Central and Southern Florida Project

The Central and Southern Florida (C&SF) Project is title of a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1948 designed to manage water in South Florida, the Everglades, and Lake Okeechobee to address flooding and droughts.[1]

Public Law

The text of the bill resides in Title II of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1948, Pub.L. 80–858. Title II, titled Flood Control, may also be referred to as the Flood Control Act of 1948. Title II was codified as 33 U.S.C. §§ 710c, 701c-1.

Text of Project

The text of the language of the bill is:

CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA "The project for Caloosahatchee River and Lake Okeechobee drainage areas, Florida, authorized by the River and Harbor Act of July 3, 1930, as amended, is hereby modified and expanded to include the first phase of the comprehensive plan for flood control and other purposes in central and southern Florida as recommended by the Chief of Engineers in House Document Numbered 643, Eightieth Congress, subject to the conditions of local cooperation prescribed therein, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $16,300,000 for partial accomplishment of said plan."[2]

References
  1. Grunwald, Michael (2006). The Swamp (First paperback ed.). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-7432-5105-1.
  2. "Public Laws -- Ch. 771" (PDF). gpo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-17. Retrieved 2016-12-14.
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