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How Does the Everglades' 'River of Grass' Actually Flow?
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- Water moves as thin sheet flow just inches deep across vast sawgrass plains.
- The slow southward drift is powered by a tiny slope of only 2 inches per mile.
- This barely perceptible gradient makes the Everglades one of the flattest places on Earth.
- Seasonal rainfall and Lake Okeechobee overflows feed the slow-moving current.
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