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The new rules say the Army Corps of Engineers can discharge 2.3 billion gallons a day when the lake level is 16.5 feet or higher in February or March, but it was only 16.33 when the agency opened ...
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, ...
This map shows the Everglades Agricultural Area, as designated by the Central and Southern Florida Project. The Everglades Agricultural Area Environmental Protection District (EAA EPD), better known as simply the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA), is an area extending south from Lake Okeechobee to the northern levee of Water Conservation Area 3A, from its eastern boundary at the L-8 canal to ...
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%.
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]
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 (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.