Everglades National Park (Pic by Rodney Cammauf, National Park Service; via army.mil) A federal judge has ruled that water coming from state-operated Stormwater Treatment Areas, and running south into the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, has been exceeding pollution limits designed to protect the Florida Everglades. The ruling is the result of a long-running dispute between the state of Florida and the federal government, which aruged that the state was allowing for too much pollution at Loxahatchee