Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Central and Southern Florida Project, Everglades Agricultural Area Storage Reservoirs
Author: Central and Southern Florida Project Comprehensive Review Study: app.K - Environmental effects; app.L - Prior studies, reports and projects; app.M - Implementation plan scheduling and sequencing
Author: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Jacksonville DistrictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309214270
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Although the progress of environmental restoration projects in the Florida Everglades remains slow overall, there have been improvements in the pace of restoration and in the relationship between the federal and state partners during the last two years. However, the importance of several challenges related to water quantity and quality have become clear, highlighting the difficulty in achieving restoration goals for all ecosystem components in all portions of the Everglades. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades explores these challenges. The book stresses that rigorous scientific analyses of the tradeoffs between water quality and quantity and between the hydrologic requirements of Everglades features and species are needed to inform future prioritization and funding decisions.
To Construct Stormwater Treatment Areas on Compartments B and C of the Everglades Agriculture Area
Author: Ecological Engineering and Ecosystem Restoration
Author: William J. MitschPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780471332640
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Completely updated to keep pace with current technology. * Provides a firm grounding the fundamentals, theory, and latest techniques. * Includes completely updated case studies.
Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030945087X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The Everglades ecosystem is vast, stretching more than 200 miles from Orlando to Florida Bay, and Everglades National Park is but a part located at the southern end. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the historical Everglades has been reduced to half of its original size, and what remains is not the pristine ecosystem many image it to be, but one that has been highly engineered and otherwise heavily influenced, and is intensely managed by humans. Rather than slowly flowing southward in a broad river of grass, water moves through a maze of canals, levees, pump stations, and hydraulic control structures, and a substantial fraction is diverted from the natural system to meet water supply and flood control needs. The water that remains is polluted by phosphorus and other contaminants originating from agriculture and other human activities. Many components of the natural system are highly degraded and continue to degrade. Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades is the sixth biennial review of progress made in meeting the goals of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP). This complex, multibillion-dollar project to protect and restore the remaining Everglades has a 30-40 year timeline. This report assesses progress made in the various separate project components and discusses specific scientific and engineering issues that may impact further progress. According to Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades, a dedicated source of funding could provide ongoing long-term system-wide monitoring and assessment that is critical to meeting restoration objectives. This report examines the implications of knowledge gained and changes in widely accepted scientific understanding regarding pre-drainage hydrology, climate change, and the feasibility of water storage since the CERP was developed.
Draft Eis
Author: United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781725607576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Draft Eis
Five Year Report, 1965-1970
Author: United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Science ProgramPublisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Re-Engineering Water Storage in the Everglades
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309095298
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Water Science and Technology Board and the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology have released the seventh and final report of the Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, which provides consensus advice to the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force on various scientific and technical topics. Human settlements and flood-control structures have significantly reduced the Everglades, which once encompassed over three million acres of slow-moving water enriched by a diverse biota. To remedy the degradation of the Everglades, a comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan was formulated in 1999 with the goal of restoring the original hydrologic conditions of its remaining natural ecosystem. A major feature of this plan is providing enough storage capacity to meet human needs while also providing the needs of the greater Everglades ecosystem. This report reviews and evaluates not only storage options included in the Restoration Plan but also other options not considered in the Plan. Along with providing hydrologic and ecological analyses of the size, location and functioning of water storage components, the report also discusses and makes recommendations on related critical factors, such as timing of land acquisition, intermediate states of restoration, and tradeoffs among competing goals and ecosystem objectives.
Everglades
Author: Steve DavisPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780963403025
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The 31 chapters provide a wealth of previously unpublished information, plus topic syntheses, for a wide range of ecological parameters. These include the physical driving forces that created and continue to shape the Everglades and patterns and processes of its flora and fauna. The book summarizes recent studies of the region's vegetation, alligators, wading birds, and endangered species such as the snail kite and Florida panther. This referee-reviewed volume is the product of collaboration among 58 international authors from 27 institutional affiliations over nearly five years. The book concludes with a synthesis of system-wide restoration hypotheses, as they apply to the Everglades, that represent the integration and a collective viewpoint from the preceding 30 chapters. Techniques and systems learned here can be applied to ecosystems around the world.