The Army Corps of Engineers is getting closer to picking a new plan that will determine when and where water is released from Lake Okeechobee for years to come.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers met Monday with about 150 online viewers.
Discussions focused mostly on hydrological modeling that considered more than 100,000 water management scenarios or iterations for the lake. Iteration 1 is done, said Col. Andrew Kelly, head of the Army Corps Jacksonville office. Holy smokes. It’s been a long time coming and lots of great work by everyone to get us to this point, and the reality is we are here now where we’ve got a plethora of data that we’ve gotten through Iteration 1. Now it’s about applying that information and coming up with a finalized plan in July.
The South Florida Water Management District approved a 2.3-mile long, and 63-foot deep, section of underground wall along Everglades National Park and say they'd like to see the wall stretch another 25 miles.