Hydrological Conditions of Mangrove Lakes Region of Everglades National Park

Project Investigator: Mark Zucker Project Personnel: Travis Brindise Project Start Date: 2013 End Date: 2016 Recent Funding: (FY15) USGS GE PES, SFWMD, (FY14) USGS GE PES, (FY13) USGS GE PES Work Plans Data Metadata Publications

Ongoing data collection from USGS monitoring stations Alligator Creek, McCormick Creek, and Seven Palm Lake will be used to support the development of a water budget for the Lakes region. Three additional flow monitoring stations were installed in 2014 to assist with the water budget effort. Continuous water level measurements will be collected at Oyster Creek, West Lake Outlet, and Cuthbert Lake Outlet each representing flow to and from the large lakes (West Lake, Cuthbert Lake, Long Lake, and Seven Palm Lake) along with bi-monthly discharge measurements to develop index velocity rating. USGS will be supporting data collection at 1of the 3 flow monitoring locations.

These data will be published on the USGS NWIS web site and final quality assured data will also be published on the USGS SOFIA Data Exchange web site.

Work Plans

• 2014

Data

Metadata

• South Florida Hydrology Database (data set metadata)

Publications

Abstracts

• Availability of Geodetic Surveys by the U.S. Geological Survey in South Florida (from the GEER Conference, April 2015)

Posters

• Availability of Geodetic Surveys by the U.S. Geological Survey in South Florida (from the GEER Conference, April 2015)