LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St ...

These increased releases come at a time when the state issued blue-green advisories for the Alva Boat Ramp and Caloosahatchee River at Inlet Drive.

Okeechobee County, named after the expansive Lake Okeechobee ... it became a key agricultural hub with the development of drainage projects. Today, the county is celebrated for its rural charm ...

From Southwest Florida beaches to the shores of Lake Okeechobee and every river and creek in between, water drives the health of the environment, economy, and us. In Florida, water once slowly ...

A prime suspect is Lake Okeechobee discharges that started a month ago, which floods the brackish St. Lucie River with ...

Two communities in southern Palm Beach County — Lake Charleston and Boca Chase — received special permission from the Lake Worth Drainage ... for the most part, Okeechobee Boulevard to the ...

In the summer of 1928, heavy rainfall raised Lake Okeechobee’s water level three feet above normal. And in the fall, a hurricane smashed the coast of Florida. The impact flooded Lake Okeechobee.

Today the Everglades is half the size it was then. Lake Okeechobee, the “liquid heart” of the Everglades, and the rivers that drain it to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean — the Caloosahatchee and ...