Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Project

EAA Reservoir

“We Did It”

From Treasure Coast Newspapers, April 20, 2020, by Tyler Treadway Work began Monday on the long-awaited project to curtail damaging Lake Okeechobee discharges to the St. Lucie River and Caloosahatchee ...
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Army Corps of Engineers Wants Public Comment on Reservoir

from tcpalm.com's Tyler Treadway The Army Corps of Engineers wants to know what you think about the plans for the reservoir being designed to help cut Lake Okeechobee discharges. The ...

Rivers Coalition Backs Reservoir As The “Last, Best Chance”

By Tyler Treadway April 5, 2018 TC Palm About half the member organizations that make up the Rivers Coalition are voicing support for the proposed design for a reservoir to cut Lake Okeechobee discharges ...

Is Reservoir Plan Enough To Save The Glades?

By Jenny Staletovich March 8, 2018 Miami Herald South Florida water managers signed off on a $1.4 billion reservoir Thursday, approving one of the costliest projects yet in the decades-long ...
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Stuart News Guest Column: Let’s discuss the third rail of Everglades restoration

By Jay O'Laughlin, Ph.D. Jay O’Laughlin is professor emeritus at the University of Idaho and lives in Hobe Sound. He is a board member and writes water policy position statements ...

Pivotal Moment For Our Estuaries And The Everglades

By Eve Samples January 5, 2018 TC Palm Let's make this as clear as possible. More land to store and clean water south of Lake Okeechobee equals less lake water ...

Will Everglades Reservoir Be Big Enough?

By Jenny Staletovich December 6, 2017 Miami Herald Water managers planning a massive Everglades reservoir to help end polluted releases from Lake Okeechobee that regularly foul both coasts unveiled early drafts of ...

Time For Chamber To Get On Board With Reservoir

By Eve Samples November 9, 2017 TC Palm An open letter to the Florida Chamber of Commerce: Business leaders of Florida, It's great that you're talking about water. You got together in ...

EAA Reservoir Project Timeline

This is a link to a visual map and timeline produced by the South Florida Water Management District to show the progress on the reservoir's completion. The reservoir will be designed ...