Erica Lager, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rich Ortiz, with Harry Pepper and Associates construction, and Mike Duever, an ecologist the South Florida Water Management District, convene at a site of Everglades reconstruction work in the Picayune Strand. The Corps of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District are breaking ground on a new pump station to regulate the flow of water into the Picayune Strand. Work has been underway since 2006 to flatten abandoned roadways and plug canals to return the Picayune Strand to a wetland habitat. Photographed Feb. 17, 2011. Aaron Hale/Staff

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Erica Lager, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rich Ortiz, with Harry Pepper and Associates construction, and Mike Duever, an ecologist the South Florida Water Management District, convene at a site of Everglades reconstruction work in the Picayune Strand. The Corps of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District are breaking ground on a new pump station to regulate the flow of water into the Picayune Strand. Work has been underway since 2006 to flatten abandoned roadways and plug canals to return the Picayune Strand to a wetland habitat. Photographed Feb. 17, 2011. Aaron Hale/Staff

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