Overview
Lake Apopka is Florida's fourth-largest lake, covering roughly 30,800 acres in Orange and Lake counties about 15 miles northwest of Orlando. It is the headwater of the Harris Chain of Lakes and the Ocklawaha River, and water levels and restoration are led by the St. Johns River Water Management District. Once a nationally famous bass fishery, the lake was heavily degraded by nutrient loading from north-shore muck farms; decades of land acquisition, wetland restoration, and phosphorus controls are rebuilding water quality and habitat.
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