MARTIN COUNTY — The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) is leading the Indian River Lagoon-South Restoration Project and is working hand in hand with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to capture and clean stormwater before it flows into those fragile waterways.
The project hinges on building fresh canals, reservoirs, and treatment zones to trap sediments, nitrogen, and phosphorus—the stuff that sparks nasty algal blooms and wrecks the estuary’s natural setup. This huge cleanup push, set to run into billions over many years, is already rolling out.
The massive cleanup initiative is projected to cost billions of dollars over the coming decades and targets polluted runoff that has long threatened the Indian River Lagoon and the St. Lucie River…