November 9, 2017
Doral, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board today approved entering into support agreements to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to ensure the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) Storage Reservoir Project becomes a reality.
November 8, 2017
West Palm Beach, FL – Nearly 20,000 people watched on Facebook Live as Dusty "The Wildman" Crum collected his bounty on a colossal snake during the South Florida Water Management District's (SFWMD) Python Elimination Program.
November 3, 2017
West Palm Beach, FL – From June through October 2017, an average of 51.64 inches of rain fell District-wide, a record for wet season rainfall. The previous record for this five-month period was set in 1947 when hurricanes caused widespread flooding that led to the formation of the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District, the predecessor to the South Water Management District (SFWMD).
November 1, 2017
West Palm Beach, FL - Frogs are an important indicator species when it comes to measuring the success of ecosystem restoration.
And South Florida Water Management District scientist Brent Anderson sounds like he knows what he's talking about.
For more than 10 years, Anderson has been studying the impacts of Kissimmee River restoration on a dozen species of frogs. Judging by the flocks of wading birds feeding on prey of the hopping persuasion, success is sticking like a fly on a bullfrog's tongue.
Oct. 26, 2017
West Palm Beach, FL – South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) water managers are preparing the flood control system for expected weekend rainfall, the result of a cold front interacting with a possible tropical system. The system is expected to drop an average of 1-3 inches of rain over areas south and east of Lake Okeechobee, including coastal Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. The local maximum rainfall is forecast to be as high as 5 inches.
Oct. 12, 2017
West Palm Beach, FL - The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) today announced that it is moving forward with two major components of the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP), the congressionally approved plan to move more water south.
Oct. 12, 2017
West Palm Beach, FL – The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board today approved a three-year research contract with Florida International University (FIU) to test a crucial Everglades restoration hypothesis in the District's Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment (LILA) facility in western Palm Beach County.
October 9, 2017
With the decades-long project to restore the historic Kissimmee River nearing completion, the South Florida Water Management District highlighted this success story for a visiting U.S. Congressman.
Oct. 5, 2017
Okeechobee, FL – For boaters navigating to and from Lake Okeechobee, the S-131 lock at Lakeport in Glades County is scheduled to be temporarily closed for maintenance on Monday, Oct. 16, and Tuesday, Oct. 17.
The S-131 is the last of four navigation locks on the north shore of the lake to undergo routine maintenance. The work was originally scheduled for Sept. 7 but was postponed due to preparations for Hurricane Irma.
