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Some clean-water advocates have blamed the current discharges on the Army Corps' repeated delays in approving the new rules, called the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual (LOSOM), but that's ...
Mast also said the Army Corps should base its discharge decisions on the new Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual (LOSOM), not the old Lake Okeechobee Regulation Schedule 2008 (LORS08).
The discharges are allowed under the Corps' new lake management rules, called the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual (LOSOM), which took effect Aug. 12. However, in 2022, ...
In August 2019, the Florida Department of Agriculture appointed two registered lobbyists for the Florida Sugar Cane League to consult on the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual Project Delivery Team, which was set to advise the United States Army Corps of Engineers on procedures for lake levels. [32]
The HHD system consists of approximately 143 miles of levee surrounding Lake Okeechobee, with 32 culverts, hurricane gates and other water control structures. The first embankments around Lake Okeechobee were constructed by local interests from sand and muck, circa 1915.
In the end, LOSOM (the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual) was basically hijacked to prioritize the St. Lucie Estuary over other project functions, including the health of the lake itself.
Lake Okeechobee and the Okeechobee Waterway Project is part of the complex water-management system known as the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project.The projects cover 16,000 square miles (41,000 km 2) starting just south of Orlando and extending southward through the Kissimmee River Basin to the Everglades National Park to Florida Bay.
The new Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual (LOSOM) being developed will replace the current 2008 Lake Okeechobee Regulation Schedule (LORS) and is projected to curb Lake O discharges by 37%.