'We Needed to Be Bold': Gov. DeSantis Touts State-Led Everglades Restoration Project

New Agreement With Army Corps Puts Florida Everglades Restoration On The Fast Track

Florida Takes the Lead: DeSantis’s Administration Speeds Up Everglades Restoration with Historic Partnership Governor Ron DeSantis, on Wednesday, celebrated a significant step forward in Everglades restoration, marking the official groundbreaking of the Blue Shanty Flow Way project. This initiative, the first to break ground under a new acceleration agreement between Florida and the U.S. Army […] New Agreement With Army Corps Puts Florida Evergl…

'We needed to be bold': Gov. DeSantis touts state-led Everglades restoration project

The state is now in charge of an Everglades restoration project at the Blue Shanty Flow Way to pump large amounts of clean water south across the Tamiami Trail and into Florida Bay, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced. “We understand how important clean water is to the life blood of the state of Florida — not just in terms of the aquifer that provides water to millions of people in Southern Florida, but also the way that it impacts Florida’s economy and…

Florida takes over major Everglades restoration project from Army Corps

At a rainy news conference off the Tamiami Trail in the Everglades on Wednesday, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the groundbreaking of the first Everglades restoration project the state is taking over from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The project, known as the Blue Shanty Flow Way, will remove 10 miles of berm along the Tamiami Trail and allow massive amounts of water to flow south into Everglades National Park and eventually Florida Bay, said …

‘We needed to be bold’: Gov. DeSantis touts state-led Everglades restoration project

The state is now in charge of an Everglades restoration project at the Blue Shanty Flow Way to pump large amounts of clean water south across the Tamiami Trail and into Florida Bay, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced.