South Florida Water Management District

Weekly News Roundup - Permanent Water Restrictions for South Florida

From Bitter to Sweet

Forget the awful past, say Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul, Florida's sugar barons. It's time to make nice and go into real estate.

Buck This

Forget the awful past, say Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul, Florida's sugar barons. It's time to make nice and go into real estate.

Canoe Trip

Forget the awful past, say Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul, Florida's sugar barons. It's time to make nice and go into real estate.

Swamped

Saving the Glades could mean screwing these guys.

The Trickle Up Theory

Local screenwriter Mark Witzen finds a hot plot in Florida waters

Sewergate

If you think Dade County is a filthy mess now, just wait till you're drowning in it

Toxic Runways

Years of neglect have poisoned the land and contaminated the water under Miami International Airport. Investigators are just now beginning to grasp how bad it is. It's very bad.

Greener Runaways

A "proactive" Metro-Dade is dragged kicking and screaming into environment consciousness

Battle by Proxy

Environmentalist George Barley's untimely death has impoverished the fight to save the Everglades. But look out, Big Sugar! Here comes Mary!

A Manatee, a Plan, a Canal . . .

Six years in the works and still controversial: Dade environmental officials submit their manatee-protection proposal

Did You Sully That Gully?

They're working to make Homestead Air Force Base pollution-free, but the military wants no part of the canal that flows from the base into Biscayne Bay

Nice House, Rotten Spot

This can't be what the real estate pros have in mind when they say "Location, location, location"

It Flashes, Moos, and Poos

Miami's condo market is in the crapper

Land Grab

We ask questions and a historic land battle is won

Green Tide

Mysterious matter threatens one of the world's most important ecosystems

Ecological Politics

UM's Larry Brand flouts the grant system, pays the price

God's Eye on the Sparrow

Should 2700 little birds be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

Letters from the Issue of March 14, 2002

University of Miami administrators called for downfield interference

Collision Course

On one side are politicians and influential business interests. On the other are environmentalists and some very wealthy private citizens. In the middle is Homestead Air Force Base. Dead ahead: An explosive confrontation.

Jiang Zemin Stuns World, Embraces Democracy

Letters from the issue of July 13, 2000

Better Lake Than Never?

Officials insist the Lake Belt created by limestone mining in Northwest Miami-Dade will be an eco-panacea. Critics say that's all wet.

Swamp and Circumstance

Planners hope the Natural System Model can help restore the Everglades. But will it survive politics?

No Sale

The state once aimed to buy a big chunk of the Everglades. But that was before Dexter Lehtinen came along.

Home on the Glades

For the Cuban cowboys of west Miami-Dade, restoring the Everglades means destroying their way of life

Letters

For the Cuban cowboys of west Miami-Dade, restoring the Everglades means destroying their way of life

Letters

For the Cuban cowboys of west Miami-Dade, restoring the Everglades means destroying their way of life

Resignation Indignation

When Joette Lorion publicly quit Friends of the Everglades, some environmentalists scoffed

Life's a Ditch

Residents of the controversial 8 1/2 Square Mile Area fear a government conspiracy to flush them from their homes

Letters

Residents of the controversial 8 1/2 Square Mile Area fear a government conspiracy to flush them from their homes

Really for the Birds

A weird government plan to help save an endangered species winds up threatening to defile the Everglades

Pond Scum

When Coral Gables officials see a tiny lake in the middle of their fair city, they think ... shopping mall!

The Polo Wars

What happens when rich developers propose a luxury club be built on fragile Everglades wetlands? The horse manure hits the fan.

Hungry Is the Hunter

Lawmen, developers, and environmentalists have made Everglades hunters feel like an endangered species

Chomp in the Swamp

Tracking South Florida's endangered crocodiles is a business best left to experts and maniacs

"It'll Never Get Off the Ground"

With nothing to show after four years but bitterness and bickering, the plan to turn Homestead Air Force Base into a commercial airport has gone from national model to national embarrassment

Letters

With nothing to show after four years but bitterness and bickering, the plan to turn Homestead Air Force Base into a commercial airport has gone from national model to national embarrassment

Great Job, Terry! Now Pack Your Bags

Everyone seems to love the Florida commander of the Army Corps of Engineers. So why do his superiors want him to leave?

Not Cleared for Takeoff

If a national coalition of environmental groups has its way, Homestead Air Force Base won't be handed over to private developers just yet

A Whiter Shade of Green

If a national coalition of environmental groups has its way, Homestead Air Force Base won't be handed over to private developers just yet

Left Out

When Everglades National Park chief Dick Ring held a feel-good camp-out in the Dry Tortugas, he really toasted some people's marshmallows

GET THE KIDS INSIDE! BOLT THE DOOR!

Toxic sewage spawns swamp monsters; officials say no cause for alarm

Letters

Toxic sewage spawns swamp monsters; officials say no cause for alarm

Running on Empty

A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

Gully Gee!

A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

We are now scrambling to find additional supplies of water. Among their most immediate measures, they recently requested permission from the state to pump more water for treatment at the Hialeah-Preston plants.

A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

Glades Invaders

It's too late to stop the pythons. The real question is, what's next?

14-Foot Python Found in Miami-Dade Raises Concern of "Super Snake"

via South Florida Water Management District/Sun-Sentinel​The great snake scourge of the Everglades continues to thrive despite the recent cold snap and Sen. Bill Nelson's giant snake killing parties.During a recent sweep, state officials found five African rock pythons, including a 14-foot-female ... More >>

Rick Scott's dirtiest deeds

via South Florida Water Management District/Sun-Sentinel​The great snake scourge of the Everglades continues to thrive despite the recent cold snap and Sen. Bill Nelson's giant snake killing parties.During a recent sweep, state officials found five African rock pythons, including a 14-foot-female ... More >>

Giant Python Digesting a Deer Captured and Killed in West Miami-Dade

​It may not be as amazing/disgusting as that legendary snake-exploding-while-eating-an-alligator photo (which we are now lobbying to be adapted as the official state seal), but officials have found another invasive snake in the Everglades that had just made a meal out of a rather large native spec ... More >>