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Cross-Florida Barge Canal halted 50 years ago, but a dam remains


It s hard for anyone nowadays to believe that the Cross-Florida Barge Canal was ever seriously contemplated, much less that it was a hot, divisive political fight from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Think of it: Digging a massive waterway from Jacksonville west to Yankeetown, a little town north of Tampa, and in the process ripping through Central Florida s network of springs, widening rivers and creeks, smashing through forests, and potentially damaging the aquifer that much of the state depends on for drinking water. A boondoggle of epic proportions. What were they thinking? 
When President Richard Nixon impounded funds for the project 50 years ago this week, stopping the dredgers practically overnight, the move sent a shockwave through state politics. ....

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