Oh, I thought you said...never mind.
Posted on 10/01/2017 1:04:39 PM PDT by janetjanet998
The current lake level is 16.3 feet. Army Corps spokesman John Campbell says at 16 feet they started doing weekly inspections of the Herbert Hoover Dike. If the water gets to 16.5 feet they will increase that to twice a week. At 17 feet, they will begin doing daily inspections.
Since Hurricane Irma, the lake has risen about 2-and-a-half feet. So far, the Corps has performed three inspections....
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He says, "Where we've seen issues in the past is where the level has gotten above 17 and a half and 18 and so were still a little bit away from that and one of the reasons we try to aggressively manage the water the way we do."
The South Florida Water Management District is also doing its part to lower canals ahead of the several inches of rain expected.
Tammy Jackson-Moore looks out for her neighbors as a founder of Guardians of the Glades. She says the expected rainfall and the high lake level is the talk of the town. "There's discussion about that in the community right now as a matter of fact, because people are concerned, they already know that its 16.3 feet now."
lake at 16.43..highest in 10 years.. The corps likes to keep the lake level between 12.5 feet and 15.5 feet. Higher lake levels increase concerns about dike failure.
Outflow options are limited compared to possible inflow
good background article https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/lake-okeechobee-nears-highest-water-level-10-years
At a lake level of 21 feet—a 1-in-100-year flood event—a dike failure would be likely at one or more locations. 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. And with 40,000 people living in the communities protected by the Herbert Hoover Dike, the potential for human suffering and loss of life is significant. Our engineering studies indicate the southern and eastern portions of the dike system are more likely to fail than the northern and western portions of the dike. In general, we would expect a warning time of 24 to 48 hours prior to a dike failure that releases water from the lake; however, under some conditions the warning time might be longer, and under others, a dike failure could occur with no warning.” Belle Glade (population 18,000) on the southeast shore of the lake, is 16’ above sea level, so if Lake Okeechobee is at 21’ above mean sea level and the dike fails, 4 - 5 feet of water could inundate the town.
amazing since further upstream in Tennessee/kentudky for 120 miles the Mississippi is dry.
FYI:
The watershed is NNW from the lake all the way up to Orlando
WPTV News | West Palm Beach Florida
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A potential crisis is building for communities along Lake Okeechobee. Lake levels are now over 16 feet, officials say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjeTiasKCI
Good afternoon.
Let me guess. You live in one of these towns: Pahoke, Belle Glade, Okeechobee or Clewiston?
5.56mm
The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane caused levees to break and killed over 4000 people. You can try to control nature, but it’s a fool’s errand. Humans survive by adapting, not by changing nature.
Further upstream from what?
Anyone guessing that plugging all those old flood control canals wasn’t such a great idea?
here’s a utube of the drought upstream dated Sep 29, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjwjUkoAxEM
That’d make a great commercial. Yeah, we’re monitoring but we aren’t actually doing anything about the problem.
Oh, I thought you said...never mind.
The 1928 Okeechobee hurricane is the 2nd most fatal hurricane in US history. Galveston was the worst.
There were so many bodies scattered south of the lake they could not collect and bury them in time and had to resort to mass funeral pyres.
um..we are talking about southern FL :)
Feds just finished a couple hundred million update on the berm around the big lake.
And still the stoopids in the Army Corps and South Florida Water Management insist on flushing the toilet that is the big lake into the Saint Lucie River estuary, thus killing my river.
All to enable big sugar,big citrus, and big cattle.
How about returning the river of grass like GOD created instead of the disaster the Corps have created....
I have driven around both sides of the lake around 15 to 20 years ago. I was very impressed with those big berms and climbed to the top of several to see the view. I remember that so many houses were WAY below the tops of those berms. On the other hand on some of my trips there were forest fires along I-95, and the water was 7 feet below the “normal” level. I also watched the increase of sugar and other big ag development with concern.
Tennessee and Kentucky are not “upstream” from Lake Okeechobee, Florida.
Damned autoplay. Hate that.
Wow. Just went over the I40 bridge in Memphis yesterday and the river was fine
Went over the Tappan Zee bridge near Tarrytown, NY and the Hudson River looked about its normal level. The new bridge they are building next to it is looking pretty awesome!
..except the name for it...
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