CBS News Miami, April 24, 2024
MIAMI - It looks like a regular gravel road on top of a levy, but underneath the stone is a huge "seepage wall." It's meant to keep water from the eastern edge of the Everglades National Park from seeping out and flooding nearby properties.
"It's 7 and a half miles long, it goes along the levy on the east side of the park, 63 feet deep, 2 and a half feet wide, about 4 million cubic yards of this cement type material in the wall so the water can't pass through it," explains Drew Bartlett. He's the Executive Director of the South Florida Water Management District.
"When you have a healthy meadow of seagrass under the water in Florida Bay, not only the fish, the birds, all the wildlife that make the Everglades special again benefits from it," said Everglades Foundation CEO Eric Eikenberg.
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