WHO WE ARE

The advocacy jurisdiction of Kissimmee Waterkeeper begins in downtown Orlando and extends southward to the shores of Lake Okeechobee, an area of 4,100 square miles. It’s a complex, diverse landscape with hundreds of lakes dominating the northern and western sections and with expansive wetlands and prairies in its core. Of the 14 Waterkeeper member groups in Florida, Kissimmee is the only one without any Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico shoreline.

Kissimmee Waterkeeper’s five watersheds include the Kissimmee River Basin, the Taylor Creek/Nubbin Slough watershed surrounding the City of Okeechobee, Indian Prairie/Harney Pond watershed west of Okeechobee, the Lake Istokpoga watershed from Lake Wales to Lake Placid, and the watershed of the still wild Fisheating Creek west of Lake Okeechobee.