Leaving considerations of potential damage to the St. Lucie estuary aside, the Corps continues to slowly and methodically discharge Lake Okeechobee water to both east and west Florida coasts to reduce the possibility of a catastrophic breach of the Hoover Dike walls and damage to hundred of thousands of acres of farm and environmentally sensitive land as well as loss of life and serious injury to countless numbers. The Corps has lessened the amount and number of discharges.