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Comprehensive Plan, Water Preserve Areas, and L-28 Feasibility Study.

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Date Issued:
1997-05
Summary:
The Central and Southern Florida Project is a multi-purpose project which was first authorized in 1948 to provide flood control, water control, water supply, and other services to the area that stretches from Orlando to Florida Bay. The project has performed its intended purposes well. However,the project has also contributed to the decline of the south Florida ecosystem, The purpose of the C&SF Project Comprehensive Review Study is to reexamine the C&SF Project to determine the feasibility of modifying the project to improve the sustainability of South Florida. Specifically, as required by the authorizing legislation, the study will investigate making structural and operational modifications to the C&SF Project for improving the quality of the environment; improving protection of the aquifer; improving the integrity, capability, and conservation of urban and agricultural water supplies; and improving other water-related purposes.
Title: Comprehensive Plan, Water Preserve Areas, and L-28 Feasibility Study.
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Name(s): United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Jacksonville District
Type of Resource: text
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1997-05
Publisher: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Place of Publication: Jacksonville (Fla.)
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 255 pages
Language(s): English
Summary: The Central and Southern Florida Project is a multi-purpose project which was first authorized in 1948 to provide flood control, water control, water supply, and other services to the area that stretches from Orlando to Florida Bay. The project has performed its intended purposes well. However,the project has also contributed to the decline of the south Florida ecosystem, The purpose of the C&SF Project Comprehensive Review Study is to reexamine the C&SF Project to determine the feasibility of modifying the project to improve the sustainability of South Florida. Specifically, as required by the authorizing legislation, the study will investigate making structural and operational modifications to the C&SF Project for improving the quality of the environment; improving protection of the aquifer; improving the integrity, capability, and conservation of urban and agricultural water supplies; and improving other water-related purposes.
Identifier: FI05090912 (IID), 1014733 (digitool), fiu:10326 (fedora), AAB9548QF
Note(s): Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2005. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Electronic version created 2005, State University System of Florida.
Subject(s): Restoration ecology -- Florida
Feasibility studies -- Florida
Orlando (Fla.)
Naples (Fla.)
Miami (Fla.)
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Host Institution: FIU