LEE COUNTY v. S. FLORIDA WATER MGMT DIST.

No. 2D00-1773.

805 So.2d 893 (2001)

LEE COUNTY, Appellant, v. SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, a special tax district of the State of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

October 12, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Yaeger, Lee County Attorney, and Thomas L. Wright, Assistant County Attorney, Fort Myers, for Appellant.

John J. Fumero, General Counsel, and James E. Nutt, West Palm Beach, for Appellee.


NORTHCUTT, Judge.

Lee County contends the circuit court should have granted its petition to temporarily enjoin the South Florida Water Management District from implementing an emergency plan to discharge a large volume of fresh water from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee River. Although the discharge had been accomplished by the time this appeal was briefed, the county urges us to decide the case and to prohibit the district from taking similar actions in the...

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