In fact, the C-43 reservoir on the west coast only has capacity to store 10% of the excessive release of water from Lake Okeechobee during the wet season. A minimum of 50,000 acres needs to be ...

LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St ...

It’s not only fishermen who need the lake. Sugarcane grower Carl Perry’s farm is located southwest of Lake Okeechobee. He relies on the water to fuel his farm. He also gets outside help to ...

A network of canals, levees and water-control structures has fundamentally changed the natural ecosystem. Today the Everglades is half the size it was then. Lake Okeechobee ... Florida regulators for ...

With the C-44 Reservoir complete and the EAA Reservoir under construction, water managers are planning a new reservoir north of Lake Okeechobee being designed to help curb discharges to the St ...