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County commission to send letter of opposition on LOSOM
By NATHAN MAYBERG / nmayberg@breezenewspapers.com - | Aug 3, 2021
The Lee County Board of County Commissioners made it official today, unanimously voting to oppose the proposed Lake Okeechobee System Operating Manual and to send a letter expressing its disapproval to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
A lawsuit could be the next step.
Commission Chairman Kevin Ruane called last week’s meeting with Col. Andrew Kelly, the commander of the Jacksonville District of the Army Corps, to be “rather frustrating.”
In the letter from Ruane approved by the commissioners, the chairman stated that “the overall burden of flood control releases to the Caloosahatchee would increase.”