16.44 + .01
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/
Okeechobee Inflows (cfs):
S65E 7155 S65EX1 5648 Fisheating Cr -NR-
S154 181 S191 1041 S135 Pumps 91
S84 2277 S133 Pumps 166 S2 Pumps 0
S84X 298 S127 Pumps 47 S3 Pumps 0
S71 671 S129 Pumps 73 S4 Pumps 0
S72 158 S131 Pumps 54 C5 0
Total Inflows: 17858
Okeechobee Outflows (cfs):
S135 Culverts 0 S354 0 S77 7468
S127 Culverts 0 S351 0 S308 3395
S129 Culverts 0 S352 0
S131 Culverts 0 L8 Canal Pt -49
Total Outflows: 10813