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Water Resources of Southeastern Florida - Contents
(Note: these pages will be linked up at a later date. The numbers refer to the page numbers in the original document.)
Illustrations: 24 plates, 223 figures and 147 tables
Abstract … 1
Introduction … 5
Climate … 15
Geology … 57
Geomorphology … 127
Ground water … 157
Biscayne aquifer, Greater Miami area and Atlantic Coastal Ridge
The Florida Keys
The Everglades
The Big Cypress--Devil's Garden area
The Kissimmee area
Artesian water
Quantitative studies in the Miami area
The Biscayne aquifer
The water table
Ground-water recharge
Ground-water discharge
Hydrologic properties of water-bearing materials
Large-scale pumping tests
Quantitative studies other than large-scale pumping tests
Factors to be considered regarding the proposed well field in the Miami area
Surface water … 291
Characteristics of drainage basins and summaries of gaging-station records
Basins tributary to Lake Okeechobee, including Kissimmee River and Fisheating Creek
Lake Okeechobee and principal outflow canals
The Everglades and Atlantic Coastal Ridge
West Palm Beach Canal
Hillsboro Canal
North New River Canal
South New River Canal
Lower New River basin
Miami Canal
Tamiami Canal
Secondary canals
Areal studies
Hydrologic studies
Kissimmee River basin
Lake Okeechobee
Everglades area
Salt-water encroachment … 571
Source of salt-water contamination
Chemical composition of salt-contaminated waters
Historical review of encroachment in the Miami area
Encroachment in the aquifer directly from the ocean
Encroachment in the tidal canals
Density currents and hydraulic relationships
Miami area
Fort Lauderdale area
Homestead area
Salt-water contamination of the aquifer from tidal canals
Contamination of canals by residual salty ground water
Salt-water encroachment in the Miami well fields
Salt-water encroachment along the Dade County shoreline other than at Silver Bluff
Electrical-resistivity studies
Quality of ground and surface waters … 727
Methods of investigation
Chemical character of surface waters
Chemical character of nonartesian ground waters
Chemical character of artesian waters
Public water supplies
Appendix … 835
Well records
Well logs
Municipal water supplies
Interpretation of apparent resistivity curves
Selected bibliography … 949
Index … 957
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