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Appendix A: National Research Council Everglades Reports
Appendix A: National Research Council Everglades Reports
Pages 281-286
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This report is the first in a congressionally mandated series of biennial evaluations of the progress being made by the CERP, a multibillion-dollar effort to restore historical water flows to the Everglades and return the ecosystem closer to its natural state, before it was transformed by drainage and by urban and agricultural development. The report finds that progress has been made in developing the scientific basis and management structures needed to support a massive effort to restore the Florida Everglades ecosystem.
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providing ecological benefits as early as possible. There is a considerable range in the degree to which various proposed storage components involve complex design and construction measures, rely on active controls and frequent equipment maintenance, and require fossil fuels or other energy sources for operation.
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Given the uncertainties that will attend future responses of Everglades ecosystems to restored water regimes, a research, monitoring, and adaptive management program is planned. This report assessed the extent to which the restoration effort's "monitoring and assessment plan" included the following elements crucial to any adaptive management scheme: (1)
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At present, neither a minimum nor a maximum flow to preserve the landscape can be established. Florida Bay Research Programs and Their Relation to the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (2002)
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The report notes the importance of additional research in the following areas: estimates of groundwater discharge to the bay; full characterization and quantification of surface runoff in major basins; transport and total loads of nitrogen and phosphorous from freshwater sources, especially in their organic forms; effects on nutrient fluxes of decreasing freshwater flows into the northeastern bay, and of increasing flows northwest of the bay; and the development of an operational Florida Bay circulation model to support a bay water quality model and facilitate analysis of CERP effects on the bay. Science and the Greater Everglades Ecosystem Restoration: An Assessment of the Critical Ecosystems Study Initiative (2003)
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The report says that the research plan goes a long way to providing information needed to settle remaining technical questions and clearly responds to sugges tions offered by scientists in Florida and in a previous report by the NRC. Aquifer Storage and Recovery in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan: A Critique of the Pilot Projects and Related Plans for ASR in the Lake Okeechobee and Western Hillsboro Areas (2001)
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