Florida politicians Monday asked President Donald Trump to provide at least $200 million annually to fast-track Everglades restoration projects.

Gov. Ron DeSantis and U.S. Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio want the president to include the funding in his annual budget request to Congress. The money would "fulfill long overdue federal commitments to restore the Everglades," their letter to him says.

They didn't specify an end date for the annual funding.

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Everglades projects have received limited funding from the federal government for decades, despite requests from Congress members and state leaders.

The president rarely has discussed Everglades restoration projects and federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency have not supported increased funding in previous years, instead supporting cuts to some water and air quality programs.

In October, Trump tweeted praise for then-governor Scott for securing funding to reduce algal blooms, and said Congress needed to fund the EAA reservoir.

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The president has signed multiple Everglades measures into law, including the Water Resources and Development Act, which includes multiple Everglades restoration projects including the EAA reservoir.

He also supported a law that authorizes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency to declare a “Harmful Algal Bloom of Significance” when a bloom will have a detrimental impact on a state’s environment, economy or public health.

The declaration authorizes the federal government to make federal funding available to state or local governments to assess and mitigate harmful algal blooms.

Everglades restoration projects

The projects that could be completed with the $200 million include:

The Everglades Agricultural Area reservoir, which intends to curb Lake Okeechobee discharges to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers. The EAA reservoir's goal is to reduce Lake O discharges, which cause toxic blue-green algal blooms and contribute to nearshore red tide blooms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Projects included in the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) which are supposed to store, treat and send water south to the Everglades and Florida Bay.

Water storage and treatment projects in the Indian River Lagoon's southern region in Martin County, including the C-44 Reservoir, which filters and cleans water before it moves into the South Fork of the St. Lucie River.

The C-43 Reservoir, which will store water going to the Caloosahatchee River estuary during wet periods and provide water during the dry season.

Toxic algal blooms

“Florida’s recent struggles with harmful algal blooms have raised the stakes for accelerated progress on Everglades restoration,” the letter to Trump says.

Recurring blue-green algae blooms in the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers have caused dozens of people to be medically treated for symptoms related to exposure. Several dogs on the Treasure Coast also died or were sickened by it in 2018.

The blooms are caused primarily by Lake Okeechobee discharges of excess freshwater, polluted predominately by agricultural runoff. Lake O discharges also cause red tide to bloom in nearshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean.

“Enhanced federal funding to complement years of historic state funding levels would fast-track design and construction ... to divert and clean Lake Okeechobee releases and increase water deliveries to Everglades National Park and Florida Bay,” the letter to Trump says.