Lake Okeechobee has become the cesspool of Florida, its environmental state out of control. There cannot be any significant improvement in the Lake water quality unless its watershed feeding it is cleaned up.
Since much is at stake, many agree that this has to be done.
While the LO watershed remediation is being discussed, there is hardly a good idea on HOW to restore the Lake itself !
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How the Everglades originated and functioned until man altered the landscape and dried up half of them. Only to see that this interference has been eventually damaging to the Everglades, estuaries and threaten to diminish the vital fresh water supply to the whole of South Florida..
Kissimmee River is t he backbone of Lake Okeechobee watershed. Altering its course and working its floodplane polluted and endangered the Lake. The Kissimmee situation has now been reversed as the battle for the watershed clean-up continues on all levels.
All the waters flowing into and out of LakeOkeechobee are really one and interconnected system. The pollution entering the Lakeonly accumulates there and waits to eventually damage the estuaries with its pollution when Lake water needs to be released.
Water Treatment cells (STAs) have been built that cleanse the water collected from the Everglades Agri-Area that is polluted by fertilizers and could not feed the Everglades downstream. More of these STA marshes need to be constructed both South & North of the Lake.
The Report here below is most
up-to-date and relevant - a 'must' reading:
