South Florida Water Management District

Current Water Conditions

10-04-2023
levels
Lake Okeechobee
15.90ft
10-03-2023
rainfall
Month to date
0.76in
10-04-2023
storage
View map of major storage areas and available capacity

In The News

Did you know there are 62,000 acres of Stormwater Treatment Areas (STAs) south of Lake…

The South Florida Water Management District's Tidal Outlook for the forecast period of October 2…

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The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) is making a temporary change in operations for…

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Welcome to SFWMD.gov

The South Florida Water Management District is the oldest and largest of the state's five water management districts, managing water resources in a 16-county region that stretches from Orlando to the Florida Keys, serving a population of 9 million people.

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Featured Information

vertical datem gauge in water

New Measuring Standard Will Improve Accuracy of Water Level Data

To enhance the accuracy of our data, the SFWMD is upgrading the reference system used to measure water elevations in our monitoring network. In the coming months, SFWMD will shift from reporting water elevations in the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). This includes data within the SFWMD’s environmental database for hydrologic, meteorologic, hydrogeologic and water quality data.  

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