Everglades Restoration Timeline

2017 rainfall

Army Corps Approves a Temporary Emergency Deviation to Mod-Waters

Emergency operations (deviations from the incremental changes approved as part of the Mod-Waters/Combined Operations Plan process) are approved for the C&SF structures south of Tamiami Trail as a result of extreme rains raising water levels throughout the South Florida ecosystem — June-October is the wettest wet season on record, wetter even than 1947.