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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).
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 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 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.
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%.
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 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.