Tag: South Florida Water Management District
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DeSantis asks entire South Florida water management board to resign | TheHill
Newly sworn-in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Thursday asked the entire South Florida water management board to resign as part of his water policy reform. In his second day in office, DeSantis thanked the board members for their service but said he had a “bold vision” for the board and asked the members for…
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SFWMD: Water district board OKs leasing reservoir’s land to sugar grower
Environmentalists and state officials agree there’s “no silver bullet,” no single project that will seriously curtail discharges of excess Lake Okeechobee water east to the St. Lucie River and west to the Caloosahatchee River. A suite of projects north, south, east and west of the lake are either under construction or in the planning stage…
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Large algae bloom forms on Lake Okeechobee, could repeat 2016
(Above) A diagram from 2016 shows water flow in South Florida. (Allen Eyestone / The Palm Beach Post) Florida’s freshwater heart is choking on nutrient-laden inflows from the north, south and east this summer, but Treasure Coast waterways have so far been spared the damaging Lake Okeechobee discharges that seeded 2016’s widespread algae bloom. In…
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Gil Smart: What’s behind push for deep injection wells near Lake Okeechobee?
When it comes to preventing discharges from Lake Okeechobee, shouldn’t every option be on the table? Or are some options designed to crowd out others? Last week, officials with the South Florida Water Management District thumbed their noses at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and vowed to plow forward with deep-injection wells — 3,000-foot…
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South Florida Water Shortage Warning: Lawn Watering Limits
At its April 13 meeting, the SFWMD Governing Board issued a water shortage warning for all 16 counties in the District in response to falling water levels and extremely dry conditions that are expected to linger. The most beneficial conservation practice for South Florida residents is to follow mandatory year-round landscape irrigation conservation measures listed…
