On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:59:55 +0000, NOYB wrote:


The Army Corp of Engineers may have contributed to the problem by building
a levee on the south shore of Lake Okeechobee at the request of "Big
Sugar"...so that they could use a bunch of the land to the south of the
lake for agricultural purposes. The problem is that the natural sheet
flow of the water no longer occurs. It is now pumped unnaturally down the
rivers (both East and West), and picks up a bunch of nitrogen-rich runoff
from the sugar cane fields.

I thought they were plans to curb the river runoffs and increase the
Everglades (sheeting) flow. What happened?