A Summary of Estuarine and Marine Water Quality Information, EVER, BISC, and Adjacent Estuaries, 1879 to 1977
Schmidt TW and Davis GE. 1978. A Summary of Estuarine and Marine Water Quality Information, EVER, BISC, and Adjacent Estuaries, 1879 to 1977. SFRC T-519. South Florida Natural Resources Center. Homestead, Florida
The south Florida regional drainage system compromises about 36,000 km2 (Fig. 1). The upland watershed covers some 13,600 km2 and extends 150 km from Lake Okeechobee to the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay. Within this system, the National Park Service manages about 4,400 km2 of upland watershed, and 3,800 km2 of estuary and coastal coral reefs in Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve, and Biscayne National Monument. For the purposes of this report, the watershed was divided into four drainage systems based on climate, physiography, freshwater runoff-salinity dilution dynamics, and the influence of man: (1) Big Cypress; (2) Everglades, (3) Taylor Slough, (4) Southeastern Atlantic Coastal Ridge. The estuaries and coastal waters were divided into six zones based on physiography and watershed.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Schmidt, Thomas; Davis, Gary
- Date of Issue
- 1978-08
- Publisher
- South Florida Natural Resources Center
- Units
- BISC , EVER
- Keywords
- Biscayne, Estuarine, everglades, Marine, SFNRCTRS, Water Quality