W ith the 2025 hurricane season approaching, the Southwest Florida Water Management District is taking proactive steps to address damage caused by last year's storms. The district's Board of ...

LOCAR is a proposed reservoir to hold 65.17 billion gallons of Lake Okeechobee water, some of which gets discharged to the St. Lucie River now.

The Southwest Florida Water Management District plans to conduct prescribed burns through March at the Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve, which includes the Green Swamp East Tract in Polk ...

If the levels of the Mid Hawthorn Aquifer continue to drop, the city of Cape Coral may have to stop issuing new permits for ...

In November 2023, the Southwest Florida Water Management District instituted a once-a-week lawn-watering restriction for households in the 16 counties it oversees, including Tampa. In August 2024 ...

It’s all of our water and it will take all hands on deck to get to the bottom of Southwest Florida ... According to the South Florida Water Management District, as recently as the early ...

The Lee County area is the hot spot now, according to recent state reports, which show high toxicity counts here. Fish and marine mammal kills can start once levels reach 10,000 cells per liter.