District restoring and protecting St. Johns River headwaters

Florida Today posted an interesting and informative story and video today about the magnificence that is the headwaters of the St. Johns River in Brevard and Indian River counties. The story and video can be accessed on Florida Today’s Web site.

St. Johns River Water Management District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have been working cooperatively since the 1980s to restore and protect more than 150,000 acres of marshes in the river’s headwaters. Together, the District and Corps have created a semistructural system designed to reduce damage from floods, improve water quality, reduce freshwater discharges to the Indian River Lagoon, provide for water supply, and restore or enhance wetland habitat. Visit the District’s Web site to read about that project, which is one of the largest and most ambitious wetland restoration projects in the world.