Everglades Restoration

The Office of Ecosystem Projects plays a key role in carrying out the largest environmental restoration project in the world - restoring America’s Everglades. Our office ensures effective implementation of DEP’s policy, programmatic, technical, and regulatory responsibilities under the Everglades Forever Act, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, the Northern Everglades and Estuaries Protection Program, and related efforts including Kissimmee River Restoration, Critical Projects Program, Herbert Hoover Dike Rehabilitation, and Modified Water Deliveries to Everglades National Park. Restoration initiatives are focused on improving water quality and restoring the hydrology and ecology of the Everglades ecosystem which extends further than many realize - stretching from the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes, to Lake Okeechobee, through the remaining Everglades and on to the waters of the Florida Bay - an area covering 18,000 square miles....more