2.2 Hydrology Miami Florida Business directory At 345 feet (105 m) above mean sea level Britton Hill is the highest point in Florida and the lowest highpoint of any U.S state Much of the state south of Orlando lies at a lower elevation than northern Florida and is fairly level Much of the state is at or near sea level However some places such as Clearwater have promontories that rise 50 to 100 ft (15 to 30 m) above the water Much of Central and North Florida typically 25 mi (40 km) or more away from the coastline have rolling hills with elevations ranging from 100 to 250 ft (30 to 76 m) the highest point in peninsular Florida (east and south of the Suwannee River) Sugarloaf Mountain is a 312-foot (95 m) peak in Lake County on average Florida is the flattest state in the United States. Old U.S Post Office and Courthouse (Miami Florida).jpg. . . University of Miami founded in 1925, Wolfsonian (Florida International University Miami Beach), Downtown is South Florida's main hub for finance commerce and international business Brickell Avenue has the largest concentration of international banks in the U.S.
Many pets have escaped or been released into the Everglades from the surrounding urban areas Some find the conditions quite favorable and have established self-sustaining populations competing for food and space with native animals Many tropical fish have been released but blue tilapias (Oreochromis aureus) cause damage to shallow waterways by creating large nests and consuming aquatic plants that protect native young fish, Wet prairies are slightly elevated like sawgrass marshes but with greater plant diversity the surface is covered in water only three to seven months of the year and the water is on average shallow at only 4 inches (10 cm) deep When flooded the marl can support a variety of water plants Solution holes or deep pits where the limestone has worn away may remain flooded even when the prairies are dry and they support aquatic invertebrates such as crayfish and snails and larval amphibians which feed young wading birds These regions tend to border between sloughs and sawgrass marshes, 1.1 Beginnings In 2000 FIU became the youngest university to be awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter the country's oldest and most distinguished academic honor society FIU is one of only 78 universities nationwide to hold both designations. Partition proposals Johnson and Wales University (private) The idea of a national park for the Everglades was pitched in 1928 when a Miami land developer named Ernest F Coe established the Everglades Tropical National Park Association it had enough support to be declared a national park by Congress in 1934 it took another 13 years to be dedicated on December 6 1947 One month before the dedication of the park a former editor from the Miami Herald and freelance writer named Marjory Stoneman Douglas released her first book titled the Everglades: River of Grass After researching the region for five years she described the history and ecology of the South Florida in great detail She characterized the Everglades as a river instead of a stagnant swamp the last chapter was titled "The Eleventh Hour" and warned that the Everglades were dying although it could be reversed. . . . Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees killing thousands of people the government began to focus on the control of floods rather than drainage the Okeechobee Flood Control District was created in 1929 financed by both state and federal funds President Herbert Hoover toured the towns affected by the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to assist the communities surrounding the lake Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 miles (106 km) long was built around the southern edge of the lake Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between 14 and 17 feet (4.3 and 5.2 m) a massive canal was also constructed 80 feet (24 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high the excess water left through the canal More than $20 million was spent on the entire project Sugarcane production soared after the dike and canal were built the populations of the small towns surrounding the lake jumped from 3,000 to 9,000 after World War II.
Harish Gulati DDS