Are we restoring the Everglades just so the ocean can swallow a lot of it back up? Eighteen years into the multi-billion-dollar restoration of the Everglades, a scientific review committee called Wednesday for a broad re-examination of future projects in light of the changing climate and rising oceans. The National Academies of Sciences, which issues a report [...]
Month: December 2018
National Inventory of Dams compiled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (2016)
The Mississippi River: its history, dams, and locks
A beautifully produced fifteen-minute videotape of the Mississippi River. https://youtu.be/WkvhBfAstMU
A decade- billion-dollar deal to restore the Everglades historic flow dead (December 17, 2018)
A decade-old billion-dollar deal in which the state would have bought out the nation’s largest sugar cane producer and restored the Everglades’ historic flow is dead. The South Florida Water Management District voted quietly to terminate a remaining option of the 2008 agreement in which the state would have bought out U.S. Sugar Corp. Central [...]
Florida’s Big Dig 