Letter to Commisioner Putnam

Dear Commissioner Putnam;

Concur with your comments in the Palm Beach Post that repair of Lake Okeechobee is of critical importance.

However there are more significant causes of the current extreme/severe drought: Namely the continued loss of wetlands and the insufficient implementation of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) to restore lost wetlands.

South Florida depends on a robust approach to CERP to minimize the frequency, duration and extent of droughts in the future. CERP is also viewed by leading scientists as the best cure for global warming and sea level rise.

My late uncle, Arthur R. Marshall, addressed the issue of continued severe droughts back in the early 1980's, and proposed an earlier CERP. There was a reminder of this in the PB Post recently; See: HERE.

The cause and effect of the current drought is more fully laid out in Anatomy of a Man-Made Drought, in a March, 1982 Article.

Thanks for pushing CERP implementation as a cure for our current water resources problems.

For the Art Marshall approach,

Semper Fi,

John

John Arthur Marshall, Chairman of the Board,

Arthur R. Marshall Foundation & Florida Environmental Institute