Hendry county

The remains of a 2-year-old female panther were found in rural Hendry County.

The federal government filed the Hendry County lawsuit in 1970, long after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling but as desegregation legal battles continued in the South and other parts of the country.

Moments after a ceremonial ribbon was cut at in a Hendry County field, the first of 55 billion gallons started filling the C43 reservoir and filtering of that water began.