On Sunday, July 11, the Army Corps of Engineers began another 10 day period of increased water releases from Lake Okeechobee. This follows a period of reduced volume releases from July 1-11.
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Approximately 70 local business owners gathered in Pink Shell’s Lido Room last Thursday evening to hear a presentation given by the law firm Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart and Shipley concerning the BP claims process. The Greater Fort Myers Beach Chamber of Commerce’s lawfirm – Knott, Consoer, Ebelini, Hart & Swett – invited the east coast […]
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This Wednesday (tomorrow), the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Governing Board will be under attack from protestors opposed to the U.S. Sugar land purchase. The U.S. Sugar purchase, also known as the River of Grass project, is the seminal project that will reduce excess lake flows to the Caloosahatchee and represents the most meaningful […]
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Ed. Note: The Mosaic Company mine mentioned in the lawsuit below is located at the headwaters of the Peace River, a body of water that empties into Charlotte Harbor and flows into Estero Bay. Anything that adversely affects this water system ultimately flows downstream, potentially causing the destruction of our fragile back bay ecosystem. The […]
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With all the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico and the pictures all over the television and the Internet of Louisiana beaches and marshes covered in icky red goo, many islanders and visitors alike are understandably terrified that one day our beach could resemble those already hit. However, I discovered this week that […]
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On Thursday, July 1, 2010, the Corps will began a new, 10-day low level pulse release from the Lake to both the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie estuaries. Flows to the Caloosahatchee are to drop from an average 3,000 cfs to an average of 450 cfs. You read that right, it is July 1 – our […]
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For everyone that has been posting such wonderful comments, I deeply apologize for my inattention to this blog in the last 18 months and promise to begin posting fresh material from now on. My only excuse is that I got promoted to Associate Editor at the independent paper that signs my paycheck, and my workload […]
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