Identity elements
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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1931-1975 (Creation)
Extent
8 boxes
Name of creator
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Content and structure elements
Scope and content
Collection covers committee, agency and individual writings on the Everglades, the Biscayne aquifer, Lake Okeechobee, Biscayne Bay, urban growth and farming impacts on water resources, saltwater intrusion, flood control, and related water issues. Other material included: South Florida (later Variety, now Miami) Children's Hospital under construction; a 1960 plan to revitalize Miami's downtown business district, and a 1976 Dade County Public Schools report.
Folder 3 in box 2 gives a summary of events pertaining to documents in boxes 1 and 2.
Maps, charts, oversized pamphlets pertaining to water control in southeast Florida, 1940-1970s
System of arrangement
Papers arranged by topic in folders. Correspondence arranged chronologically
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gift
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Other Information
Accession number: 1978-228
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Archivist's note
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Access points
Subject access points
- Aquifers
- Aquifers -- Florida
- Central business districts
- Central business districts -- Miami area
- Flood control
- Flood control -- Florida
- Saltwater encroachment
- Saltwater encroachment -- Florida
- Schools
- Schools -- Miami-Dade County
- Water
- Water -- Law and legislation
- Water consumption
- Water consumption -- Florida
- Water districts
- Water districts -- Florida
- Water supply
- Water supply -- Dade County
Place access points
Name access points
- Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District (Subject)
- Citizens Committee on Water Control (Florida) (Subject)
- Everglades Drainage District (Subject)
- Miami Children's Hospital (Subject)
- Bellamy, Jean (Subject)
- Bills, Jeanne Bellamy (Subject)