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Since Feb. 17, the Army Corps of Engineers has been conducting discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the St. Lucie River and Caloosahatchee River. The flow rate of water from the lake is creating the ...
Lake Okeechobee (US: / oʊ k i ˈ tʃ oʊ b i / oh-kee-CHOH-bee) [1] is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [2] It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan.
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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.
Lake Okeechobee and the Okeechobee Waterway Project is part of the complex water-management system known as the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project.The projects cover 16,000 square miles (41,000 km 2) starting just south of Orlando and extending southward through the Kissimmee River Basin to the Everglades National Park to Florida Bay.
An aerial views of the St. Lucie Inlet on Feb. 26, 2024 shows the dark water from Lake Okeechobee discharges entering the South Fork 9 miles upstream.
The lock chamber is 56 feet (17 m) wide by 400 feet (120 m) long, and 14 feet (4.3 m) deep. The lift distance between the St. Lucie Canal and Lake Okeechobee is normally 1/2 to 2 feet (0.61 m). The channel width is 100 feet (30 m), and 8 feet (2.4 m) deep. [3] The lock gates are "sector gates" (pie-slice shaped), and are made of steel.
With discharges set to end April 1, the Army Corps so far has released about 8.3 billion gallons of lake water last week to the St. Lucie River: