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

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

even as a 500-square-mile algae bloom is spreading across Lake Okeechobee, it would not set legal limits on the cyanotoxins that make the blooms so harmful. “To reduce the pollution we know is feeding ...

A small county’s big landfill is bringing in garbage from Miami-Dade County and is receiving $6,000,000 from it. However, ...

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 ...

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.

Local health departments advised people to stay away from more than a dozen beaches in Southwest Florida. Respiratory ...

Water quality problems bigger than Lake Okeechobee BY BRANDON SHULER Much recent hay has been made about the current Lake Okeechobee discharges fueling a lo ...

Algae blooms: It's the lake, stupid What are Lake Okeechobee discharges? Risks include water pollution and toxic ... The South Florida Water Management District Tuesday acknowledged the river's ...

The Army Corps of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District have been planning the Lake Okeechobee Component A Reservoir (LOCAR) for two years, but it's still too early in the process ...