The Everglades Pipeline

A pipeline is an interesting restoration idea for the Everglades. The Corps is contemplating burying a 30+ mile pipeline from lake Okeechobee to Miami-Dade County so lakewater can be filtered through the marshes and recharge the groundwater. They wouldn't even have to disturb the environment to bury the pipe as an existing canal is scheduled to be filled providing a perfect trench.

The water in Lake Okeechobee has become polluted from surrounding development with phosphorus, nitrogen and many other undesirables which cannot wind up in the county's drinking water. There is obviously still a lot of study to be done, but this sounds like a restoration project that just might hold water. And, if they used EMI plants in the marshes and wetlands to remove more pollutants, it might actually be clean water.