Restoration of the Everglades begins in the vicinity of Orlando. The Okeechobee River drains into Lake Okeechobee, a lake with an average depth of . During the wet season when the lake exceeds its capacity, the water leaves the lake in a very wide and shallow river, approximately long and wide. This wide and shallow flow is known as "sheetflow". The land gradually slopes toward Florida Bay, the historical destination of most of the water leaving the Everglades. Before drainage attempts, the Everglades comprised , taking up a third of the Florida peninsula. Since the early 19th century the Everglades have been a subject
Kissimmee/Okeechobee Lowland Its southern most part also contains Okeechobee Plain. The soils are Pleistocene lagoonal deposits of coastal sand and shelly silty sand. The lakes are alkaline, eutrophic, with color. Kissimmee/Okeechobee Lowland The Kissimmee/Okeechobee Lowland is one of 47 distinct lake regions within the state of Florida, United States. The Kissimmee/Okeechobee is located in the central part of the state bounding Lake Okeechobee to the south and extending north to the Osceola Slope in Osceola County. It is bounded on the west by the Lake Wales Ridge system and on the east by the Eastern Flatlands. Counties within its borders are Osceola,