The heavy rains caused Lake Okeechobee to rise to more than 16 feet above sea level, and high lake levels kill off submerged ...

Lake O water managers will release an average 904.84 million gallons a day for two weeks before reassessing the amount for ...

Lake Okeechobee discharges to the St. Lucie River will continue as water managers aim to lower the lake level to save lake plants that are drowning in too much water from four years of heavy rains ...

Lake Okeechobee, with its dark depths hiding countless watery graves, is a hotbed for ghost sightings, reported phenomena and unexplained mysteries each year. As per Only In Your State ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Jacksonville District began releases under Lake Okeechobee Recovery Operations on Dec. 7.

STUART, Fla. (CBS12) — Lake Okeechobee discharges are coming back. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) wants to lower the lake's water level from 16 feet to 11.5 feet. They plan to do that ...

Brandon Bowman, the new Army Corps commander for the region that includes Florida, is going to truly open the floodgates on both sides of Lake Okeechobee ... sides of the state said they got ...

LOSOM was a hard-fought win for environmentalists was those key components the nonprofits believed would reduce the need for ...

In the summer of 1928, heavy rainfall raised Lake Okeechobee’s water level three feet above normal. And in the fall, a hurricane smashed the coast of Florida. The impact flooded Lake Okeechobee.

Some parts of the region saw record rains this past summer as several tropical storms and hurricanes hit the Sunshine State. The heavy rains caused Lake Okeechobee to rise to more than 16 feet ...