Water district backing away from $68.1M land buy

The district's board was set to vote this week on a proposal to pay $68.1 million for 2,270 acres east of Lake Okeechobee -- even though water managers had no definite plans for how to use the tracts -- but the agency's staff pulled the proposal late Tuesday, saying the money might need to go instead to efforts to protect the Herbert Hoover Dike or a court-ordered cleanup of runoff near the lake's south shore - Dec. 13, Palm Beach Post