Word: channelized
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...time the historic groundbreaking ceremony was completed, Graham had planted not only a tree but the seeds of destruction for one of the most disastrous projects ever undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers. Twenty years ago, the corps spent $29 million on the construction of a 52-mile channel along the 98-mile Kissimmee, punctuated by locks every ten miles or so. The purpose: to control the seasonal flooding that spilled over the river's banks onto 60,000 surrounding acres, destroying property and jeopardizing tourism. Now, in the first rejection of a corps' project ever...
Next month engineers will ram the first of three corrective steel barriers, or weirs, into the channel bed to readjust the river's flow. In the project's second phase, they will begin dumping dirt into six miles of the channel once so carefully scooped out. If all goes well over the next 15 years, the river will gradually rise and engulf the artificially dry plains that surround it, transforming them back to the lush, mosquito-ridden swamps they were for hundreds of thousands of years...
...reason for the unprecedented turnabout is the dire effect the channel has had on the complex ecology of South Florida. The Kissimmee is a strand in the northern section of the extensive tangle of the region's streams and rivers. Some of the waters, including the Kissimmee, feed into the gigantic water system that supplies drinking water for the 4 million inhabitants of southern Florida. Others snake off to submerge the Everglades and nurture its water-loving fowl and alligators. When the 200-ft.-wide, 30-ft.-deep channel was completed and the Kissimmee's annual overflow...
Supporters of the channel, however, insist that the dry plains are as ecologically sound as the wetlands were, and there is some truth to their argument...