Kissimmee
Watershed Environmental Conditions – 11/03/09:
Upper Kissimmee Basin
· Over the past week the Kissimmee Basin received less than 0.2 inch of rainfall. For the month so far, rainfall was 12% and 0% of normal in the Uppper and Lower Basins, respectively. Total rainfall in the last 30 days was 1.0 inch in the Upper Basin (34% of normal) and 0.6 inch in the Lower Basin (21% of normal) (SFWMD Daily Rainfall Report 11/2/2009).
·
Lakes
in the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes are within 1.0 ft below their regulation
schedules (USACE Kissimmee River Report 11/2/09 and/or SFWMD OASyS DualTrend or LOGGERNET).
· Lakes Hart and Mary Jane are 0.9 ft below regulation schedule.
· Lakes in the Alligator Chain are 0.9 ft below regulation schedule.
· Lake Gentry is 0.2 ft below regulation schedule.
· East Lake Tohopekaliga is 0.6 ft below regulation schedule.
· Lake Tohopekaliga is 0.3 ft below regulation schedule; discharge at S61 is 0 cfs.
·
Lakes Hatchineha and
Cypress are 1.0 ft below regulation schedule.
·
Lake
Kissimmee is approximately 0.9 ft below regulation
schedule.
2. Discharge at
Lake Kissimmee (S65) is 234 cfs.
Lower Kissimmee Basin (SFWMD OASyS Dual Trend or LOGGERNET 11/3/2009)
· Discharge at S65-A is 166 cfs.
· Discharge at S65-C is 447 cfs with headwater stage at 35.8 ft.
· Discharge at S65-D is 439 cfs.
· Discharge to Lake Okeechobee at S65-E is 43 cfs.
· Water depths continue to recede on the floodplain in the Kissimmee River Phase I restoration area, averaging 0.8 ft (SFWDAT 11/1/2009). SFWDAT depth and difference maps are attached.
· River channel dissolved oxygen (DO) concentrations in the Phase I area averaged 4.5 mg/L over the past week, well above the level of concern.
·
Okeechobee
Field Station will be treating water lettuce and water hyacinth this week in
the lower Pool BC area of the Kissimmee River.
·
Two
of the 21 horses that have been roaming the floodplain have been captured and
are under the care of Okeechobee County Animal Control.