Notice to Navigation: 2025-016 Okeechobee Waterway Low Water Levels
LOCAL NUMBER: 2025-16
WATERWAY:  OKEECHOBEE WATERWAY

EFFECTIVE: 7 May 2025

ATTN: CESAJ-OD-SN
PO Box 4970
JACKSONVILLE, FL 32232-0019

POC: Kriss Zeller, Chief of Navigation (772) 380-6928

www.saj.usace.army.mil/NTN

REFERENCE:
a.     33 CFR Navigation and Navigable Waters

1. Notice to Navigation

Attention all concerned boaters! Low water levels along the Okeechobee Waterway have created navigation depths that are below typical minimums. As a reminder, please stay in the navigation channels! Below normal levels make staying in channel imperative. This includes the St. Lucie Canal and Caloosahatchee River. Deeper draft vessels should consider alternate routes.

For the current Lake Okeechobee water levels, please see:  https://w3.saj.usace.army.mil/h2o/currentLL.shtml

2. For up-to-date Lock information, contact the shift operator 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at:
                St Lucie Lock & Dam 772-287-2665 or 863-662-9148
                Port Mayaca Lock & Dam 561-924-2858 or 863-662-9424
                Julian Keen, Jr. Lock & Dam 863-946-0414 or 863-662-9533
                Ortona Lock & Dam 863-675-0616 or 863- 662-9846
                W.P. Franklin Lock & Dam 239-694-5451 or 863-662-9908
                Canaveral Lock 321-783-5421 or 863-662-0298 (6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.)