A key part of Everglades restoration in Florida passed a checkpoint earlier this week and the report was mostly positive, the News-Press reports. On Monday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hosted an online update for the Central Everglades Planning Project. Often called the heart of Everglades restoration, C-E-P-P's four phases will help circulate water south from Lake Okeechobee through the Everglades to Florida Bay, re-creating historic flows across the lower peninsula. To accomplish that, workers are undoing scores of engineered barriers like roadways, ditches, levees, canals and the like, built over the last century-and-a-half for drainage and development.