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State water managers oppose legislation to expand basin boundary
State legislators are sponsoring bills to expand the authority overseeing water control structures in Collier County, but the state agency overseeing the governing board thinks it’s a bad idea.
State Sen. Ray Rodrigues (R-Estero) introduced a bill to expand the Big Cypress Basin’s governing board’s boundary into portions of southern Lee County by July 1, 2022. State Representative Adam Botana is sponsoring a similar bill in the House.
Rodrigues’ Senate bill went through an Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government meeting April 8 where South Florida Water Management District representative Phil Flood opposed the legislation.
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Repeat pulses of energy zipping along the jet stream like cars on a freeway rocked South Florida with storms Sunday that put Palm Beach County at a risk level for severe weather not seen since 2017’s Hurricane Irma.
In 24 hours, as much as 2.44 inches of rain fell on areas of West Palm Beach, and tropical-storm-force wind gusts of between 63 and 67 mph were recorded along the coast from Boca Raton to Jupiter.
State water managers Thursday discussed one of the most important facets to operating the historic Everglades, Lake Okeechobee release schedule regulations.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is in the middle of revising its release regulations for the big lake, which is the aquatic heart of the 16-county system.
The agency currently uses 2008 regulations and is also working to rehabilitate the Herbert Hoover Dike that surrounds the lake in hopes of safely holding more water.
Walter Wilcox works for the South Florida Water Management District, which met online to discuss lake operations and to see how the state agency can help.
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