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The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) is a regional governmental district that oversees water resources from Orlando to the Florida Keys.The mission of the SFWMD is to manage and protect water resources by balancing and improving water quality, flood control, natural systems, and water supply, covering 16 counties in Central and Southern Florida.
Biscayne Bay is a lagoon with characteristics of an estuary located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida.The northern end of the lagoon is surrounded by the densely developed heart of the Miami metropolitan area while the southern end is largely undeveloped with a large portion of the lagoon included in Biscayne National Park.
The Biscayne Aquifer, named after Biscayne Bay, is a surficial aquifer. It is a shallow layer of highly permeable limestone under a portion of South Florida . The area it underlies includes Broward County , Miami-Dade County , Monroe County , and Palm Beach County , a total of about 4,000 square miles (10,000 km 2 ).
The idea of the $369 million Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands project is to use stormwater pumps, narrow canals and holes cut under roads to slow down the flow of water from major canals into ...
The advisory also means the public should avoid fishing and boating. Miami-Dade issues no-swim alert after 2,800 gallons of wastewater entered Biscayne Bay Skip to main content
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The Surface Water Improvement and Management Act of 1987 was a law passed by the Florida Legislature in order to protect surface waters of, which include estuaries, rivers, lakes, and streams. [1] The act created the Surface Water Improvement and Management Program , which seeks to control nonpoint source pollution .
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