Lake Okeechobee Update • This has been a very wet year • Current lake elevation: 15.6’ • Last year elevation: 15.11’ • 2 years ago: 10.93’ • At 16.0’ elevation – 1% failure • At 18.0’ elevation – 45% failure • At 21.0’ elevation – 100% failure • Rate of inflow is 6 times greater than outflow. • Of the 32 lake culverts to be replaced or removed; – 12 are under contract – 1 is under construction – 1 has been replaced – Completed by 2018 Source: SFWMD
Lake Okeechobee Update
Feb 14, 2016
Lake Okeechobee Update. This has been a very wet year Current lake elevation: 15.6’ Last year elevation: 15.11’ 2 years ago: 10.93’ At 16.0’ elevation – 1% failure At 18.0’ elevation – 45% failure At 21.0’ elevation – 100% failure Rate of inflow is 6 times greater than outflow. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Lake Okeechobee Update• This has been a very wet year• Current lake elevation: 15.6’• Last year elevation: 15.11’• 2 years ago: 10.93’• At 16.0’ elevation – 1% failure• At 18.0’ elevation – 45% failure• At 21.0’ elevation – 100% failure• Rate of inflow is 6 times greater
than outflow.• Of the 32 lake culverts to be
replaced or removed;– 12 are under contract– 1 is under construction– 1 has been replaced– Completed by 2018
Source: SFWMD
Source: SFWMD
2013 Discharges to the Caloosahatchee Estuary
Data through Sep 9th
Data are provisional and subject to change
Source: SFWMD
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