Bill Nelson: “even before the Congress passed the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, CERP, in 2000, the country had begun some…”

“even before the Congress passed the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, CERP, in 2000, the country had begun some important projects that set the stage for CERP. One of those projects is the Modified Waters Delivery Project. The goal of the Modified Waters Delivery Project, authorized by the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, is to increase water deliveries to Everglades National Park, to improve the natural habitat and, to the extent possible, restore the natural hydrological conditions within the park. To do this, however, we must undo the work of the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1940s and 1950s which resulted in the Central and Southern Florida Project, C&SF Project. The C&SF Project created 1,000 miles of canals, 720 miles of levees, and more than 200 water control structures to alter water flow in the Everglades, control flooding, open land for agriculture and provide water supplies to urban areas.”