Manual Water-Level Measurements in South Florida as of August 2008

Site status is calculated based on long-term average water levels

Summary of Conditions

KML File for Stations Shown (Right-click link to download file)

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.

Water-level reports from South Florida monitoring sites, prior to the end of August 2008

Purpose and overview of this web project

With the development of websites to display data from real-time and non-real-time, continuously-monitored ground-water stations, it was decided that the FISC-WRS should also produce a site displaying data from periodically-measured ground-water sites. By this time NWISWeb was able to provide periodic ground-water levels as well as water quality parameters, neither are presented with a historical analysis of the data. This site is intended to fill the gap between the existing analytical sites provided by FISC-WRS and the historical measurements data avilable through NWISWeb.

The stations presented in these WWW pages are periodically (generally monthly, quarterly, biannually, or annually) visited for the purpose of collecting manual tapedown (measurement of water level) or chloride concentration data. In some cases, these stations are also continuously monitored for ground-water elevation at the sites. This will be noted on the station page and such sites should also be available on the real-time and non-real-time pages. For the majority of the remaining sites, the data on this page are only generally expected to be current up to the second month before the current month. Also, such sites will include two-year duration plots of the most recent data compared to the historical average water level calculated for the site. 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: