The Port of Miami is currently 42 feet deep and will have to be dredged to 50-52 feet in depth to allow the new Super Post Panamax Megaships to enter which are scheduled to cross the Panama Canal in 2014.
Since the bay is sitting on limestone rock a minimum of 600 days of underwater explosives will be conducted and will take about 2 years to dredge over 415 acres of bay bottom removing acres of coral reefs, sea grass habitats, and destroying eco-systems that sustain our threatened,endangered, and protected species including endangered birds.
As a person who enjoys the natural environment of South Florida 
Please oppose HB 503 and SB 716.
These bills propose to strip the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve Act.
There are currently 41 aquatic preserves, six offices and two million acres being managed and protected. This line item is set to be removed in this year’s budget, closing all of the offices around the state. The destruction of ecosystems is no price to pay when it affects everyone-especially our tourism.
And if that wasn't enough in the way lies an aging pipeline that carries about
25 million gallons of raw sewage per day from Miami Beach to the Waste Water Treatment Plant in Virginia Key and moving it will easily cause it to burst and turn into a catastrophe that will soil the bay and beaches with sewage.
This was said from the Director of the Miami-Dade Water and Sewage Department, John Renfrow
"We would have to close down the beaches, it would be a environmental mess."
This construction of Deep Dredge will kill a important factor in South Florida that many people love to spend time in and see at the expense of billions of tax-payers money. 

The reason the project will be passed is because it was sneaked under a bill — that has to do with permits for storm-water management systems—
and it won the support of the Florida House on February 28, 2012 that will jump-start the stalled Port of Miami Deep Dredge.— which passed by a 110-5 vote.
According to Dan Kipnis, the Port of Miami doesn’t run the Port but, own the land and they lease it to three shipping companies and we are doing this project to subsidize for them.

If Miami did not get the funding and if the dredging is not done by 2014,
South Florida would lose trade traffic to nearby ports.

So why go through with the hassle? When this issue is based on hope that it this spending will work in the after next two years?

Appeals have been made by The Tropical Audubon Society, Biscayne Bay WaterKeeper Capt. Dan Kipnis, and local residents of  Fisher Island  for this devastating Port of Miami "Deep Dredge" project and are in need of support!

Please sign to oppose the bills and the project.

It isn't hard to believe that there are other supporters of this "project" such as:

Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado
Former Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez

For more information you can watch these videos and read the articles below
 http://youtu.be/w5AwlaZixKU 
http://vimeo.com/36231602 

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/05/2677296/momentum-builds-for-port-of-miami.html ​http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/PubArticleDBR.jsp?id=1202539424087

 You can also can contribute financial support for the legal challenge which can be made through PayPal at the Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper website  www.bbwk.org