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Thirty-three hundred cubic feet per second (cfs) or 2.1 billion gallons of water from Lake Okeechobee is discharged through the St. Lucie Lock and Dam on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in Martin County.
Lake Okeechobee ( US: / oʊkiˈtʃoʊbi / 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. [ 3]
About eight thousand gallons per second of water flows through the South Florida Water Management District's Control Structure S-155 on Canal C-51 in Spillway Park east of Dixie Highway near the ...
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 ...
The Okeechobee Waterway or Okeechobee Canal is a relatively shallow artificial waterway in the United States, stretching across Florida from Fort Myers on the west coast to Stuart on Florida's east coast. The waterway can support tows such as barges or private vessels up to 50 feet (15 metres) wide x 250 feet (76 metres) long which draw less ...
Fisheating Creek is a stream that flows into Lake Okeechobee in Florida. It is the only remaining free-flowing water course feeding into the lake, and the second-largest natural source for the lake. Most of the land surrounding the stream is either publicly owned or under conservation easements restricting development.
12 billion gallons of polluted Lake Okeechobee water will flow into the St. Lucie River from Feb. 17 to April 1. ... Models show the releases could lower the lake level to 14.5 feet in time for ...
The Kissimmee River drains into Lake Okeechobee, a 730-square-mile (1,900 km 2) lake with an average depth of 9 feet (2.7 m). During the wet season when the lake exceeds its capacity, the water leaves the lake in a very wide and shallow river, approximately 100 miles (160 km) long and 60 miles (97 km) wide. [4]