Kissimmee Watershed Environmental Conditions – 3/4/08

 

·        Over the last seven days, the upper Kissimmee Basin received approximately 0.36 inches of rainfall to raise the 30-day total to 1.42 inches (52% of average) and the lower basin received 0.02 inches to raise the 30-day total to 2.09 inches (89% of average) (Daily Rainfall Report 3/2/08).

·        Water levels in the upper basin lakes are at or below their regulation schedules. 

·        Lake Kissimmee (S-65) continued discharging approximately 250 cfs to the Kissimmee River.  Releases of 900 cfs are being made from Lake Toho (S-61) and of 200 cfs from East Lake Toho to allow a more gradual water level recession during the snail kite nesting season.  No other releases are being made in the upper basin.

·        In the upper basin, snail kites continue to nest on East Lake Toho and Lake Toho

·        A whooping crane continues to nest on Lake Kissimmee.

·        Flow has been reestablished to the Kissimmee River for 223 days (S-65 re-opened on 07/18/07). 

·        Dissolved oxygen concentrations in the river channel of the Kissimmee River ranged from 5.3 mg/L to 7.9 mg/L with an average of 6.9 mg/L.

 


 

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