Treasure Coast environmentalists excited about new Lake Okeechobee discharge schedule
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ new Lake Okeechobee water release schedule went into effect on Monday after years of the Corps working with local agencies and other stakeholders to create the new plan. The new discharge schedule is called The Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual.
"This is a huge, big decision, monumental decision and many people have been working on it for over five years, and this is really, really important that we finally got this new schedule,” said Mark Perry, director of the Florida Oceanographic Society.
