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Florida Regulators To Update Water Quality Standards

Florida’s Environmental Regulation Commission is set to vote Tuesday on new proposed levels of pollutants in surface water.

Water Quality Specialists Reflect on Florida's first Water Policy Summit

Regional experts join us in the studio today to discuss what happened at the first Florida Water Policy Summit last night. The conference hosted various…

Photo of a water passage cutting through green brush in the Everglades

Water District Presses Ahead For End Of Federal Oversight Of Everglades Water Quality

The South Florida Water Management District says sugar farming is no longer a threat to Everglades water in its latest motion calling for an end to...

Hurricane Helene ramping was barely a Category 1 despite its huge size shown in this satellite image of the greater Guf of Mexico region that shows the storm covering the entire State of Florida before it rapidly intensified into a Category 4 and made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida; however, the tropical cyclone packed a punch for days inland, destroying part of five states not including Florida and killing at least 200 people

Water Quality Report: Hurricane Helene rained 40 trillion gallons of water

Hurricane Helene dropped an unheard-of 40 trillion gallons of water, creating a water quality and quantity crisis on the ground in inland states affected by the Category 4 storm that made landfall in Florida. Part One of WGCU's Water Quality Report: Hurricane Helene Special Edtion

Here we go again. Like Hurricane Idalia last year, the tropical system named Debby on Saturday is sure to rile up the ocean and turn the sky menacing colors during its brush by of Southwest Florida on its way to landfall in the Big Bend. But this time, even without a direct hit, the effect of the storm on the beach of Southwest Florida could be more like the months after Hurricane Ian

Water Quality Report: Hurricanes, polluted waters, red tides. Sound familiar?

A lot surrounding Hurricane Debby's arrival brings back memories of Hurricanes Ian and Idalia and the water quality problems they caused. Will it happen again?

Wakulla County resident John Taylor address State Sen. Bill Montford and State Rep. Halsey Beshears.

Water Quality Leads Concerns Of North Florida Residents

Two North Florida lawmakers met with Wakulla County residents Thursday to hear their concerns ahead of the upcoming legislative session.

EPA Withdraws Federal Water Quality Rules For Florida

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new rule Thursday that withdraws federal water quality standards for Florida. This means polluters…

One focus of the more than $300 million in grants is to help pay for septic-to-sewer conversions so people's homes send effluent to be treated at facilities like this

Grants available for water quality, improvement projects in Florida

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is now accepting requests for water-quality grants from local governments, academic institutions, and nonprofits. More than $390 million is available to plan and put into practice projects that protect Florida’s water resources.

The restoration of Puschel Preserve along Periwinkle Way by the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation was delayed by nearly a year because of Hurricane Ian

Water Quality Report: Puschel Preserve restoration continues

The restoration efforts at Puschel Preserve are on once again after Hurricane Ian. The progress is swift. And it’s (almost) all about the water, where it’s going, what’s using it, and how clean it stays.

Water released from Lake Okeechobee flows through spillways at Port Myaca before heading east down the St. Lucie River before emptying into the Atlantic OCean through the Indian River Lagoon. This process is part of the broader water management system in South Florida, which is designed to manage flood control and water quality, among other objectives. However, these water releases have been a subject of concern for their environmental impacts, particularly regarding water quality issues in the St. Lucie River and the Indian River Lagoon on the east coast and the Caloosahatchee River on the west coast

Water Quality Report: Lowering Lake Okeechobee underway

Lake O is so polluted with centuries-worth of phosphorous and nitrogen from agriculture runoff that water released from the lake down our Caloosahatchee River, or to the east down the St. Lucie River, carries bad stuff with it.

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