Concerns growing as Lake Okeechobee discharges underscore need for Everglades restoration

Thank you for saying fertiliser runoff from corporate farms is a major part of the problem. A lot of other news sources ignore that part because it is so political.

Someone is getting rich off the pollution! They need to pay!

I guess building cities over the Everglades was a mistake, who would've thought? 🤷

Guaranteed that Dixie Sugar will not be held responsible or contribute to the restoration. They are fighting every angle possible to prevent being shut down , and being held accountable for the destruction caused by runoff from cane fields.

Tell me again how many years has this has been going on, when will you realize that they don’t really care about the environment they only care about the money,too much being spent and not enough into their pockets for a problem they don’t care about , this was a problem 40 years ago when I was a kid we called it canal water and when it came down the beach the fish left and if they really cared about this problem it would have been fixed a long time ago,when we complained or tried to do something about it we were pushed away saying your just fishermen what do you know about the environment ,your kids what do you know

Big Sugar should be disbanded and sent out of Florida. Those people are unscrupulous and criminal in their actions !!!

The natural water level of Lake Okeechobee was 45 to 60 feet above sea level. This provided the hydrostatic force to push that water through the limestone, which filtered out the tannins, so that it was crystal clear when it emerged from the springs. (There were active springs all around Florida and even off the coast for sailors to drink.) Additionally, plants absorbed the nutrients as the water flowed in a sheet over the land toward the SW coast of Florida. Abundant fish, birds and other wildlife were supported. But they wanted dry land for housing development and for farming. Men arrogantly thought that they could do a better job of designing Nature, than God did. The Army Corp of Engineers cut the canals to rapidly drain Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades. The Kissimmee River was converted from a meandering filtration stream into a straight sewer pipe. Soil depth of the rich muck once was about 45 feet. The drained rich organic soil (muck) is digested by bacteria, so that it disappears as it is converted to carbon dioxide. Last I heard (decades ago), the soil level had less than 10 feet remaining. Turn it back over to Nature, the way we found it. It is going to happen anyway, once man does himself out of a home.

Stop Big Sugar!

It's almost like we shouldn't be living in these places and rerouting the waters natural flow.

And progress came and took its toll And in the name of flood control They made their plans and they drained the land Now the glades are going dry And the last time I walked in the swamp I sat upon a Cypress stump I listened close and I heard the ghost of Osceola cry

My buddy and I just spent 2 days canoeing and fishing the Everglades, didn’t catch a single fish. A local guide of 30 years told us no one has been catching fish with the poor water quality.

The amount of issues that Florida faces are numerous from over fertilizing residential neighborhoods to keep green grass alive, real estate development, agriculture, phosphorous mining, roads, unnatural canals and finally the discharging of human waste into our rivers and estuaries creating dead zones for harvesting.

No wonder why the fishes are acting strange

Shouldn't the agriculture corporations that created the runoff which is causing red tide which and now forcing Florida to spend billions on this project, be the ones to pay for it?

You reap what you sow.

What clean water? Where? No safe tap water left in this country. Pfas, BPA, BPS, lead, antibiotics, and other prescription products that can not be filtered out.

They need to stop the river run off and start letting it naturally flow through the Everglades.

HOLD BIG SUGAR ACCOUNTABLE STOP SUBSIDIZING BIG SUGAR WE THE PEOPLE

The corp of engineers has screwed up way more than they have fixed

Need to look into a link between this and the sawfish deaths.