A new online interactive map tracks the weekly amount and movement of water south out of Lake Okeechobee as well as updates on the storage capacity of major storage areas. To help reduce freshwater releases to South Florida's estuaries during the 2014 wet season, South Florida Water Management District operations moved approximately 339 billion gallons […]
October 22, 2013 Senate Office Building 404 S. Monroe Street Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001 RE: Protecting Our Rivers: A Call to Action for the State of Florida Dear Florida Senator, We are facing a crisis. Billions of gallons of polluted water are being discharged out of Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries. […]
Urgent need to complete Everglades clean-up plan By Miami Herald Editorial. Monday, 08.05.13 It’s happening again, and it’s bad. Billions of gallons of foul brown water are being flushed into two South Florida rivers to lower Lake Okeechobee and protect the Herbert Hoover Dike during hurricane season. Two lovely estuary systems, the Caloosahatchee River […]