Red Tide Epidemic in Florida

They could be treating the infected water as it drains so it doesn’t carry the bacteria into the rivers and then directly to the ocean. Let’s see… they could fix the dike at the lake so it would hold more water in. The Sun Sentinel explains it so the average citizen can grasp the issue: “The danger of doing nothing is significant: Authorities fear rising waters could burst through the lake’s decades-old dike, a towering mound of rock, gravel and shell encircling the lake to guard against flooding.”

For more information: http://interactive.sun-sentinel.com/lake-okeechobee-flooding/