Progress Toward Restoring the Everglades The Seventh Biennial Review - 2018 (2018) / Chapter Skim
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, with support from the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD)
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, and state funding for CERP project construction has increased, while two major non-CERP projects have been completed. Documentation and analysis of incremental restoration benefits from project implementation to date have been inadequate, primar ily because of limitations in project-level monitoring and assessment efforts.
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Western Everglades 0 30 km FIGURE S-1 Locations and status of early CERP projects and CERP or CERP-related NRC Everglades See Chap pilot projects. - Figure 4-1 ter 3 for more information on CERP implementation progress.
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The Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands moni toring program has documented hydrologic and ecological responses, although both are limited by the small spatial scale of the components that have been implemented and important project components that are not yet constructed. Concurrent project planning efforts have significantly advanced the CERP
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Where existing flows are currently being redistributed, as in the Decomp Physical Model and the non-CERP Florida Bay Initiative, project teams are following adaptive management approaches where feasible to learn from these efforts and to inform future Everglades flow restoration projects. The recent completion of two major non-CERP projects is expected to provide important restoration benefits to Everglades National Park and increasing operational flexibility for managing high water events throughout the remnant
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There are many ways to improve both the efficiency and the effectiveness of the CERP monitoring program within the existing monitoring budget. The three CERP projects analyzed vary in the extent to which they have implemented effective monitoring plans.
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Modeling tools can be used to separate the effects of other long-term changes, such as sea-level rise or invasive species, on project performance as well as to understand the effects of an individual project within a region that is affected by multiple, interacting projects. Although the CERP has a strong modeling program for project planning, models are rarely used to interpret monitoring data, greatly reducing the potential value of existing data.
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might affect restoration outcomes. Only one of the three CERP projects analyzed (Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands)
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Hydrologic and ecological modeling tools have been developed to assess potential benefits and impacts from various regulation schedules on the lake and broader region. To inform that process and in response to frequent questions about the impacts of increased water levels on the ecology of Lake Okeechobee, the committee summarized the latest information and identified key research needs to help inform the within-lake portion of the tradeoff analysis.
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Adjustments to Lake Okeechobee monitoring and full integration of model ing tools would provide rigorous science-based information to support a regu lation schedule review and real-time optimization of operations under any regulation schedule. Refinements to the ecological monitoring and adaptive management program could reduce critical uncertainties, inform lake regulation schedule planning, and enhance real-time lake operations.
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Now that several major project planning efforts are nearing completion and the vision for CERP storage is largely developed, which will require decades to construct at current funding levels, the time is right for a mid-course assessment. A science program focused on understanding the impacts of current and future stressors on the South Florida ecosystem is needed to ensure that CERP agencies have the latest scientific information and tools to successfully plan and implement the restoration program.
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