Lake Okeechobee Conditions Report June 10, 2008:

According to the USACE web site, Lake Okeechobee stage is 9.35’ NGVD, which is 0.20’ lower than a week ago and 0.72’ lower than a month ago.  The current stage is 0.37’ higher than it was a year ago and 3.07’ below its historical average for this time of year.  No inflows are reported.  Outflows include 660 cfs through the S351 and 440 cfs through the S354. 

 

The monthly SAV survey is underway.  Water transparency is excellent at the south end of the lake and the macroalga Chara is spreading rapidly but vascular SAV remains absent.  Chara is also expanding near Clewiston and north of Cochran’s Pass.  Transparency is also good along the western shoreline, where beds of Vallisneria continue to expand.  The northern shoreline will be surveyed for SAV today.         

 

An apple snail egg survey was conducted in the littoral zone during the last week of May.  Ten clusters were found in the vicinity of Indian Prairie in the northwest marsh.  This is the same location where egg clusters were found during an identical survey in April.  Findings to date indicate that the continued drought has eliminated apple snails across most of the littoral zone.

  

Wildfires continue to burn in the lake’s littoral zone but are not expanding primarily due to a lack of fuel.    

 


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