If all that goes smoothly — which would be miraculous — the most optimistic prediction for finishing the reservoir and its 6,500-acre cleansing marsh is in eight years.
Two-thirds of South Carolina’s more than 8,600-mile-long marsh and beach shoreline is eroding, a complex system of edges fraying under an onslaught of an ever-rising sea, a new study found.
Weeks of high water following a hurricane, tropical storm and rain is putting wildlife and tree islands in danger in the Everglades wilderness, risking what state wildlife officials are calling a pending ‘catastrophe.’