26 Jul

Posted at 14:02h in News

When a plan was inked more than 20 years ago to undo the damage inflicted on South Florida’s prodigious ecosystem, Palm Beach County shared prominently in the environmental largesse. The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, included hundreds of millions of dollars to store fresh water in wells and reservoirs and treatment areas countywide to recharge groundwater and keep saltwater intrusion at bay....

16 Jun

Posted at 14:12h in News

Recently, nearly 10% of Palm Beach County’s population got a 'taste' of how toxic cyanobacteria cylindrospermopsis in our drinking water impacts the region’s economy — not to mention our daily lives. Potable water has been restored to the residents of Palm Beach, South Palm Beach and West Palm Beach after toxins caused by blue-green algae were found in the water supply, but the threats to the county’s water remain....

02 Mar

Posted at 14:38h in News

Legal moves by Florida’s top wildlife official for the right to develop submerged land he owns in the Lake Worth Lagoon drew blistering criticism from two dozen people at a meeting Friday of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)....

23 Feb

Posted at 16:36h in News

Florida's top appointed protector of wildlife wants to make millions by dredging up and filling in acres of the wildlife-filled Lake Worth Lagoon. Rodney Barreto, an influential lobbyist who chairs the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is pressing legal action to let his company fill, dredge and build hundreds of condos and houses on mostly submerged land off Singer Island. The company, Government Lot 1, LLC, based in Coral Gables, seeks to reopen and expand upon a 1990 circuit court order that gave previous owners the right to fill but not dredge the 19-acre site off Singer Island without requiring permits...

18 Feb

Posted at 15:03h in News

By Kimberly Miller Courtesy of Palm Beach Post A year-long study on the ability of a muck-collecting pit to keep sediment from choking the Lake Worth Lagoon found mixed results, leaving the embattled Palm Beach County estuary in a state of status quo. It was the first assessment of a unique experiment that began in 2007 to divert harmful sediments flowing from Lake Okeechobee and the watershed into an up to 18-foot deep gash at the bottom of the C-51 Canal – a firehose that when discharged can cover lagoon oysters and paddle grass in dark goo. The $77,000 study, contracted by the South...