Tuesday, November 3, 2015

SFWMD: Moving water south from Lake Okeechobee (2014–2015)

Here is an amazing interactive map released by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). A description of the map:
Since Nov. 1, 2014, through June 1, 2015, South Florida Water Management District operations moved approximately 308.13 billion gallons of water from Lake Okeechobee – that's the same as 716,382 football fields filled with 1 foot of water.
An image from the map produced by the SFWMD demonstrating where water was moved to from Lake Okeechobee.
[Here is more about the enormously successful efforts by the SFWMD and farmers to reduce the amount of phosphorus entering the Florida Everglades.]