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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 ...
The South Florida Water Management District on Thursday recommended the Army Corps of Engineers immediately stop Lake Okeechobee discharges ... the new Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual ...
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, ...
The dike almost completely encloses the lake. The only gap in the dike is at Fisheating Creek, where the dike turns inland and parallels the stream on both sides for several miles, leaving Fisheating Creek as the only remaining free-flowing tributary of Lake Okeechobee. [3] The cost of construction was about US$165 million. The dike is now ...
Lake Okeechobee (US: / oʊ k i ˈ tʃ oʊ b i / oh-kee-CHOH-bee) [1] is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [2] It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan.
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%.