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Lake Okeechobee is a shallow lake, with an average depth of only 3 metres (9.8 ft), [31] and has a fetch of 54 kilometres (34 mi). [32] In total, the lake has a surface area of 1,730 square kilometres (670 sq mi). [ 33 ]
Name Location Volume Maximum Depth notes 1: Lake Superior: Michigan - Minnesota - Ontario - Wisconsin: 9,799,680,000 acre⋅ft (12,088 km 3) 1,332 ft (406 m) Third-largest fresh-water lake in the world by volume
The Kissimmee River is a broad floodplain that empties directly into Lake Okeechobee, which at 730 square miles (1,900 km 2) with an average depth of 9 feet (2.7 m), is a vast but shallow lake. [23] Soil deposits in the Everglades basin indicate that peat is deposited where the land is flooded consistently throughout the year.
Thirty-three hundred cubic feet per second (cfs) or 2.1 billion gallons of water from Lake Okeechobee is discharged through the St. Lucie Lock and Dam on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in Martin County.
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U.S. Rep. Brian Mast discusses the recent Lake O discharges with Col. James Booth, Army Corps of Engineers, during a Rivers Coalition meeting, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 ...
The dike almost completely encloses the lake. The only gap in the dike is at Fisheating Creek, where the dike turns inland and parallels the stream on both sides for several miles, leaving Fisheating Creek as the only remaining free-flowing tributary of Lake Okeechobee. [3] The cost of construction was about US$165 million. The dike is now ...
The Kissimmee River drains into Lake Okeechobee, a 730-square-mile (1,900 km 2) lake with an average depth of 9 feet (2.7 m). During the wet season when the lake exceeds its capacity, the water leaves the lake in a very wide and shallow river, approximately 100 miles (160 km) long and 60 miles (97 km) wide. [4]