Reprinted from Audubon Florida
With Audubon's strong support, the U.S Army Corps of Engineers has just approved the Nicodemus Slough Dispersed Water Management project, allowing for storage and pollutant removal of over 30,000 acre feet of water that would otherwise spill from Lake Okeechobee to the coastal estuaries. The cost of this project, built on private land in cooperation with Lykes Brothers Inc., is very low - at only $800 per acre foot of capacity.
This compares to costs that can range to $10,000 per acre foot of capacity for traditional government built and owned water storage projects. See how this remarkable project works, and how Audubon is working with other ranchers to promote projects that store and clean water. Click here or click on the image below to view the video.
With Lake Okeechobee's harmful discharges to the Indian River Lagoon and Pine Island Sound and the recent appointment of a Select Committee of the Florida Senate Committee to deal with this issue in the news, Audubon's effort to work with ranchers should be seen as a key part of the cost effective solution to the Lake Okeechobee crisis.
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