A Look Back at Lake O Discharges and Toxic Algae Blooms over the Last 20 Years

The Palm Beach Post, April 4, 2024

Francisco Hernandez skims the dying green algae plaguing the St. Lucie River and fresh water estuaries from a group of lagoons near Hoggs Cove in the St. Lucie River in Sewall's Point. "Seven years of my work has gone to hell in one week." lagoon caretaker for the Plantation, Todd Carbone said. Carbone spent the past seven years maintaining the lagoons. "To me it looks like a port-a-let." Carbone added. Photo taken in 2005.

JASON NUTTLE

Algae blooming in the St. Lucie River makes it difficult to tell water from grass in this photo, taken from the air near Stuart. Photo taken 2005.

Jason Nuttle, The Stuart News

Mark Perry, Executive Director of the Florida Oceanographic Society in Stuart, presents a fresh sample of algae during his powerpoint presentation on sending the water south during the Senate Select Committee on Indian River Lagoon and Lake Okeechobee Basin hearing at the Kane Center in Stuart on Thursday, March 20, 2009.

ERIC HASERT, TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS

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