Posts Tagged ‘South Florida Water Management District’
Water managers declare Everglades nearly clean; the people who live there say not yet
By Jenny Staletovitch March 3, 2017 Miami Herald For much of the last year, the South Florida Water Management District has circulated a set of maps plotting water quality that…
Read MoreFlorida water managers call for ending federal court oversight of Everglades clean-up
By Jenny Staletovitch February 23, 2017 Miami Herald A quarter century after the state promised to clean up polluted farm water fouling the Everglades in a historic federal court order,…
Read MoreCoastal Everglades, deprived of fresh water, near unhealthy ‘tipping point’
By Jenny Staletovitch February 13, 2017 Miami Herald SHARK RIVER At the bottom of the Everglades along the mouth of the Shark River, a towering mangrove forest stands in a…
Read MoreBill calling for reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee filed in state House
By Tyler Treadway February 10, 2017 TC Palm The proposal to build a reservoir south of Lake Okeechobee to curb disastrous discharges to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers is…
Read MoreOur view: Legislature must seize historic opportunity on Lake O land buy
By TC Palm Editors February 2, 2017 TC Palm You can judge a man by the quality of his enemies, wrote author Oscar Wilde. On that basis, state Senate President…
Read MoreBill to curb Lake Okeechobee discharges expected to be filed Thursday
By Isadora Rangel January 25, 2017 TC Palm A bill to curb Lake Okeechobee discharges is expected to be filed Thursday, but large landowners and environmental groups continue to clash over…
Read MoreCourt reinstates EPA rule to allow pumping dirty water unchecked
By Jenny Staletovich January 20, 2017 Bradenton Herald South Florida water managers can keep moving dirty water from farms and suburbs into the Everglades and Lake Okeechobee without obtaining federal…
Read MoreBig Sugar’s slime flows north to the Capitol
By Carl Hiaasen January 15, 2017 Miami Herald The paid soldiers in Gov. Rick Scott’s war on the environment are aligning to block state efforts to purchase any farm lands…
Read MorePalm Beach Town Council to hear about Loxahatchee refuge dispute
By John Nelander January 10, 2017 Palm Beach Daily News Organizations battling to keep the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in federal hands are turning to the Palm…
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