they have started water flowing back east again....to St Lucie (s308)..but about at 1/2 what it was a week ago...more training heavy rain possible again today over the kissimmee river basin..then more scattered stuff tomrrow before a dry spell until next weeknd.....
Okeechobee Inflows (cfs):
S65E 6370 S65EX1 5551 Fisheating Cr 1521
S154 276 S191 1947 S135 Pumps 203
S84 1768 S133 Pumps 178 S2 Pumps 0
S84X 81 S127 Pumps 128 S3 Pumps 0
S71 505 S129 Pumps 70 S4 Pumps 256
S72 308 S131 Pumps 32 C5 0
Total Inflows: 19194
Okeechobee Outflows (cfs):
S135 Culverts 0 S354 0 S77 6501
S127 Culverts 0 S351 0 S308 2074
S129 Culverts 0 S352 0
S131 Culverts 0 L8 Canal Pt -554
Total Outflows: 8020
oct 9th 17.16 +.08
oct 10th 17/20 +.04
a break in the rain continues but more rain later this week
They cant dump water south because the everglades and lakes are also very high and flooded
Lake Okeechobee dangerously high, dike threatened after recent rains
Posted: 5:09 p.m. Monday, October 09, 2017
The liquid center of the Sunshine State is dangerously swollen, reaching a 12-year high that threatens the fragile Herbert Hoover Dike as well as the grassy habitats that give life to Lake Okeechobee.
At 17.16 feet above sea level on Monday, the lake has risen more than 3 feet in a month with rainfall from Hurricane Irma and a tropical wave that washed through last week quickly filling the enormous bowl of freshwater.
The Army Corps of Engineers began daily inspections of the vulnerable south side of the dike over the weekend, finding leaks of clear water in areas prone to seepage. The fact that the water is clear is a good sign, meaning the dike isn’t being eroded, said Corps spokesman John Campbell.
According to the South Florida Water Management District, September rainfall in the Kissimmee basin that flows into Lake Okeechobee was double what’s normal for the month, with more than 12 inches falling.
Ten days into October, rain totals in the same areas north of Lake Okeechobee remain above normal.
Campbell said because rain amounts have also been high to the east and west of the lake — the two main arteries for dumping water — the Corps has had limited options on where to put the water.
“This all goes back to water management and we have to build reservoirs to hold more water and slow the water down north of the lake,” Gray said. “It makes me sick to my stomach that the lake has been good the last five years and now we’ve had this terrible change of fortunes.”