Lake Okeechobee waters rise - Sun Sentinel

Lake Okeechobee may turn out to be Florida's equivalent of the Hawaiian volcano. Both are slumbering giants of a sort who have the ability to wake-up and change the landscape. Click title for link.

South Florida's dry season may have arrived just in time to avoid dumping more Lake Okeechobee water out to sea.
Last year, flooding fears from rising lake waters triggered the dumping of hundreds of billions of gallons of lake water out to sea — with damaging environmental consequences on coastal fishing grounds.
Last week, rising lake levels raised concerns that more lake dumping could resume, but a return of drier weather may instead enable the Army Corps of Engineers to keep the lake floodgates closed.
"They are trying to hold on and not discharge [lake water] if they don't have to," said Mark Perry, of the Florida Oceanographic Society in Stuart, where waterways have suffered from past lake draining. "It would just make matters worse."