✏️ @SFWMD Executive Director Drew Bartlett spoke on two panels at the 40th Annual Environmental Permitting Summer School about the District's historic progress with Everglades restoration, our commitment to protecting Florida's water resources and providing critical flood control.💧 🤝 Engaging with the public and stakeholders is part of the District's mission and we appreciate the opportunity to speak with people throughout the state about our work. 📊 Thank you to the entire @epsummerschool team for your hospitality and for hosting a very informative program on environmental issues in Florida. 👏

🏗️ On track to finish this transformative project five years ahead of the original schedule. 🌿 This will be a major victory for America’s Everglades and is a testament to the progress of our joint federal and state teams. 💧 The EAA Reservoir Project will help restore the natural flow of water south, improve water quality and protect the health of the Everglades and Florida Bay.

🏗️Building Infrastructure, Not Paperwork @USACEHQ

👏 Today, we are celebrating the 2-year anniversary of the groundbreaking of the EAA Reservoir Project. 🖋️ In July 2025, @GovRonDeSantis announced that the State of Florida and the @USArmy reached a landmark agreement to accelerate Everglades restoration, including the EAA Reservoir Project and accelerated the timeline of the project from 2034 to 2029. ✂️ Since the agreement was signed, the project has already reached major milestones including the State of Florida’s groundbreaking of the new inflow pump station at the EAA Reservoir Project in November 2025 and the @USACEHQ and @JaxStrong ribbon cutting to celebrate the completion of the inflow/outflow canal and the seepage canal in September 2025. 💧 The EAA Reservoir Project, located south of Lake Okeechobee, will store over 78 billion gallons of water—larger than Manhattan—and deliver up to 470 billion gallons of clean water annually to the Everglades and Florida Bay. It also supports the Biscayne Aquifer, the primary source of drinking water for South Florida. 🌱 This project is designed to send more clean water south, restore ecosystems, and significantly reduce harmful discharges to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries. ✨ Thank you to all of the hard-working staff who made these milestones possible!

🎉 Today, we are celebrating an important anniversary for America’s Everglades. 🗓️ The formal dedication of Everglades National Park was held on December 6, 1947, exactly 78 years ago. 💧 Did you know @SFWMD, together with our local, state, federal, & tribal partners, continues to accelerate key Everglades restoration projects. 🔗 Learn more at SFWMD.gov/Restoration

🎊  Did you know significant progress continues on key restoration projects that are improving the quantity, quality, timing and distribution of water within the Greater Everglades Ecosystem? To date, 75 Everglades restoration projects have been completed, broken ground, or hit a major milestone since January 2019! Working together with our partners, we are making real progress to implement the largest ecosystem restoration effort on 🌎. We look forward to continuing this momentum in 2025 for the resiliency and restoration of our region’s water resources. Visit SFWMD.gov/News to read more about some of the @SFWMD’s major milestones in 2024.

💦 Did you know more than 65 #Everglades restoration and resilience projects have been completed, broken ground or hit a major milestone since January 2019? @SFWMD is committed to protecting FL's natural resources & restoring our River of Grass. Visit SFWMD.gov/News

It’s #EvergladesDay! Today, we celebrate the Everglades: one of the world’s largest wetlands and a biodiverse subtropical wilderness found right in our backyard. This day also marks the birthday of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, an advocate for America’s River of Grass. @SFWMD continues to work with our local, state and federal partners to protect, revitalize and restore this national treasure.

@SFWMD celebrated a defining moment for Everglades restoration when we broke ground on the EAA Reservoir. Thank you to @JaxStrong, @FLDEPNews, @ASACivilWorks, @USACEHQ, @Interior & so many current and former federal, state & local officials who joined us on one of the most important days in the history of Everglades restoration.