Everglades Restoration by the Numbers

How do we all know Everglades restoration is flowing? We see the progress ourselves!

Jul. 15, 2025 | Ribbon Chopping for the Grand Opening of the C43 Reservoir

This 10,000-acre reservoir will enhance water high quality, defend coastal ecosystems, and broaden Florida’s water storage capability.

Sept. 12, 2025 | Groundbreaking for CEPP

The Blue Shanty Flowway will assist re-establish pure sheet circulation within the southern Everglades by eradicating obstacles and enhancing water motion. This may allow clear water to circulation south to the areas that want it most. Working in tandem with the Everglades Agricultural Space Reservoir, the venture will assist the supply of important contemporary water to the ecosystems of Everglades Nationwide Park and Florida Bay.

Oct. 21, 2025 | Lake Hicpochee Section II

Positioned close to the headwaters of the Caloosahatchee River, Lake Hicpochee performs an important function in regional water administration. The venture, a part of the Northern Everglades and Estuaries Safety Program, goals to enhance water high quality, cut back the frequency and quantity of dangerous discharges to the Caloosahatchee Estuary, and supply much-needed shallow water storage within the surrounding watershed. As soon as full, the restoration will assist seize and deal with stormwater runoff, promote pure wetland operate, and improve habitat for fish and wildlife.

Nov. 6, 2025 | Groundbreaking for the Everglades Agricultural Space Influx Pump Station

The EAA Reservoir, positioned south of Lake Okeechobee, will retailer 78 billion gallons of water and ship as much as 470 billion gallons of unpolluted water yearly to the Everglades and Florida Bay. It additionally helps the Biscayne Aquifer, the first supply of consuming water for South Florida.

Executed: Ribbon Chopping for Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands

The BBCW venture goals to rehydrate coastal wetlands whereas lowering dangerous runoff into Biscayne Bay and Biscayne Nationwide Park. In accordance to the Military Corps of Engineers, the venture “will restore wetland and estuarine habitats, and divert a median of 59 % of the annual coastal construction discharge into freshwater and saltwater wetlands as a substitute of direct discharges to Biscayne Bay and the nationwide park.”

Up Subsequent: Picayune Strand

As the primary Complete Everglades Restoration Program venture to start building, the Picayune Strand Restoration Challenge will restore water flows to a portion of Collier County in Southwest Florida. When full, the venture goals to:

• Restore flows to just about 70,000 acres of wetlands and uplands within the Picayune Strand in addition to close by public lands such because the Fakahatchee Strand State Protect and the Collier-Seminole State Park.
• Restore the pure water circulation to the Ten Thousand Islands Nationwide Wildlife Refuge and Rookery Bay Nationwide Estuarine Analysis Reserve.
• Recharge the aquifer.
• Cut back overdrainage.
• Enhance salinity balances in tens of 1000’s of acres of coastal estuaries.
• Enhance hearth administration and habitat for threatened species.

This text was printed within the Audubon Florida Naturalist Winter 2025 subject.