Friday, September 14th, 2007 — A major Everglades restoration project is stalled because of shoddy work managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on a Florida reservoir that could threaten an interstate highway and nearby communities if levee walls were to fail, state officials said Wednesday. While the corps hired an outside contractor to do the work, the agency "was ultimately responsible, said George Horne, deputy executive director of the South Florida Water Management District.