Restoration of the Everglades has come to a near standstill and the government can no longer estimate how much it will cost or how long it will take. The top federal official in charge of construction says it’s in part because Congress has failed to come through with the promised money. As a result many tasks have fallen years behind schedule.

The project was signed into law by President Clinton with bipartisan support. It called for the construction of reservoirs, back-filling of canals and rerouting of water to rescue the fast-shrinking Everglades and preserve the remarkable variety of plants and wildlife that inhabit it, including egrets, rare orchids, alligators and panthers.

The Everglades once covered 4 million acres of swampland but has shrunk to half its size over the past 150 years because of the building of dikes, dams and homes in booming Florida and the effects of the sugar cane fields and other farms on its fringes. The swampland that remains is in ecological distress because of pollution from urban runoff and farm fertilizers.

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