Background Original Everglades East Coast Protective Levee Lake Okeechobee Everglades Agricultural Area Water Conservation Areas Shark River Slough Activism

EVERGLADES AGRICULTURAL AREA

The Everglades ecosystem has been fundamentally altered by the construction of the Central and South Florida water management project. Levees around Lake Okeechobee enclosed 1,500 square miles of marsh referred to as the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA). Approximately one-third of the northern Everglades was diked and drained to become the Everglades Agricultural Area, irrigated with water stored in Lake Okeechobee. Seven pumping stations control the water table in the EAA. Most of the water stored in this area is lost through evaporation and rarely reaches the Everglades. (1)

Main | History | Restoration
Environmentalist Perspective | Agriculture Perspective
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