Water Quality Physical Parameters Data (Lietz)
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- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Arthur C. Lietz (retired)
- Publication_Date: 2001
- Title: Water Quality Physical Parameters Data (Lietz)
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: text files
- Online_Linkage: <http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/lietz/lietzphy.html>
- Description:
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- Abstract:
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The data set contains values for water temperature, pH, specific conductance, dissolved oxygen, sample location cross section, and sampling depth at 5 sites.
The sites are:
Biscayne Canal at S-28
Little River Canal at S-27
Miami Canal at S-26
Snapper Creek Canal at S-22
Tamiami Canal at S-25B
- Purpose:
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A vital component in ecosystem restoration is the understanding of prerestoration water quality. The health of Biscayne Bay has been threatened by nutrient-laden discharges from the east coast canal system resulting from urbanization and agricultural activities. Extensive changes to the current water management system in order to restore natural historic hydropatterns to the Everglades potentially may affect the Biscayne Bay ecosystem. This study was developed in order to provide a method of estimating nutrient loads from east coast canals to the Bay and to provide an understanding of nutrient distribution and concentration in the east coast canal system. Models for estimation of nutrient loads were developed using the techniques of linear regression analysis. In order to understand current and historical water-quality in southern Florida, long-term trends from two surface water sites potentially affected by restoration efforts, Miami Canal at S-26 and Tamiami Canal - Forty Mile Bend to Monroe, were investigated. This task determined the water quality physical parameters for canals discharging into Biscayne Bay National Park
- Supplemental_Information: This project was completed on September 30, 1999.
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Range_of_Dates/Times:
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- Beginning_Date: 19960621
- Ending_Date: 19971007
- Currentness_Reference: ground condition
- Status:
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: none planned
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.431
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80.18
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.933
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 25.66
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
- Theme_Keyword: pH
- Theme_Keyword: hydrology
- Theme_Keyword: water quality
- Theme_Keyword: chemistry
- Theme_Keyword: dissolved oxygen
- Theme_Keyword: nitrogen
- Theme_Keyword: phosphorus
- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
- Theme_Keyword: environment
- Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters
- Theme_Keyword: 007
- Theme_Keyword: 012
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
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Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Place_Keyword: United States
- Place_Keyword: US
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
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U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, DC, NIST
- Place_Keyword: Florida
- Place_Keyword: FL
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
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Department of Commerce, 1990, Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United States, Its Possessions, and Associated Areas, FIPS 6-3, Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Place_Keyword: Miami-Dade County
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Geographic Names Information System
- Place_Keyword: Biscayne Canal
- Place_Keyword: Little River Canal
- Place_Keyword: Miami Canal
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
- Place_Keyword: South East Coast
- Place_Keyword: Snapper Creek Canal
- Place_Keyword: Tamiami Canal
- Temporal:
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- Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
- Temporal_Keyword: periodic
- Access_Constraints: none
- Use_Constraints: none
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Michael Byrne
- Contact_Organization: U.S. Geologcial Survey
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address:
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1400 Colonial Blvd.
Suite 70, Royal Palm Square
- City: Fort Myers
- State_or_Province: FL
- Postal_Code: 33907
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 239 275-8448 ext. 10
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 239 275-6820
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mbyrne@usgs.gov
- Browse_Graphic:
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- Browse_Graphic_File_Name: <http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/lietz/locationphy.html>
- Browse_Graphic_File_Description: location of data collection sites
- Browse_Graphic_File_Type: GIF
- Data_Set_Credit:
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Frank Panellas, student civil engineer, John Goebel and Elizabeth Debiak, hydrologic technicians
- Native_Data_Set_Environment: MS Excel spreadsheet and tab-delimited text file
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Lietz, A. C.
- Publication_Date: 1999
- Title:
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Methodology for estimating nutrient loads discharged from the east coast Canals to Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name: Water Resources Investigations Report
- Issue_Identification: 99-4094
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Reston, VA
- Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
- Online_Linkage: <http://sflwww.er.usgs.gov/publications/wri/99-4094>
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Lietz, A. C.
- Publication_Date: 2002
- Title:
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Feasibility of Estimating Constituent Concentrations and Loads Based on Data Recorded by Acoustic Instrumentation
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report
- Issue_Identification: 02-285
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL
- Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
- Online_Linkage: <http://fl.water.usgs.gov/Abstracts/ofr02_285_lietz.html>
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Lietz, A. C.
- Publication_Date: 2000
- Title:
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Analysis of Water-Quality Trends at Two Discharge Stations - One within Big Cypress National Preserve and One near Biscayne Bay - Southern Florida, 1966-94
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name: Water Resources Investigations Report
- Issue_Identification: 00-4099
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL
- Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
- Online_Linkage: <http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/wri/00-4099/>
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator:
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Lietz, A. C.
Dixon, Joann;
Byrne, Michael
- Publication_Date: 2002
- Title:
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Average altitude of the water table (1990-99) and frequency analysis of water levers (1974-99) in the Biscayne Aquifer, Miami-Dade County, Florida
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report
- Series_Information:
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- Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report
- Issue_Identification: 02-91
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL
- Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
- Online_Linkage: <http://fl.water.usgs.gov/Abstracts/ofr02_91_lietz.html>
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Logical_Consistency_Report: not applicable
- Completeness_Report:
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Data was collected at all the sites in 1996 and at the Snapper Creek Canal site in 1997 as well.
- Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
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The positional accuracy of the sampling sites was determined using GPS techniques and published topographic maps.
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- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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Water-quality samples were collected upstream of discharge points of coastal canals in eastern Dade County during various seasons and flow conditions. Procedures were applied to determine if any statistical differences existed between depth-integrated and grab samples. Depth-integrated samples were collected by the equal-width-increment method. This method consists of raising and lowering a sampler through-out several verticals in the stream at a constant rate so that the bottle is not overfilled when returned to the surface and then compositing the water samples in a churn splitter. To establish the number of verticals that needed to be sampled and to determine horizontal and vertical variability within the water column, water-quality cross-sectional surveys were made of temperature, specific conductance, pH, and dissolved oxygen. Grab samples, obtained concurrently with the depth-integrated samples, were collected at 0.5 and 1.0 meter below the surface near the centroid of flow. Additionally, the upstream and downstream stages and gate openings were recorded during each sampling event in order to compute the instantaneous discharge from the appropriate rating. These ratings were developed using acoustic Doppler methodology as part of another South Florida Ecosystem Program project. Ordinary least squares regression techniques were employed to develop models for computing load based upon the relation between nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations or loads and instantaneous discharge.
- Process_Date: Unknown
- Process_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Michael Byrne
- Contact_Organization: U.S. Geologcial Survey
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address:
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1400 Colonial Blvd.
Suite 70, Royal Palm Square
- City: Fort Myers
- State_or_Province: FL
- Postal_Code: 33907
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 239 275-8448 ext. 10
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 239 275-6820
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: mbyrne@usgs.gov
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
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- Indirect_Spatial_Reference: East Coast canals
- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Point
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:
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- SDTS_Terms_Description:
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- SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Point
- Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 5
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
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- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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- Geographic:
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- Latitude_Resolution: 0.1
- Longitude_Resolution: 0.1
- Geographic_Coordinate_Units: decimal degrees
- Geodetic_Model:
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- Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
- Semi-major_Axis: 6378137
- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
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- Overview_Description:
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- Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
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Parameters collected at each site include water temperature, pH, specific conductance, dissolved oxygen, sample location cross section (or distance from left bank), and sampling depth.
- Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation: USGS personnel
- Distribution_Information:
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- Distributor:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Heather S.Henkel
- Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing address
- Address: 600 Fourth St. South
- City: St. Petersburg
- State_or_Province: FL
- Postal_Code: 33701
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727 803-8747 ext 3028
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727 803-2030
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hhenkel@usgs.gov
- Resource_Description: lietz - water quality physical parameters data
- Distribution_Liability: There are no explicit or implicit warrantees for the data.
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- Network_Resource_Name: <http://sofia.usgs.gov/exchange/lietz/lietzphy.html>
- Access_Instructions: Data may be downloaded from the SOFIA website
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- Format_Version_Number: 2000
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- Access_Instructions: Data may be downloaded from the SOFIA website
- Fees: none
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- Metadata_Date: 20070328
- Metadata_Contact:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Heather Henkel
- Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 600 Fourth Street South
- City: St. Petersburg
- State_or_Province: FL
- Postal_Code: 33701
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727 803-8747 ext 3028
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727 803-2030
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sofia-metadata@usgs.gov
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- Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
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