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. Water quality Initial attempts at developing agriculture near Lake Okeechobee were successful but the nutrients in the peat were rapidly removed In a process called soil subsidence oxidation of peat causes loss of volume Bacteria decompose dead sawgrass slowly underwater without oxygen When the water was drained in the 1920s and bacteria interacted with oxygen an aerobic reaction occurred Microorganisms degraded the peat into carbon dioxide and water Some of the peat was burned by settlers to clear the land Some homes built in the areas of early farms had to have their foundations moved to stilts as the peat deteriorated; other areas lost approximately 8 feet (2.4 m) of soil depth! 11.4 Public transit In its 2018 ParkScore ranking the Trust for Public Land reported that the park system in the City of Miami was the 50th best park system among the 100 most populous US cities down slightly from 48th place in the 2017 ranking ParkScore ranks urban park systems by a formula that analyzes median park size park acres as percent of city area the percent of city residents within a half-mile of a park spending of park services per resident and the number of playgrounds per 10,000 residents. . Rental car center Glen Ridge Atlantis Greater Bethel AME Church (1927). The Order of the Torch is a semi-secret honorary leadership society akin to other secret societies in the state such as Florida Blue Key at the University of Florida and the Iron Arrow Honor Society at the University of Miami the organization is rumored to have been founded in 2003 as a way of organizing student leadership to restructure student life to mirror that of a traditional university Members now include students faculty staff and community members including FIU alumni Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez (class of 1974) Top leadership in Student Government Homecoming and the most elite campus fraternal organizations rank among its members, Green Library is one of the largest libraries in the Southeastern U.S and is the largest building on-campus, 4 Defunct and relocated teams. Florida Bay 3.1 Population 2.4 Florida Reef The North Bay of the Biscayne Bay lies between Miami Beach barrier island and Miami on the mainland it has been severely affected over the last century by raw sewage releases urban runoff shoreline bulkheading dredging the creation of artificial islands and the loss of natural fresh water flow into the bay However water quality has steadily improved since regular monitoring began in 1979 North Bay accounts for only 10% of the water area of the bay, 1.3 Establishment School of Professional and Career Education Country Walk. Goya Foods's Miami office Ska punk band Against All Authority is from Miami and rock/metal bands Nonpoint and Marilyn Manson each formed in Fort Lauderdale.

9 Cost of living Faculty of the PhD program in social welfare rank 4th in the United States in their scholarly accomplishment according to Academic Analytics FIU faculty were the only social work faculty in Florida to rank in the Top 10 (December 2007). ! Downtown is home to many city county state and federal courthouses jails judge offices and law firms Some of the courthouses in Downtown are the Dade County Family Court U.S Court of Appeals Judge U.S District Court Clerk Miami-Dade County Courthouse Federal Courthouse U.S Magistrate Judge City of Miami courthouses and many others. .