Pollution entering Lake Okeechobee doesn’t stop in its open ... Read the full investigation and see the map and all the charts. The gateway to the St. Lucie River is the C-44 Canal, also called ...

Hydrilla disrupts water flow in reservoirs, hampers drainage in irrigation canals and decreases dissolved oxygen in the water. Lake Okeechobee, Florida’s largest freshwater lake, plays a vital ...

How much water is held in the lake ... Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual, or the LOSOM, were due Monday. More than 3,000 were received. The timing was prescient as the Lake Worth Drainage ...

South Floridians could face water restrictions in 2020 because of a dry rainy season and low water levels in Lake Okeechobee ... on the board of the Lake Worth Drainage District, he said.

That pretty much describes where state regulators are in their efforts to curb pollution seeping into Lake ... Okeechobee. The State of Florida has divided the properties along the lake into 32 ...

And algae season is only getting started. Writer Dan Egan and photographer Josh Ritchie reported from Okeechobee’s shores, dodging the lake’s noxious fumes to understand the crisis and its costs.