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Miss Harvest Queen to Be Crowned Army Corps Special to the Sun Lege Drive in Belle Glade April 5, 2018 Serving the communities south of Lake Okeechobee 1 Thursday, April 5, 2018 Vol. 92 - Number 14 - 50¢ EAA reservoir plan sent to Miss Harvest Queen to be crowned Army Corps Special to The Sun lege Drive in Belle Glade. Black Gold Jubilee festivities will include The Children’s Pageant’s will have competi- of Engineers Seven contestants will compete for the the following events. tions for the Tiny Division, Little Division, Mini April 7: ... Page 2 Harvest Queen and four for Jr. Harvest Queen Division and Tween Division on Saturday, April • Fishing tournament at Torry Island, off titles at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 7, at the 7 at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church, 17 N.W. Limits called for Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center, 1977 S.W. Col- Ave. B in Belle Glade. See QUEEN — Page 6 on aquatic spraying ... Page 2 Gove Elementary School News ... Page 7 Photo by Cristina Lockhart Hojara Photo by Cristina Lockhart Hojara Photo by Cristina Lockhart Hojara Photo by Cristina Lockhart Hojara Rosenwald Caylin Dupree Elena Dingle Kadie Helvey Kamryn Kennedy Elementary School News ... Page 7 Lake Levels 13.81 feet Last Year: 12.46 feet Photo by Cristina Lockhart Hojara Photo by Cristina Lockhart Hojara Photo by Cristina Lockhart Hojara Source: South Florida Water Paige Potts Rachel Ruiz Sydney Arroyo Management District. Depth given in feet above sea level LORE Alliance spearheading tourism push ‘On the Town’ on Wednesday evening, March 28, See page 3 for information about to preview the latest installment how to contact this newspaper. episode premiere party well-attended See LORE — Page 4 bellegladesun.com (At right) Those attending the By Chris Felker VIP screening of South Flor- The Sun ida PBS’s “On the Town: The Glades” episode on Wednes- BELLE GLADE — A large day evening, March 28, were crowd of regional luminaries able to mingle with the show’s and ordinary people whose lo- host, producers and local po- cal livelihoods are the stars of a litical and business leaders new South Florida PBS “On the during a reception buffet fea- Town” episode gathered at the turing local delicacies and an Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center open bar. The Sun/Chris Felker The Cohen Chiropractic Group, PA BACK PAIN? NECK PAIN? ACCIDENTS? 241 S.E. 1st. St. Belle Glade, FL (Behind CVS) 561-996-9936 GladesInjuryCenter.com 2 Serving the communities south of Lake Okeechobee April 5, 2018 EAA reservoir plan sent to Corps of Engineers By Katrina Elsken ration and achieve water quality standards. tor. “With a tentatively selected plan in hand INI Florida “After many months of hard work by dis- that sends needed clean water south, we Plans for the proposed Everglades Ag- trict staff, this is a momentous day for the urge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to ricultural Area reservoir continue to move future of the Everglades and for all who call make reviewing this project a top priority.” South Florida home,” said SFWMD Govern- forward. To read the full report or for modeling The South Florida Water Management ing Board Chairman Dan O’Keefe. “This agency has done its job and created a plan Search data and more information on the previously District (SFWMD) has submitted its plan to held public meetings, including agendas and build the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA) that combines sound science with public Storage Reservoir for federal approval. If feedback to achieve the goals and objectives for the presentations, visitsfwmd.gov/eaareservoir. approved, the EAA reservoir will be built as of state law. It’s now up to our federal part- part of the congressionally approved Central ners to carry the momentum on southern Everglades Planning Project (CEPP). This storage.” change to the CEPP plans was submitted to Together with authorized projects, the the assistant secretary of the Army for civ- reservoir plan will send an annual average il works on March 26, in accordance with of approximately 370,000 additional acre- TRUTH state law. feet of clean water south to the Everglades. Before it is submitted to Congress for The water quality will be required to meet to About Lake Okeechobee authorization, the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- the nutrient levels set by the Department of neers must approve the plan and determine Environmental Protection. that it complies with federal law. Congres- The plan will also reduce the number A continuing series sional authorization is necessary to make of damaging discharge events from Lake the project eligible for federal funding. Okeechobee to the northern estuaries by Bbination with existing STAs and Flow The proposed EAA Storage Reservoir will 63 percent when used in conjunction with Equalization Basins (FEBs), such as the A-1 meet the goals set forth by the Florida Legis- authorized projects, according to SFWMD FEB, to achieve state water quality standards. lature when it passed Senate Bill 10 in 2017, reports. The reservoir will store 240,000 acre-feet of according to SFWMD officals: It will reduce The additional flows south to the Ever- water on the 10,100-acre site comprised of damaging discharges to the northern estuar- glades will be treated in a new 6,500-acre the district-owned A-2 parcel and lands to ies, deliver clean water for Everglades resto- Stormwater Treatment Area (STA) in com the west as identified in Senate Bill 10. The net increase in cost over the current- Limits called for on aquatic spraying ly authorized CEPP is $1.1 billion. The total cost of the authorized CEPP, with the addi- By Katrina Elsken sically muck. The sand that I can fish – and tion of the EAA reservoir is $3.17 billion. INI Florida I guided the first time when I was 13 years The reservoir plan was approved by the At the March 16 meeting of the County old – but all up the shoal was sand. SFWMD Governing Board on March 8 and Coalition for Responsible Management of “Today you fish the sand, you don’t see submitted to the Assistant Secretary of the Lake Okeechobee, Clewiston City Commis- sand. There is a black silt on that sand. You Army along with an independent peer review sioner Phillip Roland asked the board to step don’t see sand. You get back up in shallows, that found the plan to be technically sound. back in time with him as he shared memo- back in the Monkey Box, back off Harney After the project is funded by Congress, ries of Lake Okeechobee’s past. Pond; in there, you can see bottom, but it’s it will take about 8 years to complete – with “I am 24 years old and I get out of the not sand. There is something else on that three years estimated for engineering and service, and that’s 1964,” he began. sand. five years estimated for construction. “I’m fishing off the end of the reef out in “Today, we have lost our fishery around Some environmental groups initially op- front of Moonshine and I see this green glare Clewiston, there’s no fishery,” he said. posed the EAA reservoir alternative chosen on the water, and I don’t know what the hell “I went with a biologist the other day be- by SFWMD, but following approval by the it is. Florida Department of Environmental Reg- cause I had raised the devil with the girl who “I keep looking at it. So I ride out in my ulation, groups including the Everglades boat and to look at this green stuff, never is in charge of the spraying on the lake,” he Foundation, Audubon Florida, the Snook Special to INI Florida/SFWMD seen it on the lake. It was the first time I saw continued. and Gamefish Foundation, the Everglades These volumes comprise the Central a green algae bloom. “Her boss came down. We went out Trust, the Sanibel Captiva Conservation Everglades Planning Project Post Au- “Now this is before spraying, but my dad on the lake,” he said. “We went to an area Foundation and the J.N. “Ding” Darling thorization Change Report submitted had informed me in 1960 when I went in the called Coot Bay. I almost cried. It was solid Wildlife Society wrote a letter in support of today by SFWMD to the U.S. assistant service and the Kissimmee was cut in that mud bottom, floating tussocks of mud. the reservoir plan. secretary of the Army for civil works, year, and the Indian Prairie and the Harney “I did get them to agree to cut the old “The EAA Reservoir is one step closer to seeking federal authorization to build Pond, the triple canal system as they call it, trails that will help flush the bottom of the becoming a reality,” said Julie Wraithmell, the Everglades Agricultural Area Stor- that they had just ruined his lake – his lake, lake, but I am telling you the spraying that is Audubon Florida’s interim executive direc- age Reservoir. because he fished it seven times a week. going on the lake,” he said. “To think back, this is before any spraying was done on the lake. No spraying. When The spraying is destroying the habitat for I was 30 years old, there was no spraying the fisheries, he said. done on the lake. And then it starts with a Commissioner Roland asked the coali- four-boat operation run by the Corps of En- tion to support the resolution to limit spray- gineers. ing of non-native aquatic. “Then, go forward 10 years, and South “That resolution we adopted is asking Florida Water Management has taken over, them to spray three months out of the year, and it’s six boats.
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