U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Local water managers and planners say the 70-year-old system needs to undergo a $6 million study to look at fixes to address sea rise.

More than five dozen conservation groups, meeting virtually this week, want the new administration to increase spending to $2.9 billion over the next four years to keep work on track.

For decades, the Las Palmas neighborhood on the eastern edge of Everglades National Park has confounded water managers trying to restore the River of Grass, and stood as a warning to compromising on restoration work.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said this week the deepening red tide did not factor into the decision to scale back releases. But the agency also said it has decided not to appeal a judge's order to factor damage from algae blooms into managing lake releases.

Heavy rains that lingered weeks after the official end of the wet season left farmers struggling with flooded fields and meager crops.

Heavy rain from the storm means the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers may only be able to release water to the west. The Corps is also wrestling with saturated ground around South Florida and a conservation area in Miami-Dade and Broward counties about a foot too high.

A judge has given the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers a year to assess the damage caused to sea turtles, manatees and other protected species by dirty water released from Lake Okeechobee.

The state has been looking into assuming control of the federal wetlands permitting program off and on since 1992. Wednesday, the EPA held the first of two public hearings on the state application submitted in August.

Florida has applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to have control over permitting in the wetlands. Only two other states, New Jersey and Michigan, do their own permitting.

Spending on Everglades restoration will need to increase by a billion dollars to $7.4 billion over the next decade to keep work on track. That’s according to the latest work schedule now being drafted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and presented Thursday to a joint state and federal committee that helps oversee coordinating projects for the massive restoration effort.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking public comment on its latest Everglades Restoration project that aims to help fix worsening conditions in Biscayne Bay.

A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to protect Miami-Dade County from hurricane storm surges over the next 50 years with flood gates across rivers, and a…