March 8, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board today approved a partnership with Collier County to improve flood protection for the Immokalee area by clearing the State Road 29 Canal of trees and debris.
March 8, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board today approved a cooperative agreement with Miami-Dade County that allows for use of county lands to support SFWMD's ongoing investment in restoring Biscayne Bay.
March 2, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL - The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) this week released the 2018 South Florida Environmental Report detailing a year of science, engineering and environmental restoration aimed at improving the Everglades, Lake Okeechobee, Kissimmee Basin and South Florida coastal areas.
March 1, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL – This week hunters participating in the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board's Python Elimination Program achieved the latest milestone for this highly successful initiative by eliminating the 900th snake. An average of three pythons have been eliminated per day from SFWMD lands since the program began in March 2017.
February 16, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL - Last week, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board approved a plan to invest $1.9 billion in capital improvements. These improvements will aid in the District's mission of providing flood control, restoring water quality, ensuring water supply and restoring natural systems for the 8.1 million residents of South Florida over the next five years.
February 13, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL – Last week, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) finalized an agreement to exchange two parcels of land near the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge in western Palm Beach County. This timely deal keeps Gov. Rick Scott's Restoration Strategies Plan on track to hit its completion target for design and construction of water treatment and storage projects by 2025.
February 12, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL - Last week, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board approved purchasing pumps to help realize environmental benefits for the St. Lucie Estuary more than two years before the C-44 Reservoir is set to be completed.
February 8, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL - The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board today approved a land purchase from a willing seller necessary to build the proposed Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Storage Reservoir.
February 8, 2018
West Palm Beach, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) at its Governing Board meeting today unveiled a cost-effective alternative that optimizes the benefits of the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Storage Reservoir. SFWMD's team of modelers, professional engineers, scientists, planners and water managers worked to optimize the two best buy alternatives presented to the SFWMD Governing Board, Florida House Natural Resources and Public Lands Subcommittee and Florida Senate Appropriations Committee in January.
