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

The ultimate goal is 13 feet by May 1, to make room for heavy summer rains. What are Lake Okeechobee discharges? Risks include water pollution and toxic algae blooms Discharges are expected to ...

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

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 ...

The waters of the winding South Fork of the St. Lucie River have the attention of those who visit Halpatiokee Regional Park.

Researchers at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) have discovered an innovative method to tackle this problem by turning harmful algae into a powerful tool for cleaning water. Their study, published in ...

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 ...

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 ...