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(30.6) 82.1 The geologic formations that have the most influence on the Everglades are the Miami Limestone and the Fort Thompson Formation the Miami Limestone has two facies the Miami Oolite facies which underlies the Atlantic Coastal Ridge from southern Palm Beach County to southern Miami-Dade County is made up of ooids: tiny formations of egg-shaped concentric shells and calcium carbonate formed around a single grain of sand or shell fragment the other facies which underlies the eastern lower Everglades (in Miami-Dade County and part of Monroe County) consists of fossilized bryozoan organisms the unique structure was some of the first material used in housing in early 20th-century South Florida the composition of this sedimentary formation affects the hydrology plant life and wildlife above it: the rock is especially porous and stores water during the dry season in the Everglades and its chemical composition determines the vegetation prevalent in the region the Miami Oolite facies also acts to impede flow of water from the Everglades to the ocean between Fort Lauderdale and Coot Bay (near Cape Sable). . . Fluctuating sea levels compressed numerous layers of calcium carbonate sand and shells the resulting permeable limestone formations that developed between 25 million and 70 million years ago created the Floridan Aquifer which serves as the main source of fresh water for the northern portion of Florida However this aquifer lies beneath thousands of feet of impermeable sedimentary rock from Lake Okeechobee to the southern tip of the peninsula. The Castillo de San Marcos Originally white with red corners its design reflects the colors and shapes of the Cross of Burgundy and the subsequent Flag of Florida. Several financial scandals involving the Mayor's office and City Commission during the 1980s and 1990s left Miami with the title of the United States' 4th poorest city by 1996 With a budget shortfall of $68 Million and its municipal bonds given a junk bond rating by Wall Street in 1997 Miami became Florida's first city to have a state appointed oversight board assigned to it in the same year city voters rejected a resolution to dissolve the city and make it one entity with Dade County the City's financial problems continued until political outsider Manny Diaz was elected Mayor of Miami in 2001.

1990 Census 1,937,094 The Miami-Dade Police Department is a full-service metropolitan police department serving Miami-Dade County's unincorporated areas although it has lenient mutual aid agreements with other municipalities most often the City of Miami Police Department With 4,700 employees it is Florida's largest police department the Department is often referred to by its former name the Metro-Dade Police or simply Metro! Of the clubs and organizations offered to Albizu students there is a fairly even balance between those hosted by the university and those that represent outside associations Of the outside associations some of the most notable with chapters at Albizu include the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) the Society for Military Psychology and the International Honor Society in Psychology: Psi Chi All offer students the opportunity to have a voice on a national to international level and to advocate on behalf of the science and practice of psychology through events including panel discussions fundraisers and walks to raise awareness for different causes such as suicide amongst veterans, Adrian Dominican School of Education (ADSOE). Miami Central Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church (Miami Florida) (1925), The Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project's final construction project was straightening the Kissimmee River a meandering 90-mile (140 km)-long river that was drained to make way for grazing land and agriculture the C&SF started building the C-38 canal in 1962 and the effects were seen almost immediately Waterfowl wading birds and fish disappeared prompting conservationists and sport fishers to demand the region be restored before the canal was finished in 1971 in general C&SF projects had been criticized for being temporary fixes that ignored future consequences costing billions of dollars with no end in sight After Governor Bob Graham initiated the Save Our Everglades campaign in 1983 the first section of the canal was backfilled in 1986 Graham announced that by 2000 the Everglades would be restored as closely as possible to its pre-drainage state the Kissimmee River Restoration project was approved by Congress in 1992 It is estimated that it will cost $578 million to convert only 22 miles (35 km) of the canal the entire project was to be complete by 2011 yet as of 2017 the project is "more than halfway complete" and the new completion date is 2020. 2012 50.0% 4,237,756 49.1% 4,163,447 In the South-West Atlantic a peak was reached in the mid-1980s and catches now fluctuate between 1.7 and 2.6 million tons the most important species the Argentine shortfin squid which reached half a million tons in 2013 or half the peak value is considered fully fished to overfished Another important species was the Brazilian sardinella with a production of 100,000 tons in 2013 it is now considered overfished Half the stocks in this area are being fished at unsustainable levels: Whitehead's round herring has not yet reached fully fished but Cunene horse mackerel is overfished the sea snail perlemoen abalone is targeted by illegal fishing and remain overfished, Satellite imagery of the Miami Metropolitan Area.