Lake Okeechobee is the largest lake in Florida and the second largest in the Southeastern United States. Over the past two decades, blooms of blue-green algae (Microcystis) have emerged in the ...

— The rainy season is far from over and worries grow about what that could mean for communities on the Treasure Coast and in Palm Beach County. The water level in Lake Okeechobee is at 15.3 feet.

This includes the Lake O chapters of the 2021 and 2022 editions of the SFWMD Environmental Report, the 2020 DEP Statewide Annual Report and the Lake Okeechobee Basin Management Action Plan.

Success is critical to our state.” Senate President Tom Lee (R-Brandon) predicted both parties will unite behind the governor’s proposal. “I think it’s a good proposal,” Lee told the News-Press.