Ground-water conditions in southern Florida
Ground-water conditions in southern Florida
A 7-day running average of daily recorded water levels is compared to the statistical distribution of daily water levels for the site period of record for selected sites in southern Florida. More detailed information for each site is available through the map links and the pages listed below. Detailed information on how the map was created, and the information used to derive the mapped data are also available on this site.
Metadata, for the site location GIS coverage used to create the map, is available in FGDC and HTML formats.
Postscript and Adobe PDF versions of the map are available for printing. The Adobe PDF Reader program is available, at no cost, from Adobe. When viewed as a PDF file, the map image may be re-sized for viewing or printing.
Prior to September 2000, the Florida Integrated Science Center - Water and Restoration Studies (FISC-WRS) had produced an End-of-Month (EOM) report summarizing water-level information throughout South Florida. The majority of these wells were not monitored in real-time via satellite telemetry, so this was the primary method of disseminating the provisional data from these sites to regional water managers. However, the old EOM report had inherent drawbacks caused by computer system and database limitations when the report was designed more than 10 years ago. Because of the drawbacks of the old, printed report and the widespread availability of the World Wide Web (WWW), this site has replaced the EOM report.
The stations presented in these WWW pages are continuously monitored by on-site equipment. The data collected are held on-site until downloaded by a USGS technician during a monthly site visit. These visits are scheduled every 4-8 weeks, based on operational requirements, and so the data on this page are only generally expected to be current up to the second month before the current month. In any case, the data presented are provisional, as they are retrieved directly from the USGS database without final quality assurance/quality control review.
Links to additional sites of interest:
Funding for the USGS to design and maintain this site has been provided through a cooperative agreement with the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD). Water-level conditions are monitored by the USGS with support from Federal, State, and local cooperators.
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U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://www.sflorida.er.usgs.gov/edl_data/index_ndt.html
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