“We see those discharges with very nutrient rich, polluted water from Lake Okeechobee being dumped on the coast where there’s a red tide present. That’s like throwing fuel on a forest fire ...

Red tide blooms in Southwest Florida typically start offshore of Sarasota before moving south to the Fort Myers area, which is where Lake Okeechobee meets with Gulf of Mexico waters.

Environmental advocates suspect that water releases from Lake Okeechobee could enhance red tide blooms, and Tomasko believes that the practice could have intensified the ongoing bloom or extended ...

"You can make red tides worse with something as big as Lake Okeechobee or frankly as small as Bradenton," he said. "If you remember how bad red tide was in 2018, that was the worst year we had for ...

"We have stuff in Lake Okeechobee, on some of the algae blooms, that if you do it, it does treat the algae blooms pretty effectively," DeSantis said during a bill signing event at Florida Gulf ...

The general consensus among the state’s leading red tide scientists is that red tides, formed from colonies of seawater algae species, aren’t caused by freshwater Lake Okeechobee discharges.

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The signs of bacterial blooms, the algae blooms, in Lake Okeechobee, and then on the other side, you have red tides. On both sides of Florida, you’re getting hit on the freshwater side, and the ...

A long-awaited new operations plan for Lake Okeechobee aimed at reducing damaging dirty discharges to coastal estuaries is being delayed another six months over new concerns about red tide and ...

Red tide swamps Florida beaches as they face massive seaweed blob Some of Florida's most popular beaches could be in for a one-two punch of trouble as thousands of spring breakers flock to the ...

While red tide invades our shoreline, there’s a lot of debate over how Lake Okeechobee contributes to the outbreak. A lot of fingers are pointing to Lake Okeechobee for the most recent outbreak.

The hurricane effect The similarities between Hurricane Ian in 2022 and Category 3 Hurricane Irma in 2017 are driving both anxiety over harmful algal blooms like red tide that have already happened, ...