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One of five alternatives, called CC, would cut down flows to the St. Lucie River and instead depend more on the Caloosahatchee to relieve swelling Lake Okeechobee waters. Volume and intensity for the Caloosahatchee River was horrible with (the) CC (alternative), said Jennifer Reynolds, a water management district engineer and former head of the Army Corps district office in Jacksonville. That’s a large volume of water that I’ve got to do something with. I have to put that water some place, so I tried to put it to as many places as I could and some of it had to go to the St. Lucie.