WINK-TV Southwest Florida's News Leader: "Managers Reject Proposal to Flood Farm Fields with Lake Okeechobee Water
January 25, 2006
By Mike Walcher
Fort Myers, Fl. -
Managers are rejecting the idea of flooding the farm fields to the south with excess water from Lake Okeechobee.
The So. Fl. Water Management District says it has studied the suggestion, and rejects it as 'not viable.'
'It would cost 8 to 10 billion dollars to compensate the sugar cane growers and other farm owners for flooding their lands and taking away thier livelihoods,' said Kurt Harclerode, spokesman for the district. 'In addition, it would cost workers their jobs, and it could harm those small towns that rely on the sugar cane and other farming interests, south of the lake.'"
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