Tamiami Trail Modifications: Restoring Freshwater Flow to the Everglades

The Tamiami Trail is the historic roadway connecting Tampa to Miami. While the roadway made traveling between the two cities faster and safer, it created a barrier to water flow going into Everglades National Park. Over the past few decades, efforts have been underway to make modifications to the Tamiami Trail. When all of the modifications are completed, the increased water flows are expected to result in improvements to hundreds of thousands of acres of wetlands, and will provide the foundation for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan.

[@michaelangelo7511]

Fabulous to see the humans undoing the wrong that’s been done to nature. Great overview of the entire project and perfect voice narration. Thank you !

[@plantplants3036]

Great info and well explained.

[@SilverHonda0767]

After all these years and millions and dollars for these projects it’s overdue that the southern Everglades will be stabilized to its national habitat.

[@kevinyoung947]

It’s natural flow would be to cover the entire southern end of the state during the wet season. They aren’t going to do this unless they relocate a few large and profitable cities.

[@SilverHonda0767]

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[@kevinyoung947]

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[@SilverHonda0767]

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[@kevinyoung947]

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[@lukefromtexas]

Thanks for this video.

[@georgeg.7124]

Excellent! Great video.

[@patrkbukly]

Awesome

[@charleschevalier6185]

Very good.

[@iwanabana]

Great work guys. Hope there will be more follow-ups to this! Water moving in straight lines is usually a bad thing. Wood jams, beaver dam analogs allow the water table to raise and soak into the nearby lands. Has that been a part of your project as well?

[@louc.8779]

How about the levee on the north side of the 11 mile stretch of the Tamiami Trail? Is that coming down to allow the water flow, or we going to depend on the canal between the road and levee? Doesn’t the levee defeat the purpose of natural (as it once was) water flow southward?

[@OutDoorAdventures_1907]

Well done, a great job of describing a few CERP projects. It's to late for Florida, no amount of money and projects can save the state. Environmentally, the only thing that can save Florida is to reduce it's population by 1/2 and outlaw golf courses, AC and mosquito control. Problem Solved!

[@billlatimer1646]

Thanks to Rick Scott, CERP was castrated. The same goes for the developer State in every successive legislature. Just look at what they are doing this year!

[@wardrobelion]

So true

[@Distress.]

You're crazy. People like you are the only thing that we need to be kept safe from.

[@daveassanowicz186]

It's not just cars that ruin the environment, it's the infrastructure they require as well

[@theamerican7080]

This is a good thing, bud Biden......I dunno.