Water-supply utilities and agricultural operations in the Kissimmee River Basin will share more than $3 million in water supply funds approved by the governing board of the South Florida Water ...

The Kissimmee River basin covers 3,000 square miles and stretches from southern Orlando southward to Lake Okeechobee in South Florida. The restoration project has two component parts: the Upper ...

The Kissimmee River Basin lies in the middle of Central Florida's next projected growth boom. Tapping lakes and rivers has been on the list of future sources of water for the region to curb the ...

The South Florida Water Management District is turning its attention to the north end of the Kissimmee River basin, where residents long have complained that they’re ignored. “I think everyone ...

Restoring natural flows in the Kissimmee River is one of the top restoration priorities in South Florida as it will help ... work in the Kissimmee River basin that will allow the agency to hold ...

The road-building lobby wants an expressway or two or three to cut through some of the remaining undeveloped portions of the Kissimmee River Basin ... the Florida State Board of Health, the ...

C-111 South Dade and Kissimmee River Restoration are critical to the overall efforts to restore the south Florida ecosystem ... include the Northern Detention Basin which is designed to reduce ...

That's what federal and state officials did to the Kissimmee River in Central Florida. They straightened the river in the 1960s into a canal to drain swampland and make way for the state's ...

Florida's Kissimmee River was channelized and dredged for flood control, but after a decades-long restoration effort, headwaters of the Everglades have returned to a more natural wetlands ecosystem.