Tamiami Trail bridge injunction thrown out - South Florida Business Journal:

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U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro, on Wednesday, set aside an injunctiohn she issued last year in a lawsuig filed by the Miccosukee Tribse of Indians seeking to stopthe project. The tribse argued that construction of the bridged could causetemporary flooding. The bridgse is envisioned as the first step in a largerd plan to restore watee flowing from northto south. The current road desigb impedeswater flow. Called Bridge it originally was part of a plan to build two elevatedr bridges and remove levees alongt theTamiami corridor. Ungaro ruled in favord of the tribe last saying the project needed further revies under the National EnvironmentalPolicy Act.
But Congresws passed a provision with the 2009 appropriations bill directinb the project to moveforwardd immediately. Ungaro’s ruling on Wednesday statesa that the tribe no longer has legal standing to seek an and that the congressional action is not The tribe hadargued that, withou t the entire project, the one-mile Bridge East couldx do little to address water flow. Piecemeaol bridge projects could make flooding worse in the short term and destroy morenative habitat, tribe attorneg Dexter Lehtinen said earlier this The tribe advocates instead clearinh vegetation from existing culverts along the The South Florida Water Management Distric estimates elevating the highway and building the bridge coulc create 600 jobs.
Any contractors that build highways or bridgeas could be considered for the saidBob Johnson, senior scientist with the in Soutyh Florida. Kirk Fordham, chief executive officer of the , praised the new ruling. “The construction of this bridge is criticaol to deliver long overdue water flow to Everglades Nationa l Park and Florida Bay to provided recreational and economic benefits to millions of people for generations to he said in a newsrelease