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Army Corps to suspend flows from Lake Okeechobee(what a mess)
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Posted on 07/09/2018 7:28:33 AM PDT by janetjanet998

GLADES COUNTY, Fla. -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will suspend water releases from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Estuaries starting Monday morning.

"As we look at operations in the system, we believe we can pause discharges for a short time to get additional input from staff on available options for moving water," said Col. Jason Kirk, Jacksonville District Commander. "We have implemented higher stages in the canal along the Tamiami Trail and we have implemented deviations to generate flexibility in operations at the southern end of the system to move additional water south. We want to ensure we are using all available flexibility before we resume discharges east and west."


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KEYWORDS: fl; florida; okeechobee; redtide
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To: VastRWCon

unless there is way below average rainfall the rest of the summer

there will be releases..just a matter of when..even if some flows south..just not enough outflow south even at 100% capacity


21 posted on 07/09/2018 7:53:53 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

I guess the Indian-Town Marina is SOL?


22 posted on 07/09/2018 7:55:28 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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To: rktman

“That’s not the way we did it in New Yawk.”

The real problem is about 5 million too many yankees.


23 posted on 07/09/2018 7:55:32 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: Migraine

We are going to change the plan as the situation changes.


24 posted on 07/09/2018 7:59:11 AM PDT by BwanaNdege (uires sonm)
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To: janetjanet998
Because of flood Control decades ago...

Flood control decades ago that successfully transformed Florida from fetid fever swamps into productive land has been partially undone by environmentalists resulting in the present mess.

25 posted on 07/09/2018 8:00:12 AM PDT by fso301
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To: janetjanet998
Excellent book about the history of draining Florida. Skip the introduction though as the author has a political ax to grind.


26 posted on 07/09/2018 8:00:56 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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To: janetjanet998; VastRWConspiracy

But then what happens when - instead of a drought/low rainfall through the rest of this summer and fall - Florida gets a near-miss hurricane (or several oops-it-went-up-the-middle-of-the-peninsula-hurricanes)?


27 posted on 07/09/2018 8:03:49 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: janetjanet998

Very informative !


28 posted on 07/09/2018 8:04:29 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: janetjanet998

Fertilizer runoff from sugarcane and orange groves triggers algal bloom.

Both are also a result of bureaucratic policies to prop up domestic agribusiness at the expense of consumers.


29 posted on 07/09/2018 8:06:04 AM PDT by babble-on
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To: janetjanet998
The way God created Florida's water flow.

The way man screwed it up.


30 posted on 07/09/2018 8:07:41 AM PDT by Rebelbase ( Tagline disabled.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

This happens:

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.

https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/weather/lake-okeechobee-dangerously-high-dike-threatened-after-recent-rains/J3CQODEKV6qp9KYckaC2oN/


31 posted on 07/09/2018 8:07:56 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998
"So the $64,000 question is why? Why?" said biologist John Cassani, director of Calusa Waterkeeper. "Those of us who’ve been following political decisions, the false narratives, the half truths, the broken promises to address nutrient over-enrichment, this is a manifestation of that. So to us who have been following it for decades, it's like damn. Why do we keep getting all these diversions and deceptions?

I'm guessing pollutants are being dumped in the region. Same as Lake Apopka... for years 'experts' said pollution was from muck farms - but if you go on the lake you'll see highest concentrations of pollution is between the spring and Montverde... It seems our 'scientists' are coming up with conclusions first then looking for things to support those conclusions... in short - totally backwards. And wrong.

32 posted on 07/09/2018 8:09:53 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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To: GOPJ

all

todays lake level 14.44
last year July 9th 12.44

2016 was higher then this year(14.89) ...that was the last “algea summer” on the coasts. with record winter rains in the dry season...worse on lake this year algea wise


33 posted on 07/09/2018 8:12:38 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: janetjanet998

All of southern Florida was once a vast natural watershed that (a) could be flooded at any time, (b) acted as an outlet for flooding off any higher ground, (c) and was a natural break against tidal storm surges to any land further inland. The natives new that, built settlements inland and let the watershed alone to protect them.

Then modern civiization decided Florida ought to be one of the most populace states, and what nature made and needed had to be accomodated to that human occupation.


34 posted on 07/09/2018 8:16:19 AM PDT by Wuli
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JUst in
Gov. Scott to declare state of emergency over algae bloom on west coast

Gov. Rick Scott plans to declare a state of emergency following his tour of the Caloosahatchee River algae blooms in Cape Coral on Monday morning, reports say.

On Sunday, the Army Corps of Engineers temporarily suspended scheduled flows from Lake Okeechobee down the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee rivers.

The Fort Myers News-Press reported Scott toured algae blooms on the state’s west coast Monday morning. The state of emergency is expected to include Martin and Lee counties.

“It’s frustrating right now and I’m sure if you’re a boater or fisherman or someone who wants to enjoy the water, it’s frustrating to see this in the water,” Scott said during a boat tour.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-scott-algae-emergency-20180709-story.html


35 posted on 07/09/2018 8:17:06 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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To: Rebelbase

Thanks for the maps.

No one has mentioned the sugar cane that is now grown on the land that formerly was swampland.

I guess the sugar cane growers are supporting Adam Putnam in hopes he will keep their land high and dry while huge amounts of money is spent to build new diversion channels.


36 posted on 07/09/2018 8:20:20 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: PrairieLady2
I was thinking similarly, ecxept I was thinking oxygen and pH adjustments. Treat it like a giant, back yard pond.

Yep, one would think "chemicals" would work, but no doubt they are "prohibited".

37 posted on 07/09/2018 8:21:25 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: janetjanet998

Go to pet store, buy a few hundred thousand Chinese algae eaters or Plecostomus fish, turn ‘em loose and say buy bye to algae.


38 posted on 07/09/2018 8:27:22 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: Migraine
Anyone here speak bureaucratese?

Sounds like an excuse for erectile disfunction.

39 posted on 07/09/2018 8:28:24 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: rktman
"And the enviros want to make it like it was before all the dikes and canals were put in place. Not quite as simple as they would have you believe. With all the years it took to make it, how many to unmake it? 🤔 "

One '500 year' flood and all that man built will washed away and then you leave it alone. I also think that in rural areas the should remove the levees so that flood pressure is reduced for the big cities. To support this the cities that need levee protection should be taxed to pay for isolated houses to be jacked up and put on pilings or, if the owner wishes to contribute extra, a masonry walled first floor for use as a garage with the understanding that anything placed in it is uninsurable. Anyone in a rural area of the Mississippi River that has their home severely flooded out washed Away should be bought out and can only use the money to rebuild on high ground.

Here is what it looks like when done right:

If the Mississippi can be allowed to spread out naturally in rural areas the big cities would be far less prone to flooding and everyone would be better off.

40 posted on 07/09/2018 8:34:59 AM PDT by WMarshal (Because we're America, Bitches!)
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