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These are some excerpts from Terry Witt’s article in the www chronicleonline com today.
“Now, after 15 months of below-normal rainfall, water levels in the Tsala Apopka Chain of Lakes on Citrus County’s east side are three to six feet below desired levels for the three pools. The county has closed four boat ramps on the 19,000-acre lake chain. Some canals have dried up. Fishermen are frustrated. At the Moonrise Resort near Floral City, Mike Friddle’s guests can no longer use his docks. Drought conditions are nothing new for Friddle. He said he has seen similar water levels at the resort five times during the past 20 years.
He blamed the Southwest Florida Water Management District for part of the problem. He said he heard the district partially emptied the lake system last fall to create storage for expected tropical storm systems.
The storms never came, Friddle said, but lowering of the lakes accelerated the water-loss problems.
District spokeswoman Robyn Hanke said the district did not lower the lakes last fall.”
Is this true what SFWMD said? I had heard from several people last year this was the cause for the quick drop in the lakes last year. That they had lowered them to prepare for hurricane rainfall so we did not end up with the levels we did in 2004. I never read about it, I had heard it from so many different people I assumed it was true. Does anyone know whether they did lower the levels are not?
“Now, after 15 months of below-normal rainfall, water levels in the Tsala Apopka Chain of Lakes on Citrus County’s east side are three to six feet below desired levels for the three pools. The county has closed four boat ramps on the 19,000-acre lake chain. Some canals have dried up. Fishermen are frustrated. At the Moonrise Resort near Floral City, Mike Friddle’s guests can no longer use his docks. Drought conditions are nothing new for Friddle. He said he has seen similar water levels at the resort five times during the past 20 years.
He blamed the Southwest Florida Water Management District for part of the problem. He said he heard the district partially emptied the lake system last fall to create storage for expected tropical storm systems.
The storms never came, Friddle said, but lowering of the lakes accelerated the water-loss problems.
District spokeswoman Robyn Hanke said the district did not lower the lakes last fall.”
Is this true what SFWMD said? I had heard from several people last year this was the cause for the quick drop in the lakes last year. That they had lowered them to prepare for hurricane rainfall so we did not end up with the levels we did in 2004. I never read about it, I had heard it from so many different people I assumed it was true. Does anyone know whether they did lower the levels are not?
