Where's the River? Where's the Grass? Where's the Restoration?

Scaled down Everglades Deal makes news this week......more Reservoirs??

From Palm Beach Post's Englehardt:
The new deal costs $807 million less. It calls for buying less land - 72,500 acres, not 180,000. In announcing it, Gov. Crist said the purchase would fulfill "a dream of many for a long time" to save the Everglades. That dream relies on vast swaths of land to store and treat phosphorous-tainted water that flows south toward the Everglades from as far as Orlando. It means building giant reservoirs on cane fields in Palm Beach and Hendry counties now owned by rival growers U.S. Sugar and Florida Crystals.

The new deal allowed district staff to pick the land. The 72,500 acres include the 18,000-acre Southern Gardens citrus grove, well-positioned in southeastern Hendry County to treat runoff before it enters the Everglades. But the deal's centerpiece is a 25,500-acre parcel immediately south of Lake Okeechobee that could be converted into the world's largest above-ground reservoir to store lake water before it is pumped south to treatment marshes, that, unfortunately have not been built. Even that huge reservoir, however, wouldn't be big enough. Scientists say the district needs about 100,000 acres.