With help from restoration projects, including better waterways, stormwater treatment areas, buffer strips, enforced land use regulations and educational awareness, wetlands will take on their original form, one of a self-sustaining environment with the ability to maintain a wide variety of habitat without the fear of desiccation, pollution, or shrinkage in size. It is necessary to prolong hydroperiods, or wet periods, in the eastern portions of the Everglades. Research shows alterations in hydroperiod duration may affect aquatic vegetation. However, to improve the status of water flow, water ways would need to be designed to allow for large sheet flows to continue southward. Restoration objectives also consider the issue of water quality.
Water comprises chemical and biological components gathered from rain, soil, and runoff.
Agricultural runoff over the last years have had great impact on Everglades' water quality. This portion of the wetland restoration guideline is related to the previous guideline dealing with water quantity. In other words the lower the water level the higher the phosphorous concentration. Another solution is to cleanse phosphorus contaminated waters via aquatic vegetation. The large scale project consists of four treatment cells that will help determine the percentages of phosphorus removal and efficiency by aquatic plants.