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. Aerial view of the Safety Valve from southern end of Key Biscayne (top) to Soldier Key. The Everglades Forever Act introduced by Governor Lawton Chiles in 1994 was an attempt to legislate the lowering of phosphorus in Everglades waterways the act put the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in charge of testing and enforcing low phosphorus levels: 10 parts per billion (ppb) (down from 500 ppb in the 1980s) the SFWMD built Stormwater Treatment Areas (STAs) near sugarcane fields where water leaving the EAA flows into ponds lined with lime rock and layers of peat and calcareous periphyton Testing has shown this method to be more effective than previously anticipated bringing levels from 80 ppb to 10 ppb, Geology See also: Climate of Miami, Ameristar Jet Charter The Miami metropolitan area also includes several urban clusters (UCs) as of the 2000 Census which are not part of the Miami Urbanized Area These are the Belle Glade UC population 24,218 area 20,717,433 square meters and population density of 3027.6 per square mile; Key Biscayne UC population 10,513 area 4,924,214 square meters and population density of 5529.5 per square mile; Redland UC population 3,936 area 10,586,212 square meters and population density of 963.0 per square mile; and West Jupiter UC population 8,998 area 24,737,176 square meters and population density of 942.1 per square mile. 10 Government Libertarian 1,817 0.12% In 2011 PortMiami was awarded a federal grant as part of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program to restore a connection between the Florida East Coast Railway's yard in Hialeah and the PortMiami directly connecting the port to rail networks across the United States as well as re-establishing the port's on-dock rail capability (loading and unloading directly between ships and trains) the railroad bridge connecting the PortMiami to the mainland was damaged by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 at which time service was suspended the project was scheduled to be finished in time for the completion of the other projects in 2014 the rail project is related to another scheme to increase PortMiami's capacity; an inland intermodal center known as Flagler Logistics Hub to be built to be built near the airport on 300 acres of land in Hialeah. Water (14.6) 60.5 As of 2016 a total of 73% of Miami's population age five and over spoke a language other than English at home Of this 73% 64.5% of the population only spoke Spanish at home while 21.1% of the population spoke English at home About 7% spoke other Indo-European languages at home while about 0.9% spoke Asian languages or Pacific Islander languages/Oceanic languages at home the remaining 0.7% of the population spoke other languages at home. . 7 Health Although this grid is easy to understand once one is oriented to it it is not universal in the entire county Hialeah uses its own grid system which is entirely different in its orientation Coral Gables and Miami Lakes use named streets almost exclusively and various smaller municipalities such as Florida City and Homestead use their own grid system along with the Miami-Dade grid system adding to the confusion in the beach cities and parks of Miami Beach Surfside Bal Harbour Sunny Isles and Golden Beach the streets are coordinated with the main grid; however their avenues are named, 8.1 Museums Downtown/Inner Loop See also: Sports teams in Florida! .

! . About two-thirds of Florida occupies a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States approximately 1,350 miles (2,170 km) not including the contribution of the many barrier islands Florida has a total of 4,510 islands that are ten acres or larger in area This is the second-highest number of islands of any state of the United States; only Alaska has more It is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean Much of the state is at or near sea level and is characterized by sedimentary soil Florida has the lowest high point of any U.S state the climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south the American alligator American crocodile American flamingo Roseate spoonbill Florida panther bottlenose dolphin and manatee can be found in Everglades National Park in the southern part of the state Along with Hawaii Florida is one of only two states that has a tropical climate and is the only continental state with either a tropical climate or a coral reef the Florida Reef is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States and the third-largest coral barrier reef system in the world (after the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef), Everglades National Park, Miami Gardens 107,167 124,656 Miami-Dade Pan Am's terminal at Dinner Key in 1944 during World War II!