From Treasure Coast Newspapers:
Building the reservoir to cut Lake Okeechobee discharges is now federal law.
President Donald Trump signed the federal Water Resources Development Act Tuesday. WRDA includes a nationwide list of water projects that included the reservoir south of Lake O.
The law authorizes but doesn’t allocate money for the feds to pay their half of the $1.6 billion Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir.
The appropriation process could take a couple of years to get money rolling.
The water management district’s preliminary design for the project includes a:
*23-foot-deep, 10,100-acre reservoir to store up to 78.2 billion gallons of excess lake water
*6,500-acre man-made marsh to clean the water before it’s sent south to Everglades National Park and Florida Bay.
The reservoir is expected to cut some of the discharges from Lake Okeechobee into our waterways and thereby reduce the amount of toxic algae.
Read more:
EAA Reservoir Story