Lee County commissioners are prepared to bring legal action against the Army Corps of Engineers if there aren’t substantial changes to the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual, or LOSOM.
LOSOM seeks to establish water releases from Lake O taking into account additional infrastructure that will soon be operational.
Lee County is unhappy with the plan as it stands now because “the overall burden of flood control releases to the Caloosahatchee would increase” and so would the “total volume of water pushed into our estuary,” according to a letter sent to the Army Corps of Engineers by Kevin Ruane, chairman of the Lee County Board of Commissioners.
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Lee County commissioners vote to sue feds over planned Lake O water releases
Published: August 3, 2021 4:37 PM EDT
Updated: August 3, 2021 6:15 PM EDT
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Lee County commissioners are prepared to bring legal action against the Army Corps of Engineers if there aren’t substantial changes to the Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual, or LOSOM.
LOSOM seeks to establish water releases from Lake O taking into account additional infrastructure that will soon be operational.
Lee County is unhappy with the plan as it stands now because “the overall burden of flood control releases to the Caloosahatchee would increase” and so would the “total volume of water pushed into our estuary,” according to a letter sent to the Army Corps of Engineers by Kevin Ruane, chairman of the Lee County Board of Commissioners.
County commission to send letter of opposition on LOSOM
By NATHAN MAYBERG / nmayberg@breezenewspapers.com - | Aug 3, 2021
The Lee County Board of County Commissioners made it official today, unanimously voting to oppose the proposed Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual and to send a letter expressing its disapproval to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
A lawsuit could be the next step.
Commission Chairman Kevin Ruane called last week’s meeting with Col. Andrew Kelly, the commander of the Jacksonville District of the Army Corps, to be “rather frustrating.”
In the letter from Ruane approved by the commissioners, the chairman stated that “the overall burden of flood control releases to the Caloosahatchee would increase.”