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7.2 Water quality The AU Health Psychology Student Club was established to help Psy.D students develop a better understanding of health psychology and how psychological behavioral and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness. Two catastrophic hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 caused Lake Okeechobee to breach its levees killing thousands of people the government began to focus on the control of floods rather than drainage the Okeechobee Flood Control District was created in 1929 financed by both state and federal funds President Herbert Hoover toured the towns affected by the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane and ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to assist the communities surrounding the lake Between 1930 and 1937 a dike 66 miles (106 km) long was built around the southern edge of the lake Control of the Hoover Dike and the waters of Lake Okeechobee were delegated to federal powers: the United States declared legal limits of the lake to between 14 and 17 feet (4.3 and 5.2 m) a massive canal was also constructed 80 feet (24 m) wide and 6 feet (1.8 m) deep through the Caloosahatchee River; whenever the lake rose too high the excess water left through the canal More than $20 million was spent on the entire project Sugarcane production soared after the dike and canal were built the populations of the small towns surrounding the lake jumped from 3,000 to 9,000 after World War II. . County representation Fluctuating sea levels compressed numerous layers of calcium carbonate sand and shells the resulting permeable limestone formations that developed between 25 million and 70 million years ago created the Floridan Aquifer which serves as the main source of fresh water for the northern portion of Florida However this aquifer lies beneath thousands of feet of impermeable sedimentary rock from Lake Okeechobee to the southern tip of the peninsula.

The district is the second-largest minority-majority public school system in the country as of 2012 62% of MDCPS students were of Hispanic origin (of any race) 25% Black 10% Non-Hispanic White 3% other and multiracial Of the students enrolled in MDCPS 54% spoke Spanish at home 5% spoke Haitian Creole and less than 1% spoke French and Portuguese at home 45% of students were enrolled in bilingual Spanish language programs and an additional 23% were enrolled in other bilingual programs in French German Italian Mandarin Portuguese and Haitian Creole; . . The FIU College of Law was ranked 5th in 2014 in bar passing rates in the state of Florida and 1st in the MPRE, Florida Atlantic University (public) High schools (open to all Downtown residents):. Main articles: Calusa and Tequesta Indie/folk acts Cat Power and Iron & Wine are based in the city while alternative hip hop artist Sage Francis electro artist Uffie and the electroclash duo Avenue D were born in Miami but musically based elsewhere. (188) 7.01 Government Center (NW 1st Street and 1st Avenue), 6.5 Flood control Libertarian 1,817 0.12%, Club Sport Miami Area since League Venue League Championships Florida's $1.0 trillion economy is the fourth largest in the United States If it were a country Florida would be the 16th largest economy in the world and the 58th most populous as of 2018 in 2017 Florida's per capita personal income was $47,684 ranking 26th in the nation the unemployment rate in September 2018 was 3.5% and ranked as the 18th in the United States Florida exports nearly $55 billion in goods made in the state the 8th highest among all states the Miami Metropolitan Area is by far the largest urban economy in Florida and the 12th largest in the United States with a GDP of $345 billion as of 2017 This is more than twice the number of the next metro area the Tampa Bay Area which has a GDP of $145 billion Florida is home to 51 of the world's billionaires with most of them residing in South Florida. History A 2003 U.S Geological Survey photo showing the border between Water Conservation Area 3 (bottom) with water and Everglades National Park dry (top).