The Army Corps of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District have been planning the Lake Okeechobee Component ... Lake O and the estuaries LOCAR, part of the Comprehensive Everglades ...

The vast majority of the water flowing into the St. Lucie Estuary is from local communities — not Lake Okeechobee.' ...

Some parts of the region saw record rains this past summer as several tropical storms and hurricanes hit the Sunshine State. The heavy rains caused Lake Okeechobee to rise to more than 16 feet ...

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.

The state confirmed a nontoxic algae bloom in Manatee Pocket in Port Salerno on Jan. 2. A prime suspect is Lake Okeechobee discharges that started a month ago, which floods the brackish St. Lucie ...

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 St. Lucie rivers, respectively — are part of this ...

Now, there are dozens of projects surrounding Lake Okeechobee in hopes to restore the natural flow. Projects across the state are in the works to protect water quality and quantity.

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