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Fort Myers officials have decided to end the city's 9 p.m. curfew, but are waiting for results of water testing before taking down a boil water notice.
Fort Myers has lifted a water boil alert for most of the city, declaring water safe to drink in all but Warehouse Road, Prosperity Way and Cayce Lane.
A precautionary boil water notice is possible later for some Fort Myers Beach customers until Lee County Utilities workers fix the damaged water main.
St. Lucie Lock and Dam on the Okeechobee Waterway, approximately 15 miles (24 kilometres) southwest of Stuart, Florida.According to the lock webpage by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lock chamber is "50 feet wide x 250 feet long x 10 feet deep at low water", [2] showing that the design of the canal system and waterway is for shallow barges and not a ship canal.
The climate regime for much of the state is humid subtropical (Köppen Cfa), though the Miami Metropolitan Area, southwest Florida from Fort Myers southward, and all of the Florida Keys, qualify as tropical wet-and-dry (Köppen Aw). Florida counties with tropical climates include Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Lee, Collier, and Monroe counties.
Fort Myers (or Ft. Myers) is a city in and the county seat [7] of Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 86,395; it was estimated to have grown to 95,949 in 2022, making it the 25th-most populous city in Florida. [ 5 ]
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.
Lee County has agreed to sell Fort Myers 1.5 million gallons of water each day to alleviate a shortage in some areas of the growing city.