Biden Commits $265 Million For South Florida Reservoir, Key Component Of Everglades Restoration

President Joe Biden has committed $265 million of federal funding toward construction of a long-awaited reservoir that is a critical component to restoration of the Everglades, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose district borders the Everglades in Broward County, has announced. The enormous planned reservoir — 10,500 acres south of Lake Okeechobee in Palm Beach County — is designed to reduce discharges of polluted water into the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean and send clean water south through the Everglades.