A $50 million flood of taxpayer money meant to speed up repairs of Lake Okeechobee’s leaky dike may only shave a few years off the slow-moving fixes. To guard against South Florida flooding ...

After 18 years, a $1.5 billion project was officially completed Wednesday to repair the sprawling dike around Florida’s Lake Okeechobee that protects thousands of people from potentially ...

In the event of a dike failure, waters from Lake Okeechobee would pass through the breach--uncontrollably--and flood adjacent land. Flooding would be severe and warning time would be limited.

Oroville Dam’s main spillway is damaged, as is an emergency spillway. Herbert Hoover Dike around Lake Okeechobee has no spillway, said Campbell, adding, “there is no mechanism in place to ...

Lake Okeechobee keeps rising — and so do worries about an aging dike the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ranks among the most vulnerable to failure in the country. With the massive lake swollen by ...

The earthen flood-control berm around Lake Okeechobee — a 143-mile wall of sorts — made an impression on President Donald Trump when he visited Friday with top Florida officials who want more ...

After four years of delays, federal officials have finally finished a plan to fix Lake Okeechobee’s faulty dike and protect South Florida from flooding. Yet the new $830 million rehab proposed A ...

Before repairs, the Corps calculated there was almost no chance of dike failure with the lake below 15.5 feet, a 45 percent probability at 18 feet and near-certainty at 21 feet.

Coastal Florida will continue seeing algae blooms until a restoration of the dike surrounding Lake Okeechobee and other Everglades projects are finished. That was one message from Gov.

reaching a 12-year high that threatens the fragile Herbert Hoover Dike as well as the grassy habitats that give life to Lake Okeechobee. At 17.16 feet above sea level on Monday, the lake has risen ...