Word: broward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...autopsies performed by Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Ronald Wright appeared to tell a different tale. He repotted that most of the dead had eaten a hot meal of pork, chicken and rice less than two hours before they drowned. Since the food could not easily have been cooked on the overcrowded boat, Wright concluded that the Haitians had eaten on a large freighter run by smugglers and then were herded onto La Nativité a few miles from shore. Said Wright: "To me that's hard and fast proof they were dumped off from a mother ship...
Today very little untouched wetland remains, especially in Dade and Broward counties. They get much of their water from a formation called the Biscayne Aquifer, extending from Miami on the east to the Everglades on the west. But heavily populated Miami and its environs draw so much water that the water table is rapidly falling, permitting sea water to seep into the aquifer. Only in the Everglades, where the land over the aquifer is still unpaved, can this reservoir be effectively resupplied. To make matters worse, Florida has been suffering through a decade of sparse rainfall, which has dried...