The Burrell Lock in the Upper Ocklawaha River Basin will be closed starting July 18 for essential construction upgrades.

For Florida’s leaders, a few controversies stand as bright-line tests: There is a wrong side and a right side, with little gray in between. The fate of the Ocklawaha River, strangled for six decades ...

Advocates for restoring the Ocklawaha River are undeterred by a recent veto setback and are moving ahead and regrouping to ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 30 signed the 2025-26 budget after vetoing almost $600 million in programs and projects from the ...

But fisherman long defended the dam, which was renamed the Rodman-Kirkpatrick dam in 1998 after since deceased Sen. George ...

Florida's governor also vetoed the transfer of $200 million out of the Department of Environmental Protection.

The Burrell Lock in the Upper Ocklawaha River Basin will be closed starting July 18 for essential construction upgrades.

DeSantis slashed $500,000 to study the potential environmental and economic effects of removing the dam last year.

Gov. DeSantis signs budget that keeps UNF string of budget wins going for another year. He vetoed Rodman dam removal for Ocklawaha River restoration.

The river’s headwaters begins in Indian River County and wind north to the Atlantic Ocean, north of Jacksonville.