MIAMI (AP) -- A federal judge in Miami has ordered work stopped on a proposed one-mile bridge on a road through the Everglades so that environmental impacts and possible flooding can be studied.

U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro issed an order Friday halting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project on Tamiami Trail west of Miami. The project was challenged in court by the Miccosukee Indian Tribe, which considers the Everglades its ancestral home.

Ungaro agreed with the tribe that the Corps did not fully analyze the impacts of various alternatives to the bridge and that further work could be a waste of taxpayer dollars.

The project is one aspect of a massive plan to restore natural flows through Everglades National Park.