Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Fisheating Creek is a stream that flows into Lake Okeechobee in Florida. It is the only remaining free-flowing water course feeding into the lake, and the second-largest natural source for the lake. Most of the land surrounding the stream is either publicly owned or under conservation easements restricting development.
The area around Fisheating Creek was occupied by people of the Belle Glade culture from as early as 1000 BCE. Fort Center is a complex of earthwork mounds , linear embankments, middens , circular ditches, and an artificial pond occupying an area approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide extending east-west along Fisheating ...
Lake Okeechobee ( US: / oʊkiˈtʃoʊbi / oh-kee-CHOH-bee) [ 1] is the largest freshwater lake in the U.S. state of Florida. [ 2] It is the eighth-largest natural freshwater lake among the 50 states of the United States and the second-largest natural freshwater lake contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states, after Lake Michigan. [ 3]
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is creating a 4 million-acre conservation area in western Florida. The Everglades to Gulf Conservation Area was announced Monday Secretary ...
In August, the West Terre Haute, Indiana, city water utility detected PFOS in two wells, notching a level of 6.2 parts per trillion: That’s higher than the proposed limit of 4 ppt, which ...
This category has the following 92 subcategories, out of 92 total. Lakes of Indiana by county (4 C) Rivers of Indiana by county (87 C) Bodies of water of Adams County, Indiana (1 P) Bodies of water of Allen County, Indiana (2 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Bartholomew County, Indiana (1 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Benton County ...
The Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area, created in 2012, the newest addition and 556th unit of the United States National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) System, began with 10 acres (4.0 ha) donated to the conservation effort as part of the Obama administration 's America's Great Outdoors Initiative .
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Indiana. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).