[Frantzie]

Bad idea. The Everglades provides S FL with most of it’s water. No need to build between Miami and Naples. FL has 10 years of housing inventory anyway and too many people.

Not one word mentioned about the melaleuuca trees. They suck up all the water and are a pest taking over thousands of acres. Idiots planted they to try to drain the everglades.

[fso301]

Bad idea. The Everglades provides S FL with most of it’s water. No need to build between Miami and Naples. FL has 10 years of housing inventory anyway and too many people.

I never said anything about housing. There is about as little bio-diversity in the everglades as there is in a densely planted commercial pine plantation, or melaleuuca stand.

If you want increased panther habitat, drain the area and in a few years the panther range will be greatly increased.

You have a point about the Biscayne aquifer. If the deeper Floridan aquifer isn't for some reason suitable for use, perhaps some portion of normal sheetflow from Okeechobee to the southeast can be preserved. Otherwise, draw surface water and purify via reverse osmosis as is done in many municipalities across the nation.

[MichaelP]

You're right about those melaleucca trees. We planted one behind our house when I was a kid, where the washer dumped its water, and it thrived in that soapy, bleachy water. Years later, I tried to cut it down and found out how hard that wood is below the paper bark. The brazillian pepper trees are just as bad...

Mike

[GladesGuru]

“Idiots planted they to try to drain the everglades.”

How about:
“Government idiots planted them to try to drain the Everglades.”

The aerial seeding of the Everglades with Australian Melaleuuca tree seed WAS a gooberment project.

Typical of Gooberment AgencyPersons, there was a monument to that project in the city of Davie, Fl.

Long gone, vanished into the black hole of revisionist history.