South Florida is getting a big boost from this year’s U.S. waterworks bill approved by Congress on Wednesday.
The 2024 Water Resources Development Act, or WRDA authorizes the Army Corps to move forward with Miami-Dade’s Back Bay project to protect neighborhoods from storm surge. Everglades work aimed at Miccosukee tribal lands in the western marshes was also authorized.
Next comes the hard part: getting Congress to budget money.
Together, the two projects will cost nearly $5 billion. Although the act also authorized $320 million to help Florida build a treatment marsh as part of the western Everglades work.
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