Kissimmee Watershed Environmental Conditions – 10/13/09:

Upper Kissimmee Basin

·         Over the past week the Upper Kissimmee Basin received 0.6 inches of rainfall and the Lower Kissimmee Basin received 0.2 inches.  Total rainfall in the last 30 days was 3.7 inches in the Upper Basin and 2.4 inches in the Lower Basin (SFWMD Daily Rainfall Report 10/3/2009).

·         Lakes in the Kissimmee Chain are within 0.3 ft of their regulation schedules (USACE Kissimmee River Report 10/12/09 and/or SFWMD OASyS DualTrend or LOGGERNET).

·         Lakes Hart and Mary Jane are 0.2 ft below regulation schedule.

·         Lakes in the Alligator Chain are 0.3 ft below regulation schedule.

·         Lake Gentry is approximately at regulation schedule.

·         East Lake Tohopekaliga is 0.1 ft below regulation schedule.

·         Lake Tohopekaliga is 0.3 ft above regulation schedule; discharge at S61 is 0 cfs.

·         Lakes Hatchineha and Cypress are 0.1 ft above regulation schedule.

·         Lake Kissimmee is 0.2 ft below regulation schedule.

·         Discharge at Lake Kissimmee (S65) is currently 446 cfs and will be reduced to 250 cfs.

 

Lower Kissimmee Basin (SFWMD OASyS Dual Trend or LOGGERNET 10/13/2009)

·         Discharge at S65-A is 455 cfs.

·         Discharge at S65-C is 757 cfs with headwater stage at approximately 35.8 ft.

·         Discharge at S65-D is 648 cfs.

·         Discharge to Lake Okeechobee at S65-E is 1100 cfs.

·         Water depths on the Kissimmee River floodplain in the Phase I restoration area average approximately 1.1 ft  (SFWDAT 10/11/2009). SFWDAT depth and difference maps are attached.

·         River channel dissolved oxygen concentrations in the Phase I area averaged 2.0 mg/L over the past week, approximately at the level of concern.

 

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