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 to hold at least 240,000 acre-feet of water and include water quality features necessary to meet state and federal water quality standards.
The law was signed on May 9, 2017 and provides more than $1 billion to increase water storage south of Lake Okeechobee as part of an effort to reduce harmful lake discharges to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries.