There seems to be push back at these ideas and one must wonder….L. After all, if would only raise the Lake 1 inch. If that water were properly cleaned, it could be sent to the Lake to comingle and head south. While people listen to conversations about what percentages of that local runoff is AG or other sources, that hardly lessens the impact. Including the 100,000 Acre Feet referred to as local runoff. To us, STOP THE DISCHARGES means all the discharges…. This is WHY One Florida has continued to locate viable sites for storage of the other 77%. How much is 23%? About 44 days of the rainy season… Or discharges stopping on September 1st after running since May 1st.
That leaves 1.2 million Acre Feet of water to still be discharged. I attended the session where that handout was supplied and to better help explain, the 23% reduction in the amount of discharges that CEPP/CERP to the East Coast represents about 400,000 Acre Feet.
It’s a good one! This sheet was shared at the Everglades Coalition Conference’s session “Beauty and the Beast: Lake Okeechobee and the Herbert Hoover Dike.” 2015Īfter I wrote the above blog, Mark Perry of Florida Oceanographic contacted me, so I wrote another post relating to the above post. It is here should you wish to read it: ( ) So, let’s learn to speak the language and communicate our wishes! And take a look at the handout below. 800,000 acre feet, would need 800,000 acres to hold 800,000 acre feet of water at 12 inches. In the end, no matter what, the numbers are staggering! Truly mind-blowing. I am no expert, but I think I can safely say, they usually take closer to 2/3 the water the water the St Lucie does.Ĭan you do the math? I need my calculator! AG! Over 200,000 Acre feet for sure going towards the St Lucie and over 500,000 going towards the Caloosahatchee. Mind you, the larger Caloosahatchee on the west coast takes the majority of that water. Usually, it was lower,May-October, ranging from about 200 to 4000 cfs.Īccording to Robert Johnson, Director of South Florida Natural Resouces Center at Everglades Nation Park, who presented at the Everglades Coalition last week, -NOT during 2013, but ON AVERAGE, “800,000 acre feet of water from Lake Okeechobee flows per year towards the southern estuaries.” But what do these numbers mean?Įasily put, for the St Lucie River, none of it, if dumping, is “good.”įor reference, during the “Lost Summer” of 2013, the highest CFS discharge I heard reported was up to 7000 cfs during the very height of the releases. Obviously, higher CFS numbers translate into higher ACRE FEET numbers. An ACRE FOOT, the second term, is a VOLUME of water “that covers one acre at a depth of 12 inches.” “CFS” means “cubic feet per second.” This is a “RATE of discharge representing a volume of 1 cubic foot passing a given point during 1 second of time.”Ģ. When the ACOE/SFWMD starts dumping, there are two major terms: CFS and ACRE FEET that are good to know.ġ. Let’s learn some “releasing terminology” in case we don’t speak it that well…. I believe the awful situation regarding the consistent degradation of the St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon by the Army Corp of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District could be helped if we would learn to “speak their language.”Ĭommunication is particularly difficult for the public during dumping of polluted Lake Okeechobee water through the C-44 canal into the St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon. Structure S-80 releasing water into the C-44 canal which flows into the St Lucie River/Indian River Lagoon, 2013.(Photo Dr.
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