About 8 miles west of Forty Mile Bend …
Is another curve in the road.
Tamiami Canal reverse flows at Fifty Mile Bend
Technically, doing the math, it should be called 48 Mile Bend.
But we round up in the Big Cypress Swamp.
Thus it is known as Fifty Mile Bend. Turns out it’s also a hydrologic divide, sending water at that point both west and east, and yes I’ve seen it with my own eyes (as documented in the video above). What a kind-hearted canal to feed water in equal doses to the Everglades and Big Cypress.
Next step: Convince the regional water managers to do the same.
