Balancing act: Lake O releases slowed to help protected species during nesting season
Zombie Estuaries: St. Lucie, Caloosahatchee to be dumping grounds in 2021
Replay Video
UP NEXT
Average flows to the Caloosahatchee were 2,000 cubic feet per second, but the Army Corps lowered that to 1,200 cubic feet per second, and levels in St. Lucie were dropped to 300 cubic feet per second, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers records.
"It's a good number," said Barry Rosen, a professor with Florida Gulf Coast University's Water School, talking about the flow to the Caloosahatchee system. "Twelve hundred (cubic feet per second) is not going to harm oysters, and it's not going to hurt the freshwater tape grasses."