Peace River - Peace Creek Canal Watershed

Southwest Florida Water Management District calculates the Aquifer Resource Indicator (ARI) for their three groundwater regions each month. The ARI was created to provide the public with a gauge of groundwater levels in their area, so they can develop an understanding of the severity and cycles of drought and recovery. The three regions include: North (Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Levy, Marion and Sumter counties), Central (Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas, and Polk counties), and South (Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Manatee, and Sarasota counties). Learn More about the Aquifer Resource Indicator >>

To determine the ARI for a region, each well is compared weekly to its respective low-normal value and the difference is calculated. The weekly differences are reduced to a monthly value for all monitoring wells within a region, and the resulting ARI value represents how far water levels in the aquifer must rise or fall to reach their respective low-normal values.

Source: SWFWMD Hydrologic Data Section Data
Click here to view a period of record graph for the central, north, and south groundwater regions

The following data are summarized as seasonal average values for lake and river sampling locations located within the watershed. While these data are useful to serve as a general picture of watershed health, these data must be viewed with caution because these samples have been taken from ecologically different water resources.

Rivers:

Samples from most rivers located in this watershed are averaged as part of these data summaries.

Season	Total Nitrogen	Nitrate (NO3)	Total Phosphorus	Orthophosphate	Number of Sample Stations	Number of Samples
APR-JUN 2012	1,270 ug/l		94 ug/l		1	2
JAN-MAR 2012	1,437 ug/l		132 ug/l		1	3
OCT-DEC 2011	1,507 ug/l		109 ug/l		1	3
JUL-SEP 2011	1,510 ug/l		142 ug/l		1	3
APR-JUN 2011	1,293 ug/l		185 ug/l		1	3
JAN-MAR 2011	1,330 ug/l		175 ug/l		1	3
Five Year Seasonal Graph	Graph		Graph	Graph
Five Year Graph of All Samples	Graph		Graph	Graph

Source(s): Polk County NRD, FDEP Ambient Monitoring Sampling Data, South West Florida Water Management District Sampling Data, FDEP Southwest District Sampling Data, USGS National Water Information System

Lakes:

Samples from most lakes located in this watershed are averaged as part of these data summaries.

Season	Total Nitrogen	Nitrate (NO3)	Total Phosphorus	Orthophosphate	Number of Sample Stations	Number of Samples
JUL-SEP 2012	932 ug/l		21 ug/l		7	14
APR-JUN 2012	920 ug/l		26 ug/l		7	9
JAN-MAR 2012	922 ug/l		46 ug/l		14	14
OCT-DEC 2011	974 ug/l		27 ug/l		7	14
JUL-SEP 2011	994 ug/l		52 ug/l		15	19
APR-JUN 2011	1,140 ug/l		31 ug/l		8	14
JAN-MAR 2011	1,237 ug/l		74 ug/l		17	22
Five Year Seasonal Graph	Graph		Graph	Graph
Five Year Graph of All Samples	Graph		Graph	Graph

Source(s): LAKEWATCH Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring, FDEP Historic Data from Legacy STORET, Polk County NRD, FDEP Ambient Monitoring Sampling Data, South West Florida Water Management District Sampling Data, FDEP Southwest District Sampling Data, FDEP, Water Quality Standards and Special Projects (Florida), SWFWMD Water Quality Monitoring Program Data, USGS National Water Information System

River	Flows Whole River Range	Flows Data by Segment	Levels Whole River Range	Levels Data By Segment
Peace River	In the past 30 days Average river flow is slower than it has been historically.	Flows Data Table and Graph	In the past 30 days Average water levels are lower than they have been historically.	Levels Data Table and Graph
Peace Creek	In the past 30 days Average river flow is slower than it has been historically.	Flows Data Table and Graph	In the past 30 days Average water levels are lower than they have been historically.	Levels Data Table and Graph
Saddle Creek	In the past 30 days Average river flow is slower than it has been historically.	Flows Data Table and Graph	In the past 30 days Average water levels are higher than they have been historically.	Levels Data Table and Graph
Lake Hamilton Canal	In the past 30 days Recent river flow data is unavailable.	No data table or graph available	In the past 30 days Average water levels are lower than they have been historically.	Levels Data Table and Graph
Lake Henry Canal	In the past 30 days Recent river flow data is unavailable.	No data table or graph available	In the past 30 days Average water levels are lower than they have been historically.	Levels Data Table and Graph

Source(s): LAKEWATCH, Southwest Florida Water Management District, Southwest Florida Water Management District, USGS National Water Information System

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