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Appendix A: National Research Council Everglades Reports
Appendix A: National Research Council Everglades Reports
Pages 197-204
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, a multi-billion dollar effort to restore historical water flows to the Everglades and return the ecosystem closer to its natural state. The report finds that while natural system restoration progress from the CERP remains slow, in the past two years, there have been noteworthy improvements in the pace of implementation and in the relationship between the federal and state partners.
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Army Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management District, the CERP is a multi-organization planning process that includes approximately 50 major projects to be completed over the next several decades. The report concludes that budgeting, planning, and procedural matters are hindering a federal and state effort to restore the Florida Everglades ecosystem, which is making only scant progress toward achieving its goals.
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A key premise of the CERP is that restoring the historical hydrologic regime in the remaining wetlands will reverse declines in many native species and biological communities. Given the uncertainties that will attend future responses of Everglades ecosystems to restored water regimes, a research, monitoring, and adaptive management program is planned.
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Florida Bay Research Programs and Their Relation to the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (2002) This report of the Committee on Restoration of the Greater Everglades Eco system (CROGEE)
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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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Regional Issues in Aquifer Storage and Recovery for Everglades Restoration: A Review of the ASR Regional Study Project Management Plan of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (2002) The report reviews a comprehensive research plan on Everglades restora tion drafted by federal and Florida officials that assesses a central feature of the restoration: a proposal to drill more than 300 wells funneling up to 1.7 billion gallons of water a day into underground aquifers, where it would be stored and then pumped back to the surface to replenish the Everglades during dry periods.
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Finally, it recommends that pilot projects be part of adaptive assessment.
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