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Lake Okeechobee water hits highest level since 2005
The Corps is releasing water into the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers and performing weekly inspections on the southern half of the Herbert Hoover Dike that surrounds the lake, Corps spokesman John Campbell said. Some 4.7 billion gallons of water a day are flowing into the Caloosahatchee.
“We continue to release as much water as we can to the Caloosahatchee River and the St. Lucie Canal while not releasing so much that we would cause any flooding downstream,” Campbell said.
The releases have been blamed for brown, murky water and toxic algae blooms along the rivers.
The lake stage is 16.44 feet, higher than the 16.4 feet it hit in February 2016 and the highest since it spiked to 17.12 feet in the 2015 aftermath of Hurricane Wilma.
http://www.winknews.com/2017/10/02/lake-okeechobee-water-hits-highest-level-since-2005/