Water Quality Report

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It’s been one year since Hurricane Ian hit Lee County at a strong Category 4 intensity. None of us here that day will ever forget what the storm meant to each one of us.

The Florida Department of Health in Lee County canceled five health warnings due to harmful algal blooms in the Caloosahatchee River

In a welcome twist on current events in the world of toxic algae blooms, scientists re-testing water in a canal infected with blue-green algae since June discovered it’s gone.

Extreme weather events have broken out around the world, but not yet here. Superheated sea surface temperatures may bring a big hurricane to Florida.. Get prepared now.

Lake Okeechobee getting full... cyanobacteria. If heavy rains or a hurricane come this way the Army Corps of Engineers will release this water down the Caloosahatchee River to protect the people living around the lake

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.

By pumping water out of the ground humans have redistributed so much water from beneath the surface we’ve tilted the Earth's poles. It is perhaps the second-largest contributor to sea-level rise

Water laden with blue-green algae is being released from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River to lower the lake level going into the heart of hurricane season in September. That often coincides with blue-green algae blooms upriver like this one at the Davis Boat Ramp, which is the topic of an ongoing Florida Department of Health alert.

Red tide throughout Southwest Florida has waned