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

The Florida Department of Health in Martin County (DOH-Martin) is warning the public about blue-green algae that has been found in parts of Lake Okeechobee on Wednesday. According to DOH-Martin ...

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

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.

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

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.

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 ...