Impact of 20th Century Water-Management and Land-Use Practices on the Coastal Hydrology of Southeast Florida

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Robert Renken (retired)

Publication_Date: 20060426

Title:

Impact of 20th Century Water-Management and Land-Use Practices on the Coastal Hydrology of Southeast Florida

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Online_Linkage: https://sofia.usgs.gov/projects/impact_auc/

Description:

Abstract:

The data are available as Arc/Info coverages from USGS Circular 1275. The Landuse coverages are in Florida State Plane Cordinate System, east zone, units feet, zone 3601, datum NAD27. All other coverages are in UTM Coordinate System, unit meters, zone 17, datum NAD27

Purpose:

Saltwater intrusion into the surficial aquifer is a direct consequence of water-management practices, concurrent agricultural and urban development, and natural drought conditions. An important part of this synthesis is to link water-management practices (canal-discharge), consumptive water use, water levels within the surficial aquifer system, chloride concentrations, ground-water discharge, and Holocene paleohistory of the Florida Bay and Biscayne Bay. For example, a series of water table maps for specific selected 5-year increments have been developed to spatially identify the areal extent where long-term water levels within the surficial aquifer have declined and to compare these changes with movement of the interface. Such changes are also being compared with changes in coastal outflows from major canals to distinquish between long-term declines caused by regional drainage and a large number of municipal pumping centers. Paleontologic data are being used to prepare maps illustrate temporal changes in salinity within the Biscayne Bay over the last 150 years. Salinity changes within the bay are largely attributed to a decrease in ground-water and surface water discharge.

Supplemental_Information:

This is a completed project. The GIS data layers have been updated as of 4/26/2006. The previous layers available from SOFIA have been replaced with the updated layers.

Dr. Renken has retired but remains an emeritus volunteer with USGS and can be reached by email for questions about this project and other technical ASR activities. An additional Point of Contact for this project should Dr. Renken be unavailable is Kevin Cunningham. Respective contact information for each is in the Point of Contact section below.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1850

Ending_Date: 2000

Currentness_Reference: ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent: Southeast Florida

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -81

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -80

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 27

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 25

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Theme_Keyword: hydrology

Theme_Keyword: water management

Theme_Keyword: land use

Theme_Keyword: synthesis

Theme_Keyword: mapping

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category

Theme_Keyword: environment

Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation

Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

Theme_Keyword: planningCadastre

Theme_Keyword: inlandWaters

Theme_Keyword: 007

Theme_Keyword: 008

Theme_Keyword: 010

Theme_Keyword: 012

Theme_Keyword: 015

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:

Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4, Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology

Place_Keyword: United States

Place_Keyword: US

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:

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, D. C., NIST

Place_Keyword: Florida

Place_Keyword: FL

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:

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: Broward County

Place_Keyword: Miami-Dade County

Place_Keyword: Palm Beach County

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Geographic Names Information System

Place_Keyword: Biscayne Bay

Place_Keyword: Everglades National Park

Place_Keyword: Florida Bay

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: none

Place_Keyword: South East Coast

Access_Constraints: none

Use_Constraints: none

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Robert Renken, retired emeritus

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing Address, c/o Kevin Cunningham

Address: 7500 SW 36th Street

City: Davie

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33314

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 954-377-5913 (Kevin Cunningham)

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: rarenken@usgs.gov

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: (alt.) kcunning@usgs.gov

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name:

https://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/circular/1275/images/cover-simagemap.jpg

Browse_Graphic_File_Description:

reconstructed satellite image for 1850 showing the border of the pre-canal drainage Everglades

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Browse_Graphic:

Browse_Graphic_File_Name:

https://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/circular/1275/images/cover-landcvrdataspot.jpg

Browse_Graphic_File_Description: current satellite image (circa 1994)

Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG

Data_Set_Credit:

Other project personnel include John Koehmstedt, Joann Dixon, and Scott Ishman.

Native_Data_Set_Environment: ESRI Arc/Info 8.x coverages

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Renken, R. A.
Patterson, R. D., Orzol, L. L., Dixon, Joann

Publication_Date: 2001

Title:

Approach for Delineation of Contributing Areas and Zones of Transport to Selected Public-Supply Wells Using a Regional Ground-Water Flow Model, Palm Beach County, Florida

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report

Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report

Issue_Identification: 01-4158

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: http://fl.water.usgs.gov/Abstracts/wri01_4158_renken.html

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Ward, W. C.
Cunningham, K. J., Renken, R. A., Wacker, M. A., Carlson, J. I.

Publication_Date: 2003

Title:

Sequence-Stratigraphic Analysis of the Regional Observation Monitoring Program (ROMP) 29A Test Corehole and Its relation to carbonate Porosity and Regional Transmissivity in the Florida Aquifer System, Highlands County, Florida

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report

Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS Open-File Report

Issue_Identification: 03-201

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: http://fl.water.usgs.gov/Abstracts/ofr03_201_ward.html

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Renken, Robert A.
Dixon, Joann, Koehmstedt, John, Lietz, A. C., Ishman, Scott, Marella, Richard, Telis, Pamela, Rodgers, Jeff, Memberg, Steven

Publication_Date: 2005

Title:

Impact of Anthropogenic Development on Coastal Ground-Water Hydrology in Southeastern Florida, 1900-2000

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: report

Series_Information:

Series_Name: USGS Circular

Issue_Identification: 1275

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Tallahassee, FL

Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: https://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/circular/1275/

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Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report: not applicable

Completeness_Report: not available

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

This synthesis will: review the wide variety of anthropogenic stresses that have been imposed on the local environment; review changes in water quality caused by salt-water intrusion; summarize the current state-of-knowledge of the hydrologic system within the urban-agricultural corridor of eastern Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties; and evaluate various inflow and outflow components of the water budget. A conceptual model of the ecosystem with an emphasis on the hydrologic system will be developed.
The synthesis will be completed using the following strategy. Some information was obtained from previously published reports but is supplemented considerably with unpublished data from the files of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Florida Water Management District, and Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade Counties. A literature review will be conducted to examine the historical development of water resources in eastern Miami-Dade County, and to describe how land-use management practices have have impacted the ecosystem. The impact of these practices will be evaluated in terms of both water quantity and water quality. GIS coverages have been developed which include such topical categories as changes in ground-water withdrawals, water use, population density, land use, and and changes in long-term ground-water levels and canal discharge during the last 100 years.
Present day inflow and outflow components of the hydrologic budget will be estimated integrating data available in the files of the U.S. Geological Survey and Southeast Florida Water Management District, from existing numerical models or from models which are currently under development. Some of the major inflow components to the system in the County include precipitation, levee seepage, ground-water recharge to the aquifer, and water conveyed from Lake Okeechobee to the ocean through the canal system. Depending on local hydrologic conditions, this canal system can act either as a source of water to, or a site of discharge from the underlying aquifer. Outflow components include evapotranspiration, canal outflows, municipal and agricultural well pumpage, and ground-water discharge to the Biscayne Bay.
In the past 60 years, projects executed by Federal, State, and local agencies have been conducted to determine the location of the saltwater interface. These projects have been mostly local in nature, limited to a specific county or municipality. Projects have reported the change in chloride with depth in a well or group of wells; most monitoring programs are managed by local governmental agencies. Other projects have used ground-water flow models to determine the location and movement of the interface. However, no effort has been made to link the results of these various studies or to fill in data gaps.
This synthesis will: 1) provide a temporal and spatial overview of changes in land use, population, and water management systems; 2) evaluate long-term trends in withdrawal rates; 3) examine long-term trends in surface-water flow, change in ground-water levels, and increase in chloride concentrations; 4) review causal relations between the position of the saltwater interface and water management practices; and 5) illustrate the impact of development on coastal ground-water hydrology and shallow marine ecology. The evaluation of saltwater intrusion in the surficial aquifers of South Florida will be made through an analysis of existing publications and data. Results from recent studies conducted along the southeast coast and in the Everglades National Park will be combined with additional data collected by other agencies to present a regional depiction of saltwater intrusion. Additional study will be conducted to determine long-term trends in the movement of the freshwater-saltwater interface. Changes in water levels will be compared with the movement of the interface. This synthesis includes preparation of maps, graphs, spatial data sets, and charts that illustrate and define historic and present-day hydrologic conditions in the eastern and agricultural corridor of southern Florida.

Process_Date: 2003

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Robert Renken, retired emeritus

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing Address, c/o Kevin Cunningham

Address: 7500 SW 36th Street

City: Davie

State_or_Province: Florida

Postal_Code: 33314

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 954-377-5913 (Kevin Cunningham)

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: rarenken@usgs.gov

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: (alt.) kcunning@usgs.gov

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Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Indirect_Spatial_Reference: southeast Florida

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Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1927

Ellipsoid_Name: Clarke 1866

Semi-major_Axis: 6378206

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 294.9786982

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Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Heather S.Henkel

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical

Address: 600 Fourth Street South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8028

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-502-8182

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: hhenkel@usgs.gov

Resource_Description: GIS data layers

Distribution_Liability: No warrantees are implied or explicit for the data

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Arc/Info coverages

Format_Version_Number: 8.x

Format_Specification:

Each folder has been provided as a .zip file and needs to "unzipped" before use.

Format_Information_Content:

The files are Arc/Info 1:100,000 scale coverages for agricultural landuse, base coverage of study area, canals, potentiometric, saltwater intrusion, and wateruse

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name: https://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/circular/1275/gisdata.html

Access_Instructions: Log onto the SOFIA website at https://sofia.usgs.gov

Fees: none

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Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20140606

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Heather Henkel

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical

Address: 600 Fourth Street South

City: St. Petersburg

State_or_Province: FL

Postal_Code: 33701

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 727-502-8028

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 727-502-8182

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sofia-metadata@usgs.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

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