It’s been a common refrain from angry citizens along the algae-clogged St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries for years:
Send it south!
But even though Florida has some 57,000 acres of manmade marshes south of Lake Okeechobee to store water before sending it to the Everglades, there rarely seems to be any room for water from the lake.
The reason is both complex and deceptively simple: Because the system was designed to exploit, not help, the northern estuaries.
