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subject[0][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
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subject[0][5] = "We're actually in the middle of Conservation Area Three.  We're just a little bit south of Alligator Alley, which is now called I-75.  This is the canal that carries water directly from Lake Okeechobee to the lower east coast, and Everglades National Park.";

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subject[1][3] = "Narrator:";
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subject[1][5] = "It took just a short and breezy airboat ride to arrive at a water control structure situated in the middle of Water Conservation Area Three-B.  According to the former director of the South Florida Water Management District, Jack Malloy, the water conservation areas are important natural filters.  They clean the waters flowing southward from Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades Agricultural Areas.  They also function as important habitat.  When this area is fully inundated, all the fish and alligators now concentrated in this canal will move out into the surrounding marsh.";

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subject[2][2] = "© Jill Heinerth"; 
subject[2][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
subject[2][4] = ""; 
subject[2][5] = 'Oh look, we\'re being watched by an alligator.  He\'s curious, he sticks his head up to see what\'s going on here.  As we continue to encroach in areas and continue to drain wetlands, we\'re developing systems where alligators are living right in neighborhoods.  I think a lot of people need to realize that about half of the western portion of the lower east coast was originally alligator habitat; and it\'s now… it\'s now people.';

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subject[3][2] = "© Pat Lynch/SFWMD"; 
subject[3][3] = "Narrator:";
subject[3][4] = ""; 
subject[3][5] = "Re-constructing natural systems to filter water among all these people is proving more challenging even than building the original water control structures, and they're marvels of engineering.";

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subject[4][2] = "© Karst Productions, Inc."; 
subject[4][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
subject[4][4] = ""; 
subject[4][5] = "We're probably still building things from an engineering perspective with formulas that are 300 or 400 years old, tried and tested.  We don't really have 200 years of tried and true experience on ecosystem manipulation.";

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subject[5][2] = "© Pat Lynch/SFWMD"; 
subject[5][3] = "Narrator:";
subject[5][4] = ""; 
subject[5][5] = "The vast scope of the Everglades Restoration project is mind-boggling, In fact, it's the most ambitious and expensive ecosystem restoration ever attempted in the world.";

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subject[6][2] = "© Jill Heinerth"; 
subject[6][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
subject[6][4] = ""; 
subject[6][5] = "This ecosystem -- that stretches from the upper Kissimmee Valley, which people know as Disney World, through Lake Okeechobee and down through the original Everglades -- is larger than the state of New Jersey.";

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subject[7][2] = "© Karst Productions, Inc."; 
subject[7][3] = "Narrator:";
subject[7][4] = ""; 
subject[7][5] = "Compounding the headache of restoring this water-based ecosystem is the fact that Florida despite hurricanes, wild fires, and droughts, attracts up to a thousand new residents daily.  And, they all of need dry ground for homes, roads; and endless clean water.";

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subject[8][2] = ""; 
subject[8][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
subject[8][4] = ""; 
subject[8][5] = "Because of the tremendous growth in Florida, you might say we're shooting at a moving target.";

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subject[9][3] = "Narrator:";
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subject[9][5] = "Urban areas sprawling west from the Atlantic coast have pushed up to the levee that separates civilization from the remaining parts of the 'glades.  Only about a mile due east of the water control structure that seemed like in the middle of nowhere is the upscale community of Weston.";

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subject[10][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
subject[10][4] = ""; 
subject[10][5] = "We're less than a mile from a very dense neighborhood in a lovely city - manicured lawns, extremely nice homes, population over 10,000 people:  so, that's really the juxtaposition we have, the Everglades is right next to the South Florida urban community.";

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subject[11][2] = "© Pat Lynch/SFWMD"; 
subject[11][3] = "Narrator:";
subject[11][4] = ""; 
subject[11][5] = "Encroaching development can't jump the levee, but it can threaten restoration efforts in the 'glades.  It could suck out even more water than it already has, and further damage what remains of the wetlands.";

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subject[12][2] = "© Pat Lynch/SFWMD"; 
subject[12][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
subject[12][4] = ""; 
subject[12][5] = "The system itself provides the backbone of flood protection for over five-million people.  It also provides the backbone for the water supply for that same population of people.";

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subject[13][1] = "55_WCA.jpg"; 
subject[13][2] = "© Connie Bransilver"; 
subject[13][3] = "Narrator:";
subject[13][4] = ""; 
subject[13][5] = "Once charged with the task of managing Everglades water strictly for flood control and use by people, Malloy now is helping to restore the natural system.  And that's hard work because the 'glades is a relatively inaccessible environment of extremes:  brutal as it is beautiful.";

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subject[14][2] = "© Karst Productions, Inc."; 
subject[14][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
subject[14][4] = ""; 
subject[14][5] = "This is the subtropics.  And flood and drought are what created this unique environment.  This project was created to ameliorate the negative aspects of flood and drought, but flood and drought are a way of life, particularly in this part of the Florida peninsula.";

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subject[15][3] = "Narrator:";
subject[15][4] = ""; 
subject[15][5] = "Also a way of life, for this project at least, is patience, lots of it.";

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subject[16][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
subject[16][4] = ""; 
subject[16][5] = "We are not going to be able to reverse those things that we've identified as negative to it in a short five or ten years.";

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subject[17][2] = "© Pat Lynch/SFWMD"; 
subject[17][3] = "Narrator:";
subject[17][4] = ""; 
subject[17][5] = "In fact, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan -- known simply as CERP -- requires a commitment of many billions of dollars over many decades.  Although some projects are well underway now, many aren't even slated to begin until the years 2020, 2030, and even 2040.";

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subject[18][3] = "Jack Malloy:";
subject[18][4] = ""; 
subject[18][5] = "We'll never be able to put it back exactly the way it was, but we'll be able to make a lot of improvements over the system that we have now and I think the message is stay the course.";