Kissimmee Watershed Environmental Conditions
– 4/28/09:
- Over
the last seven days, the upper Kissimmee Basin received 0.02 inches of
rainfall and the lower Kissimmee Basin received 0.05 inches (Daily
Rainfall Report 4/27/09).
- Stage
in Lakes Kissimmee, Hatchineha and Cypress is
approximately 0.5 ft below regulation schedule.
- Lakes
Tohopekaliga and East Tohopekaliga are now at or very close to
their regulation schedules.
- The Alligator chain of lakes is 0.42 ft below
regulation and Lake
Gentry is 0.44 ft
below regulation schedule.
- Lakes Hart and Mary Jane are very close
to regulation schedule.
- Discharge
from East Lake Tohopekaliga and Lake Tohopekaliga
is 256 cfs and 630 cfs
respectively.
- Snail
kites continue to nest on Lake Tohopekaliga, East
Lake Tohopekaliga, Lake
Kissimmee, Lake
Hatchineha,
Lake Jackson and Lake Istokpoga.
- Discharge
from Lake Kissimmee
continues at about 600 cfs and the floodplain of
the Kissimmee River is essentially
dry. Some shoaling has been reported in the river channel in
northern Pool B/C.
- A
slight turbidity plume (presumably from the ongoing construction) is
visible in lower Pool B/C and northern Pool D.
- Discharge
at S65C is about 200 cfs.
- Over
the last seven days, dissolved oxygen concentrations in the Kissimmee River ranged from 5.5 mg/L to 7.8 mg/L and
averaged 7.0 mg/L.
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