Lake Okeechobee Pollution
Lake Okeechobee Pollution
Florida takes the top spot for nation’s most polluted lakes and streams ARTICLE COURTESY OF: Florida Weekly – BY ROGER WILLIAMS rwilliams@floridaweekly.com Water stewards and clean water champions in the Sunshine State may now feel both pride and dismay. Pride because Florida ranks far ahead of most other states in determining whether its fresh water […]
Emily Reisinger, Contributing WriterApril 6, 2023 ARTICLE COURTESY OF THE WAVE The majority of Floridians are aware of the issues following the largest lake in their state. Lake Okeechobee is almost 30 miles wide and is a truly impressive site. With a lake this big, one would assume that swimming must be very popular. Yet […]
ARTICLE COURTESY OF: ABC Action News Florida Department of Agriculture Pushes Water Polluters to Clean Up MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Governor Ron DeSantis is proposing pouring millions of dollars into combating Florida’s water quality crisis in the new year, as the state recovers from rounds of red tide and other harmful algae blooms. By: Kylie […]
As U.S. Sugar quietly expands north of Lake Okeechobee, environmentalists fear that the Everglades cleanup is losing out to farming. ARTICLE COURTESY OF: FLORIDA BULLDOG Cane fields in the backdrop at U.S. Sugar’s Area 7 site off State Road 621 east of Lake Istopkoga in Highlands County. The sugar grower has leased about 14,000 acres […]
New water SWFL water cleanup project aims to improve the health of SWFL water systems. ARTICLE COURSTESY OF: WINK NEWS The South Florida Water Management District announced a new water quality project to protect Lake Okeechobee and our coast. The plan is to clean water before it enters the lake. The project will use wetlands […]
ARTICLE COURTESY OF: The Weather Channel Toxic Algae and Fertilizer Runoff For months during 2016, plumes of toxic algae turned South Florida’s emerald waters the color of coffee and smothered its inlets under a fetid blanket of guacamole-green goop that killed off fish, suffocated oyster beds and triggered a ferocious outcry from coastal residents. From […]
