Lake Okeechobee

Eve Samples: Do you have a case of ‘seasonal amnesia’?

By Eve Samples December 2, 2016 TC Palm Do you have seasonal amnesia? Symptoms may include: Ability to enjoy our waterways without having flashbacks of blue-green algae.  Forgetting the ammonia-like stench ...

South Florida Water District board OKs Caulkins water farm extension

By Tyler Treadway November 10, 2016 TC Palm The South Florida Water Management District board on Thursday approved a nearly $62.5 million project to help clean up the St. Lucie River ...

We can’t afford not to build Everglades ag area reservoir

By Eric Eikenberg November 3, 2016 TC Palm Eric Eikenberg, CEO The Everglades Foundation Much has been made of the devastating environmental effects of toxic discharges of Lake Okeechobee water ...

Could Army Corps stop Lake Okeechobee discharges to St. Lucie River today?

By Tyler Treadway October 27, 2016 TC Palm Tyler Treadway of TC Palm lays out why the Army Corps could stop discharges from Lake Okeechobee: Could today be the day ...

When will Lake Okeechobee discharges to the St. Lucie River end?

By Tyler Treadway October 18, 2016 TC Palm Lake Okeechobee discharges to the St. Lucie River could decrease again Friday, but likely won't stop yet. At a conference call Tuesday ...

Guest column: Water from Lake O must go south

By Mark Perry, Florida Oceanographic Society October 2, 2016 TC Palm Mark Perry, Executive DirectorFlorida Oceanographic Society We are now at 247 days of constant discharges from Lake Okeechobee, totaling more ...

St. Lucie River conditions are right for bloom to be toxic blue-green algae

By Tyler Treadway September 29, 2016 TC Palm St. Lucie River conditions are right to feed another round of blue-green algae blooms, but don't expect to see — or smell — a repeat of ...

The Fix to our water crisis is complicated but doable

By Roger Williams September 28, 2016 Florida Weekly IT’S THE YEAR OF WATER IN FLORIDA. Unprecedented winter floods swept into Lake Okeechobee from the north, cascading into the delicate estuaries ...

Lake Okeechobee pollutes St. Lucie River with 1.1 billion gallons a day

By Tyler Treadway September 22, 2016 TC Palm With Lake Okeechobee water levels too high and rising, polluted discharges to the St. Lucie River will increase to more than 1.1 billion gallons a ...