clean it in the stormwater treatment area and then send it south to Everglades National Park and Florida Bay.”
3. Close of dragonfly
4. Pan of water control infrastructure
5. Med of dragonfly and plants moving with the wind
6. Aerial of canal and water control infrastructure
7. Pan of excavator
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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Reynolds, South Florida Water Management District:
“The Comprehensive Everglades Plan was originally authorized by Congress in 2000, and it’s taken us a while to get to this point of really designing and constructing this storage reservoir. This is an important milestone in Everglades restoration and allows us to store water in a place that’s different from Lake Okeechobee. So what does that do? That helps keep the level of the lake lower, it helps reduce those damaging discharges to the northern estuaries and it helps make sure that water is clean when we send it south to Everglades National Park and to Florida Bay.”
9. Various of construction
10. Water level measuring gauge
11. Tilt of map of restoration and resilience projects in Florida
12. Plants moving with the wind
13. Pan of water control infrastructure
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jennifer Reynolds, South Florida Water Management District:
“It’s exciting to be part of what is making Florida’s economy thrive, what is making our environment thrive and what is making sure that we have fresh water that’s available for water supply, for drinking water, for all of our habitats. The Everglades is an amazing place of biodiversity and being able to be a part of constructing projects that make a difference both for the natural and the built environment is a tremendous opportunity.
15. Close of Florida map
16. Pickup truck driving away from canal
17. Close of dragonfly
18. Aerial of canal and water control infrastructure
STORYLINE:
Northwest of Miami, excavators claw mounds of blasted limestone as crews replace acres of sugarcane fields in a massive project that aims to supply clean freshwater to the Everglades.
When the $3.9 billion Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Project is complete, a reservoir and wetland will store and clean polluted water from Lake Okeechobee in central Florida before it’s discharged into the southern Everglades.
Considered by some the most important of the projects, the reservoir, at 10,500 acres (4,249 hectares), will have the capacity to store enough water for the equivalent of about 480,000 to 720,000 homes. Its adjacent 6,500-acre (2,630.5 hectares) wetland – or the stormwater treatment area – will clean reservoir water before it’s discharged.
Combined, the project will be nearly the stretch of a marathon.
“The wildlife and the mosaic of habitats that are here rely on getting the water right, and that’s what this project is about,” said Reynolds. “It’s about getting the water right for the natural habitats and also to sustain the population of people who live and recreate here.”
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