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.


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