Surface-Water Flow Through the Seminole Tribal Lands within the Greater Everglades

Project Investigator: Mark Dickman Project Personnel: Rick Solis, Corey Whittaker, Eric Carlson Project Start Date: 1996 End Date: -- Recent Funding: (FY12) USGS GE PES, SFWMD, Seminole Tribe of Florida, (FY11) USGS GE PES, (FY10) USGS GE PES, (FY09) USGS GE PES, (FY08) USGS GE PES, (FY07) USGS GE PES, SFWMD, Seminole Tribe of Florida, (FY06) USGS GE PES, SFWMD, Seminole Tribe of Florida, (FY05) USGS GE PES, Seminole Tribe of Florida, (FY04) USGS GE PES, Seminole Tribe of Florida, (FY03) USGS GE PES, Seminole Tribe of Florida Proposals Work Plans Project Summaries Data Metadata Publications Project Location Map

The objective of this project is to evaluate approaches for quantifying freshwater flows to and from Native American lands and to provide various hydrologic data to support other Federal and State hydrologic investigations. The implementation and development of strategically locating streamflow and water-quality gaging sites will provide information for determining future surface-water flow requirements. Subsequent studies based on accurate flow calibrations generated by these sites will be used for computation of nutrient loadings in the canal system. Providing continuous-flow data at selected impact points for internal basins will complement the eastern flow canal discharge network and allow for surface-water releases that are more accurately timed. The accounting of all significant hydrologic inflows and ouflows to the Everglades ecosystem of the south Florida mainland is a key element of the South Florida Ecosystem Program.

Proposals

• 1998
• 1999
• 2001

Work Plans

• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• 2006
• 2007
• 2012

Project Summaries

• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005
• 2006

Data

• Flow Data (from the data exchange pages)

Metadata

• Internal Surface-water Flows (project metadata)
• Flow Data (Murray/Solis) (data set metadata)

Publications

Abstracts

• Internal Surface-Water Flows in South Florida
• Monitoring of Surface-Water Flows and Nutrient Loads on Tribal Lands in Southern Florida (from the South Florida Restoration Science Forum, May 1999)
• Quantifying Internal Canal Flows in South Florida (abstract is on the Internal Surface Water Flows project page and is from the GEER Conference, December, 2000)
• Quantifying Internal Canal Flows in South Florida (from the GEER Conference, April 2003)
• Quantifying Internal Canal Flows in Southern Florida

Fact Sheets

• Internal Surface Water Flows

Open File Reports

• Feasibility of Estimating Constituent Concentrations and Loads Based on Data Recorded by Acoustic Instrumentation (OFR-02-285, available from the Water Resources of Florida website)

Posters

• Freshwater to and from Native American Lands (presented at the 2003 GEER conference)
• Internal Surface Water Flows FL96-620, Fresh Water to and from Native American Lands (presented at the 2000 GEER Conference)