http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/26/us/26brfs-dry.html

Summer rain has begun to replenish Lake Okeechobee in the heart of the Everglades after an 18-month dry spell led to severe water restrictions, officials said. The lake, a backup drinking source for millions of residents, remains four feet below normal levels. But water resumed flowing into the lake last week with heavy rains in the Kissimmee River basin to the north.

Water restrictions were loosened two weeks ago. It had been more than 250 days since water flowed south down the Kissimmee. The Army Corps of Engineers began allowing the flow July 18, and it continues at a rate of about 97 million gallons a day, said John Zediak, chief of water management at the corps’ Jacksonville district.

The Kissimmee River basin is just south of Orlando and just southeast of Quest Air. We fly over it when we fly to River Ranch.

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