SFWMD Python Hunts = Two Miles of Invasive Snakes Eliminated

Oct. 5, 2018

West Palm Beach, FL – Hunters participating in the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board's ongoing Python Elimination Program have achieved another important milestone for this highly successful initiative by eliminating enough snakes to stretch more than two miles in length and weigh more than 10 tons. An average of about three pythons have been eliminated per day from SFWMD lands since the program began in March 2017.

SFWMD Governing Board's Florida Bay Initiative to Increase Clean Water Deliveries Up to 44,000 Acre-Feet of Water a Year into Florida Bay

Oct. 4, 2018

Homestead, FL – A little over two years since the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board approved a bold plan to help restore Florida Bay, the initiative has delivered a total of more than 68,000 acre-feet of additional clean fresh water into Florida Bay.

SFWMD Accelerates Lakeside Ranch STA Operations to Help Mitigate High Water Emergency Situation

Sept. 28, 2018

West Palm Beach, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) has been working around the clock for months to lower water levels in the water conservation areas and create capacity for sending additional Lake Okeechobee water south, all in an effort to alleviate South Florida's high water emergency caused by record May rainfall and other recent storms.

SFWMD Continues Actions to Move Water

Sept. 21, 2018

West Palm Beach, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) has been working around the clock for months to lower water levels in the water conservation areas to create capacity for sending additional Lake Okeechobee water south, all in an effort to alleviate South Florida's high water emergency caused by record May rainfall and other recent storms.

SFWMD Issues Environmental Resource Permit Clearing Path for Alico To Deliver Water Storage Project in Caloosahatchee Watershed

Sept. 19, 2018

West Palm Beach, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) issued an environmental resource permit (ERP) to Alico Inc., allowing the private landowner to provide a dispersed water management project that will store approximately 92,000 acre-feet of water on an annual average basis on its property, including approximately 56,000 acre-feet of water from the Caloosahatchee River.

SFWMD Moving Ahead with Emergency Estuary Protection Wells to Help Reduce Damaging Estuary Discharges

Sept. 13, 2018

West Palm Beach, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board on Thursday approved a plan to move forward with test wells and exploration of a strategy that could further reduce damaging discharges to the coastal estuaries while larger Everglades restoration projects are completed.

SFWMD Continues Actions to Move Water

Sept. 13, 2018

West Palm Beach, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) has been working around the clock for months to lower water levels in the water conservation areas to create capacity for sending additional Lake Okeechobee water south, all in an effort to alleviate South Florida's high water emergency caused by record May rainfall and recent storms.