Converting south and central Florida into productive land is a process that began over a century ago and was very successful.
Stop and think. Why is it only recently, in the past few years that these big algae blooms have been occurring in Okeechobee? Might it have something to do with environmentalists dismantling the old flood control system???
not form dismantling flood control
from 2016
n recent decades, Lake Okeechobee has been been loaded with excessive amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus from a variety of sources, including fertilization runoff from farms and urbanization, according to John Campbell, spokesman for the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Jacksonville District.
Such nutrients, along with other environmental factors (such as warmer temperatures), promote the growth of blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria.