With the C-44 Reservoir complete and the EAA Reservoir under construction, water managers are planning a new reservoir north of Lake Okeechobee being designed to help curb discharges to the St ...
There are destinations in Florida where visitors can see alligators in roadside stops, but Lake Okeechobee offers one of the best opportunities to see these massive reptiles in the wild.
From Southwest Florida beaches to the shores of Lake Okeechobee and every river and ... the realization you probably can’t and so it’s best to let it do what it does naturally,” Brodeur ...
A prime suspect is Lake Okeechobee discharges that started a month ago, which floods the brackish St. Lucie River with ...
Okeechobee County, named after the expansive Lake Okeechobee, is known for its agricultural roots, particularly in cattle ranching and citrus farming. Established in 1917 and originally inhabited ...
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 ...
LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St ...