A glimpse of the hydrographs would appear to say no.
After all, as a rule “downstream” Loxahatchee is higher.
It ranges in elevation from 15 and 18 feet above sea level. Compare that to the Lake which has safely stayed below 15 ft since the start of 2006. True, the Lake showed flashes of its former self with a couple hurricane induced spikes above Loxahatchee, but those only lasted for a few brief weeks which, fast forward a few seasons later, was followed by the Lake’s epic 5-11 day drought that dropped Lake stage below the 11-ft threshold of its innermost (and lowest) wetlands …
Or about 6 feet lower than nearby Loxahatchee’s stage.
That created the peculiar situation of Lake Okeechobee lowering itself all the way down to the level of the Big Cypress Swamp.
Did that make water start flowing north instead?
Hardly, gravity only gets you so far in flat south Florida. For the rest we need pumps.
That’s how Loxahatchee gets its water!
2 comments:
Kind of weird...helping the water cycle along.
That's a good way to look at it Ciss.
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