01-Feb-01
Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades
Ecosystem 
Aquifer Storage and Recovery in the Comprehensive
Everglades Restoration Plan: A Critique of the Pilot Projects and
Related Plans for ASR in the Lake Okeechobee and Western Hillsboro
Areas. A federal law enacted in December calls for a
multi-billion dollar effort to restore the Florida Everglades'
natural ecosystem. This report offers advice on restoration pilot
projects that would involve storing excess surface water underground
and pumping it back up for use during droughts.
Aquifer
Storage and Recovery in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration
Plan: A Critique of the Pilot Projects and Related Plans for ASR in
the Lake Okeechobee and Western Hillsboro Areas
Copyright © 2000 National
Academies All rights reserved.
01-Nov--00
Missing
Pieces in Ecosystem Restoration: The Case of the Florida Everglades
Economic Systems Research, VoL 12, No.
3, 2000
RICHARD WEISSKOFF
(Received January 1999; revised
November 1999)
ABSTRACT The largest
ecosystem restoration in the world-a $7.8 billion rescue package-is
now beginning in the Florida Everglades. This paper examines both
the economic impact of the restoration itself and those pieces that
are 'missing' from the official project analysis; namely, increased
tourism, urban construction, in-migration, and changing agricultural
patterns. These pieces comprise a variety of scenarios that are
tested for a 45 year planning period with an augmented
input-output model derived from a regional SAM. The new output and
employment generated by the 'missing pieces', which are small
relative to the vast economic base of the region, do represent a
considerable increase over the annual growth,
especially by the year 2045. We conclude with a discussion of
ways in which a growing regional economy might be reconciled with
ecosystem restoration.
01-Sept-00
2001
EVERGLADES CONSOLIDATED REPORT
Draft ready for review
South Florida Water Management District
The Everglades Reports summarize
available data and findings from research
and monitoring of the Everglades Protection Area, and will be used
by the
South Florida Water Management District and Florida Department of
Environmental Protection for making decisions affecting
implementation of
the Everglades Construction Project and related activities.
The Reports have been produced pursuant to the Everglades Forever
Act
(Section 373.4592(4)(d) Florida Statutes), which requires the
District to
submit a report to state officials after conducting a scientific
peer
review. Information from the Everglades Reports will be updated
annually
beginning in January 1, 2000 in peer-reviewed reports also required
under
the Act. These reports represent an important step in the process of
reviewing technical information on the Everglades Protection Area
and
communicating progress on Everglades research and monitoring.
2000 SFWMD
• SFWMD
Everglades Reports Home
• Download
from ftp server (pdf documents)
• View
/ Download the draft report on-line (pdf)
• Peer
Review of the 2001 Everglades Consolidated Report
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Workshops AGENDA
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Conferencing
• Previous
Reports (pdf)
31-Jul-00
• Coordinating
Success
Strategy for Restoration of the South Florida Ecosystem
(PDF documents)
The purpose of this document is to describe the existing federal and
nonfederal programs
designed to restore and sustain the imperiled South Florida
ecosystem. Many federal,
state,
tribal, and local entities are working to address the deteriorating
ecological
conditions in South Florida. The South Florida Ecosystem Restoration
Task Force (the
task force) coordinates and tracks the work. Congress directed the
task force to produce
a restoration strategy.
This document provides the information needed to coordinate and
integrate the
restoration effort. Congress identified four elements to be
included in this document.
They wanted it to outline how the restoration effort will occur,
identify the resources
needed, establish responsibility for accomplishing actions, and link
the strategic goals
established by the participants to out-come-oriented goals (see
appendix A). This
document describes how the restoration effort is being coordinated:
The task force
members have agreed upon a vision for the results; they have
established three broad
goals and measurable objectives for the work that needs to be
accomplished to achieve
that vision; they have identified the projects needed to achieve the
objectives; they are
coordinating those projects so that they are mutually supportive and
nonduplicative; and
they are tracking progress toward both the work-oriented goals and
the results-oriented
vision. This strategy, along with the vision, goals, objectives,
performance measures, and
individual project data (including cost, responsible agency, and
targeted completion
dates) are all included in this document.
This strategy document is for planning purposes only, is subject to
modification, and is
not legally binding on any of the task force members. Each task
force member and the
interests they represent retain all of their sovereign rights,
authorities, and jurisdiction for
implementation of the projects contained within this document.
Published by: SOUTH
FLORIDA ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION TASK FORCE
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Documents
page
•
Click here for
internal link to Executive Summary (html document)
06-00
An
Overview of the Historical Everglades Ecosystem and Implications for
Establishing Restoration Goals:
(39 pages, pdf format, 2.95
MB)
This report summarizes the
processes that led to the formation of the Everglades over 5000
years. The information underlying this summary was obtained from a
survey of historical reports, data from measurements of peat and
sediment cores, and flow modeling using the South Florida Water
Management District's Natural System Model. Available evidence shows
that a natural phosphorus-enriched zone existed south of Lake
Okeechobee that contained dense growths of pond apple and other
upland species and an associated variety of birds and wildlife. This
technical report was submitted to the South Florida Water Management
District in June 2000
Tetra Tech, Inc.
•
This technical report was prepared by Sujoy
B. Roy and Steven A. Gherini, Tetra Tech, Inc., Lafayette, CA. The
work described in this report was supported by the Sugar Cane
Growers Cooperative of Florida.
•
Abstract
(html)
• Email
questions to sujoy.roy@tetratech.com
11-Feb-00
•
Rescuing
an Endangered Ecosystem -
The Plan to Restore America's Everglades
Army Corps and SFWMD public relations site
developed to inform and involve the public in the review of the
current Central and Southern Florida Project.
•
South
Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
The South Florida Ecosystem
Restoration Taskforce operates under provisions of the Water
Resources Development Act of 1996 - Section 528 excerpted here as it
pertains to South Florida Ecosystem restoration. Our home page
reflects the structure and composition that was implemented under
this Act. For information about the former Task Force, which
operated under the Interagency Agreement, please see our Archive
page.
For more information about the Task Force or its
Sub-Groups, please write or call:
Office of Public Affairs
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force
c/o: Florida International University
University Park, OE 148
Miami FL 33199
Phone: 305/348-1665
•
South
Florida Water Resource Projects
USACE presentation to restoration task force
September 29, 1999
•
Splendor
in the Swamp
Remnants of a panoramic paradise have survived in the Everglades,
even after a century of pumping, draining, channelizing, and
levee-building.
•
South
Florida Restoration Science Forum
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force with links to Mercury
Problem, Agriculture, Wildlife, Hydrology, Historical Settings,
Invasive Exotic Species, Landscape Synthesis and More. U.S.
Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Center for
Coastal Geology
September 9, 1999
