"WCA1 is 4 ft higher than Lake O.  To get water into it, therefore requires pumping it.  Is it a lake?  My understanding is that flow mostly occurs around the perimeter canal, not through the marsh ... therefore in a way, yes."

"Are you saying they are pumping the water south out of Lake O?  Does this mean they are making WCA1 into a huge lake?"

" I have always known that water will puddle up where rain is heaviest but I thought it always eventually, gradually flowed basically south albiet ever so slowly.  I will have to study the map some day.. I would imagine there is some…"

"I saw the legs, they were cat like and running very fast like a house cat chasing something. More of a low profile full sprint, than say a hugging crawl. The cat was 300 yards in front of me, crossing in front of two big trucks ahead…"

"True, it can get amazingly cold in the summer if you get soaked (and bone numbingly so if you also happen to be in an airboat)."