We know this is correct because the plans are to create massive water storage areas to store backup irrigation water, since the lake is going to be kept at lower levels. It's necessary to maintain the lake at a lower level because of the threat to people south of the levee. The tradeoff for the lower lake while still guaranteeing irrigation water is huge polluted storage reservoirs. If there were any thought to restore the lake, rivers and estuaries, the plan would be to clean up the lake in preparation to moving water south where it SHOULD go, and where they now tell us it will eventually go. That is, if you are gullible enough to believe them again.

Are you aware that C-43 is anticipated to be so polluted that SFWMD is going to monitor the outcome of the reservoir for a year, and if it turns out to be not as nasty as expected, they might THEN go in and build some recreation facilities. This project is a prime example of what SFWMD does best, which is creating huge bodies of vile, polluted water. Doesn't that make your blood heat up a bit?

One thing you must credit the bureaucrats of SFWMD, they learn. In times past they constructed water systems that through abuse and mismanagement became polluted. Now they are more efficient, and are creating systems that are pre-polluted. Now that's a real timesaver, isn't it?

There are several alternatives that are cheaper, quicker, permanent, and fix the entire system.

They are not being considered for ONE reason.

They are not directly beneficial to the agricultural industry, for whom this whole system exists to placate.