City Stormwater personnel discovered higher-than-average E. coli counts in the waters of Lake Fairhope last week.
Staff will continue to monitor the water of the lake and will notify nearby residents when it...
UPDATE: The Lake Alert for Lake Formosa and Lake Rowena has been lifted. Please resume all normal water activities associated with the lake.
In a bit of news...
UPDATE 11/20: The Lake Alert for Lake Concord has been lifted. Please resume all normal water activities associated with the lake.
City of Orlando Water Reclamation crews stopped a sewer overflow that was...
So, we already told you about the elevated levels of microsystins in Lake Silver HERE, but as a result, the City went and checked out some downstream lakes to see if they had any algae too and...
UPDATE 11/20 - The Lake Alert for Lake Silver has been lifted. Please resume all normal water activities associated with the lake.
The City took water samples from Lake Silver on November 5,...
July 5, 2019 - UPDATE: Lake Alert for Lake Lurna - LIFTED
Go home, Lurna. You're drunk.
Gurl, it's just another day with a "y"...
UPDATE: February 15, 2019 - Lake Alert for Lake Arnold has been lifted. Please resume all normal lake activities.
UPDATE: February 8, 2019 - Lake Alert Remains in Effect for Lake Arnold
The City of Orlando has closed Lake Arnold until further...
UPDATE: The Lake Alerts for Lakes Sue, Formosa, and Rowena have been lifted.
"As I recall, this is the fourth spill into the neighborhood and the second into the lake. At this point, this can be considered not only a...
UPDATE - October 22, 2018-Lake Alert for Clear Lake LIFTED
A lake alert has been issued for Clear Lake due to possible elevated fecal coliform counts due to a sanitary sewer overflow.
Heavy grease deposits in a gravity line led to a...
The city of Orlando has issued a Lake Alert for Lake Fran due to elevated fecal coliform counts from a nearby sanitary sewer overflow.
A blockage in a sanitary line resulted in roughly 900 gallons of sanitary waste to flow...
The City of Winter Park announced on their Twitter channel late last week that they would be closing the Dinky Dock park as a result of poor water quality.
The popular beachfront park and boat ramp, tucked behind Rollins College on...
A private contractor damaged a sanitary sewer line near a storm drain that leads to Lake Lawne late last week that released an estimated 50 gallons of sanitary waste
Due to the elevated fecal coliform counts caused by the leakage,...
June 28, 2018 - UPDATE: Lake Alert for Lake Arnold has been LIFTED
The City's Stormwater Division found high levels of toxins in Lake Arnold on June 21, resulting from an algae bloom. Gross.
Blue-green algae are always present in the...
Sixth grade students at the Monarch Learning Academy (Website) in College Park are leading a storytelling project based on the infamous "Jump Tree" that came down during Hurricane Irma.
The tree had fixed Tarzan-ropes for swinging and was located in...
UPDATE: Lake Alert for Lake Lawsona LIFTED
The City of Orlando Stormwater Division has issued a Lake Alert for Lake Lawsona.
A possible sewer overflow, caused by a blockage in a sanitary line, at the corner of north Mills Avenue and...
The City of Orlando released the above video as part of their "bag it, don't blow it" campaign.
The campaign targets those people, you know who we're talking about, who just blow all of the leaves and detritus from their...
February 14, 2018- UPDATE: Lake Alert for Lake Beardall LIFTED
A Lake Alert has been issued by the City's Stormwater Division due to the possibility of elevated fecal coliform counts in Lake Beardall.
A sanitary sewer overflow near the intersection of...
UPDATE: Lake Alert for Park Lake - LIFTED January 22, 2018
UPDATE: The Stormwater Division has assessed that the recent sewage leak is not the cause of the elevated fecal coliform counts in the lake and is working to assess...
The City of Orlando has issued a Lake Alert for Lake Pinelock, due to the possibility of elevated fecal coliform counts in the water, due to a sanitary sewer overflow.
A blockage in a sanitary line near the intersection of...
UPDATE: December 28, 2017- Lake Alert Issued for Lake Winyah LIFTED
The City of Orlando has issued a Lake Alert for Lake Winyah, a smaller lake just north of Lake Estelle due to a sanitary sewer overflow near the intersection of...
"Hi! Do you have any info on what's happening to Lake Lucerne? They seem to be draining it and transferring the water across the street to Lake Cherokee ..." - Emily Winters
Miss Winters is correct, Lake Lucerne is indeed...
UPDATE: October 17, 2017- Lake Alert Issued for Lake Beauty LIFTED
The Streets and Stormwater Division has issued a Lake Alert for Lake Beauty, due to "possible" elevated fecal coliform counts.
A blockage in a sanitary line resulted in roughly 500 gallons...
The governmental triumvirate that is Orange County, the City of Winter Park, and the City of Orlando, have lifted the Lake Advisory that was placed on all City lakes following Hurricane Irma.
Storms like Hurricane Irma have a high possibility...
The Lake Alert that was issued for Lake Formosa has been lifted, as of September 20.
Following a sanitary sewer overflow from a private lift station behind Mills Park (more on that HERE), roughly 15,000 gallons of sewage leaked into...
Due to the excessive amount of rainfall during Hurricane Irma - combined with residential and commercial uses - the City's sewage system is working overtime and having problems processing waste water.
Compounding the capacity issue, a number of lift stations...
