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.