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Flows

Is it accurate to say that it flows? As I understand it, the river has no source. --Evil1987 22:06, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Each of its two forks has a sourrc. The source of the North Fork is described in the article. In the relatively flat coastal areas of Florida, it is hard to point to a lake or a spring as a source.

I've been in the process of rewriting the original article which omitted the South Fork completely. The source of the South Fork is in south central Martin County east of I-95 & south of SR 76.

Things remaining to do on the article include:

Tying the South Fork part of the article into the St. Lucie Cana], which is part of the Okeechobee Waterway.
Explaining that what started out as a river is now an estuary because of the digging of the St. Lucie Inlet, Florida, which gave the river an outlet to the ocean.
Discussing the periodic releases by the South Florida Water Management District of fresh water (sometimes of doubtful quality) from Lake Okeechobee through the St. Lucie Canal. Also there are several SFWMD canals that empty into the North Fork.

In conclusion, the river does flow, but its flow is affected by tides and by the release and/or non-release of water into it by the SFWMD. clariosophic 22:48, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]