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Flood protection was to have been provided under the original 1989 Mod Waters legislation, but years of subsequent study and negotiations with property owners resulted in a compromise in which a flood protection levee is to be built around approximately two-thirds of the 8.5 SMA while providing for purchase of approximately one-third of the private property and 12 homes in the western portion. Acceler8 -- An expedited course of action for achieving Everglades restoration.
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The statute employs a variety of regulatory and nonregulatory tools to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways, finance municipal wastewater treatment facilities, and manage polluted runoff. These tools help to achieve the broader goal of restoring and maintaining the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters so that they can support the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and recreation in and on the water.
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. During an ENSO event, the prevailing trade winds in the South Pacific weaken, reducing upwelling of cold, deep water and altering ocean currents such that the sea surface temperatures warm.
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Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge; and the Everglades National Park. Exotic species -- An introduced species not native to the place where it is found.
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HSIs can be used as the first approximation toward quantifying the relationships identified in various conceptual ecological models. Herbert Hoover Dike -- A dike system surrounding Lake Okeechobee that provides flood and storm damage reduction and other water control benefits in Central and South Florida.
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, all land and water managed by the federal government or the state within the South Florida ecosystem, including water conservation areas, sovereign submerged land, Everglades National Park, Biscayne National Park, Big
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In many cases, those pre-management water levels are used as a target for hydrologic restoration assuming that restoration of the hydrologic response that existed prior to drainage of the system would lead to restoration of natural habitats and biota. Natural System Regional Simulation Model (NSRSM)
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-- A regional finite-volume-based hydrologic model developed principally for application in South Florida that simulates the coupled movement and distribution of groundwater and surface water through out the model domain using a Hydrologic Simulation Engine to simulate the
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South Florida ecosystem -- An area consisting of the lands and waters within the boundary of the South Florida Water Management District, including the built environment, the Everglades, the Florida Keys, and the contiguous nearshore coastal waters of South Florida (also known as the Greater Everglades ecosystem)
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WCA-1, WCA-2A, WCA-2B, WCA-3A, and WCA-3B comprise five surface-water management basins in the Everglades; bounded by the Everglades Agricultural Area on the north and the Everglades National Park basin on the south, the WCAs are confined by levees and water control structures that regulate the inflows and outflows to each one of them. Restoration of more natural water levels and flows to the WCAs is a main objective of the CERP.
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Wetlands -- Areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support a prevalence of vegetative or aquatic life that requires saturated or seasonally saturated soil conditions for growth and reproduction. Yellow Book -- This is the common name for the Central and Southern Florida Comprehensive Review Study Final Integrated Feasibility Report and Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (USACE and SFWMD, 1999)
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