Managing High Water Levels in Florida’s Largest Lake: Lake Okeechobee

This 7-page fact sheet written by Karl E. Havens and published by the Florida Sea Grant College Program, UF/IFAS Extension, provides a history of Lake Okeechobee regulation schedules and an overview of the risks, constraints, and trade-offs that the US Army Corps of Engineers must consider when dec...

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Main Author: Karl Havens
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Published: The University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries 2018-04-01
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