• Scientists have been watching a large toxic algal bloom in Lake Okeechobee.
They worry the bloom could spread from the state’s largest lake through man-made canals to coastal estuaries like the Indian River Lagoon.
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• The problem in the southern Indian River Lagoon is Lake Okeechobee.
An abundance of polluted water from the state’s largest lake is turning the lagoon’s normally aquamarine water brown and murky and endangering oysters, seagrass and other marine life.
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• Water managers announced Thursday they will reduce discharges of polluted water from a rain-swollen Lake Okeechobee to delicate coastal estuaries. But the estuaries to the east and west of the state’s largest lake face a slow recovery.
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• Water managers continue to send as much water as possible from a rain-swollen Lake Okeechobee to delicate coastal estuaries.
Worry is growing about their impact on the estuaries east and west of the lake nearly a month after the discharges began.
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• Water managers are moving more excess water south toward the Everglades.
The emergency action is aimed at protecting coastal estuaries and wildlife threatened by the region’s wettest winter since record-keeping began in 1932.
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• Florida Gov. Rick Scott is calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to push more excess water south toward the Everglades.
The action is aimed at alleviating pressure on coastal estuaries and the Everglades’ wildlife after the winter’s record rainfall.
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• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the wet winter weather has raised Lake Okeechobee to its highest level in a decade. That’s forcing the Corps to release more excess water into coastal estuaries, even though this caused problems before.
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