April 26, 2024
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Florida's quote of the day
" We’re really just one small event away from being at a record event. "
-- Jim Jeffords, Operations Division Chief for the Corps’ Jacksonville office
Water managers will throw open the floodgates around Lake Okeechobee Friday as they race to stop the rising lake in a region soaked by this winter’s El Niño. With rainfall runoff now coming into the lake three times faster than it can be pumped out, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it would increase the amount dumped into the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers from the most allowed by regulation to as much as possible — more than 10 billion gallons of dirty water every day.
The lake provides valuable habitat for wildlife and has been damaged by decades of pollution draining into it from communities and farm fields on its rim.
Read more at the Miami Herald.
