# FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration



# Water Quality Assessment Report SOUTH DISTRICT • GROUP 5 BASIN • 2008



# Florida Keys

# FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration



# Water Quality Assessment Report 2008



# Florida Keys

# Acknowledgments

The Florida Keys Water Quality Assessment Report was prepared by the Florida Keys Basin Team, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, as part of a five-year cycle to restore and protect Florida’s water quality. Team members include the following:

Pat Fricano, Basin Coordinator Nathan Bailey, Ph.D., Assessment Coordinator
Richard Hicks, P.G., Ground Water Coordinator Alan Punshon, Monitoring Coordinator
Gordon Romeis, South District
Gus Rios, South District–Marathon
Kristina Laskis, Watershed Assessment Section
Kevin O’Donnell, Watershed Assessment Section Terry Frohm, STORET Christy Newsome, GIS Janet Klemm, Water Quality Standards and OFWs George Garrett, Monroe County (formerly)

Editorial and writing assistance provided by Linda Lord, Watershed Planning and Coordination

Production assistance provided by Center for Advancement of Learning and Assessment Florida State University 210-B Sliger Building

2035 E. Paul Dirac Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32310

Map production assistance provided by Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center Florida State University University Center, C2200
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2641

For additional information on the watershed management approach and impaired waters in the Florida Keys Basin, contact

Pat Fricano Florida Department of Environmental Protection Bureau of Watershed Restoration, Watershed Planning and

Coordination Section
2600 Blair Stone Road, Mail Station 3565
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400 pat.fricano@dep.state.fl.us
Phone: (850) 245-8559; SunCom: 205-8559
Fax: (850) 245-8434 

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# Access to all data used in the development of this report can be obtained by contacting Nathan Bailey, Ph.D. Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Bureau of Watershed Restoration, Watershed Assessment Section
2600 Blair Stone Road, Mail Station 3555
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2400 nathaniel.bailey@dep.state.fl.us
Phone: (850) 245-8465; SunCom: 205-8465
Fax: (850) 245-8536



# Web Sites

Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Watershed Management

TMDL Program http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/index.ht m

Identification of Impaired Surface Waters Rule http://www.dep.state.fl.us / legal/Rules/shared/62-303/62-303.pdf

STORET Program http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/storet/index.ht m

2006 305(b) Report http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/docs/ 2006_Integrated_Report.pd f

Criteria for Surface Water Quality Classifications http://www.dep.state.fl.us / water/wqssp/classes.htm

Status/Assessment Reports http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/tmdl/stat_rep.ht m

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Region 4: Total Maximum Daily Loads in Florida http://www.epa.gov/region4/water/tmdl/florida /

National STORET Program http://www.epa.gov/storet / 

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# Preface

Content Features

• Executive Summary: Appears at the beginning of every report and

provides an overview of the watershed management, its implementation, and how this approach will be used to identify impaired waters.

• Sidebar: Appears throughout the report and provides additional

information pertinent to the text on that page.

• Noteworthy: Appears on pages near text that needs additional

information but is too lengthy to fi t in a sidebar.

• Defi nitions: Appear where scientifi c terms occur that may not be familiar to all readers. The word being defi ned is bold-faced in

the text.

• References: Appear immediately before the Appendices and provide

a complete listing of all sources used in the text.

• Appendices: Appear at the end of the report and provide additional

information on a range of subjects such as bioassessment methodology, rainfall and stream fl ow, types of natural communities, STORET stations, water quality statistics, land use, and permitted

facilities. 

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# Executive Summary

Florida Keys

The Water Quality Assessment Report for the Florida Keys Basin is part of the implementation of the Florida Department of EnvironmentalProtection’s (Department’s) watershed management approach for restoring and protecting water resources and addressing Total Maximum DailyLoad (TMDL) Program requirements. A TMDL represents the maximum amount of a given pollutant that a waterbody can assimilate and still meet the waterbody’s designated uses. A waterbody that does not meet its designated uses is defi ned as impaired. The watershed approach, which is implemented using a cyclical management process, provides a framework for implementing the requirements of the 1972 federal Clean Water Act and the 1999 Florida Watershed Restoration Act (Chapter 99-223, Laws
of Florida).A Status Report, published during Phase 1 of the watershed management cycle, provided a Planning List , or preliminary identifi cation, of potentially impaired waterbodies in the Florida Keys Basin. This Assessment Report presents the results of additional data gathered during Phase 2 of the cycle. The report contains a Verifi ed List of impaired waters
( Table 4.3 in Chapter 4) that has been adopted by Secretarial Order and approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. TMDLs must be developed and implemented for these waters, unless the impairment is documented to be a naturally occurring condition that cannot be abated by a TMDL, or unless a management plan already in place is expected to correct the problem. The Verified List also constitutes the Group 5 basinspecifi c 303(d) list of impaired waters, so called because it is required under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. In addition, the report provides theresults of a preliminary ground water quality assessment and discusses priorities for further evaluation, resource priorities, and proposed actions. (See Noteworthy in Chapter 1 for a description of the contents of this report, by chapter.) In the Florida Keys Basin, state, federal, regional, and local agencies and organizations are making progress toward identifying problems and improving water quality. Through its watershed management activities, the Department works with these entities to support programs that are improving water quality and restoring and protecting ecological resources. The Department’s TMDL Program objectives will be carried out in the basin through close coordination with key stakeholders such as the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Monroe County; the cities of Key West,Marathon, and Key Colony Beach; the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD); the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; and many others.Not only do stakeholders in the basin share responsibilities in achieving water quality improvement objectives, they also play a crucial role in providing the Department with important monitoring data and 

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# information on management activities. Signifi cant data providers in the basin, in addition to the Department, include the Florida Department of
Health, Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, SFWMD, and U.S. Geological Survey.



# Summary of Findings

The Department’s assessment shows that 55 waterbodies or waterbody segments in the Florida Keys Basin are impaired and a portion of them will require the development of TMDLs. Reasonable assurance documentation will be provided for the remaining impairments not scheduled for TMDL development. The following summarizes, by planning unit, impairments by waterbody types and the primary pollutants. Planning units are smallerareas in the basin that provide a more detailed geographic basis for identifying and assessing water quality improvement activities.

Upper Keys Planning Unit Of the 23 waterbody segments in the Upper Keys Planning Unit,

1 7 segments have suffi cient data for assessment. Of these, 16 are verifi ed impaired for at least 1 parameter assessed, 5 remain on the Planning List,

and 1 meets standards.

The 16 verifi ed impaired segments in the planning unit, and the parameters of impairment, are as follows:

WBID* Water Segment Name Parameters of Impairment

6009 Plantation Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish,
Copper

6017 Upper Matecumbe Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

6019 Lower Matecumbe Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish,
Copper

8078 Florida Bay Gulf 2 Mercury in Fish

8084 Lower Matecumbe Key Ocean Mercury in Fish

8085 Plantation Key Ocean Mercury in Fish

8086 Rodriguez Key Ocean Mercury in Fish

8087 Key Largo Ocean 1 Mercury in Fish

6005EB John Pennekamp State Park Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

6006A South Key Largo Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish,
Copper

6006B Middle Key Largo Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

6006C North Key Largo Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish,
Copper

6006Z Pumpkin Key Nutrients (Other)

8078A Harry Harris County Park Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

8078B Islamorada Library Beach Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

8078C Founder Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

*WBID = Waterbody identification number 

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# Other potential impairments in the planning unit include the Florida Keys embayments, which were identifi ed as potentially impaired for nutrients based on “other information” indicating an imbalance in fl ora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), Florida Administrative Code. Further investigation is required.

WBID Water Segment Name Potential Impairments

6002 Manatee Bay Nutrients (Other)

6003 Barnes Sound Nutrients (Other)

6005 Long Sound Nutrients (Other)

6005A Little Blackwater Sound Nutrients (Other)

6005B Blackwater Sound Nutrients (Other)



# Middle Keys Planning Unit Of the 15 waterbody segments in the Middle Keys Planning Unit,

1 5 segments have suffi cient data for assessment. Of these, 13 are verifi ed impaired for at least 1 parameter assessed, none remain on the Planning
List, and 2 meet standards.

The 13 verifi ed impaired segments in the planning unit, and the parameters of impairment, are as follows:

WBID Water Segment Name Parameters of Impairment

6010 Long Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

6016 Duck Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

8071 Florida Keys Gulf Mercury in Fish

8076 Florida Keys Gulf 3 Mercury in Fish

8077 Florida Bay Gulf 1 Mercury in Fish

8081 Boat Key Ocean Mercury in Fish

8082 Grassy Key Ocean Mercury in Fish

8083 Long Key Ocean Mercury in Fish

6011A Vaca Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish,
Copper

6011B Key Colony Nutrients (Other)

6011C Grassy Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

8076A Veteran’s Beach Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

8081A Coco Plum Beach Bacteria (Beach Advisories)



# Lower Keys Planning Unit Of the 29 waterbody segments in the Lower Keys Planning Unit,

2 7 segments have suffi cient data for assessment. Of these, 26 are verifi ed impaired for at least 1 parameter assessed, none remain on the Planning
List, and 1 meets standards. 

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# The 26 verifi ed impaired segments in the planning unit, and the parameters of impairment, are as follows:

WBID Water Segment Name Parameters of Impairment

6018 Bahia Honda State Park Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

8072 Dry Tortugas Gulf Mercury in Fish

8073 Key West Gulf Mercury in Fish, Fecal Coliforms

8074 Florida Keys Gulf 1 Mercury in Fish

8075 Florida Keys Gulf 2 Mercury in Fish

8079 U.S. Naval Air Station Key

West Ocean Mercury in Fish

8080 Newfound Harbor
Keys Ocean Mercury in Fish

6012A Big Pine Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish,
Copper

6012B Bahia Honda Bayside Nutrients (Other)

6012C No Name Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

6012D Long Beach Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

6012E Big Torch Key Mercury in Fish

6013A Saddlebunch Keys Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

6013B Sugarloaf Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

6013C Cudjoe Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish,
Copper

6013D Little Knockemdown Key Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

6014A Key West Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish,
Fecal Coliforms, Copper

6014B Stock Island Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish,
Copper

6014C U.S. Naval Air Station
Key West Nutrients (Other), Mercury in Fish

8073C Simonton Street
Beach (KW) Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

8073E South Beach (KW) Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

8073F Higgs Beach Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

8073G Rest Beach (KW) Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

8073H Smathers Beach Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

8080A Bahia Honda Sandspur Bacteria (Beach Advisories)

8080B Bahia Honda Oceanside Bacteria (Beach Advisories) 

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# Total Maximum Daily Load Priority Areas

No high-priority areas were designated for TMDL development in the Florida Keys Basin. Section 62-303.500, Florida Administrative Code,

defi nes high-priority waters as waterbody segments where the impairmentposes a threat to potable water supplies or human health; waterbody segments where the impairment is due to a pollutant regulated by the CleanWater Act and the pollutant has contributed to the decline or extirpation of a federally listed threatened or endangered species, as indicated in the Federal Register listing the species; or waterbody segments verifi ed as impaired that are included on the EPA’s 1998 303(d) list as high priority.



# Summary of Ground Water Findings

Ground water in the Florida Keys is hypersaline to brackish and does not provide a reliable source of potable water, although in the early days of European settlement, thin lenses of fresh water were tapped by very shallow wells to provide water. Instead of being a source of water for potable supply, the highly porous and permeable Key Largo Limestone has for many yearsbeen used to absorb domestic wastewater disposed of in septic tanks, cesspits, and injection wells. In recent years, this practice has led to concern over the human health and ecological impacts of submarine ground waterdischarge. Numerous studies have been conducted to demonstrate the connection between waste injection points and surface waters.Research activities of the Florida Keys Water Quality Protection Program have demonstrated that ground water in the Florida Keys migrates laterally from points of wastewater disposal to shallow ground water beneath nearshore and offshore surface waters, and discharges to surface water via submarine springs and excavated canal walls. It also has been

demonstrated that both nutrients and bacteria associated with waste water from septic tanks, cesspits, and injection wells are present in shallow ground water onshore. Nutrients (primarily nitrogen) and fecal bacteria have been traced as they migrate laterally to nearshore and offshore ground waters and to nearshore surface waters. Most of the research work was performed in the Upper and Lower Keys, with less performed in the Middle Keys. 

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# Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction ........................................................................19 Purposes and Content of the Assessment Report ............................................. 19

Stakeholder Involvement ..................................................................................... 20 The Watershed Management Cycle in the Florida Department of

Environmental Protection’s South District

.......................................................... 22

Chapter 2: Basin Overview .................................................................. 25
Basin Setting ........................................................................................................ 25 Population .................................................................................................................... .. 25

Land Use ........................................................................................................................ 25 Economic Activity .......................................................................................................... 26


# Surface Water Resources .................................................................................... 28 Surface Water Quality Classifications .......................................................................... 29 Special Designations ..................................................................................................... 31 

# Outstanding Florida Waters .................................................................................................... 31
Ground Water Resources ..................................................................................... 32

Ground Water Occurrence ............................................................................................ 32 Ground Water Usage ..................................................................................................... 32

Ground Water–Surface Water Interactions ..................................................................33 

# Watershed Management Activities and Processes

............................................ 33

Historical Issues and Activities .....................................................................................33 Ongoing Programs and Projects ...................................................................................34 

# Florida Keys Area of Cr itical State Concern ............................................................................. 34 Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary ................................................................................. 39 Florida Keys Water Qualit y Protection Program ...................................................................... 40 Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program ................................................................ 41 Monroe County Sanitary Wastewater Master Plan ................................................................ 41 Monroe County Stormwater Management Master Plan ........................................................ 43 City of Key West Sewage and Stormwater Management Systems ........................................ 45 Agricultural Best Management Practices ................................................................................ 46

Chapter 3: Surface Water Quality Assessment .................................. 49 Scope of the Assessment .................................................................................... 49 Update on Strategic Monitoring and Data-Gathering Activities During

Phase 2 .................................................................................................................. 50

Sources of Data .................................................................................................... 50 Attainment of Designated Use ............................................................................ 52 Integrated Report Categories and Assessment Overview ................................. 53 Planning Units ...................................................................................................... 55 Assessment by Planning Unit.............................................................................. 56 Upper Keys Planning Unit .............................................................................................. 56


# General Desc riptio n ...........................................................................................................

..... 56

Water Qualit y Summary ......................................................................................................... 58 Permitted Discharges and Land Uses ..................................................................................... 58 Ecological Summary ............................................................................................................

... 62 Water Quality Improvement Plans and Projects ...................................................................... 64 Middle Keys Planning Unit .............................................................................................64


# General Desc riptio n ...........................................................................................................

..... 64

Water Qualit y Summary ......................................................................................................... 65 Permitted Discharges and Land Uses ..................................................................................... 65 Ecological Summary ............................................................................................................

... 69 Water Quality Improvement Plans and Projects ...................................................................... 69 

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# Lower Keys Planning Unit .............................................................................................. 70


# General Desc riptio n ...........................................................................................................

..... 70

Water Qualit y Summary ......................................................................................................... 71 Permitted Discharges and Land Uses ..................................................................................... 71 Ecological Summary ............................................................................................................

... 75 Water Quality Improvement Plans and Projects ...................................................................... 76

Chapter 4: The Verified List of Impaired Waters ................................ 79 Public Participation .............................................................................................. 79 Identification of Impaired Waters ........................................................................ 79

Documentation of Reas onable As surance ......................................................... 80

The Verified List of Impaired Waters ................................................................... 82 Pollutants Causing Impairments ................................................................................... 82 Dissolved Oxygen Impairments in Florida Keys ........................................................... 82 Listing Based on Other Information Indicating Nutrient Imbalance ............................88 Pollutants Causing Potential Impairments ....................................................................88 Adoption Process for the Verified List of Impaired Waters .........................................89



# Chapter 5: TMDL Development, Allocation, and Implementation .......91

Prioritization of Listed Waters .............................................................................. 91 Total Maximum Daily Load Development

........................................................... 92 Total Maximum Daily Load Allocation and Implementation ............................. 93 Initial Allocation of Pollutant Loadings .......................................................................... 93 Implementation Programs and Approaches ................................................................94 

# Development of Basin Management Action Plans............................................. 95

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Tables

Table 1.1: Stakeholder Involvement in the TMDL Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

T able 2.1: Population Growth in the Florida Keys Region, by County, 1990–2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Table 2.2: Level I 2004–2005 Land Use in the Florida Keys Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Table 2.3: Historical Issues and Activities in the South Florida Region and Florida Keys Basin . . . . . 35 Table 3.1: Summary of Data Providers in the Florida Keys Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Table 3.2: Designated Use Attainment Categories for Surface Waters in Florida . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Table 3.3: Categories for Waterbodies or Waterbody Segments in the 2002 Integrated Report . . . . 54 Table 3.4: Planning Units in the Florida Keys Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. 56 Table 3.5: Integrated Water Quality Assessment Summary for the Upper Keys Planning Unit . . . . . . 60 Table 3.6: Integrated Water Quality Assessment Summary for the Middle Keys Planning Unit . . . . . 67 Table 3.7: Integrated Water Quality Assessment Summary for the Lower Keys Planning Unit . . . . . . 73 Table 4.1: Schedule for Development and Adoption of the Group 5 Verifi ed Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Table 4.2: Elements of Reasonable Assurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Table 4.3: The Draft Verifi ed List of Impaired Waters for the Florida Keys Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Table 4.4: Parameters Causing Potential Impairments in the Florida Keys Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 

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# Figures

Figure 1.1: Schedule for Implementing the Watershed Management Cycle in the Department’s

So uth District, Basin Groups 1 through 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Figure 2.1: Geopolitical Map of the Florida Keys Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Figure 2.2: Surface Water Resources of the Florida Keys Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Figure 3.1: Sources of Data for the Florida Keys Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. 51 Figure 3.2: Locations and Boundaries of Planning Units in the Florida Keys Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Figure 3.3: Composite Map of the Upper Keys Planning Unit, Including the 1998 303(d) List, Planning List and Verifi ed List Waters, and Potential Pollution Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Figure 3.4: Composite Map of the Middle Keys Planning Unit, Including the 1998 303(d) List, Planning List and Verifi ed List Waters, and Potential Pollution Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Figure 3.5: Composite Map of the Lower Keys Planning Unit, Including the 1998 303(d) List, Planning List and Verifi ed List Waters, and Potential Pollution Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Figure 4.1: Waters on the Verifi ed List, with Projected Year for TMDL Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 

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# Chapter 1: Introduction

Total Maximum Daily Load

The maximum amount of a given pollutant that a waterbody can assimilate and remain healthy, such that all of its designated uses are

met. 

# Purposes and Content of the Assessment Report

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Department) is implementing a statewide watershed management approach for restoring and protecting water quality and addressing Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program requirements. Under Section 303(d) of the 1972 federal
Clean Water Act and the 1999 Florida Watershed Restoration Act (FWRA) (Chapter 99-223, Laws of Florida), TMDLs must be developed for allwaters that do not meet their designated uses (such as drinking water, recreation, and shellfi sh harvesting) and are thus defi ned as impaired.TMDLs will be developed, and the corresponding reductions in pollutant loads allocated, as part of the watershed management approach, which rotates through the state’s 52 river basins over a 5-year cycle. Extensive public participation from diverse stakeholders in each of these basins is crucial in all phases of the cycle.A Status Report published during Phase 1 of the watershed management cycle provided a Planning List, or preliminary identifi cation, of potentially impaired waterbodies in the Florida Keys Basin. A copy of the report can be found at http://www.dep.state.fl .us/water/tmdl/stat_rep.htm. This Assessment Report, which updates the information in the StatusReport, incorporates data collected from the Department’s strategic monitoring and gathered from other agencies and groups during Phase 2 of the watershed cycle. The report contains a Verifi ed List of impaired waters required by the FWRA and Section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act, for which TMDLs must be developed and implemented. It also describes the results of a preliminary ground water quality assessment and discussespriorities for further evaluation, as well as resource priorities and proposed actions. (See Noteworthy for a description of the contents of the Assessment Report, by chapter.) Based on the assessment results, 55 waterbodies or waterbody segments in the Florida Keys Basin are verifi ed impaired for 1 or more parameters.TMDLs must be developed for these waters, unless the impairment is documented to be a naturally occurring condition that a TMDL cannot abate, or unless a management plan is already in place to correct the problem. This report is intended for distribution to a broad range of potential stakeholders, including decision makers in federal, state, regional, and local governments; public and private interests; and citizens.

The Verifi ed List is required by Subsection 403.067(4), FloridaStatutes, and Section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act. The Department has adopted the Verifi ed List of impaired waters in accordance

with the FWRA and the Identifi cation of Impaired Surface Waters 

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# Rule (Rule 62-303, Florida Administrative Code). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also approved this list as the current 303(d) list of impaired waters for the basin, so called because it is required
under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act.

The fi rst 303(d) list, which was required by the EPA in 1998, is to be amended annually to include basin updates. Florida’s 1998 303(d) list included a number of waterbodies in the Florida Keys Basin. This Assessment Report follows the EPA’s guidance for meshing Clean Water Act requirements for Section 305(b) water quality reports and Section 303(d) lists of impaired waters. The integrated water quality assessment is used to identify the status of data suffi ciency, the potentialfor impairment, and the need for TMDL development for each waterbody or waterbody segment in the basin. Tables 3.5 through 3.7 in Chapter 3 provide an integrated assessment for the Florida Keys Basin, by planning unit. Appendix A describes the legislative and regulatory background forTMDL development and implementation through the watershed management approach, and briefl y explains the TMDL Program. Background information on the Department’s TMDL Program, the process of TMDL development and implementation, lists of impaired and potentially impaired waters, and assessments for other parts of the state are available at http://www.dep.state.fl .us/water/tmdl/index.htm.



# Stakeholder Involvement

The FWRA requires the Department to work closely with stakeholders to develop and implement TMDLs. Stakeholder involvement in the TMDL process will vary with each phase of implementation to achieve different purposes (Table 1.1)

.The Department will work cooperatively with a number of key stakeholders to develop, allocate, and implement TMDLs in the Florida Keys Basin. These include the following:

• City of Key Colony Beach

• City of Key West

• City of Marathon

• City of Layton

• Earthjustice

• Florida Audubon Society

• Florida Department of Community Affairs

• Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of

State Parks

• Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Offi ce of Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas 

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# Watershed Management Cycle Nature of Stakeholder Involvement

Phase 1:
Preliminary

Evaluation Close coordination with local stakeholders to conduct a preliminary basin water
quality assessment, inventory existing and proposed management activities, identify management objectives and issues of concern, develop a Strategic
Monitoring Plan, and produce a preliminary Status Report that includes a Planning List of potentially impaired waters

Phase 2: Strategic Monitoring

and Assessment Cooperative efforts between the Department and local stakeholders to collect additional data; enter data into STORET (the EPA’s national water quality

STO rage and RET rieval database); complete the water quality assessment; produce a final Assessment Report that includes a Verified List of impaired waters
for Secretarial adoption; and provide an opportunity for stakeholders to document reasonable assurance (for Department review) that existing or proposed
management plans and projects are adequate to restore water quality without

the establishment of a TMDL

Phase 3:
Development and
Adoption of TMDLs Coordination with stakeholders to discuss TMDL model framework, including
model requirements, parameters to be modeled, model endpoints, design run
scenarios, and preliminary allocations; communication of science used in the
process; public workshops for rule adoption of TMDLs

Phase 4:
Development of Basin
Management Action Plan Broad stakeholder participation in developing a Basin Management Action Plan(B-MAP) (including detailed allocations and implementation strategies), incorporating it into existing management plans where feasible; public meetings
during the planning process

Phase 5:
Implementation of Basin
Management Action Plan Emphasis on implementing the B-MAP, other voluntary stakeholder actions,
and local watershed management structures; Department will continue to provide technical assistance, fulfill oversight responsibilities, and administer
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System point and nonpoint source
permits Table 1.1: Stakeholder Involvement in the TMDL Program



# • Florida Department of Environmental Protection, South District

• Florida Department of Health

• Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Onsite Sewage Programs

• Florida Department of Transportation

• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and

Wildlife Research Institute

• Florida International University, South Florida Ecosystem

Restoration Task Force

• Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority

• Florida Keys Conservancy—Keys Watch

• Florida Keys Environmental Fund

• Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS)

• Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges

• Florida Keys Visitors and Convention Bureau

• Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District 

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# • Monroe County

• Monroe County Aviation Authority

• Monroe County Commercial Fishermen

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National

Marine Sanctuaries Program

• National Park Service (Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks)

• Sanctuary Advisory Council—FKNMS

• Sanctuary Friends of the Florida Keys

• Sandra Walters Consultants, Inc.

• Sierra Club

• South Florida Water Management District

• The Nature Conservancy—South Florida/Florida Keys Program

• Thousand Friends of Florida

• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• U.S. Navy—Boca Chica Naval Air Station

• Village of Islamorada



# The Watershed Management Cycle in the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s South District

Figure 1.1 shows the order in which the Department’s South District basins will be evaluated under the watershed management cycle. These groups are identifi ed according to a U.S. Geological Survey classifi cation system using hydrologic unit codes. Everglades West Coast, a Group 1 basin, was the fi rst basin in thedistrict to undergo a preliminary assessment in 2000. A preliminary assessment for the Group 2 basin, Charlotte Harbor, was completed in 2001 and for the Group 3 basin, Caloosahatchee River, in 2002. The Group 4 preliminary assessment for the Kissimmee River–Fisheating Creek Basin was carried out in 2003. The Group 5 basin, Florida Keys, is the subject of this report. 

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# Figure 1.1: Schedule for Implementing the Watershed Management Cycle in the Department’s South District, Basin Groups 1 through 5 

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# Contents of This Report

• Chapter 1: Introduction briefly characterizes the purposes and content of the Assessment Report, discusses stakeholder involvement, and

describes how the watershed management cycle will beimplemented in the Department’s South District.

• Chapter 2: Basin Overview

characterizes the basin’s general setting, water resources, major water qualitytrends, and watershed management activities and processes.

• Chapter 3: Surface Water Quality Assessment discusses the scope of the assessment, summarizes data-gathering activities and sources of data,

describes the EPA’s terminology for designated use attainment and its integrated report categories, and provides, by basin planning unit, an evaluation of water quality,

a discussion of permitted discharges and land uses, a summary of ecological priorities and problems, and an overview of water quality improvement plans and projects.

• Chapter 4: The Verified List of Impaired Waters contains the Verified List of impaired waters, discusses public participation, describes
documentation of reasonable assurance, lists the pollutants causing impairments, provideslistings based on other information indicating a nutrient imbalance, and describes the adoption process for the

Verified List.

• Chapter 5: TMDL Development, Allocation, and Implementation discusses the prioritization of listed waters, TMDL development, TMDLallocation and implementation, and the development of a Basin Management

Action Plan. 

# Noteworthy 

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# Chapter 2: Basin Overview

Basin Setting

The Florida Keys Basin includes the waters surrounding the Florida Keys, a chain of 1,700 islands extending southwest from the southern tip of the Florida peninsula. This island chain is 202 miles (325 kilometers) long, stretching to within 90 miles (145 kilometers) of Cuba. The basin extends from the southern edge of the mainland Florida peninsula south and west to the Marquesas Keys, and includes the Dry Tortugas, which are disjunct from the rest of the basin. The basin’s waters include Florida Bay, the Southwest Shelf (west of Florida Bay); numerous sounds, channels, canals, dredged basins, and bays; and portions of the Atlantic Ocean (Straits of
Florida) and Gulf of Mexico.The Florida Reef Tract, the only coral reef system off the North American continent and the third largest barrier reef in the world (behind Australia and Belize), is located on the Atlantic side of the Florida Keys. The unique tropical nature of the Keys’ ecosystem makes it one of our national treasures. The Keys’ coral reefs, seagrasses, and hard-bottom communities depend on clean water for their continued existence.

Population Of the 1,700 islands in the Keys, only 51 are connected to or by the

O verseas Highway (U.S. 1), and fewer than 70 are inhabited (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1996). The 2004 population of the Keys was approximately 80,492 permanent, year-round residents (Florida Legislature, 2007). The population increases by about 25,000 people during peak tourist
season (winter months).

There are fi ve incorporated municipalities in the basin: Islamorada,Layton, Key Colony Beach, Marathon, and Key West. Other named communities include the Ocean Reef Club, Key Largo, and Tavernier. Although the Florida Keys Basin is located wholly within Monroe County, the populated areas of Miami–Dade and Collier Counties to

the north have an infl uence on the basin’s economy and water quality.

Table 2.1 lists the region’s past and projected population growth, by county, from 1990 to 2020. Figure 2.1 shows the principal geopolitical features in the Florida Keys Basin.

Land Use Before direct access from the mainland existed, the major land uses

i n the Keys included limited agriculture (pineapples and limes), military forts and bases, and the marine support industry (for sponging, fi shing, and wrecking). The construction of the Key West Extension of the Flagler Railroad, and then the Overseas Highway, followed by the Florida Keys 

# Sources of Information

Much of the information about the Florida Keys Basin in this chapter was

obtained from Water Quality Concerns in the Florida Keys: Sources, Effects, and

Solutions (Kruczynski, 1999), Florida Keys History Museum (Wilkinson, 2004), and FloridaKeys National Marine Sanctuary, Strategy for Stewardship(U.S. Department of Commerce, 1996). The References section at the end ofthis report contains a complete listing of sources used

in this document. 

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# Aqueduct (a water pipeline to Key West), changed all that and made the development of the Keys possible. From the 1950s to the 1970s, much of the upland areas were cleared for residential and commercial use, and a large number of finger-fill canals were dredged to satisfy the demand for waterfront property. Canal construction ended in the mid-1970s, when the adverse environmental impacts became obvious. The inhabited Keys make up only 5 percent of Monroe County’s total land area (65,000 of 1.2 million acres). Monroe County also contains99,000 acres of the Everglades, but this area is almost entirely within Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve. The majority of Monroe County is classified as “conservation land” (U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1996). Efforts to protect the natural beauty of the Keys and Florida Bay included the establishment of the Key West National Wildlife Refuge in 1908, Fort Jefferson National Monument in 1935 (renamed Dry Tortugas National Park in 1992), Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge in 1938, Everglades National Park in 1947, Key Deer National Wildlife Refuge in 1957, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in 1960, Biscayne National Monument in 1968 (renamed Biscayne National Park in 1980), Coupon Bight State Aquatic Preserve and Lignumvitae Key State Aquatic Preserve in 1969, Biscayne Bay State Aquatic Preserve in 1974, Big Cypress National Preserve in 1974, and Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refugein 1980. In 1990, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary was established, covering 2,800 square nautical miles of the Keys and surrounding waters. Other significant protected areas include Bahia Honda State Park, Curry Hammock State Park, Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park, Indian Key Historic State Park, Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park, Long Key State Park, San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve State Park, and Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park.

Table 2.2 shows the land use percentages in a broad (Level I) geographic information system analysis of the basin, carried out by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) in 2004–2005.

Economic ActivityEarly economic activity in the Keys always centered around commercial fishing, but also included salt production (1830s), sponging (1840s), cigar making (1868–85), pineapple and lime orchards (early 1900s), charcoal production (early 1900s), and military forts and bases. However, the most popular business enterprise of the time was the nefarious venture of “wrecking” (from 1825 onward). Wreckers would salvage goods from Table 2.1: Population Growth in the Florida Keys Region, by County, 1990–2020

**County 1990**  **2000 2010**  **2020**

Collier 152,099 251,377 374,501 489,869

Miami-Dade 1,937,194 2,253,779 2,573,997 2,885,883

Monroe 78,024 79,589 81,459 82,735

Total 2,167,317 2,584,745 3,029,957 3,458,487

Source: Florida Legislature, 2007. 

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# Figure 2.1: Geopolitical Map of the Florida Keys Basin 

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# Table 2.2: Level I 2004–2005 Land Use in the Florida Keys
Basin

Level I Type Percent

of Basin

1000 Urban and Built-up 2.3

2000 Agriculture (includes improved pasture) 0.0

3000 Rangeland 0.4

4000 Upland Forest 0.8

5000 Water 89.2

6000 Wetlands 7.0

7000 Barren Land 0.1

8000 Transportation, Communications, and Utilities 0.2

Total 100



# vessels that ran aground on the treacherous reefs just offshore. The owners of the vessels would then negotiate with the wreckers in “Wrecking Court”for a share of the cargo. While this didn’t seem fair to the owners, retaining some cargo was better than losing it all (Floridakeys.com, 2005). After the construction of the Flagler Railroad to Key West, and then the Overseas Highway, the tourism and recreational industry replacedmost of these activities. Today, approximately 70 percent of Keys’ residents regularly participate in water-based activities, such as recreational

fishing, snorkeling, beachgoing, and observing wildlife and nature (Leeworthy and Wiley, 1997). Maintaining the integrity and ecological health of marine and terrestrial environments is critical to the economy of the Keys. Approximately 3 million visitor trips annually are made to the Keys, totaling over 16 million person-days. Visitors generate over $1.3 billion indirect output, and tourism supports over 21,800 jobs in the Keys (English, Kriesel, Leeworthy, and Wiley, 1996). Tourists come to the Keys for a variety of reasons, including snorkeling, scuba diving, fi shing, wildlife observation, beach activities, and sightseeing (Leeworthy and Wiley, 1997).The Keys’ extensive nursery, feeding, and breeding grounds also support a multimillion-dollar commercial fi shing industry that lands nearly 20 million pounds of seafood and marine products annually. The military continues to be an import sector of the region’s economy, with the presence of the U.S. Naval Air Facility in Key West.



# Surface Water Resources

The Florida Keys Basin is unique, in that it consists almost entirely of water. Surface waters, all estuaries or open marine waters, occupy over 95 percent of the total basin area. This section delineates the basin’s hydrology, describes the movement and management of water in the basin,

briefl y describes the major characteristics of surface waters that infl uence water quality in the basin, and describes surface water classifi cations and special designations. 

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# Figure 2.2 shows the locations of the largest waterbodies. A more detailed discussion in Chapter 3 provides information on each planning unit. The surface waters of the Keys include the shallow waters of Florida Bay and the Southwest Florida Shelf, the nearshore waters surrounding the
islands, and the oceanic waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of

Florida to the west and south. Human effects on water quality in the Florida Keys Basin come from two main sources: runoff from the south Florida mainland and discharges from the Keys themselves. Runoff from the mainland carries nutrients and other pollutants from agricultural and developed areas into Florida Bay. Drainage projects on the mainland are often artifi cially manipulated

for fl ood control or water retention, altering the amount and timing of

fresh water fl ows, and causing unusually high or low salinity in Florida Bay. Longshore currents also carry water from the Caloosahatchee River, Peace River, and small coastal rivers in Lee and Collier County into western Florida Bay. On the Keys themselves, nearshore waters are infl uenced by effluent from septic tanks and cesspits, stormwater runoff, spills of hazardous materials, and discharges to shallow injection wells that can move quickly through the porous limestone soil to open waters or adjacent canals.

Canals with little fl ushing often accumulate organic materials and other pollutants, and may have poor water quality. The oceanic waters west and south of the Keys generally have good water quality and dilute pollutants from the land, but occasionally carry shipping discharges (such as tar balls) and water quality problems (such as red tide and Mississippi River discharge) from distant areas via the Loop

Current and the Gulf Stream. In 1990, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary was established, covering 2,800 square nautical miles of the Keys and surrounding waters.Under the sanctuary’s management plan, a Water Quality Protection Program has been developed to address pollution and protect all the waters of the Keys.

Surface Water Quality ClassificationsFlorida’s water quality standards, the foundation of the state’s prog ram of water quality management, designate the “present and future most

benefi cial uses” of the waters of the state (Subsection 403.061[10], Florida Statutes [F.S.]). Water quality criteria for surface water and ground water, expressed as numeric or narrative limits for specifi c parameters, describe the water quality necessary to maintain these uses. Florida’s surface water is

classifi ed using the following fi ve designated use categories: 

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# Figure 2.2: Surface Water Resources of the Florida Keys Basin 

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# Class I Potable water supplies Class II Shellfi sh propagation or harvesting Class III Recreation, propagation, and maintenance of a healthy, well-balanced population of fi sh and wildlife Class IV Agricultural water supplies Class V Navigation, utility, and industrial use (there are no state waters currently in this class)

The waters of the Florida Keys Basin are either Class II or Class III.

Special Designations

Outstanding Florida Waters 

# The following waterbodies in the Florida Keys Basin have been given additional protection through the Outstanding Florida Water (OFW) designation.

• Bahia Honda State Park • Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve • Coupon Bight Aquatic Preserve • Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge • Curry Hammock State Park • Dry Tortugas National Park • Everglades National Park • Florida Keys Special Water • Fort Zachary Taylor State Historic Site • Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge • Indian Key Historic State Park • John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park • Key Largo Hammock Botanical State Park • Key West National Wildlife Refuge • Lignumvitae Key Aquatic Preserve • Lignumvitae Key Botanical State Park • Long Key State Park • Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary • National Key Deer Refuge • San Pedro Underwater Archaeological Preserve State Park • Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park

OFWs are designated for “special protection because of their natural attributes” (Subsection 403.061[27], F.S.). These waters are listed in
Section 62-302.700, Florida Administrative Code (F.A.C.). The intent of an OFW designation is to maintain ambient water quality, even if these designations are more protective than those required under the waterbody’s

surface water classifi cation. Most OFWs are associated with managed areasin the state or federal park system, such as aquatic preserves, national seashores, or wildlife refuges. Other OFWs may also be designated as “Special

Waters” based on a fi nding that the waters are of exceptional recreational or ecological signifi cance, and are identifi ed as such in Rule 62-302, F.A.C. 

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# Ground Water Resources

Ground Water Occurrence Two types of limestone comprise the islands of the Florida Keys and

m ake up the aquifer material beneath the Keys, including nearshore and offshore areas. The upper half of the archipelago, extending from Biscayne Bay southwest to Big Pine Key, is composed of the Key Largo Limestone. The lower half, extending from Big Pine to Key West, is composed of the Miami Limestone, which lies on top of the Key Largo Limestone
(Lane, 1986). During Pleistocene times, colonies of coral accumulated along the rim of the Florida Plateau, forming reefs that grew in thickness as historical

sea levels fl uctuated. In some places, this accumulation of coralline rock, known as the Key Largo Limestone, grew up to 200 feet in thickness. As the reefs grew, carbonate sand banks accumulated behind the reefs. A lime sandbank covered the southwestern part of the coral reefs, and when the sea level dropped to expose this area, the Lower Keys were formed. The granular carbonate rock that formed from the lime sand is known as the Miami Limestone (also referred to as the Miami Oolite for the tiny carbonate-coated granules, known as oolites, that make up the rock). TheKey Largo Limestone is prone to the development of cavities and solution channels, and as such is highly porous and permeable. The Miami Limestone, on the other hand, is denser, less subject to the development ofsecondary porosity, and less permeable. A thin veneer of weathered limestone or (in areas of development) a layer of fi ll material lies on top of the limestone in the Keys.

Ground Water Usage Ground water in the Florida Keys is hypersaline to brackish and does

n ot provide a reliable source of potable water, although in the early days of European settlement, thin lenses of fresh water were tapped by very shallow wells to provide water. Today, the potable water supply for the residents of the Keys is transported from the mainland via the Florida Keys Aqueduct, a pipeline that extends from Dade County, and local ground water use forpotable supply is not an issue. Some shallow ground water is used for nonpotable supply in the Lower Keys, and some shallow wells originally used for potable supply still exist in Key West. Instead of being a source of water for potable supply, the highly porous and permeable Key Largo Limestone has for many years been used toabsorb domestic wastewater disposed of in septic tanks, cesspits, and injection wells. In recent years, this practice has led to concern over the human health and ecological impacts of submarine ground water discharge. It has been reported that in the Florida Keys, more than 25,000 septic tanks, 5,000 cesspits, and 600 shallow injection wells release domestic wastewater into the Key Largo Limestone (Haag, Miller, Bradner, and McCulloch,1996). According to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (Department’s) Water Assurance Compliance System database, approximately 280 treatment facilities with active injection wells in the 

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# basin are permitted for the disposal of domestic wastewater. Some facilities have more than 1 injection well.

Ground Water–Surface Water InteractionsSeveral tracer studies monitoring the movement of introduced subst ances in septic tanks and injection wells have shown that there is a directconnection between ground water and the surrounding surface waterbodies, with rates of ground water infl ux highest where tidal springs/
solution holes, tidal channels, or excavated canals exist (Dillon, Corbett, Burnett, and Chanton, 2001; Paul, McLaughlin, Griffi n, Lipp, Stokes, and
Rose, October 2000; and Corbett, Chanton, Burnett, Dillon, Rutkowski, and Fourqurean, 1999). Using a combination of natural chemical tracers and seepage meter measurements, Corbett et al. (1999) found that overall ground water– surface water interactions are greatest near the shore along the Florida Bay side of the Florida Keys. Based on this, the authors determined that the ground water circulation of wastewater discharged to ground water beneath the Keys could be a signifi cant source of nutrients to the eastern portion of Florida Bay. Chanton (1998) also found areas of natural ground water seepage on the Atlantic Ocean side of the Keys. Ground water fl ow beneath the Keys is believed to oscillate in response to tidal fl uctuations, more so on the Atlantic side than on the Florida Bay side where tides are dampened.In their study, Paul et al. (October 2000) used viral tracers to monitor the migration of water from a septic tank and an injection well at two locations in the Keys. Both tracer studies showed a rapid movement of wastewater from on-site treatment/disposal sites via tidal channels outward toward the Atlantic Ocean and reef systems.

In an artifi cial tracer study of high-rate injection wells, Dillon et al. (2001) observed the buoying effect of low-salinity wastewater once it is injected into the underlying saline aquifer. The study demonstrated the tendency of wastewater, once injected, to rise vertically until it either

reaches a confi ning cap or an outlet. The results indicate that wastewater injected into the shallow subsurface can reach marine surface waters in a

matter of hours.



# Watershed Management Activities and Processes

Historical Issues and Activities The clear tropical waters, bountiful resources, and appealing natural

en vironment were among the many fine qualities that attracted explorers and visitors for centuries to the Florida Keys. However, warning signs that the Keys’ environment and natural resources were fragile, and not

infi nite, came early. In 1957, a group of conservationists and scientists held a conference at the Everglades National Park and discussed the demise of the coral reef resources in the Keys, at the hands of those attracted there because of their beauty and uniqueness. This conference resulted in action 

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# that created the world’s fi rst underwater park, John Pennekamp Coral Reef
State Park, in 1960. Just a little more than a decade following the park’s establishment, however, a public outcry was sounded that cited continuing pollution, overharvesting, physical impacts, overuse, and use confl icts in the Keys. Environmentalists and scientists alike echoed these concerns throughout

the 1970s and into the 1980s and 1990s. The deterioration of the marine environment in the Florida Keys is no longer a matter of debate. Corals are in decline, as signaled by an increase in coral diseases, coral bleaching, and decreased living coral cover. Marine scientists have reported an invasion of algae in seagrass beds and onto coral reefs. Fisheries scientists are reporting

declines in some fi sh stocks, and Florida Bay has undergone changes during the past decade that have resulted in plankton blooms, sponge and seagrass
die-offs, and fi sh kills.

Table 2.3 provides a timeline summary of major events shaping Florida, the Everglades, and the Florida Keys region, from the first European Florida explorer to the present.

Ongoing Programs and Projects Much of the progress in the Florida Keys Basin in developing water

q uality restoration plans and implementing watershed and water quality improvements is attributable to coordinated local, state, and regional efforts. Many plans share common goals, and their implementation isbased on various groups playing critical roles in planning, funding, managing, and executing projects. The Department continues to coordinate its efforts with these entities to obtain data, improve monitoring activities, and exchange information through periodic meetings. A number of major initiatives, if continued, will have signifi cant positive effects on the basin’s water quality.

Florida Keys Area of Critical State Concern 

# Monroe County and the city of Key West were each designated as an Area of Critical State Concern (ACSC) by the governor and cabinet in 1975. The ACSC Program identifi es certain regions of the state for special protection, based on perceived threats to signifi cant natural resources and/or the need to protect public facility investments. The program is authorized by a component of the Florida Environmental Land and Water Management Act of 1972. The act sets forth criteria and procedures for designating the areas and identifi es the Florida Department of CommunityAffairs (DCA) as the state agency responsible for administering the program. The objective is to review the comprehensive plans, land development regulations, and activities in each ACSC. Areas are deemed critical when it is determined that there is a need to protect public resources from unregulated or inadequately regulated development. The ACSC Programhas very little jurisdiction in the water, because its jurisdiction ends approximately 250 feet below the mean high-water mark. It is important, however, because of the limits it places on upland development and the capital improvements it requires to protect water quality. 

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# Table 2.3: Historical Issues and Activities in the South Florida Region and Florida Keys Basin

Year Issues and Activities

1513–

1880 In 1513, Ponce de Leon discovered the Dry Tortugas. Spain ceded east and west Florida to the
United States in 1821. Florida became a state in 1845. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE)
and a labor force of slaves from Key West began the construction of Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas in 1846. The construction continued for 30 years but was never completed. Congress conveyed
all swamp and overflowed lands to the state in 1850. Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust
Fund established and received control of unsold swamp and overflowed lands in 1855. Abraham
Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865. On June 30, 1865, Dr. Samuel A.
Mudd was sentenced to life imprisonment at Fort Jefferson as an accessory to Lincoln’s assassination for setting a broken leg that Booth sustained during his escape after the assassination. Florida
Governor Davis Walker granted William Gleason over 6 million acres of land in 1866, based on his
proposal to drain swampland east and south of the Everglades. Dr. Samuel Mudd helped prison
doctors fight an outbreak of yellow fever at Fort Jefferson in 1867, and as a result was pardoned by
President Andrew Johnson in 1869. In 1874, the U.S. Department of the Army officially abandoned

Fort Jefferson.

1881–

1899 Florida sold 4 million acres of land in the northern Everglades to Hamilton Disston in 1881, at
25 cents an acre. In 1882, Disston began the construction of a canal between Lake Okeechobee
and the Caloosahatchee River that was completed in 1884. Henry Flagler purchased a short line
railroad between Jacksonville and St. Augustine in 1885. Flagler extended his Florida East Coast
(FEC) Railroad line from St. Augustine southward to Palm Beach in 1893. Hamilton Disston, facing
bankruptcy, committed suicide in 1896. Flagler’s second wife was committed to an insane asylum
in 1897. Insanity was not grounds for divorce in Florida at the time. The USACOE, under the Federal
Rivers and Harbor Act, recommended navigational improvements (channelization) for the Kissimmee–Okeechobee–Caloosahatchee watershed to Congress in 1899.

1900–

1919 Flagler convinced the Florida legislature to change its divorce laws in 1901 so he could divorce his second wife and marry his third wife, Mary Lily Kenan (Florida later repealed this change in the
divorce law). Former gunrunner Napoleon Bonaparte Broward was elected governor of Florida in
1904 on a promise to “Drain the Everglades.” John Gifford introduced melaleuca trees in 1906 as
the ideal plant for drying out the Everglades. The Florida legislature created the Everglades Drainage District in 1907, publicly funding drainage and flood control projects around Lake Okeechobee.
This “district” was the first of several to carry out drainage projects in south Florida. The Key West
National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1908. Flagler extended the FEC Railroad to Key West in
1912, and regular train service began. Henry Flagler died in Palm Beach in 1913. The General Drainage Act of 1913 authorized adjacent landlords to establish drainage districts to drain and “reclaim”
their lands. The construction of the Tamiami Trail began in 1916. Royal Palm State Park, a 4,000-
acre tract on Paradise Key, was established as the first protected area in the Everglades in 1916.

1920–

1934 Barron Collier’s Tamiami Road Building Company acquired large tracts of land in Collier and southern Lee Counties from 1921 to 1923, and drainage of the Big Cypress Swamp began with the construction of the Barron River Canal and the Turner River Canal. The South Florida real estate boom
began in the early 1920s, and Carl Fisher transformed a wet, mangrove-filled island into Miami
Beach. A major hurricane hit Miami Beach in September 1926, and the real estate boom went bust.
The same hurricane killed more than 400 people in the Moore Haven area due to Lake Okeechobee
flooding. Lake Okeechobee flooded again during a 1928 hurricane and killed another 2000+ people
south of the lake. The Tamiami Trail was completed in 1928. The Okeechobee Flood Control District
was established in 1929 in response to the Lake Okeechobee flooding. The Southern Sugar Company accumulated 130,000 acres south of Lake Okeechobee in 1929. Carl Fisher’s real estate empire
collapsed into bankruptcy in 1932. The FEC Railroad declared bankruptcy in 1932. 

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# Year Issues and Activities

1935–

1945 The “Labor Day” (Category 5) hurricane hit the Florida Keys in 1935, killing 423 people. The 17-foot
storm surge cleared every tree and building from Upper and Lower Matecumbe Keys, and destroyed
the FEC Railroad line that connected the Florida Keys to the mainland. As a result, the FEC sold its
railroad “right of way” from Florida City to Key West to the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District for $640,000; the district issued revenue bonds to finance the construction of the Overseas Highway
to Key West. President Franklin Roosevelt set aside Fort Jefferson and the surrounding waters as
a national monument in 1935. Carl Fisher declared personal bankruptcy in 1936 and died 3 years
later. The 30-foot Hoover Dike, flanking three-quarters of Lake Okeechobee, was completed in
1937. The 1937 Florida legislature created the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission (FKAC). The
Overseas Highway was completed and opened to traffic on March 29, 1938. The Great White Heron
National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1938 as a haven for great white herons, migratory birds,
and other wildlife. The U.S. Navy Base in Key West was reopened in 1939. With two-thirds federal
financing provided by Congress, the Navy acquired a 353-acre wellfield in Florida City in 1941, and
together with the FKAC, built an 18-inch water pipeline to serve Key West in 1942. Electrical service
to Key West followed shortly thereafter. Florida’s first oil-producing well was drilled in 1943, north
of the Big Cypress Swamp near Sunniland. Exploratory oil well drilling also began in the Florida
Keys in 1943. In 1944, the Overseas Highway was renamed U.S. 1.

1946–

1960 Marjory Stoneman Douglas published The Everglades: River of Grass in 1947. That same year, Everglades National Park was established, with the Royal Palm State Park as its nucleus. In 1947, 2
hurricanes also flooded South Florida. The existing canal network in south Florida was unsuccessful
in alleviating flooding. In response, Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1948, authorizing the
USACOE to create the huge, multistage Central and Southern Florida (C&SF) Flood Control Project.
In response, the 1949 Florida legislature created the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District (C&SFFCD) to operate and maintain the massive flood control project. All functions and assets
of the Okeechobee Flood Control District and the Everglades Drainage District were liquidated and
vested in the new C&SFFCD. The C&SFFCD constructed levees along the eastern Everglades in 1953
to retain freshwater runoff during the dry season. Congress authorized the channelization of the
Kissimmee River in 1954. The Key Deer National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1957 to protect
and preserve Key deer and other wildlife resources in the Florida Keys. The United States imposed
an embargo on Cuban sugar in 1959. Dr. Gilbert Voss of the Marine Institute of Miami and John
Pennekamp, Assistant Editor of the Miami Herald , convinced the Florida Board of Parks and Historic
Memorials to designate a 75-square-mile section of water offshore of Key Largo as a permanent
coral reef preserve in 1959. In 1960, President Dwight Eisenhower transferred the federal waters
beyond the 3-mile limit, out to a depth of 300 feet, to the state for the preserve. On December 10,
1960, Governor Leroy Collins dedicated and named the underwater preserve John Pennekamp Coral
Reef State Park. Levee construction was expanded to enclose Water Conservation Areas 1 and 2 in
the northern Everglades in 1960. Table 2.3 (continued) 

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# Year Issues and Activities

1961–

1969 The Rand Trust and the Radford Crane family donated 74 acres of land on Key Largo to John Pennekamp State Park in 1961 to use as a land base. Also in 1961, Herbert and Donna Shaw donated
and cleared a 60-foot right-of-way to access that land from U.S. 1. The Kissimmee River channelization project began in 1962. A levee was constructed parallel to the Tamiami Canal in 1962, partially
enclosing Water Conservation Area 3. In 1963, Radford Crane made an additional donation of threequarters of Largo Sound and all of Julia Island (now El Radabob Key), with 3 miles of waterfront,
to John Pennekamp State Park. The Hoover Dike was raised to 40 feet above mean sea level and
extended completely around Lake Okeechobee by 1964. Land drainage of the Big Cypress Swamp
was intensified with the construction of the Golden Gate Estates canal drainage system in the early
1960s, lowering water levels in the western part of the swamp by an average of 2 feet. In 1965, the
“Christ of the Deep” statue, designed by the Italian sculptor Guido Galletti and commissioned by
Egigi Cressi, an Italian dive equipment manufacturer, was gifted to the Underwater Society of America. John Pennekamp State Park was chosen as the final underwater resting place of the statue.
The 9-foot-high, 4,000-pound bronze statue was submerged and installed in 1966. Canal C-111 was
constructed in 1967 as an extension of the Atlantic Ridge to provide flood control and drainage
between Florida Bay and the Tamiami Canal. The western boundary of Water Conservation Area 3
was completed in 1967. Westinghouse, under contract from the U.S. Navy, built a desalination plant
on Stock Island (Key West) that began operations in June 1967. Biscayne National Monument was
designated by Congress in 1968. Land development and speculation schemes blossomed throughout southwest Florida. Jetport plans were unveiled for the Big Cypress Swamp’s eastern edge, and
construction began in 1968. Governor Claude Kirk temporarily halted construction in 1969; however, one 2-mile runway was already completed. In the same year, Friends of the Everglades formed
to oppose the jetport. The 6,000-acre Coupon Bight State Aquatic Preserve and the 7,500-acre
Lignumvitae Key Aquatic Preserve were established in 1969.

1970–

1975 President Richard Nixon terminated the Big Cypress Jetport project in 1970. The Kissimmee River
channelization project was completed in 1971, turning a 103-mile-long, meandering river into a 56-mile-long canal that speeded the flow of sediments and nutrients into Lake Okeechobee. One
of Florida’s worst drought years on record in 1970–71 led to massive wildfires in the Everglades in
the spring of 1971, burning thousands of acres of sawgrass marsh. The protracted drought, which
caused the C&SFFCD to cut back agricultural water withdrawals, heightened the awareness of water
supply and environmental problems in Florida, and prompted the 1971 Governor’s Conference on
Water Management Issues. The conference concluded that water quality was steadily deteriorating
in practically all aquatic systems in southern Florida, and that water quantity was not being managed to ensure a minimum adequate supply during dry season. The conference was the impetus for the
Water Resources Act, passed by the Florida legislature in 1972, which established 5 water management districts statewide and expanded their responsibilities to include the control and regulation of ground water and surface water. Florida citizens approved a constitutional amendment in 1972 authorizing $240 million in state bonds to buy environmentally sensitive lands. Congress passed the
federal Clean Water Act in 1972. Congress created the National Marine Sanctuary Program in 1972.
The Big Cypress Swamp was designated as an Area of Critical State Concern (ACSC) in 1973. Congress set aside about 40 percent of the Big Cypress Swamp (570,000 acres) as a National Preserve,
a new category of federally protected lands, in 1974. The Florida legislature passed the Aquatic Preserves Act in 1975, creating a statewide system of specially protected and managed aquatic areas.
The Florida Department of Environmental Regulation (DER) was created in 1975. Table 2.3 (continued) 

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# Year Issues and Activities

1976–

1990 The channelized Kissimmee River (C-38) was linked to the rapid eutrophication of Lake Okeechobee
in a 1976 summary report to the legislature. The C&SFFCD was renamed the South Florida Water
Management District (SFWMD) in 1976. The Navy transferred its Florida City wellfield and Keys
water supply infrastructure to the newly established Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority (FKAA) in
1976. The Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Cape Romano–Ten Thousand
Islands State Aquatic Preserve were established in 1978. The 1979 legislative session created the
Conservation and Recreation Lands (CARL) Program for land acquisition. Congress redesignated
Biscayne National Monument as a National Park in 1980. The Florida legislature passed the Save
Our Rivers Act (SOR) in 1981, authorizing the water management districts to purchase lands along
rivers. The FKAA upgraded the water pipeline in the Keys to 36 inches (to Tavernier), 30 inches (to
Marathon), and 24 inches (to Sugarloaf Key), respectively, in 1982. Governor Bob Graham initiated the Save the Everglades Program in 1983, laying the groundwork for a federal–state–regional
partnership to restore the natural functions of the Everglades ecosystem. The Florida legislature
designated the Florida Keys as an ACSC in 1984, protecting resources and public facilities of major
statewide significance by requiring that any local development in such designated areas be consistent with state guidelines. A massive seagrass die-off that began in Florida Bay in the summer of
1987 resulted in 40 square kilometers of seagrass loss and damage to another 231 square kilometers. Congress passed the Big Cypress Preserve Addition Act in 1988, which added 146,000 acres
to the Big Cypress National Preserve. In 1990, Congress created the Florida Keys National Marine
Sanctuary, which consisted of 2,800 square nautical miles. The Florida legislature adopted Governor Bob Martinez’s Preservation 2000 (P-2000) Program in 1990; P-2000 provided funds for the
CARL and SOR land acquisition programs.

1991–

1996 In 1992, Hurricane Andrew struck southern Dade County, causing $16 billion in damage. Congress

directed the USACOE to undertake the restoration of the Kissimmee River in 1992. Fort Jefferson
National Monument was redesignated by Congress as the Dry Tortugas National Park in 1992.
The Florida Environmental Reorganization Act merged the DER and the Department of Natural
Resources into the Florida Department of Environmental Protection in 1993. Congress passed
the Water Resources Development Act and the Everglades and South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Act in 1996; these provided the USACOE with the authority to “restudy” the performance and
impacts of the original C&SF Project, to recommend improvements and/or modifications to restore
the Everglades/South Florida ecosystem, and to provide for other water resource needs. The Ten
Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1996 to protect important mangrove
habitats, native wildlife, and endangered species. In 1996, the Florida Administration Commission publicly noticed its intent to modify Monroe County’s 2010 Comprehensive Plan by restricting
further development in the Florida Keys. This proposed rule amendment was challenged by local
interests for being too restrictive and by environmentalists for being too lenient. The matter was
brought before the Department of Administrative Hearings. In 1997, Administrative Law Judge Larry
J. Sartin issued an order upholding a state rule that imposed severe restrictions on development in
the Florida Keys and reaffirmed the findings of the Florida Administration Commission’s landmark

1996 order. Table 2.3 (continued) 

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# Year Issues and Activities

1997–

2006 The Florida legislature established the Florida Forever Program in 1999, replacing P-2000. Thisnew program provided $300 million a year for land preservation and restoration efforts. Groundbreaking began on the Kissimmee River Restoration in 1999. The C&SF Restudy, conducted by
the USACOE and SFWMD, resulted in the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP),
which was transmitted to Congress in 1999. CERP was designed to capture, store, and redistribute
freshwater previously lost to tides and to regulate the quality, quantity, timing, and distribution of
water flows throughout the Everglades region. The Restudy also recommended to Congress that a
hydrologic feasibility study be conducted for southwest Florida. A mysterious area of “black water,”
first detected on satellite photos in December 2001, was observed expanding over 700 square
miles of Florida Bay from January through April 2002. The “black water” was later determined to
be a diatom bloom originating from offshore. The Final Report of the Florida Keys Carrying Capacity Study, an analysis designed to determine the ability of the Florida Keys ecosystem to withstand
additional development, was released in November 2003. In 2005, the tracks of Hurricanes Katrina,
Rita, and Wilma passed relatively close to the Florida Keys, causing flooding. In 2006, the track of
Tropical Storm Ernesto crossed right over the middle Keys. Table 2.3 (continued)



# Specifi c ACSC objectives that address water quality issues in the Keys include the following:

• Coordinating all local governments in the Keys to ensure that their

comprehensive plans include a drainage element, a wastewater treatment element, and a capital improvement element, and that they are consistent with the policies of the ACSC Program and the principles guiding development,

• Strengthening local government planning in the Keys to the extent

that the ACSC designation may be removed,

• Protecting marine resources and shorelines, including wetlands,

mangroves, seagrasses, coral reefs, and their respective faunas, and

• Limiting the adverse effects of development on water quality

throughout the Keys.

The governor and cabinet can designate an area by rule, setting theboundaries of an ACSC and the principles to be used for guiding development activities. Once an area is designated, affected local governments have 180 days to submit land development regulations consistent with the principles set forth in the rule. If the local government fails to submit regulations, or if its proposals are insuffi cient, the state land planning agency may propose development regulations for the governor and cabinet’s approval.

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 

# Fourteen exploratory oil wells were drilled in the vicinity of the Florida Keys between 1943 and 1962 (Dustan, Lidz, and Shinn, 1991). The threat of oil drilling again in the mid-1980s, combined with reports of deteriorating water quality, coral bleaching, die-offs of seagrasses and sea
urchins, declines in reef fi sh populations, the spread of coral disease, and the grounding of 3 large ships on the coral reef within 18 days in the fall of 

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# 1989, prompted congressional action to protect the coral reef ecosystem of the Florida Keys. In 1990, Congress designated the waters surrounding the entire Florida Keys archipelago a National Marine Sanctuary and called for the development of a comprehensive management plan. The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary consists of 2,800 square nautical miles (9,500 square kilometers) of coastal and oceanic waters, and the submerged lands underneath, surrounding the Florida Keys andextending westward to encompass the Dry Tortugas islands, but excluding Dry Tortugas National Park. The shoreward boundary of the sanctuary is the mean high-water mark. Within these waters are spectacular, unique, and nationally signifi cant marine environments, including seagrass meadows, mangrove islands, and coral reefs. These marine environments support rich biological communities possessing extensive conservation, recreational, commercial, ecological, historical, research, educational, and aesthetic values that give this area special national signifi cance. These environments are the marine equivalent of tropical rain forests in that they support high levels of biological diversity, are fragile and easily susceptible to damage from human activities, and possess high value if properly

conserved. As part of the marine sanctuary’s establishment, a Comprehensive Management Plan and a Water Quality Protection Program were created for the sanctuary’s waters. Management in the federal and state waters is achieved through a cooperative agreement between the sanctuary staff (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]–National Ocean Service), the Department, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife

Conservation Commission.

Florida Keys Water Quality Protection Program 

# Recognizing the critical role of water quality in maintaining the resources of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Congress (via the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Protection Act) directed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the state, as represented by the Department, to develop a Water Quality Protection Program for the sanctuary. The purpose of the Water Quality Protection Program is to“recommend priority corrective actions and compliance schedules addressing point and multipoint sources of pollution to restore and maintainthe chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the sanctuary, including restoration and maintenance of a balanced, indigenous population of
corals, shellfi sh, fi sh, and wildlife, and recreational activities on the water.” In addition to corrective actions, the act also requires the developmentof a water quality monitoring program and the provision of opportunities for public participation in all aspects of developing and implementing the program. The Water Quality Protection Program consists of an administrative
framework and a set of initial recommendations for corrective actions, monitoring, research and special studies, and education and outreach. The recommendations, published in the Water Quality Protection Program

Document , are included in the comprehensive management plan prepared by NOAA to guide the use of the sanctuary (see sidebar ). 

# Additional Sources of Information

Additional information on Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary’s Water QualityProtection Program is available at http://floridakeys. noaa.gov/wqpp/welcome

.html.

Additional information on the Florida Keys NationalMarine Sanctuary’s Education Program is available at http://floridakeys.noaa.gov/
edu/welcome.html.

Additional information on

the Southeast Environmental Research Center’s Water Quality Monitoring Network is available at http://serc.fiu .edu/wqmnetwork/. 

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# Recommendations for monitoring and special studies are being implemented directly by the EPA and the Department under the administration framework described in the Final Water Quality Protection Program

Document. For educational activities, the EPA and the Department will assist NOAA, which is responsible for educational programs within the sanctuary. In contrast, most recommendations for corrective actions will require coordination activities by numerous federal, state, and local governmental agencies. Development of the Water Quality Protection Program occurred in two phases. During Phase I, information was compiled and synthesized on the status of the sanctuary’s natural environment. Priority problems were

identifi ed through literature review and through discussions with technical experts and other participants in technical workshops. Phase II focused ondeveloping options for corrective actions, developing a water quality monitoring program and research and special studies programs, and developing a public education and outreach program. Recommended corrective actions were incorporated into Monroe County’s Sanitary Wastewater Master Plan.The Water Quality Protection Program has funded three long-term monitoring projects representing a fi ve-year commitment by the EPA to assess overall water quality, coral reef and hardbottom community health, and seagrass community health (see sidebar ). Also, a research/special studiescomponent consists of a multitude of smaller, more focused studies looking at specifi c cause-and-effect relationships and the impacts of specifi c environmental perturbations.

Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program

# The Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE) (the leadfederal agency) and SFWMD (the lead nonfederal sponsor). In 2001, Congress authorized the USACOE to provide technical and fi nancial assistanceto carry out projects for the planning, design, and construction of treatment works to improve water quality in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The primary purpose of this effort is to improve water qualityin the Florida Keys by implementing the Water Quality Protection Program’s recommended priority corrective actions, as expressed in the Monroe County Sanitary Wastewater Master Plan (discussed in the next section). Congress authorized $100 million for the water quality improvements in 2000, but the actual payments must be approved in appropriations bills. In 2001, Congress approved a $500,000 payment, and the project began under the guidance of the USACOE and SFWMD. Both agencies have been working with local governments to upgrade water quality systems throughout the Keys. As of 2006, a total of $7.5 million has been actually paid out.

Monroe County Sanitary Wastewater Master Plan 

# As mandated by the Monroe County Year 2010 Comprehensive Plan, the Sanitary Wastewater Master Plan was prepared as an initial step toward satisfying the directive that nutrient load levels should be reduced in the marine ecosystem of the Florida Keys. As population and tourism in the 

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# Keys have increased over the years, improvements in wastewater treatment and management practices have not kept pace with this growth, resulting in a signifi cant degradation of water quality in canals and nearshore waters surrounding the Keys. The objective of the master plan is to provide an equitable, ecologically sound, and economical implementation strategy for managing wastewater and improving water quality in the Florida Keys. The master plan must also satisfy environmental and regulatory criteria and guidelines. Ongoing research has determined that nutrients from wastewater are one of the major contributors to the decline of water quality in the Florida Keys, prompting the proposal to provide better sewage treatment practices. In this vein, the Water Quality Protection Program Steering Committee concurred with the following conclusions:

• Cesspits are illegal, provide very little treatment, and are a health

hazard;

• Sewage discharges from cesspits and septic tanks are a source of

nutrients and human pathogens;

• Septic tank systems remove a very small amount of nutrients; and

• Aerobic treatment units (ATUs) and package treatment plants do not

remove dissolved nutrients.

Approximately 23,000 private onsite systems and approximately246 small wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are currently operating throughout the Keys. The onsite systems comprise approximately 15,200 permitted septic systems, 640 ATUs, and 7,200 unknown systems (of which about 2,800 are suspected to be illegal cesspits). It is estimated that the onsite systems contribute 4.88 million gallons per day (mgd) of wastewater, and the WWTPs contribute 2.40 mgd of wastewater. Eachof these onsite systems and treatment plants provides minimal nutrient removal and generally discharges effl uent containing nutrient levels of about 20 milligrams per liter (mg/L) of total nitrogen and 5 mg/L of total phosphorus. The wastewater management plan recommends that existing onsite systems located in lower-density areas of the Keys be upgraded or replaced with onsite wastewater nutrient reduction systems. The plan also includes 12 community wastewater collection and treatment systems and 5 regional systems. Five of the 12 community wastewater collection systems feature interim WWTPs that, over time, are recommended for phasing into larger, regional systems.Approximately $438 million in capital costs will be required to implement the 45 projects in the master plan. This amount reflects the implementation of new service areas and the costs of upgrading existing facilities. The costs are based on the assumption that, other than those existingWWTPs that will continue to serve given isolated areas or existing functioning private wastewater utilities, all WWTPs will connect into either the central community or regional wastewater systems once all “hot spot” areas are served, or by 2010, whichever occurs fi rst. 

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# Monroe County Stormwater Management Master Plan 

# Monroe County is required by its adopted Year 2010 Comprehensive Plan to prepare a Stormwater Management Master Plan (SMMP). The purposes of the SMMP are to assess the adequacy of existing systems,prioritize stormwater management needs for each island, identify regulations and policy needs, and develop a plan to fi nance the construction, operation, and maintenance of required facilities. The geographic area of this project consists of the islands in the Florida Keys that are traversed by U.S. 1. Over the last 40 years, and especially in the last 10 years, the Florida Keys ecosystems have been of concern to governmental, scientifi c, and public interests. With the creation of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park in 1960, the unique environment of the Keys was confi rmed. Since
that time, the deterioration of the nearshore and reef environment has been well documented, with the decline of corals, loss of seagrass beds, and increase in water pollution. While most studies have identifi ed wastewaterimpacts as the major controllable source of pollutants affecting the environment, stormwater runoff has also been identifi ed as a signifi cant source. One of the purposes of the SMMP is therefore to identify a plan to reduce the stormwater runoff component of pollution in the Keys. The SMMP provides a number of benefi ts related to the goals and objectives of the plan. First, it provides retrofi t and rehabilitation projects

for all of the identifi ed public problem areas in the Keys. These projects

will address both fl ooding and water quality improvements. Second, the implementation of the SMMP will also improve maintenance activities for existing and future stormwater management facilities. Third, the SMMP recommends a number of programs that will minimize the runoff pollutant loading to nearshore waters from future developments and eventually will reduce the loads from existing sources.Based on public input and the 2010 Comprehensive Plan, the recommended goals and objectives for the Monroe County SMMP are as follows:

Goal 1

— The SMMP will identify, prioritize, and recommend remedial improvements for the signifi cant water quality–related problem areas in unincorporated areas of the county.

Goal 2

— The SMMP will recommend actions that will reduce the sediment and nutrient loading of nearshore waters resulting

from runoff.

Goal 3

— The SMMP will review existing regulatory requirements for the control of new development related to fl ooding and water quality, and will recommend improvements as needed. As a related issue, the SMMP will review existing enforcement activities and recommend changes necessary to improve compliance with existing or new regulations.

Goal 4

— The SMMP will recommend activities to manage stormwater from future growth so that there will be no increase in

sediment or nutrient loads to nearshore waters. 

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# Goal 5 — The SMMP will strive to use nonstructural and source controls to reduce existing sediment and nutrient loads. When necessary, the SMMP will recommend structural controls associated with the publicly owned infrastructure.

In order to address the problems and concerns identifi ed and to achieve the objectives of the SMMP, the following actions are recommended:

• Monroe County should adopt a 95 percent treatment requirement and strictly enforce its application with new development and signifi cant redevelopment. The 95 percent treatment requirement means that new developments must remove 95 percent of the annual average load of pollutants from developed property. For the purposes of this plan, the 95 percent standard means 95 percent capture of the

mean annual rainfall volume.

• Monroe County should implement an operation and maintenance

(O&M) program for public stormwater management systems and the inspection of private systems. The O&M program adopted bythe county should include routine maintenance for critical stormwater systems as well as the routine inspection of other systems.Furthermore, private stormwater systems should receive proper maintenance with annual certifi cation by owners.

• Monroe County or the SFWMD should develop a stormwater well

inventory. Runoff from both public and private properties is discharged into drainage wells. Unfortunately, very little is known about the location, tributary area, and land use draining to each well. While drainage wells provide signifi cant stormwater fl ood relief,

the benefi ts and impacts on water quality are not well documented

because of the lack of information.

• Monroe County and the SFWMD should enforce existing regulations through inspection and “as-built” drawings. The review of existing federal, state, regional, and local stormwater regulations

confi rmed that there are suffi cient regulatory controls defi ned today.
However, fi eld inspections verifi ed that many of the permitted systems were not built according to the permit and/or are not being maintained. County and water management district inspectors

should also be trained in sediment and erosion control.

• Monroe County should pay special attention to marinas with respect

to stormwater runoff.

• Many of the stormwater quality problem areas identifi ed in the Florida Keys were related to private marinas. Field inspections

identifi ed major problems that were related to runoff from material storage areas, unpaved areas, and lack of stormwater controls prior to discharge. The county should encourage the state to continue the Clean Marina Program, and marina retrofi ts should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to meet the 95 percent rule. 

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# • Monroe County should encourage redevelopment and retrofi t with reductions in impervious areas. Many of the existing stormwaterproblems occur because development has increased the imperviousness of the area. Increased imperviousness changes the volume, timing, peak fl ow, and pollutant content of stormwater runoff. The county should offer incentives for the reduction of impervious areas using vegetated and landscaped swales, rain gardens, biofi lters, and
pervious pavement.

• Monroe County should encourage the use of vegetated buffers and

conservation measures. Simple, yet powerful controls consist of vegetated buffers such as swales, rain gardens, biofilters, and bioretention. Also, conserving water by using runoff for residential irrigation reduces the volume of runoff and limits the pollutant loading discharged. Conservation measures such as cisterns, rain barrels, and xeriscaping are particularly effective.

• Monroe County should require all vegetated systems such as swales

and medians to be planted with native vegetation to minimize maintenance. Planting vegetated systems with native plants will preserve the beauty of the Florida Keys’ natural environment and minimizespecial maintenance. Public and private construction and development should be encouraged to use salt-tolerant plants near shoreline spray areas and other native plants away from the coastline.

• With the support of federal, state, and regional governments, Monroe

County should implement the recommended retrofit and rehabilitation projects to address existing problem areas. Twenty-two retrofi t and rehabilitation projects have been identifi ed to address problem areas in Monroe County. The projects include improvements to be implemented by the Department (Heritage Bike Trail), Florida Department of Transportation (DOT) (along U.S. 1), Monroe County, and city of Marathon.

• Where possible, DOT should include stormwater controls as part of

all Florida Keys’ projects, including bridge entrances and exits. A review of existing designs and a fi eld survey of DOT systems showed that many areas have limited stormwater quality controls. Many ofthe bridge entrances and exits, especially in the Upper Keys, discharge uncontrolled stormwater that contains signifi cant sediment loads. Since the DOT stormwater system is the major (and in some areas, the only) stormwater control available, stormwater quality improvements will also result in improvements to nearshore waters.

City of Key West Sewage and Stormwater Management Systems 

# The operation and maintenance of Key West’s WWTP and collection system is contracted to Operations Management International, Inc. (OMI). OMI employs 25 people at its Key West facility, which functions much like a city department. Wastewater is treated and pumped out into the ocean through an outfall dating back to 1954. The treatment plant, constructed in 1989, was designed and permitted to process sewage at a rate of 10 mgd. 

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# Currently, average fl ows are approximately 4 mgd, a reduction from 8 mgd 2 years ago. This reduction in fl ow indicates the success of the $56 million collection system rehabilitation. Seawater fl ow that previously entered the system and had to be unnecessarily pumped to the plant no longer occurs. The city has spent more than $67 million over the past 3 years on sewer capital improvements to rebuild the collection system, replace the ocean outfall with a Class I deep injection well, and upgrade the current sewage treatment plant to an advanced wastewater treatment facility. The stormwater management system is made up of a patchwork of minicollection systems constructed over 30 years ago. Much of the system was constructed using substandard materials and design. In addition, historically, the system was never properly cleaned or maintained. Water quality and fl ooding problems emerged over the years as a result of the inadequate, improperly maintained, and deteriorating system. Beach
closures, fl ood damage, and impassable roadways after rain events are evidence that the system needed to be upgraded. To improve stormwater management, the city hired OMI in fi scal year (FY) 1995 to perform cleaning and spot repair. The operating budget was $193,977 for FY 2001. The entire collection system is cleaned 2.5 times per year, with hot spots being handled more frequently. In addition, a stormwater capital plan has been developed to prevent

fl ooding, divert stormwater fl ow from outfalls, and reduce/eliminate the discharge of pollutants and the contamination of nearshore waters. The plan provides for a more comprehensive management system and includes the installation of 5 pump-assist injection wells, elimination and/or retrofi t of 63 outfalls, installation of 293 injection wells, and retrofi t of existing injection wells. Vertical French drains have already been designed andinstalled, addressing small areas of standing water in an affordable, costeffective way.

Agricultural Best Management Practices

# The Florida Watershed Restoration Act authorizes the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DACS) to develop interim measures and agricultural best management practices (BMPs). Additional authority for agricultural BMPs is provided in legislation on nitrates andground water (Section 576.045, F.S.), the Lake Okeechobee Protection Program (Section 373.4595, F.S.), Agricultural Water Conservation (Section 570.085, F.S.), and Florida Right to Farm Act Amendments (Section 823.14, F.S.). While BMPs are often adopted by rule, they are voluntary if not covered by regulatory programs. If they are adopted by rule and the Department verifi es their effectiveness, then implementation provides a presumption of compliance with water quality standards. Over the last several years, DACS has worked with agriculturists, soil and water conservation entities, the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), and other major interests to improve product marketability and operational efficiency by implementing agricultural BMPs, while at the same time promoting water quality and water conservation objectives. In addition, programs have been established and 

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# are being developed to create a network of state, local, federal, and private sources of funds for developing and implementing BMPs.

Manuals and Other Publications for Best Management Practices 

# Commercial agriculture in the Keys is very limited, but the manuals listed below might be applicable to some operations. Furthermore, theDepartment has also developed BMPs and other publications for nonagricultural systems that are possible sources of nonpoint source pollution. Many of these manuals can be downloaded at http://www.dep.state.fl .us/ water/nonpoint/pubs.htm.

• Guide for Producing Container Grown Plants: This manual,

published in 1995 by the Southern Nurserymen’s Association,includes irrigation and fertilization BMPs for the container cultivation of nursery plants. It was produced through a cooperative effort between the University of Florida, Auburn University, Tennessee Tech University, and Virginia Tech. Since the manual is not Florida specifi c, an effort is currently under way to use the document in developing a Florida-specifi c manual.

• Aquaculture Best Management Practices: As directed by the

1998 Florida legislature, DACS worked cooperatively with industry, state agencies, and the environmental community to develop a comprehensive BMP manual for aquaculture. Florida law requiresthat the Department adopt the manual by rule and provides regulatory exemptions under Chapters 373 and 403, F.S., for growers who implement BMPs and are certified by DACS’ Division of Aquaculture. The manual, which was printed and distributed in 2000, has been adopted by rule.

• Florida Green Industries Best Management Practices for Protection of Water Resources in Florida 

# ( Industrias En Áreas Verdes

de Florida las Prácticas Más Adecuadas Para la Conservación del Agua en Florida 

# ) : This manual, also available in Spanish, was developed jointly by the Florida Green Industries, the Department, DACS, DCA, the water management districts, and the University of Florida. Published in 2002, it provides information and guidance on turf grass and landscape management practices for the purpose of conserving and protecting Florida’s water resources. Practices coverthe establishment of new turf and landscapes and the care of existing turf and landscapes, including construction activities, irrigation, nutrient management, and pest management. A smaller summary

booklet is also available.

• A Guide on Hazardous Waste Management for Florida’s Agricultural Pesticide Users: This booklet, produced by the Department’s Hazardous Waste Compliance Assistance Program and the Florida Center for Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (1997 printing), offers tips on how to comply with federal and state hazardous waste regulations, how to avoid penalties by properly managing hazardous wastes, and how to save money on disposal costs by reducing

hazardous wastes. 

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# • Best Management Practices for Agrichemical Handling and Farm Equipment Maintenance: This 1998 document was a cooperative effort between state and federal agencies, the agricultural industry, and the land grant universities. The document discusses practices for pollution prevention on the farm. An educational, not a regulatory, document, it has been well received by the industry. The third printing in March 2000 brought the total printed to 50,000 copies. It is the intent of the Department to have every farmer in the state read and use this document, which is available at no charge through the County Extension Service offi ces, Soil and Water

Conservation District offi ces, Department offi ces, the Florida Farm Bureau, and several trade organizations.

• Best Management Practices for Enhancement of Environmental

Quality on Florida Golf Courses: This 136-page book discussespossibilities for environmental stewardship and pollution prevention at golf courses. It supersedes and expands on the 1995 BMP document. This new document was written by the Department in 2007, in coordination with the Florida Golf Course Superintendents Association, Audubon International, the University of Florida, and many others. It is designed for use by superintendents, managers, and employees; developers and designers; planners and regulators; and

concerned citizens.

• Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Handbook—A Guide to

Environmentally Friendly Landscaping: From the University of Florida’s IFAS, the handbook describes how to minimize nonpoint source pollution from landscapes, especially residential ones. The booklet is an integral part of the Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Program being implemented in parts of the state by the Cooperative

Extension Service.

• Clean Boating Habits—Clean Boater: This 24-page Department handbook offers ideas that can have positive effects on water resources, ranging from fueling and boat-cleaning practices to exotic plant/sea life and fi sh waste management. It speaks to boaters about personal stewardship and the Clean Marina Program.

• A Big Difference for Boaters and Clean Water Is Florida’s Clean

Vessel Act: A fourfold brochure, produced by the Department’s Division of Law Enforcement Clean Vessel Act Grant Program, that discusses the impacts of improper disposal of human sewage from boats and the regulations that apply to this issue.

• Waterfront Property Owners Guide: A glossy color publication

that provides homeowner tips on how to protect waterbodies and how to solve water quality problems.

• How to Judge Environmental Planning for Subdivisions:

A Citizen’s Guide: The purpose of this booklet is to help individuals not professionally trained to be able to evaluate land development plans. 

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# Chapter 3: Surface Water Quality Assessment

Scope of the Assessment

This chapter presents the results of an updated assessment of surface water quality in the Florida Keys Basin. The primary purpose of the assessment is to determine if waterbodies or waterbody segments are to be placed on the Verifi ed List of impaired waterbodies. The listing will be

in accordance with evaluation thresholds and data suffi ciency and data quality requirements in the Identifi cation of Impaired Surface Waters Rule
(IWR) (Rule 62-303, Florida Administrative Code [F.A.C.]). The results of the assessment will be used to identify waters in the basin for which total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) will be developed. The chapter describes the planning units in the basin used as a basis for the assessment. A section on each planning unit contains a generaldescription and summary of key water quality indicators (such as nutrients, chlorophyll a , dissolved oxygen [DO], and microbiological parameters). Permitted discharges, land uses, ecological status, and water quality improvement plans and projects are summarized for each planning unit. The discussion notes where applicable surface water quality criteria have been exceeded and summarizes the report’s fi ndings in maps, noting potentially impaired waterbodies in each planning unit. The chapter also contains background information on sources of data and on designated use attainment, and explains the state’s integrated water quality assessment

process. While potentially impaired waters and their causative pollutants are

identifi ed, it is not within the scope of this report to identify discretesources of potential impairments. Information on the sources of impairment will be developed in subsequent phases of the watershed management cycle, including TMDL development and implementation. Appendix A contains a discussion of the legislative and regulatory background for TMDL development and implementation. Appendix B provides additional information on reasonable assurance. Appendix C provides the methodology used to develop the Planning and Verifi ed Lists. Appendix D contains the integrated water quality assessment (Master List)

summary (Table D.1) and the water quality monitoring stations used in

the assessment (Table D.2)

. Appendix E lists, by planning unit, permitted wastewater treatment facilities in the basin that discharge to surface water and ground water (Table E.1) , as well as hazardous waste sites, landfi lls,

and brownfi elds (Table E.2) ; Appendix F lists Level I land use by planning unit. The complete text of the IWR is available at http://www.dep

.state.fl .us/legal/Rules/shared/62-303/62-303.pdf. 

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# Update on Strategic Monitoring and DataGathering Activities During Phase 2

During Phase 2 of the watershed management cycle, strategic monitoring and data-gathering activities focused fi rst on waters on the 1998 303(d) list, followed by waters that were placed on the Planning List through the IWR assessment alone. The majority of the strategic monitoring work was conducted by the Watershed Management and Restoration Section of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (Department’s) South District, and included both chemical and biological monitoring and data upload to STO rage and RET rieval (STORET) databases.Data-gathering activities included working with environmental monitoring staff in the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and local and county governments to obtain applicable monitoring datafrom their routine monitoring programs and special water quality projects in the basin. The strategic monitoring focused on collecting data on nutrients, biological oxygen demand (BOD), chlorophyll a , metals, acute toxicity, bacteria, and dissolved oxygen in the nearshore waters and canals of the Florida Keys Basin. There was one waterbody segment, Long Sound (waterbody identification number [WBID] 6005), on the Planning List and the 1998 303(d) list requiring additional data to verify impairment. Parameters included DO, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, and BOD. Fifty-fi ve waterbody segments were verifi ed impaired for at least one parameter in the Florida Keys Basin as the result of strategic monitoring and data-gathering activities in Phase 2. Table D.1 in Appendix D provides the updated impairment status of the basin through June 30, 2006. Based on preliminary data reviewed for the production of this Water Quality Assessment Report, the Department developed a plan to address potential data gaps. The Watershed Management and Restoration Section of the Department’s South District began a strategic monitoring program in 2005 to address TMDL Program data needs. The focus of this program is to collect additional data to verify conditions in many of the potentially impaired waterbody segments. An emphasis of this program is to collect data on nutrients, BOD, chlorophyll a , metals, acute toxicity, bacteria, and DO in the nearshore waters and canals of the Florida Keys Basin.



# Sources of Data

The assessment of water quality in the Florida Keys Basin includes an analysis of quantitative data from various sources, some of which arereadily available to the public. These sources include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Legacy and “new” STORET databases, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the Florida Department of Health (DOH). The STORET databases contain water quality data from anumber of sources, including the Department, water management districts, local governments, and volunteer monitoring groups. Appendix C contains a detailed description of STORET and the methodology used to develop the Planning and Verifi ed Lists, based on the IWR. 

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# Table 3.1 summarizes the individual data providers who contributed to the IWR Database for the Florida Keys Basin for the period of record used

in this assessment. Figure 3.1 contains a pie chart showing the amount of

Table 3.1: Summary of Data Providers in the Florida Keys Basin

Organization Number of Water
Quality Observations,

1994–2006

U.S. Geological Survey 666

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary 40,328

Dade County Environmental Resource Management 80,393

Florida Department of Health 13,321

Florida Marine Research Institute 2,767

Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s

South District 12,903

City of Key West 8,736

Nature Conservancy for the Florida Keys 8,307

South Florida Water Management District 239,722

Florida Keys Water Quality Monitoring Program 36,421

Total 443,564



# Figure 3.1: Sources of Data for the Florida Keys Basin Water Quality Observations by Agency, 1994–2006

Florida Keys

National Marine

Sanctuary

9.09% Florida Department of

Health

3.00% Florida Marine

Research

Institute

.62% Dade County

Environmental

Resource Management

18.12%

Florida Department

of Environmental

Protection’s South

District

2.90%

City of Key West

1.96%

Nature Conservancy for the Florida Keys

1.87% U.S. Geological

Survey

.15%

South Florida Water Management

District

54.04% Florida Keys Water Quality

Monitoring

Program

8.21% 

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# data provided by each source. Individual data providers who contributed to the IWR Database for the Florida Keys Basin during the period of record used in this assessment (January 1, 1999, to June 30, 2006) include theUSGS, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Dade County Environmental Resource Management, DOH, Florida Marine Research Institute, Department’s South District, city of Key West, the Nature Conservancy of the Florida Keys, and SFWMD. In 2002, the Department created the IWR Database to evaluate data in accordance with the methodology prescribed in the IWR (Rule 62-303, F.A.C.). For the Planning List assessment, the data evaluation period of record is 10 years, and for the Verifi ed List, 7.5 years. Table C.2 in Appendix C shows the periods of record for the Verifi ed and Planning Lists in the

fi rst basin rotation cycle. Data collected between January 1, 1999, and June
30, 2006, were evaluated to establish the Verifi ed List for the Florida Keys
Basin (IWR Run 29z_2). To support listing decisions, the evaluation of water quality in the basin also includes qualitative information drawn from data in technical reports and documents that are not yet included in the database. Some of these sources include historical water quality or ecological information that was not uploaded to the database because of its qualitative treatment of issues.



# Attainment of Designated Use

While the designated uses of a given waterbody are established using the surface water quality classifi cation system described in Chapter 2, it is important to note that the EPA uses slightly different terminology in its description of designated uses. Because the Department is required to provide use attainment status for both the state’s 305(b) report and thestate’s 303(d) list of impaired waters, the Department uses EPA terminology when assessing waters for use attainment. The water quality evaluations and decision processes that are defi ned in Florida’s IWR for listing impaired waters are based on the following designated use attainment categories:

Aquatic Life Use Support-Based Attainment Primary Contact and Recreation Attainment

Fish and Shellfi sh Consumption Attainment Drinking Water Use Attainment

Protection of Human Health

Table 3.2 summarizes the designated uses assigned to Florida’s various

surface water classes. 

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# Table 3.2: Designated Use Attainment Categories for Surface
Waters in Florida

Designated Use Attainment Category Used in
Impaired Surface Waters Rule Evaluation Applicable Florida Surface

Water Classification

Aquatic Life Use Support-Based Attainment Class I, II, and III

Primary Contact and Recreation Attainment Class I, II, and III

Fish and Shellfish Consumption Attainment Class II

Drinking Water Use Attainment Class I

Protection of Human Health Class I, II, and III



# Integrated Report Categories and Assessment Overview

The EPA has requested that the states merge their reporting requirements under the Clean Water Act for Section 305(b) surface water quality reports and Section 303(d) lists of impaired waters into an Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report Guidance (Wayland, 2001). This Assessment Report integrates the 303(d) list and the 305(b) report for the Florida Keys Basin. Following the EPA’s guidance, the Department delineated water bodies or waterbody segments in each of the state’s river basins, assessed them for impairment based on individual parameters, and then placed them into

one of fi ve major assessment categories and subcategories. These categoriesprovide information on a waterbody’s status based on water quality, suffi ciency of data, and the need for TMDL development (Table 3.3)

. This Assessment Report contains a comprehensive evaluation of waterbodies that fall into Integrated Report Categories 1 through 5 in the table. Not enough recent data on chemistry, biology, and fi sh consumption advisories have been collected; therefore, currently only a few waterbodiesor waterbody segments statewide fall into Category 1 (attaining all designated uses). In particular, fi sh tissues in many waterbodies statewide have not been tested for mercury. Out of 67 waterbodies or waterbody segments in the Florida Keys Basin, there are no waterbodies in Category 1 currently meeting all attainable designated uses. More waterbodies and segments statewide fall into Category 2 (attaining some uses but with insuffi cient data to assess completely) thanCategory 1 (attaining all uses), because monitoring programs can sometimes provide suffi cient data for partially determining whether a designated use in a particular waterbody is attained. Four waterbody segments in the basin fall into Category 2. Most waterbodies in the state, however, fall into Category 3 (having

insuffi cient data). In the Florida Keys Basin, the breakdown of waterbodies or segments in Category 3 is as follows:

• Category 3a—No segments for which no data are available to determine their water quality status, 

# Understanding the Terms “Pollutant” and “Pollution”

For purposes of the TMDL Program, pollutants are chemical and biological constituents, introduced by humans into a waterbody, that may result in pollution (water quality impairment).

There are other causes ofpollution, such as the physical alteration of a waterbody (for example, canals, dams, and ditches). However, TMDLs are established only for impairments caused by pollutants (a TMDL quantifieshow much of a given pollutant a waterbody can receive and still meet its designated uses).

Waterbodies that are verified impaired due to specified pollutants, and therefore require a TMDL, are listedunder Category 5 in the Integrated Assessment Report;

waterbodies with water quality impairments due to
other causes, or unknowncauses, are listed under Category 4c. Although TMDLs

are not established for Category 4c waterbodies, these waterbodies still may beaddressed through a watershed management program (for example, the Kissimmee River restoration). 

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# Table 3.3: Categories for Waterbodies or Waterbody Segments in the 2002 Integrated Report

Category Description Comments

1 Attaining all designated uses If use attainment is verified for a waterbody or segment that was previously listed as impaired, the Department will propose that it be delisted.

2 Attaining some designated uses

and insufficient or no information
or data are present to determine if
remaining uses are attained If attainment is verified for some designated uses of a waterbody or segment, the Department will propose partial delisting for the uses attained.
Future monitoring will be recommended to determine if remaining uses

are attained.

3a No data and information are
present to determine if any
designated use is attained Future monitoring will be recommended to determine if designated uses

are attained.

3b Some data and information are
present but not enough to determine if any designated use is

attained Future monitoring will be recommended to gather sufficient information
and data to determine if designated uses are attained.

3c Enough data and information are
present to determine that one or
more designated uses may not be
attained according to the Planning
List methodology A waterbody or segment is potentially impaired for one or more
designated uses. These waters will be prioritized for future monitoring
to verify use attainment or impaired status

.



# 3d Enough data and information are
present to determine that one or
more designated uses are not attained according to the Verified
List methodology A waterbody or segment exceeds Verified List evaluation criteria and
may be listed as impaired at the end of Phase 2 of the watershed management cycle. However, the data have not yet been fully evaluated and
the waters have not been formally verified as impaired. Further monitoring and analysis may be necessary.

NOTE: This category is applicable only to the Status Report. Waters
that pass the Verified List criteria at this stage of the process are placed
in Category 5.

4a Impaired for one or more designated uses but does not require TMDL
development because a TMDL has
already been completed After the EPA approves a TMDL for the impaired waterbody or segment,
the TMDL will be included in a Basin Management Action Plan to reduce pollutant loading toward attainment of designated use(s).

4b Impaired for one or more designated uses but does not require TMDL
development because the water
will attain water quality standards
due to existing or proposed

measures Pollutant control mechanisms designed to attain applicable water quality
standards within a reasonable time frame are either proposed or in
place.

4c Impaired for one or more designated uses but does not require TMDL
development because impairment
is not caused by a pollutant This category includes waterbodies or segments that are impaired because of naturally occurring conditions or other causes of pollution.
The impairment is not caused by specific pollutants. (See sidebar on previous page for a discussion of the difference between the terms
“pollutant” and “pollution.”)

5 One or more designated uses is

not attained and a TMDL is
required Waterbodies or segments in this category are impaired for one or more
designated uses by a pollutant or pollutants. Waters in this category are
included on the basin-specific Verified List adopted by the Department’s
Secretary as Florida’s impaired waters list and submitted to the EPA as
Florida’s 303(d) list of impaired waters at the end of Phase 2. 

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# • Category 3b—3 segments with some data but not suffi cient data for making any determinations, and

• Category 3c—5 segments that are potentially impaired based on the

Planning List criteria.

A number of waters either fail to meet water quality standards for DO or show signs of biological stress or nutrient impairment. According to the IWR, specifi c pollutants causing DO exceedances or biological stress, or an underlying nutrient imbalance creating an imbalance in fl ora or fauna, must be documented for a waterbody or segment to be listed as impaired. Sometimes these conditions cannot be linked to a causative pollutant, and sometimes they may refl ect natural background conditions. Currently, no waterbody in the basin is designated as being in Category 4. This category includes those waterbodies/segments that are impaired but do not require a TMDL for one of three reasons:

• Category 4a—No segments for which a TMDL has already been

developed,

• Category 4b—No segments for which there is reasonable assurance

that the designated use of an impaired waterbody will be attained by an existing or proposed pollutant control measure, and

• Category 4c—No segments for which the impairment is not attributable to a pollutant or pollutants, but is due to natural conditions or physical/hydrologic alterations to the waterbody.

Finally, 55 waterbodies in the basin are in Category 5. These impaired

waterbodies are on the Verifi ed List of impaired waters adopted by the Department’s Secretary and will require TMDLs. Chapter 4 of this report discusses in detail the waters in this category.



# Planning Units

The Florida Keys Basin encompasses approximately 133.7 square miles and a complex hydrologic system. To provide a more detailed geographic basis for identifying and assessing water quality improvement activities, thebasin was subdivided into smaller areas called planning units. A planning unit is either an individual large tributary basin or a group of smaller adjacent tributary basins with similar characteristics. Planning units helporganize information and management strategies around prominent watershed characteristics. Water quality assessments were conducted for waterbody segmentswithin planning units. Each of these smaller, hydrologically based drainage areas within a planning unit is assigned a unique WBID. Waterbody segments are assessment units (or geographic information system [GIS]polygons) that the Department used to defi ne waterbodies when it biennially inventoried and reported on water quality to the EPA under Section
305(b) of the federal Clean Water Act. These WBIDs are the assessment 

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# Table 3.4: Planning Units in the Florida Keys Basin

Planning Unit Description

Upper Keys Key Largo south to and including Lower Matecumbe Key

Middle Keys Long Key and southwestward to the end of the Seven Mile
Bridge

Lower Keys All Keys south and west of the western end of the Seven
Mile Bridge 

# units identifi ed in the Department’s lists of impaired waters submitted to the EPA in reports under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. The Florida Keys Basin contains three planning units: Upper Keys, Middle Keys, and Lower Keys. Table 3.4 describes these planning units,

and Figure 3.2 shows their locations and boundaries. The remainder ofthis chapter provides a general description of each planning unit, information on land use and potential point sources of pollution, water qualityassessments for individual waterbody segments, and summaries of ecological issues and watershed quality improvement plans and projects. Appendix D of this report provides, by planning unit, a list of waterquality monitoring stations, the integrated assessment (Master List) summary, and trend data. Appendix E includes summary information, by planning unit, for permitted wastewater treatment facilities, hazardous waste sites, permitted landfi ll facilities, and brownfi elds. Appendix F lists Level I land uses, by planning unit.



# Assessment by Planning Unit

• Upper Keys Planning Unit

General Description 

# The Upper Keys Planning Unit covers about 46.9 square miles of land and nearshore waters. It contains 18 segments (WBIDs) plus 5 additional open water coastal segments, for a total of 23 WBIDs. It includes Key Largo, Plantation Key, Pumpkin Key, Upper and Lower Matecumbe Key, and the open waters between these islands and the Florida mainland. Bodies of water in the planning unit include Manatee Bay, Barnes Sound, Long Sound, Little Blackwater Sound, Florida Bay, Blackwater Sound, Lake Surprise, Little Buttonwood Sound, Tarpon Basin, ButtonwoodSound, Largo Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean. Public parks include Everglades National Park (a small portion), John Pennekamp State Park, Harry Harris County Park, Anne’s Beach, Sea Oats Beach, and a number of other state preserves and historical sites. Named communities include the Ocean Reef Club, Key Largo, Newport, Rock Harbor, Tavernier, Plantation, and

Islamorada. Land uses are residential and commercial, mainly supporting various aspects of the tourism industry. Hotels, restaurants, shops, marinas, and dive centers support tourism directly, and commercial fi shing, boat repair, building construction and maintenance, vehicle maintenance, and similar businesses support both tourism and residents. 

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# Figure 3.2: Locations and Boundaries of Planning Units in the Florida Keys Basin 

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# Florida Bay, to the north of the Keys, is shallow and infl uenced by drainage from the eastern Everglades and various drainage projects in the Miami/Homestead area, including the SFWMD’s C-111 Canal. Large discharges of fresh water from this canal have caused extreme changes in salinity in northern Florida Bay. At other times, reduced freshwater fl ows have resulted in hypersaline (extremely salty) conditions. Both extremes kill seagrasses and other marine life. The nearshore waters of the Upper Keys receive stormwater runoff and other discharges from the adjacent land. The porous nature of the Key Largo Limestone that forms the Upper and Middle Keys allows material spilled on the ground to pass fairly rapidly into the surrounding water, and because the islands are narrow, the water is never far away. The Atlantic Ocean south and east of the Upper Keys receives discharges from shipping, such as bilge water, wastewater, oil leakage, or trash and garbage. The Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary includes all of the Keys waters (except Dry Tortugas National Park). The sanctuary’s management plan allows it to coordinate water quality monitoring and regulate almost all

on-water activities.

Water Quality Summary 

# The major water quality problems of the Upper Keys Planning Unit are pervasive elevated dissolved inorganic nitrogen and turbidity in the island nearshore waters as a result of Keys’ land-based activities (Boyer, 2005). Also of concern in the waters closer to the Florida peninsula are

elevated nutrients and the effects of altered freshwater fl ows to Florida Bay from the mainland and Biscayne Bay. Episodes of very fresh and very salty water have caused massive die-offs of seagrasses in Florida Bay, which have resulted in long-term changes in turbidity, nutrient cycles, and the animal species in the open waters of the bay. Finally, there is the issue of mercury in fi sh. DOH recommends the limited consumption of snook, red drum, great barracuda, king mackerel 33–39 inches, spotted seatrout greater than 20 inches, little tunny, cobia, greater amberjack, bluefi sh, crevalle jack, shark less than 43 inches, permit, and wahoo throughout the Keys, Florida Bay, and Biscayne Bay, due to the possibility of high levels of mercury. Currently, no consumption advisory exists for king mackerel greater than 39 inches and shark greater than

43 inches. Figure 3.3 , a composite map of the planning unit, shows waters on the 1998 303(d) list, the Planning List and Verified List, and potential pollution sources. Table 3.5 summarizes the water quality assessment status of all waterbody segments in the planning unit.

Permitted Discharges and Land Uses



# Point Sources. There are 147 permitted wastewater facilities in the Upper Keys Planning Unit, of which 139 are domestic waste facilities, 5 are industrial waste facilities, 2 are industrial stormwater discharges, and 1 isan underground injection control facility. Of these facilities, only 2 discharge to state surface waters, and those are the stormwater discharges. 

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# Figure 3.3: Composite Map of the Upper Keys Planning Unit, Including the 1998 303(d) List, Planning List and Verified List Waters, and Potential Pollution Sources 

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# Table 3.5: Integrated Water Quality Assessment Summary for the Upper Keys Planning Unit

WBID Waterbody Segment Waterbody
Type 1 

# Class 2 

# 1998
303(d) List

Parameters of

Concern Data Evaluation under the Impaired Surface Waters Rule Criteria 3



# Potentially
Impaired (Cat.
3c) for Listed

Parameters Verified Impaired 4


# (Cat. 4a, 4b, 4c,
or 5) for Listed

Parameters 5 

# Not Impaired
(Cat. 2)

for Listed

Parameters EPA’s 305(b)/303(d)
Integrated Report

Assessment Category for WBID 6



# 6002 Manatee Bay Estuary IIIM Nutrients
(Other) Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), Turbidity, pH, Fecal
Coliforms, DO 3c

6003 Barnes Sound Estuary IIIM Nutrients
(Other) Nutrients
(Chlorophyll a ),
Turbidity, pH,
Fecal Coliforms,
DO, Arsenic 3c

6005 Long Sound Estuary IIIM DO Nutrients
(Other) Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), Turbidity, pH, DO 3c

6009 Plantation Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Copper,
Mercury in Fish Iron, pH, Fecal
Coliforms,
Cadmium,

Lead, Nutrients
(Chlorophyll a ),

Arsenic 5

6017 Upper

Matecumbe
Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Mercury in Fish pH, Fecal

Coliforms 5

6019 Lower

Matecumbe
Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Copper,
Mercury in Fish 5

8078 Florida Bay

Gulf 2 Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), pH,
Zinc, Turbidity,
DO, Lead, Arsenic, Cadmium,
Copper 5

8084 Lower

Matecumbe
Key Ocean Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Fecal Coliforms,
Turbidity 5

8084A Sea Oats

Beach Beach IIIM 3b

8084B Anne’s Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria in

Shellfish 2

8085 Plantation Key

Ocean Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity 5 

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# WBID Waterbody Segment Waterbody
Type 1 

# Class 2 

# 1998
303(d) List

Parameters of

Concern Data Evaluation under the Impaired Surface Waters Rule Criteria 3



# Potentially
Impaired (Cat.
3c) for Listed

Parameters Verified Impaired 4


# (Cat. 4a, 4b, 4c,
or 5) for Listed

Parameters 5 

# Not Impaired
(Cat. 2)

for Listed

Parameters EPA’s 305(b)/303(d)
Integrated Report

Assessment Category for WBID 6



# 8086 Rodriguez Key

Ocean Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity 5

8087 Key Largo

Ocean 1 Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity 5

6005A Little

Blackwater

Sound Estuary IIIM Nutrients
(Other) Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity, pH 3c

6005B Blackwater

Sound Estuary IIIM Nutrients
(Other) Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity, pH 3c

6005EB John
Pennekamp

State Park Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

6006A South Key
Largo Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Copper,
Mercury in Fish Nutrients
(Chlorophyll a ),
Cadmium, Lead,
pH, Zinc, Iron,
Fecal Coliforms,

Arsenic 5

6006B Middle Key
Largo Coastal IIIM Nutrients (Other),
Mercury in Fish 5

6006C North Key
Largo Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), Copper,
Mercury in Fish Turbidity 5

8078A Harry Harris
County Park Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8078B Islamorada
Library Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8078C Founder Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

Notes:

1 

# The designation “stream” includes canals, rivers, and sloughs. The designation “lake” includes some marshes.

2 

# The state’s surface water classifications are as follows: Class I: Potable water supplies Class II: Shellfish propagation or harvesting Class III: Recreation, propagation, and maintenance of a healthy, well-balanced population of fish and wildlife Class IV: Agricultural water supplies Class V: Navigation, utility, and industrial use (there are no state waters currently in this class)

3 

# The EPA’s 305(b)/303(d) Integrated Report categories are as follows:

1— Attains all designated uses;

2— Attains some designated uses;
3a— No data and information are available to determine if any designated use is attained;
3b— Some data and information are available, but they are insufficient for determining if any designated use is attained;

3c— Meets Planning List criteria and is potentially impaired for one or more designated uses;
3d— Meets Verified List criteria and is potentially impaired for one or more designated uses; Table 3.5 (continued) 

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# 4a— Impaired for one or more designated uses and the TMDL is complete;
4b— Impaired for one or more designated uses, but no TMDL is required because an existing or proposed pollutant control mechanism provides reasonable assurance that the water will attain standards in the future;

4c— Impaired for one or more designated uses but no TMDL is required because the impairment is not caused by a pollutant; and

5— Water quality standards are not attained and a TMDL is required.

4 

# Parameters in bold meet the Verified List evaluation criteria, Section 62-303.400, F.A.C.

5 

# Parameters in italics are in Category 4 (a, b, or c) waters that do not require TMDL development.

6 

# The assessment categories listed in this column represent the status of each WBID as a whole, based on multiple parameters

. The hierarchy for assigning these categories is Category 5, then 4, then 3c, then 2, and then 3b, i.e., each WBID is assigned a category based on the highest category assigned to an individual parameter. For example, if WBID 9999 has total coliforms as Category 5, fecal coliforms as Category 3c, and coliforms–shellfish as Category 2, the single assessment call for the WBID is Category 5.

DO = Dissolved oxygen
M = Marine Table 3.5 (continued)



# There are 2 inactive solid waste landfi lls in the planning unit. Solid waste is currently sent to the mainland for disposal. There are no hazardous waste sites, Superfund sites, state-funded waste cleanup sites, or delineated ground water contamination areas in the Upper Keys Planning Unit. Figure 3.3 shows permitted wastewater treatment facilities and landfi lls in the planning unit (see Noteworthy for a defi nition of point sources). Appendix E lists the basin’s domestic and industrial surface discharge facilities, along with their permitted fl ows, by planning unit. It also lists

landfi lls or solid waste facilities, by planning unit. Nonpoint Sources. Based on Level I land use summary information from the SFWMD’s 1995 GIS data, the predominant land uses in the Upper Keys Planning Unit are wetlands (64.6 percent), urban and built-up (20 percent), and upland forest (10.6 percent). Of these land uses, only urban and built-up is associated with nonpoint discharges of pollutants and
eroded sediments to waters of the state (see Noteworthy for a defi nition of nonpoint sources). Appendix F provides summary information on general land uses in the basin, by planning unit.

Ecological Summary

# The coral reefs on the Atlantic side of the Upper Keys are well developed and well protected by the islands from the turbidity and fresh waters often found in Florida Bay, but these reefs are also the most visited and vulnerable to damage from direct human contact. The Upper Keys contain much of the remaining tropical hardwoodhammock habitat in the Keys and support several imperiled species, including the Schaus swallowtail butterfl y (Herclides aristodemus ponceanus)

, Key Largo woodrat (Neotoma fl oridana smalli) , Key Largo cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus allapaticola) , and American crocodile (Crocodylus
acutus) (see sidebar ). Currently ranging from Biscayne National Park to Key Largo and Lower Matecumbe Key, the Schaus swallowtail butterfl y is dwindling, with the population numbering fewer than 1,000 individuals. The primary
reason for decline is the loss of habitat, use of insecticides, collection of 

# Additional Information

For more information on threatened and endangered species in the Florida Keys,

see the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s (FWC’s) List of Florida’s Endangered and Threatened Species and Species of Special Concern, available at http://www.flmnh.ufl
.edu/fish/southflorida/coral/ endangeredkeys.html (scroll to the bottom of the page for the link). 

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# Point sources discharging pollutants to surface water or ground water originate from discrete, well-defined areas such as a facility discharge from the end of a pipe, a disposal well, or a wastewater sprayfield. Point sources generally fall into twomajor types: domestic wastewater sources (which consist of sewage from homes, businesses, and institutions) and industrial wastewater sources (which include wastewater, runoff, and

leachate from industrial or commercial storage, handling, or processing facilities). Landfills,

Rainfall generates stormwater

runoff. As it flows over the land and through the ground, runoffmay carry nonpoint source pollutants from many different sources to lakes, rivers, and estuaries in a watershed, and into ground water supplies. Nonpoint sources also 

# Information on Point Sources in Planning Units

hazardous waste sites, dry cleaning solvent cleanup program sites, and petroleum facility discharges are also considered point sources. These sites havethe potential to leach contaminants into ground water and
surface water.Identifying the source of waterbody impairment is an importantpart of assessing water quality and developing TMDLs. As part of this report, information is presented on point sources, including permitted facilities that discharge wastewater and
landfills.



# Nonpoint Sources and Land Uses

include atmospheric deposition and leaching from agriculturallands, urban areas, and unvegetated lands. The pollutants in runoff often include fertilizers, bacteria, metals, sediments, and petroleum compounds. 

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# the larvae, and extreme weather conditions. Recovery efforts for this endangered species include captive breeding programs to help restore the population. Tropical hardwood hammocks provide critical habitat for the Key Largo woodrat and the Key Largo cotton mouse. Both species originally ranged throughout Key Largo; as a result of habitat destruction, however, they are currently limited to the northern third of the island and listed as endangered species.

Water Quality Improvement Plans and Projects 

# As part of the Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program, the Key Largo Wastewater Board has a list of 14 projects, including providingcommunity wastewater collection systems and advanced wastewater treatment to 3 residential areas currently served by septic tanks. The village of Islamorada has been issued a permit to construct a 0.1 million gallon per day (mgd) wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) and a collection system for Plantation Key Colony. Islamorada has started the construction of the collection system; however, the village would like to expand the service area to other neighborhoods surrounding Plantation Key Colony, and insteadof constructing the permitted 0.1 mgd system, it is applying for an expansion. Islamorada also has a stormwater improvement plan consisting of 63 projects. Waters will not be placed on the Verifi ed List if the Department receives reasonable assurance that existing or proposed projects and/or programs are expected to result in the attainment of water quality standards or consistently improve water quality over time. Appendix B contains more detailed documentation of the requirements for reasonable assurance.At the time of the writing of this Assessment Report, the Department was in the process of establishing the terms of a reasonable assurance documentation for nutrients for the island-based WBIDs in this planning unit. The attainment of water quality is expected to be achieved through planned infrastructure improvements to the island’s wastewater and stormwater treatment systems consistent with Florida Law 99.395 or better. The Florida Keys Reasonable Assurance Document (FKRAD) is expected

to be fi nalized and signed by its member stakeholders in the fall of 2008 and hopefully be submitted for secretarial adoption soon thereafter. Once accepted and adopted by Secretarial Order, those WBIDs will be designated as Category 4b for nutrients.

• Middle Keys Planning Unit

General Description 

# The Middle Keys Planning Unit covers about 13.8 square miles of land and nearshore waters. It contains 9 segments (WBIDs) plus 6 additional open water coastal segments, for a total of 15 WBIDs. It includes Long, Duck, Crawl, Fat Deer, Grassy, Vaca, Boot, Pigeon, and Little Duck Keys, and extends south and west to the end of the Seven Mile Bridge. The islands of the Middle Keys separate western Florida Bay to the

north from the Atlantic Ocean and the Straits of Florida to the south. Parks include Long Key State Recreation Area and Curry Hammock. 

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# Named communities include Layton, Marathon, Marathon Shores, and Key Colony Beach. Land use in the planning unit is similar to that of the Upper Keys, mainly residential and commercial, with some supporting light industrial uses. Tourism development is not as intensive as in the Upper Keys, with more emphasis on fi shing than on diving and resorts. Western Florida Bay and the Southwest Florida Shelf receive water from the southwest Florida mainland, including the western Everglades, which have less agricultural input than the eastern Everglades. It also receives fresh water from Shark River Slough and more western drainage projects, but these projects are not as large as those farther east. The water is more turbid and variable in temperature and salinity than ocean water, because the bay is shallow and soft-bottomed. The islands of the Middle Keys are farther apart than those of the Upper Keys, and so Florida Bay water readily fl ows through major tidal passes in the Middle Keys and reduces the growth of reef corals on the Atlantic side. Activities on the adjacent land affect the nearshore waters. The limestone base of the islands is porous, and anything discharged on land quickly reaches the water. Poorly functioning septic tanks and cesspits are of particular concern, especially when they are near canals. There is serious potential for pollution of the canals themselves, and the canals can easily move pollution to natural waters. A two-year monitoring project in canals in the Little Venice Service Area near Marathon found high bacteria counts, high nutrient concentrations, and low DO (Boyer and Jones, 2004). Atlantic waters offshore can be affected by shipping and boating discharges, and turbid waters transported from Florida Bay.

Water Quality Summary 

# The major water quality concerns in the Middle Keys are nutrients and
bacteria from stormwater and wastewater in nearshore waters, and nutrients and some salinity variations from western Florida Bay and the Florida Shelf. DOH recommends the limited consumption of snook, red drum, great barracuda, king mackerel 33–39 inches, spotted seatrout greater than 20 inches, little tunny, cobia, greater amberjack, bluefi sh, crevalle jack, shark less than 43 inches, permit, and wahoo throughout the Keys, Florida Bay, and Biscayne Bay, due to the possibility of high levels of mercury. Currently, no consumption advisory exists for king mackerel greater than 39 inches and shark greater than 43 inches. Figure 3.4 , a composite map of the planning unit, shows waters on the 1998 303(d) list, the Planning List and Verified List, and potential pollution sources. Table 3.6 summarizes the water quality assessment status of all waterbody segments in the planning unit.

Permitted Discharges and Land Uses



# Point Sources. There are 91 permitted wastewater facilities in the Middle Keys Planning Unit, of which 83 are domestic waste facilities, 6 are industrial waste facilities, and 2 are industrial stormwater discharges. Of these facilities, 2 discharge to state surface waters, and those are the 

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# Figure 3.4: Composite Map of the Middle Keys Planning Unit, Including the 1998 303(d) List, Planning List and Verified List Waters, and Potential Pollution Sources 

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# Table 3.6: Integrated Water Quality Assessment Summary for the Middle Keys Planning Unit

WBID Waterbody Segment Waterbody
Type 1 

# Class 2 

# 1998
303(d) List

Parameters of

Concern Data Evaluation under the Impaired Surface Waters Rule Criteria 3



# Potentially
Impaired (Cat.
3c) for Listed

Parameters Verified Impaired 4


# (Cat. 4a, 4b, 4c,
or 5) for Listed

Parameters 5 

# Not Impaired
(Cat. 2)

for Listed

Parameters EPA’s 305(b)/303(d)
Integrated Report

Assessment Category for WBID 6



# 6010 Long Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Mercury in Fish 5

6016 Duck Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Mercury in Fish 5

8071 Florida Keys

Gulf Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Copper, pH,
Zinc, Turbidity,
Lead, Cadmium,

Arsenic 5

8076 Florida Keys

Gulf 3 Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Fecal Coliforms,
Turbidity 5

8077 Florida Bay

Gulf 1 Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity, pH,

Arsenic 5

8081 Boat Key

Ocean Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity, Fecal

Coliforms 5

8082 Grassy Key

Ocean Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity 5

8083 Long Key

Ocean Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity 5

6011A Vaca Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Copper,
Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a), Iron,
pH, Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic,

Fecal Coliforms 5

6011B Key Colony Beach IIIM Nutrients (Other) 5

6011C Grassy Key Coastal IIIM DO Nutrients
(Other),
Mercury in Fish Fecal Coliforms 5

8076A Veteran’s

Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8077A Curry

Hammock

State Park Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 2 

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# WBID Waterbody Segment Waterbody
Type 1 

# Class 2 

# 1998
303(d) List

Parameters of

Concern Data Evaluation under the Impaired Surface Waters Rule Criteria 3



# Potentially
Impaired (Cat.
3c) for Listed

Parameters Verified Impaired 4


# (Cat. 4a, 4b, 4c,
or 5) for Listed

Parameters 5 

# Not Impaired
(Cat. 2)

for Listed

Parameters EPA’s 305(b)/303(d)
Integrated Report

Assessment Category for WBID 6



# 8081A Coco Plum

Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8081B Sombrero

Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 2

Notes:

1 

# The designation “stream” includes canals, rivers, and sloughs. The designation “lake” includes some marshes.

2 

# The state’s surface water classifications are as follows: Class I: Potable water supplies Class II: Shellfish propagation or harvesting Class III: Recreation, propagation, and maintenance of a healthy, well-balanced population of fish and wildlife Class IV: Agricultural water supplies Class V: Navigation, utility, and industrial use (there are no state waters currently in this class)

3 

# The EPA’s 305(b)/303(d) Integrated Report categories are as follows:

1— Attains all designated uses;

2— Attains some designated uses;
3a— No data and information are available to determine if any designated use is attained;
3b— Some data and information are available, but they are insufficient for determining if any designated use is attained;

3c— Meets Planning List criteria and is potentially impaired for one or more designated uses;
3d— Meets Verified List criteria and is potentially impaired for one or more designated uses;

4a— Impaired for one or more designated uses and the TMDL is complete;
4b— Impaired for one or more designated uses, but no TMDL is required because an existing or proposed pollutant control mechanism provides reasonable assurance that the water will attain standards in the future;

4c— Impaired for one or more designated uses but no TMDL is required because the impairment is not caused by a pollutant; and

5— Water quality standards are not attained and a TMDL is required.

4 

# Parameters in bold meet the Verified List evaluation criteria, Section 62-303.400, F.A.C.

5 

# Parameters in italics are in Category 4 (a, b, or c) waters that do not require TMDL development.

6 

# The assessment categories listed in this column represent the status of each WBID as a whole, based on multiple parameters

. The hierarchy for assigning these categories is Category 5, then 4, then 3c, then 2, and then 3b, i.e., each WBID is assigned a category based on the highest category assigned to an individual parameter. For example, if WBID 9999 has total coliforms as Category 5, fecal coliforms as Category 3c, and coliforms–shellfish as Category 2, the single assessment call for the WBID is Category 5.

DO = Dissolved oxygen
M = Marine Table 3.6 (continued)



# stormwater discharges. There are 2 solid waste landfi lls, 1 active and 1 inactive; however, the solid waste is currently sent to the mainland for disposal. There are no hazardous waste sites, Superfund sites, state-funded waste cleanup sites, or delineated ground water contamination areas in the Middle Keys Planning Unit. Figure 3.4 shows permitted wastewater treatment facilities and landfi lls in the planning unit. Appendix E lists the basin’s domestic and industrial surface discharge facilities, along with their permitted fl ows, by planning

unit. It also lists landfi lls or solid waste facilities, by planning unit. Nonpoint Sources. Based on Level I land use summary information from the SFWMD’s 1995 GIS data, the predominant land uses in the Middle Keys Planning Unit are wetlands (47.8 percent), urban and built-up (36.4 percent), and transportation/communication/utilities (6.4 percent). The “urban and built-up” and “transportation/communication/utilities” 

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# land use types are associated with nonpoint discharges of pollutants and

eroded sediments to waters of the state. Appendix F provides summary information on general land uses in the basin, by planning unit.The city of Marathon was designated as a regulated Phase 2 municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) in accordance with Section62-624.800, F.A.C., on March 10, 2004, as a result of discharges of stormwater from the MS4 to an Outstanding Florida Water (OFW). The city’sPhase 2 MS4 permit (ID Number FLR0E129) was issued by the Department on April 18, 2005, and will expire on April 17, 2010.

Ecological Summary 

# The islands of the Middle Keys are farther apart than those of the Upper Keys, and so Florida Bay water readily fl ows through the major tidal passes. As this water can be more turbid, coral reefs are either absent or poorly developed on the Atlantic side off the Middle Keys. The MiddleKeys Planning Unit contains extensive grass beds and hard-bottom communities that support both sport and commercial fi sheries. There are no endangered species particularly associated with the Middle Keys, but bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) , manatees (Trichechus manatus) , and various sea turtles live in the area (see sidebar ).

Water Quality Improvement Plans and Projects 

# The Florida Keys Water Quality Improvements Program is the primary plan for improving the treatment of wastewater and stormwater in the Keys. Several components of the program apply to the Middle Keys Planning Unit. The Monroe County Master Plan covers the entire developed area of the Keys, except the cities of Key West and Key Colony Beach. In the Middle Keys, two new community wastewater systems and one new regional system are recommended. Other than Duck Key, Conch Key, and Long Key/Layton, all areas of the Middle Keys will continue to operate and upgrade their treatment process to meet the best available technology/ advanced wastewater treatment (BAT/AWT) standard by July 1, 2010. These systems include the following:

• Hawk’s Cay (Hawk’s Cay portion of AWT upgrade), • West End Long Key (three facilities), and • East End Long Key (two facilities).

The city of Marathon has a seven-project plan for the phased expansion of collection systems and the construction of two AWT plants. The Little Venice water quality monitoring project was intended to document water quality changes in the fi rst area to receive central sewer connections(Boyer, Jones, and Mir-Gonzalez, 2004). The city of Layton plans to connect Long Key Estates and the area around U.S. 1 to a small AWT plant. The city of Key Colony Beach plans to rehabilitate its sanitary sewer system by relining leaking pipes and reducing infi ltration. Waters will not be placed on the Verifi ed List if the Department receives reasonable assurance that existing or proposed projects and/or 

# Additional Information

For more information on threatened and endangered species in the Florida Keys,

see the FWC’s List of Florida’sEndangered and Threatened Species and Speciesof Special Concern, available at http://www.flmnh.ufl
.edu/fish/southflorida/coral/ endangeredkeys.html (scroll to the bottom of the page for the link). 

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# programs are expected to result in the attainment of water quality standards or consistently improve water quality over time. Appendix B contains more detailed documentation of the requirements for reasonable assurance).At the time of the writing of this Assessment Report, the Department was in the process of establishing the terms of a reasonable assurance documentation for nutrients for the island-based WBIDs in this planning unit. The attainment of water quality is expected to be achieved throughplanned infrastructure improvements to the island’s wastewater and stormwater treatment systems consistent with Florida Law 99.395 or better. The FKRAD is expected to be fi nalized and signed by its member stake holders in the fall of 2008 and hopefully be submitted for secretarial adoption soon thereafter. Once accepted and adopted by Secretarial Order, those WBIDs will be designated as Category 4b for nutrients.

• Lower Keys Planning Unit

General Description 

# The Lower Keys Planning Unit covers about 73 square miles of land and nearshore waters. It contains 23 segments (WBIDs) plus 6 additional open water coastal segments, for a total of 29 WBIDs. It includes all theislands south and west of the west end of the Seven Mile Bridge, including Bahia Honda, Big Pine, Big Torch, Ramrod, Summerland, Cudjoe, Sugarloaf, Saddlebunch, and Boca Chica Keys; Key West; the Marquesas Keys; and the Dry Tortugas. The Lower Keys extend west of Florida Bay into the Gulf of Mexico proper to the north, and the Straits of Florida to the south. Parks and protected areas include Great White Heron NationalWildlife Refuge, Dry Tortugas National Park, Key West National Wildlife Refuge, Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary, Coupon Bight Aquatic Preserve, the Coupon Bight/Key Deer Conservation and Recreation Lands Project, National Key Deer Refuge, and Bahia Honda State Park. Named communities include Big Pine, Pirates Cove, Sugarloaf Shores, and the city of Key West. Land uses in the Lower Keys are mainly residential and commercial. Tourism is the primary business, but commercial fi shing is also important, as are the construction industry and marine services. The U.S. military also has a large presence in the Lower Keys, with the U.S. Naval Air Facility–Key West, which is actually located on Boca Chica Key, 5 miles east northeast of the city of Key West. Initially designated a Naval AirStation, the facility was realigned as a Naval Air Facility (NAF) on September 1, 2001. The airfi eld, which consists of 3 asphalt runways, is the Navy’s premier pilot-training facility for transient tactical aviation squadrons. The NAF’s population consists of 1,650 active-duty members, 2,507 family
members, 35 reservists, and 1,312 civilians. The Lower Keys have more land area than the Upper and Middle Keys,and a larger percentage of that area is not developed at present. The geological foundation of the Lower Keys differs from that of the other keys. From Big Pine Key west, the islands are formed of Miami Oolite, an ancient sandbar material. The shape of the islands also changes from narrow strips parallel to the Florida Straits, to wider islands perpendicular to the Florida Straits, with fairly narrow channels between them. 

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# The open Gulf and Atlantic waters around the Lower Keys are influenced by mainland runoff from the Shark River Slough and the Peace, Caloosahatchee, and Mississippi Rivers through Loop Current transport and advection down the South Florida Shelf (Boyer, 2005). Discharges and runoff from adjacent land uses infl uence the nearshore waters.

Water Quality Summary

# The nearshore waters of the Lower Keys are mainly affected by stormwater and wastewater from adjacent land uses, and canals and boat basins can act as nutrient traps and impair the water quality of nearby natural waters. Problems such as seagrass die-offs in Florida Bay can also cause increased turbidity on the north side of the Lower Keys. The waters of the Lower Keys are farther from the Florida mainland

and less infl uenced by direct mainland runoff than the Upper and Middle Keys, but longshore drift over the Southwest Florida Shelf, the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Florida Current can bring problems such as oil discharges or red tide from distant sources. DOH recommends the limited consumption of snook, red drum, great barracuda, king mackerel 33–39 inches, spotted seatrout greater than 20 inches, little tunny, cobia, greater amberjack, bluefi sh, crevalle jack, shark less than 43 inches, permit, and wahoo throughout the Keys, Florida Bay, and Biscayne Bay, due to the possibility of high levels of mercury. Currently, no consumption advisory exists for king mackerel greater than 39 inches and shark greater than 43 inches. Figure 3.5 , a composite map of the planning unit, shows waters on the 1998 303(d) list, the Planning List and Verified List, and potential pollution sources. Table 3.7 summarizes the water quality assessment status of all waterbody segments in the planning unit.

Permitted Discharges and Land Uses



# Point Sources. There are 57 permitted wastewater facilities in the Lower Keys Planning Unit, of which 51 are domestic waste facilities, 5 are industrial waste facilities, and 1 is an industrial stormwater discharge. Three of these facilities discharge to state surface waters: 1 domestic waste facility, 1 industrial waste facility, and 1 stormwater discharge. There are

4 landfi lls in the planning unit, 2 active and 2 inactive; however, solidwaste is currently sent to the mainland for disposal. There are no hazardous waste sites, Superfund sites, state-funded waste cleanup sites, or delineated ground water contamination areas in the Lower Keys Planning Unit. Figure 3.5 shows permitted wastewater treatment facilities and

landfi lls in the planning unit. Appendix E lists the basin’s domestic and industrial surface discharge facilities, along with their permitted

fl ows, by planning unit. It also lists landfi lls or solid waste facilities, by planning unit. Nonpoint Sources. Based on Level I land use summary information from SFWMD’s 1995 GIS data, the predominant land use in the Lower Keys Planning Unit is wetlands (64.6 percent), urban and built-up (22.4 percent), and upland forest (9.2 percent). Urban and built-up land use is associated with nonpoint discharges of pollutants and eroded 

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# Figure 3.5: Composite Map of the Lower Keys Planning Unit, Including the 1998 303(d) List, Planning List and Verified List Waters, and Potential Pollution Sources 

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# Table 3.7: Integrated Water Quality Assessment Summary for the Lower Keys Planning Unit

WBID Waterbody Segment Waterbody
Type 1 

# Class 2 

# 1998
303(d) List

Parameters of

Concern Data Evaluation under the Impaired Surface Waters Rule Criteria 3



# Potentially
Impaired (Cat.
3c) for Listed

Parameters Verified Impaired 4


# (Cat. 4a, 4b, 4c,
or 5) for Listed

Parameters 5 

# Not Impaired
(Cat. 2)

for Listed

Parameters EPA’s 305(b)/303(d)
Integrated Report

Assessment Category for WBID 6



# 6018 Bahia Honda

State Park Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other),
Mercury in Fish Fecal Coliforms 5

8072 Dry Tortugas

Gulf Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity 5

8073 Key West Gulf Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish,

Fecal Coliforms Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity 5

8074 Florida Keys

Gulf 1 Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity 5

8075 Florida Keys

Gulf 2 Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity, pH 5

8079 NAS Key West

Ocean Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity 5

8080 Newfound
Harbor Keys

Ocean Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Turbidity, Fecal

Coliforms 5

6012A Big Pine Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Copper,
Mercury in Fish Iron, Zinc, Lead,
Cadmium, pH,

Arsenic, Fecal

Coliforms 5

6012B Bahia Honda
Bayside Beach IIIM Nutrients
(Other) Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

6012C No Name Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients (Other),
Mercury in Fish 5

6012D Long Beach Coastal IIIM Nutrients (Other),
Mercury in Fish 5

6012E Big Torch Key Coastal IIIM Mercury in Fish 5

6013A Saddlebunch
Keys Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Mercury in Fish 5

6013B Sugarloaf Coastal IIIM Nutrients (Other),
Mercury in Fish 5

6 013C Cudjoe Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Copper,
Mercury in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), Fecal
Coliforms, pH 5 

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# WBID Waterbody Segment Waterbody
Type 1 

# Class 2 

# 1998
303(d) List

Parameters of

Concern Data Evaluation under the Impaired Surface Waters Rule Criteria 3



# Potentially
Impaired (Cat.
3c) for Listed

Parameters Verified Impaired 4


# (Cat. 4a, 4b, 4c,
or 5) for Listed

Parameters 5 

# Not Impaired
(Cat. 2)

for Listed

Parameters EPA’s 305(b)/303(d)
Integrated Report

Assessment Category for WBID 6



# 6013D Little

Knockemdown
Key Coastal IIIM Nutrients (Other),
Mercury in Fish 5

6014A Key West Coastal IIIM Nutrients (Other),
Fecal Coliforms,
Copper, Mercury

in Fish Nutrients (Chlorophyll a ), DO,
Iron, pH, Turbidity, Zinc, Lead,

Arsenic 5

6014B Stock Island Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), Copper,
Mercury in Fish DO, pH 5

6014C U.S. Naval Air
Station Key

West Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other), DO

, Mercury in Fish 5

8073A N. Roosevelt/
Cow Key (KW) Beach IIIM 3b

8073B Kennedy

Dr and N.
Roosevelt (KW) Beach IIIM 3b

8073C Simonton

Street Beach
(KW) Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8073D Ft. Zachary
Taylor State

Park Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 2

8073E South Beach
(KW) Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8073F Higgs Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8073G Rest Beach
(KW) Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8073H Smathers

Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8080A Bahia Honda
Sandspur Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

8080B Bahia Honda

Oceanside Beach IIIM Bacteria (Beach
Advisory) 5

Notes:

1 

# The designation “stream” includes canals, rivers, and sloughs. The designation “lake” includes some marshes.

2 

# The state’s surface water classifications are as follows: Class I: Potable water supplies Class II: Shellfish propagation or harvesting Class III: Recreation, propagation, and maintenance of a healthy, well-balanced population of fish and wildlife Class IV: Agricultural water supplies Class V: Navigation, utility, and industrial use (there are no state waters currently in this class) Table 3.7 (continued) 

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# 3 

# The EPA’s 305(b)/303(d) Integrated Report categories are as follows:

1— Attains all designated uses;

2— Attains some designated uses;
3a— No data and information are available to determine if any designated use is attained;
3b— Some data and information are available, but they are insufficient for determining if any designated use is attained;

3c— Meets Planning List criteria and is potentially impaired for one or more designated uses;
3d— Meets Verified List criteria and is potentially impaired for one or more designated uses;

4a— Impaired for one or more designated uses and the TMDL is complete;
4b— Impaired for one or more designated uses, but no TMDL is required because an existing or proposed pollutant control mechanism provides reasonable assurance that the water will attain standards in the future;

4c— Impaired for one or more designated uses but no TMDL is required because the impairment is not caused by a pollutant; and

5— Water quality standards are not attained and a TMDL is required.

4 

# Parameters in bold meet the Verified List evaluation criteria, Section 62-303.400, F.A.C.

5 

# Parameters in italics are in Category 4 (a, b, or c) waters that do not require TMDL development.

6 

# The assessment categories listed in this column represent the status of each WBID as a whole, based on multiple parameters

. The hierarchy for assigning these categories is Category 5, then 4, then 3c, then 2, and then 3b, i.e., each WBID is assigned a category based on the highest category assigned to an individual parameter. For example, if WBID 9999 has total coliforms as Category 5, fecal coliforms as Category 3c, and coliforms–shellfish as Category 2, the single assessment call for the WBID is Category 5.

DO = Dissolved oxygen
M = Marine Table 3.7 (continued)



# sediments to waters of the state. Appendix F provides summary information on general land uses in the basin, by planning unit. The city of Key West was designated as a regulated Phase 2 MS4 system in accordance with Section 62-624.800, F.A.C., on January 15, 2004, as a result of discharges of stormwater from the MS4 to an OFW. The city’s Phase 2 MS4 permit (ID Number FLR0E128) was issued by the Department on February 2, 2005, and will expire on February 1, 2010.

Ecological Summary 

# Due to the isolation of the Lower Keys and their relatively large land area, the coral reefs on the Atlantic side of the islands are well developed, as they are protected from the turbidity and variable salinities of Florida Bay. The Lower Keys also support a number of indigenous species that are found nowhere else, but because their populations were always fairly small, habitat loss and human interference have threatened many of these species
with extinction (see sidebar ). Habitat used by the endangered Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus
clavium) includes pinelands, hardwood hammocks, and mangrove swamps. Pinelands, hardwood hammocks, and other upland dry areas are used for feeding activities, while mangrove swamps are used for shelter from the heat during the day. Two-thirds of the Key deer population inhabits Big Pine Key and No Name Key. The remaining deer reside in Big Torch, Cudjoe, Howe, Little Pine, Little Torch, Middle Torch, Sugarloaf, and Summerland Keys. The islands located farther south lack a permanent supply of fresh water required by Key deer for survival. The current Key deer population is estimated at around 300, up from the 1955 estimate of

25 to 80. 

# Additional Information

For more information on threatened and endangered species in the Florida Keys,

see the FWC’s List of Florida’s Endangered and Threatened Species and Speciesof Special Concern, available at http://www.flmnh.ufl
.edu/fish/southflorida/coral/ endangeredkeys.html (scroll to the bottom of the page for the link). 

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# The Lower Keys marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri) lives in coastal prairies and freshwater marshes of the Lower Keys. These habitats are rapidly disappearing due to development in the Lower Keys, placing this endangered species under the threat of extinction. There are many other threatened and endangered species in the Florida Keys, including the Stock Island tree snail (Orthalicus rees) , southern bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) , and roseate tern (Sterna dougalli)

.

Water Quality Improvement Plans and Projects 

# Monroe County Sanitary Wastewater Master Plan. The Monroe County Master Plan covers the entire developed area of the Keys, except thecities of Key West and Key Colony Beach. Four new community wastewater systems and two new regional wastewater systems are recommended

for construction on Big Pine Key and Boca Chica/Big Coppitt Key. The two proposed regional systems in the Lower Keys are relatively small in

terms of both volume of fl ow and area, and thus the fi rst phase of these WWTPs can be constructed at the actual regional WWTP site. In addition to the new systems or the extension of existing systems, the master plan recommends that seven existing facilities in the Lower Keys continue to operate and upgrade their treatment processes to meet the BAT/AWT standard by July 1, 2010. City of Key West Sewage Treatment Plant and Collection System. The operation and maintenance of Key West’s WWTP and collection system is contracted to Operations Management International, Inc. (OMI). OMI employs 25 people at its Key West facility, which functions much like a city department. Currently, average fl ows are approximately 4 mgd, a reduction from 8 mgd 2 years ago. This reduction in fl ow indicates the success of the $56 million collection system rehabilitation. The seawater infl ows that previously entered the system and had to be unnecessarily pumped to the plant no longer occur.The city has spent more than $67 million on sewer capital improvements to rebuild the collection system, replace the ocean outfall with a Class V deep injection well (built to Class I standards), and upgrade theWWTP to an AWT facility. An ocean outfall remains only as an emergency backup disposal system and has not been used since the deep well was placed into operation several years ago. Also, the ocean outfall will be completely phased out by 2006, as a second deep injection well will be constructed to provide an emergency backup. City of Key West Stormwater Management System. The stormwater management system is made up of a patchwork of minicollection systems built over 30 years ago. Much of the system was constructed using substandard materials and design. In addition, historically, the system was never properly cleaned or maintained. Water quality and fl ooding problems emerged over the years as a result of the inadequate, improperly maintained, and deteriorating system. Beach closures, fl ood damage, and impassable roadways after rain events are evidence that the system needs to be upgraded. 

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# To improve stormwater management, the city hired OMI in fi scal year (FY) 1995 to perform cleaning and spot repair. The operating budget was $193,977 for FY 2001. The entire collection system is cleaned 2.5 times per year, with hot spots being handled more frequently. In addition, a stormwater capital plan has been developed to prevent

fl ooding, divert stormwater fl ow from outfalls, and reduce/eliminate the discharge of pollutants and the contamination of nearshore waters. The plan provides for a more comprehensive management system and includes the installation of 5 pump-assist injection wells, elimination and/or retrofi t of 63 outfalls, installation of 293 injection wells, and retrofi t of existing injection wells. Vertical French drains have already been designed andinstalled, addressing small areas of standing water in an affordable, costeffective way. Waters will not be placed on the Verifi ed List if the Department receives reasonable assurance that existing or proposed projects and/ or programs are expected to result in the attainment of water quality standards or consistently improve water quality over time. Appendix B contains more detailed documentation of the requirements for

reasonable assurance.At the time of the writing of this Assessment Report, the Department was in the process of establishing the terms of a reasonable assurance documentation for nutrients for the island-based WBIDs in this planning unit. The attainment of water quality is expected to be achieved throughplanned infrastructure improvements to the island’s wastewater and stormwater treatment systems consistent with Florida Law 99.395 or better. The FKRAD is expected to be fi nalized and signed by its member stake holders in the fall of 2008 and hopefully be submitted for secretarial adoption soon thereafter. Once accepted and adopted by Secretarial Order, those WBIDs will be designated as Category 4b for nutrients. 

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# Chapter 4: The Verified List of Impaired Waters

Public Participation

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Department) has worked with a variety of stakeholders and held public meetings on developing and adopting the Verifi ed Lists of impaired waters for the fi ve Group 5 basins across the state. Table 4.1 lists the statewide schedule for the development and adoption of the Group 5 Verifi ed Lists, including the public meetings. The schedule for the Florida Keys Basin is highlighted in boldface type. Appendix G contains documentation provided during the public comment period. Basin-specifi c draft Verifi ed Lists of waters that met the requirements of the Impaired Surface Waters Rule (IWR) were made available to the public. The lists were placed on the Department’s Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Web site, at http://www.dep.state.fl .us/water/tmdl, and were also sent on request to interested parties by mail or e-mail. Citizens were given the opportunity to comment on the draft lists in person and/or in writing. A total of 7 public meetings were held across the state, to encourage public participation on a basin-by-basin basis. The Department also accepted written comments for 45 days. Following the public meetings for the Group 5 basins, revised draft lists were made available to the public. The public had the opportunity to comment on these revised lists either in writing and/or at a fi nal public meeting in Tallahassee. Comments on any of the lists were accepted and considered throughout the full comment period.

The fi nal basin-specifi c Verifi ed Lists developed through the publicparticipation process were adopted by Secretarial Order, and were submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the state’s current 303(d) list of impaired waters.



# Identification of Impaired Waters

As discussed in Chapter 2, waters on the Verifi ed and Planning Lists must meet specifi c thresholds and data sufficiency and data quality requirements in the IWR (Rule 62-303, Florida Administrative Code [F.A.C.]). Appendix A describes the legislative and regulatory background for the development of the Planning and Verifi ed Lists. Appendix C contains a methodology that describes the criteria and thresholds required for both

lists under the IWR. Any waters that do not have sufficient data to be analyzed in accordance with the requirements of the IWR will remain on the 1998 303(d) list of impaired waters maintained by the EPA. These waters are not 

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# Table 4.1: Schedule for Development and Adoption of the Group 5 Verified Lists

Date Scheduled Activity

July 20, 2006 Publication of Draft Verified Lists for the Group 5 Basins and Beginning of Public

Comment Period

August 2, 2006 Public Meeting at University of West Florida on the Perdido River and Bay Basin

July 27, 2006 Public Meeting at Edgewater Library on the Northeast Coast Lagoons Basin

July 28, 2006 Public Meeting at St. Johns County Main Library on the Indian River Lagoon Basin

August 15, 2006 Public Meeting at Southwest Florida Water Management District on the Springs

Coast Basin

August 18, 2006 Public Meeting in Marathon, Florida, on the Florida Keys Basin

August 17, 2006 Public Meeting at Everglades Research and Education Center on the Everglades Basin

October 3, 2007 Public Meeting in Tallahassee on Revised Draft Verified Lists for All Basins, and
Public Comments and Input from Prior Public Meetings

October 22, 2007 Final Deadline for Receiving Public Comments

Spring 2008 Adoption of Verified List by Secretarial Order and Submittal to EPA as State’s
303(d) List of Impaired Waters



# delisted, and they will be sampled during the next phases of the watershed management cycle so that their impairment status can be verifi ed.



# Documentation of Reasonable Assurance

Under the Florida Watershed Restoration Act, the Department will not place impaired waters on the Verifi ed List if reasonable assurance is provided that these waters will attain water quality standards in the future and will make reasonable progress toward attaining water quality standards by the time the next 303(d) list of impaired waters is scheduled to be submitted to the EPA. Reasonable assurance can be provided if existing or proposed technology-based effl uent limitations and other pollution control programs under local, state, or federal authority are expected to result in the attainment of water quality standards. Examples include Surface Water Improvement and Management Program restoration projects that provide ongoing monitoring, and permitted facilities that upgrade to advanced treatment or remove discharges to surface waters. Table 4.2 lists the major
elements of reasonable assurance, and Appendix B provides additional

information.At the time of the writing of this Assessment Report, the Department was in the process of establishing the terms of a reasonable assurance documentation for nutrients for the island-based WBIDs in this planning unit. The attainment of water quality is expected to be achieved through planned infrastructure improvements to the island’s wastewater and stormwater treatment systems consistent with Florida Law 99.395 or better. The Florida Keys Reasonable Assurance Document (FKRAD) is expected

to be fi nalized and signed by its member stakeholders in the fall of 2008 and hopefully be submitted for secretarial adoption soon thereafter. Once 

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# Table 4.2: Elements of Reasonable Assurance

Descriptive

• 303(d) listed waterbody

• Water quality standards being violated or other criteria not met

• Pollutant(s) of concern

• Designated use classification

• Length (mi) or area (acres) of impairment or potential impairment

• Watershed/eight-digit cataloging unit code

• EPA Reach File Number

• Description of waterbody and watershed location

• Suspected or documented source(s) of impairment

Management Strategy

• Responsible entity

• Participating entities (government, agency, private, others)

• Summary of management strategy

• Supporting document(s)

• Pollutant(s) reduction goals/targets

• Assurance of participation (such as written agreements)

• Strategy for future growth and new sources

• Funding sources

• Implementation schedule

• Enforcement program if management strategy is not voluntary

Monitoring and Reporting Results

• Water quality monitoring program design and brief description

• Quality assurance/quality control elements

• Supporting document(s)

• Monitoring of implementation

• Reporting of monitoring and implementation results

• Expected response (time frame and degree of improvement)

• Responsible entity for reporting

• Frequency of reporting results

• Evaluating progress towards goals (water quality and
implementation)

Corrective Actions/Strategy
(if water quality does not improve after implementation)

• Description of strategy

• Supporting document(s) 

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# accepted and adopted by Secretarial Order, those WBIDs will be designated as Category 4b for nutrients.



# The Verified List of Impaired Waters

Table 4.3 contains the draft Verifi ed List of impaired waters for the Florida Keys Basin, based on the water quality assessment performed using
IWR Run 29_z as of October 1, 2007. Figure 4.1 shows waters on the

draft Verified List for the entire basin as of October 1, 2007, and the projected year for TMDL development. For presentation purposes, the entire watershed for the listed water is highlighted. However, only the main waterbody in the assessment unit has been assessed, and other waters in the watershed may not be impaired.

Table D.1 in Appendix D contains the Master List of all assessed waters in the basin as of October 1, 2007. An order containing the Verifi ed List of Impaired Group 5 Waters (Verified List) was signed by the Department’s Secretary on December 12, 2007; however, due to continuing efforts at working out a Reasonable Assurance Plan for nutrients in the Florida Keys, the Group 5 Verifi ed List for the Florida Keys will be adopted at a

later date.

Pollutants Causing Impairments Of the 67 waterbody segments in the Florida Keys Basin, 45 waters

a re impaired for at least 1 parameter, and a TMDL is required for thesewaters. There are a total of 92 parameter listings for impairment following the methodology in Appendix C . The Lower Keys Planning Unit has the largest number of impaired parameter listings with 43, followed by the Upper Keys Planning Unit with 31 listings. Finally, the Middle Keys Planning Unit had 18 impaired parameter listings. The most common parameter exhibiting impairment throughout the Florida Keys Basin is mercury in fi sh involving all waterbody identification numbers (WBIDs), followed by nutrients (other) with 24 listings, and bacteria (beach advisories) with 11 listings. For all WBIDs listed due to

fish consumption advisories for mercury, the state has issued limited consumption advisories, which applies to fi sh species having mercury levels of 0.5 to 1.5 parts per million. The data verifi ed to be within the last 7.5 years states for limited consumption of snook, red drum, great barracuda, king mackerel 33–39 inches, spotted seatrout greater than 20 inches, little tunny, cobia, greater amberjack, bluefi sh, crevalle jack, shark less than 43 inches, permit, and wahoo. No consumption advisory exists for king mackerel greater than 39 inches and shark greater than 43 inches.

Dissolved Oxygen Impairments in Florida Keys As required by the IWR, the Department must identify the pollutants

c ausing or contributing to dissolved oxygen (DO) exceedances in order to place DO on the Verifi ed List. The DO impairment is linked to both anthropogenic pollutants, specifically nutrients (other), and physical alterations of the waterbody not related to pollutants. The Department is currently evaluating whether existing and proposed control measures provide 

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# Table 4.3: The Draft Verified List 4 

# of Impaired Waters for the Florida Keys Basin

WBID Water Segment

Name Waterbody
Type Waterbody

Class 1 

# 1998 303(d)

Parameters

of Concern Parameters Identified Using
the Impaired

Surface

Waters Rule Priority for

TMDL
Development 2 

# Projected

Year for

TMDL
Development 2 

# Comments 3



# 6012A Big Pine Key Coastal IIIM Copper Medium 2011 Planning period: No
Data; verified period:

8/21.

6013C Cudjoe Key Coastal IIIM Copper Medium 2011 Planning period: No
Data; verified period:

5/19.

6014A Key West Coastal IIIM Fecal

Coliforms Low 2011 Planning period:
418/2256; verified
period: 459/2573.

6014A Key West Coastal IIIM Copper Medium 2011 Planning period: No
Data; verified period:

9/31.

6014B Stock Island Coastal IIIM Copper Medium 2011 Planning period: No
Data; verified period:

7/14.

8073 Key West Gulf Coastal IIIM Fecal

Coliforms Low 2011 Planning period:
325/2262; verified
period: 362/3036.

8073C Simonton

Street Beach
(KW) Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2004, 2005,

and 2006.

8073E South Beach
(KW) Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2002, 2003,

2004, 2005, and 2006.

8073F Higgs Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2001, 2002,

2003, 2004, 2005, and

2006.

8073G Rest Beach
(KW) Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2001. No
data available for 2003,

2004, 2005, and 2006.

8073H Smathers

Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2002, 2003,

2005, and 2006.

8080A Bahia Honda
Sandspur Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2005 and

2006.

8080B Bahia Honda

Oceanside Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2001, 2005,

and 2006.

6011A Vaca Key Coastal IIIM Copper Medium 2011 Planning period: No
Data; verified period:

19/47. 

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# WBID Water Segment

Name Waterbody
Type Waterbody

Class 1 

# 1998 303(d)

Parameters

of Concern Parameters Identified Using
the Impaired

Surface

Waters Rule Priority for

TMDL
Development 2 

# Projected

Year for

TMDL
Development 2 

# Comments 3



# 8076A Veteran’s

Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2004 and

2005.

8081A Coco Plum

Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2001, 2004,

2005, and 2006.

6005EB John Pennekamp State

Park Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2002, 2003,

2004, 2005, and 2006.

6006A South Key
Largo Coastal IIIM Copper Medium 2011 Planning period: No
Data; verified period:

42/86.

6006C North Key
Largo Coastal IIIM Copper Medium 2011 Planning period: No
Data; verified period:

5/8.

6009 Plantation Key Coastal IIIM Copper Medium 2011 Planning period: No
Data; verified period:

21/29.

6019 Lower Matecumbe Key Coastal IIIM Copper Medium 2011 Planning period: No
Data; verified period:

8/13.

8078A Harry Harris
County Park Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2002, 2004,

2005, and 2006.

8078B Islamorada
Library Beach Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2004, 2005,

and 2006.

8078C Founder Beach IIIM Bacteria Low 2011 Beach advisories > 21
days/year in 2002, 2004,

2005, and 2006. Table 4.3 (continued) 

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# WBID Water Segment

Name Waterbody
Type Waterbody

Class 1 

# 1998 303(d)

Parameters

of Concern Parameters Identified Using
the Impaired

Surface

Waters Rule Priority for

TMDL
Development 2 

# Projected

Year for

TMDL
Development 2 

# Comments 3



# 8998 Florida Coast Coastal IIIM Nutrients
(Other) Nutrients
(Other) Medium 2011 T he Florida Keys were
identified as impaired

for nutrients based on

“other information” indicating an imbalance in
flora or fauna, pursuant
to Rule 62-303.450(2),

F.A.C. However, the
Department is currently
evaluating whether
existing and proposed

control measures
provide reasonable

assurance that the
nutrient impairment will

be addressed, and the
Department may not
include this listing on

the final Verified List
adopted by Secretarial
Order. The specific

areal extent of the

reasonable assurance

demonstration is also pending further review,
but may include WBIDs

6018, 6012A, 6012B,
6012C, 6012D, 6013A,
6013B, 6013C, 6013D,
6014A, 6014B, 6014C,

6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,
6011B, 6011C, 6009,

6017, 6006A, 6006B,
6006C, and 6006Z. Table 4.3 (continued) 

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# WBID Water Segment

Name Waterbody
Type Waterbody

Class 1 

# 1998 303(d)

Parameters

of Concern Parameters Identified Using
the Impaired

Surface

Waters Rule Priority for

TMDL
Development 2 

# Projected

Year for

TMDL
Development 2 

# Comments 3



# 8998 Florida Coast Coastal IIIM Mercury
(based on fish
consumption) Low 2011 Data verified to be
within the last 7.5 years
for limited consumption of snook, red drum,
great barracuda, king

mackerel 33–39 inches,
spotted seatrout greater

than 20 inches, little
tunny, cobia, greater amberjack, bluefish,
crevalle jack, shark less
than 43 inches, permit,

and wahoo. No consumption advisory for
king mackerel greater

than 39 inches and
shark greater than 43

inches. WBIDs include
6006A–C, 6009, 6010,
6011A+C, 6012A,C–E,
6013A–D, 6014A–C,

6016, 6017, 6018, 6019,

8071, 8072, 8073, 8074,

8075, 8076, 8077, 8078,

8079, 8080, 8081, 8082,

8083, 8084, 8085, 8086,

8087.

Notes:

1 

# Florida’s waterbody classifications are defined as follows: Class I: Potable water supplies Class II: Shellfish propagation or harvesting Class III: Recreation, propagation, and maintenance of a healthy, well-balanced population of fish and wildlife Class IV: Agricultural water supplies Class V: Navigation, utility, and industrial use (there are no state waters currently in this class)

2 

# Priority and schedule reflect the priority established for the WBID in the 1998 303(d) list. Where a parameter was 1998 303(d) listed, the priority shown in the 1998 303(d) list was retained if it was originally high, or changed to medium if it was origi nally low. In the case of mercury in fish, the priority remains low. Where a parameter was only identified as impaired under the IW R, priorities of high, medium, or low were used.

3 

# Planning period = January 1, 1994, through December 31, 2003; Verified period = January 1, 1999, through June 30, 2006.

4 

# The Florida Keys Verified List is based on Run 29z_2.

Department = Florida Department of Environmental Protection
F.A.C. = Florida Administrative Code
M = Marine WBID = Waterbody identification number Table 4.3 (continued) 

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# Figure 4.1: Waters on the Verified List, with Projected Year for TMDL Development 

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# reasonable assurance that the nutrient impairment will be addressed. While the Department’s fi nal position on this issue is still pending for nutrients, the Department’s preliminary determination is that the control measures will address the anthropogenic pollutant loads impacting DO, but DO-impaired waterbodies will still not meet the applicable DO criteriadue to the physical structure of the canal system. As such, impaired waterbodies have been placed in Category 4c for DO.

Listing Based on Other Information Indicating Nutrient Im balance The Florida Keys were identifi ed as impaired for nutrients based on “other information” indicating an imbalance in fl ora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, the Department is currentlyevaluating whether existing and proposed control measures provide reasonable assurance that the nutrient impairment will be addressed and the Department may not include this listing on the fi nal Verifi ed List adopted by Secretarial Order. The specifi c areal extent of the reasonable assurance demonstration is also pending further review, but may include WBIDs

6018, 6012A, 6012B, 6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B, 6013C, 6013D,
6014A, 6014B, 6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A, 6011B, 6011C, 6009,
6017, 6006A, 6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.

Pollutants Causing Potential Impairments

Table 4.4 su mmarizes the major parameters for which potential impairments were identifi ed.

Table 4.4 shows that per the 1998 303(d) list, nutrients (other
information) were identifi ed as a potential cause of impairment in the

Table 4.4: Parameters Causing Potential Impairments in the Florida Keys Basin

Parameter Waterbody Segment Impairments

Included Only

on the
1998 303(d) List Identified Only
by the Impaired

Surface Waters Rule

Evaluation Identified on Both
the 1998 303(d) List
and by the Impaired

Surface Waters Rule

Evaluation Total
Impairments

Dissolved Oxygen

— — — —

Nutrients
(Other Information) 5——5

Bacteria
(Beach Advisories) —— ——

Coliforms
(Fecal) —— ——

Metals (Mercury)

— — — —
Metals (Copper)

— 1

— 1

Suspended Solids
(Turbidity) —— ——

Fish*

— — — —

*Fish = Fish consumption advisory issued by the Florida Department of Health based on mercury. 

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# embayment portion of the basin, specifi cally 5 waterbody segments (6002,6003, 6005, 6005A, and 6005B). Other parameters indicating the potential impairment of waterbody segments in this basin include copper, which

has been documented verifi ed impaired already in 9 WBIDs in the Florida Keys Basin. However, for both types of potential impairments very few water quality data exist in the STO rage and RET rieval database to verify the impairments. For this reason, additional monitoring will be conducted

to either confi rm or refute the impairments.

Adoption Process for the Verified List of Impaired Waters

The Verifi ed List must be submitted in a specifi c format (Section 62-303.710, F.A.C.) before being approved by order of the Department’s Secretary. The list must specify the pollutant and concentration causingthe impairment. If a waterbody segment is listed based on water quality criteria exceedances, then the list must provide the applicable criteria.However, if the listing is based on narrative or biological criteria, or impairment of other designated uses, and the water quality criteria are met, the

Verified List is required to specify the concentration of the pollutant relative to the water quality criteria and explain why the numeric criterion is not adequate. For waters with exceedances of the DO criteria, the Department must identify the pollutants causing or contributing to the exceedances and list both the pollutant and DO in the Verifi ed List.For waters impaired by nutrients, the Department is required to identify whether nitrogen or phosphorus, or both, are the limiting nutrients, and specify the limiting nutrient(s) in the Verifi ed List.

The Verifi ed List must also include the priority and schedule for TMDL development established for a waterbody segment and note any waters that are being removed from the current Planning List. In future watershed management cycles, the list must also note waters that are being removed from any previous Verifi ed List for the basin. 

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# Chapter 5: TMDL Development, Allocation, and Implementation

Prioritization of Listed Waters

Following the identifi cation of impaired waters on the 303(d) list, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Department) determines priorities for developing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) in Phase 3 of the watershed management cycle. When TMDLs are established, general allocations of pollutant load reductions are identifi ed, at least to the level of point and nonpoint source categories. Because TMDLs cannot be developed for all listed waters during a single watershed management cycle, waterbodies will be prioritized using the criteria in the Impaired Surface Waters Rule (IWR) (Section
62-303.500, Florida Administrative Code). The rule states that when establishing the TMDL development schedule for waters on the Verifi edList, the Department will prioritize impaired waterbody segments according to the severity of the impairment and each waterbody’s designated uses, taking into account the most serious water quality problems, the
most valuable and threatened resources, and the risk to human health and aquatic life. Under the IWR, the determination of high-, low-, and medium- priority waters is based on the following criteria.

High-priority waters:

• Waterbody segments where the impairment poses a threat to potable

water supplies or human health;

• Waterbody segments where the impairment is due to a pollutant

regulated by the Clean Water Act and the pollutant has contributed to the decline or extirpation of a federally listed threatened or endangered species, as indicated in the Federal Register listing the
species; or

• Waterbody segments verifi ed as impaired that are included on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 1998 303(d) list as high priority.

Low-priority waters:

• Waterbody segments that are listed before 2010 because of fi sh consumption advisories for mercury (due to the current insuffi cient understanding of how mercury cycles in the environment); 

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# • Canals, urban drainage ditches, and other artificial waterbody segments that are listed only due to exceedances of dissolved oxygen

criteria; or

• Waterbody segments that were not on the Planning List but were

identifi ed as impaired during Phase 2 of the watershed management cycle and were included on the Verifi ed List, unless the segment meets the second high-priority criterion.

• The EPA has also proposed assigning to this category the list of additional waterbody segments that the agency developed using its ownevaluation methodology, until the Department has had the opportunity to investigate these waterbodies further.

All segments not designated high or low priority are medium priority, and are prioritized based on the following factors:

• The presence of Outstanding Florida Waters;

• The presence of waterbody segments that fail to meet more than one

designated use, i.e., aquatic life, primary contact and recreation, fi sh

and shellfi sh consumption, drinking water, and the protection of
human health;

• The presence of waterbody segments that exceed an applicable water

quality criterion or alternative threshold with a frequency of greater than 25 percent at a minimum confi dence level of 90 percent;

• The presence of waterbody segments that exceed more than one

applicable water quality criterion; or

• Administrative needs of the TMDL Program, including meeting a

TMDL development schedule agreed to with the EPA, basin priorities related to the Department’s watershed management approach, and the number of administratively continued permits in the basin.

The Department is adhering to the TMDL schedule established in the Consent Decree between the EPA and Earthjustice for waters on the 1998
303(d) list that are also identifi ed as impaired under the IWR. Under that scenario, none of the Florida Keys WBIDs were listed as high priority, with the earliest TMDLs scheduled for development in 2011.



# Total Maximum Daily Load Development

During Phase 3 of the watershed management cycle, TMDLs will be developed for both point and nonpoint sources of pollutants in impaired waterbodies and will be adopted by rule at the end of this phase. TMDL development involves determining the maximum amount ofa given pollutant that a waterbody can assimilate and still meet the applicable numeric or narrative water quality criterion for the pollutant. In most cases, this “assimilative” capacity will be determined using computer modeling (both hydrodynamic and water quality models) that predicts 

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# the fate and transport of pollutants in the receiving waters. Modeling for the typical TMDL will include model setup, calibration, and verifi cation, followed by a variety of model runs that determine the assimilative capacity

of the water under worst-case conditions. State law and federal regulations require that TMDLs include a margin of safety (MOS) that takes into account “any lack of knowledge concerning the relationship between effl uent limitations and water quality.” The EPA has allowed states to establish either a specific MOS (typically some percentage of the assimilative capacity) or an implicit MOS based on conservative assumptions in the modeling. To date, the Department has elected to establish an implicit MOS based on predictive model runs that incorporate a variety of conservative assumptions. (They examine worst-case ambient

fl ow conditions and worst-case temperature, and assume that all permitted point sources discharge at their maximum permitted amount.) It is important to note that TMDLs will be developed only for the actual pollutants causing the impairment in the listed waterbody. These are called the “pollutants of concern.” In Florida, the most commonlylisted pollutants of concern are nutrients, sediments, and coliform bacteria. TMDLs will not be developed for impairments not due to pollutant discharges—for example, natural conditions, physical alterations such as dams and channelization, or changes in the fl ow of water. In other cases, a waterbody may be deemed potentially impaired based on bioassessment data or toxicity data. In these cases, the Department must determine the actual pollutant causing the impairment before a TMDL can be developed.



# Total Maximum Daily Load Allocation and Implementation

Initial Allocation of Pollutant Loadings The Florida Watershed Restoration Act (FWRA) requires that a

T MDL include the “establishment of reasonable and equitable allocations . . . among point and nonpoint sources . . . .” The Department refers to this as the “initial allocation,” which is adopted by rule. For the purposes of allocating the required pollutant loadings, the term “point sources” primarily includes traditional sources such as domestic and industrial wastewater discharges. Recent EPA guidance requires states to include as point sources those stormwater systems that are covered by a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater permit. However, NPDES- permitted stormwater discharges are not subject to the same types of

effl uent limitations, cannot be centrally collected and treated, and typically have not invested in treatment controls to the same degree as traditional point sources. Nonpoint sources include intermittent, rainfall-driven, diffuse sources of pollutants associated with everyday human activities, including runoff from urban land uses, agriculture, silviculture, and mining; discharges from failing septic systems; and atmospheric deposition. These point and nonpoint defi nitions do not directly relate to whethera source is regulated. Some nonpoint sources such as stormwater systems are permitted under the regulatory programs of the Department or 

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# water management districts, while others, such as agricultural stormwaterdischarges, are not. This distinction is important because the implementation of the allocations to nonpoint sources outside the authority of regulatory programs will require cooperation from dischargers to implement best management practices (BMPs) voluntarily. While a “detailed allocation” will ultimately be necessary to implementa TMDL fully, a key goal of the initial allocation is to assign responsibility for pollutant load reductions between point and nonpoint sources. For point sources, allocations will be implemented through the Department’sNPDES wastewater and stormwater permitting programs. The implementation of nonpoint source load reductions will be done through a combination of regulatory and nonregulatory processes. Initial allocations of pollutant loadings will also be made to historical sources (e.g., the phosphorus-laden sediments at the bottom of a lake) and upstream sources (those entering into an impaired waterbody). Upstream
sources include sources outside Florida, and these sources will receive

reduced allocations similar to in-state sources. The FWRA provided direction for the allocation of TMDLs and directed the Department to provide guidance on the allocation process byestablishing an Allocation Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC), consisting of representatives of key stakeholder groups. The committee recommended a three-step process for developing initial allocations and addressed detailed allocations for nonpoint sources, stakeholder involvement, the use of BMPs, and other TMDL implementation issues (Department, 2001).

Implementation Programs and ApproachesThe FWRA designates the Department as the lead agency in coordin ating the implementation of TMDLs. Existing programs and approaches through which TMDLs may be carried out include the following:

• Permitting and other existing regulatory programs, such as NPDES

permits, domestic and industrial wastewater permits, and stormwater/Environmental Resource Permits. The municipal NPDES stormwater permittees in the Florida Keys Basin are the City of Marathon and the City of Key West.

• Local land development codes;

• Nonregulatory and incentive-based programs, including BMPs, cost

sharing, waste minimization, pollution prevention, new approaches to land use design and development, and public education;

• Basin Management Action Plans (B-MAPs) developed under the

FWRA;

• Other water quality management and restoration activities, for

example, Surface Water Improvement and Management plans approved under Section 373.453, Florida Statutes;

• Pollutant trading or other equitable economically based agreements; 

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# • Public works, including capital facilities; or

• Land acquisition.

These programs and approaches will be carried out at local, regional, state, and possibly federal levels. TMDL implementation will require extensive stakeholder involvement throughout the state and, in some cases,

between Florida and other states. Appendix A provides additional details on implementation programs and approaches.



# Development of Basin Management Action Plans

The FWRA authorizes the Department to develop B-MAPs for implementing TMDLs. These plans will be developed with extensive stakeholder input to build consensus on detailed allocations based on the initial general allocations to categories of discharges.

The B-MAPs will contain fi nal allocations, strategies for meeting the allocations, schedules for implementation, funding mechanisms, applicable
local ordinances, and other elements. In cases where stakeholder consensus could not be reached on detailed allocations and/or a B-MAP within a reasonable time, the Department will develop the allocations. Once a B-MAP is developed, the Department will make it available for public review and comment. Guidance for the content and format of the B-MAPs is being developed; the plans are likely to include a description of both regulatory and nonregulatory approaches to meeting specifi c TMDLs. 

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# Water Quality Assessment Report 2008 

# Florida Keys Appendices

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Appendix A: Legislative and Regula tory Background on the Watershed Management Approach and the Impl ementation of Total Maximum Daily Loads ................................................................................................................... . 101 Federal and State Legislation on Surface Wate r Quality and Total Maximum Daily Loads ...... 101 Determining Impairment Based on the Stat e’s Impaired Surface Waters Rule .......................... 103 Implementing Total Maximum Daily Loads ............................................................................... 105 Table A.1: Basin Groups for Implementing the Watershed Management Cycle, by Department District Office ................................................................................. 107 Table A.2: Basin Rotation Schedule fo r TMDL Development and Implementation ............ 107 Figure A.1: Five-Year Rotating Basin Cycle in the Department’s Six Districts ................... 108 Table A.3: Potentially Affected Stakeholders and Actions To Achieve TMDLs ................... 109



# Appendix B: Information on Reasonable Assurance ................................................ 112 Background .................................................................................................................... ............. 112 Current Rule Text Relating to Evaluatio n of Pollution Control Mechanisms ............................. 113 Responsible Parties for Reasonabl e Assurance Demonstration .................................................. 113 Time Frame for Development of Documentation ....................................................................... 114 What It Means To Be Under Local, State, or Federal Authority ................................................. 114 Time Frame for Attaining Wa ter Quality Standards ................................................................... 114 Parameter-Specific Nature of Demonstration .............................................................................. 115

Information To Consider and Document when Assessing Reasonable Assurance in the IWR... 115 Water Quality–Based Targets and Aquatic Ecological Goals ..................................................... 116 Interim Targets ............................................................................................................... ............. 117 Averaging Periods for Water Quality Targets ............................................................................. 117

Estimates of Pollutant Reducti ons from Restoration Actions ..................................................... 117

New Sources/ Growth ............................................................................................................ ...... 117 Examples of Reasonable Progress ............................................................................................... 118 Long-Term Requirements ........................................................................................................ ... 118



# Appendix C: Methodology for Determ ining Impairment Based on the Impaired Surface Waters Rule .................................................................................... 119 The Impaired Surface Waters Rule ............................................................................................. 119 Attainment of Designated Use(s) ............................................................................................... . 119 Table C.1: Designated Use Attainment Ca tegories for Surface Waters in Florida ............. 120

Sources of Data ............................................................................................................... ............ 120 Table C.2: Data Used in Developing the Planning and Verified Lists, First Basin Rotation Cycle ..................................................................................................... 121 Methodology ................................................................................................................... ............ 121

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# Appendix D: Integrated A ssessment (Master List) for the Florida Keys Basin .... 127 Table D.1: Integrated Water Quality Report (Master List) for the Florida Keys Basin, by Planning Unit ................................................................................................. 128 Table D.2: Water Quality Monitoring Sta tions Used in the Assessment for the Florida Keys Basin, by Planning Unit ................................................................ 189



# Appendix E: Permitted Facilities and Landfills in the Florida Keys Basin, by Planning Unit ................................................................................................................. 253 Table E.1: Permitted Facilities with Discharges, by Planning Unit .................................... 253 Table E.2: Permitted Landfill Facilities in the Florida Keys Basin, by Planning Unit ....... 265



# Appendix F: Level I Land Use in the Flor ida Keys Basin, by Planning Unit ........ 266 Table F.1: Level 1 2004 - 2005 Land Use in the Upper Keys Planning Unit ...................... 266 Table F.2: Level 1 2004 -2005 Land Use in the Middle Keys Planning Unit ...................... 266 Table F.3: Level 1 2004 - 2005 Land Use in the Lower Keys Planning Unit ...................... 266



# Appendix G: Documentation Provided during Public Comment Period ............... 267

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Appendix A: Legislative and Re gulatory Background on the Watershed Management Approach and the Implementation of Total Maximum Daily Loads

Federal and State Legislation on Surf ace Water Quality and Total Maximum Daily Loads

Clean Water Act

Congress enacted the Clean Water Act in 1972 with the goal of restoring and maintaining the “chemical, physical, and biolog ical integrity of th e nation’s waters” (33 U.S.C. § 1251[a]). The ultimate goal of the act is to eliminate the “discharge of [all] pollutants into navigable wate rs” (33 U.S.C. § 1251[a][1]). Section 305(b) of the Clean Wate r Act requires states to report biennially to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on th eir water quality. The 305(b) assessment report provides information on the physical, chem ical, biological, and cultural features of

each river basin in Florida. This initial assessment provides a co mmon factual basis for identifying information sources and major issu es, and for determining the future changes, strategies, and actions needed to preserve , protect, and/or restore water quality. Understanding the physical framework of each basin allows the development of a science-based methodology for assessing wate r quality and an accurate picture of the waters that are most impaired or vulnerable to contamination. Section 303(d) of the Clean Wa ter Act requires states to submit to the EPA lists of surface waters that do not meet applicable water quality standards and establish total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) for each of th ese waters on a schedule. A pollution limit is then allocated to each pollutant source in an individual river basin. A TMDL represents the maximum amount of a given pollutant that a waterbody can

assimilate and meet all of its designated uses (see Noteworthy on Florida’s surface water quality classifications for a listing of thes e classifications). A waterbody that does not meet its designated use is defined as impaired

.

NOTEWORTHY: FLORIDA’S SURFACE WATER QUALITY CLASSIFICATIONS

Florida’s water quality standards program, the f oundation of the state’s program of water quality management, designates the “present and future most beneficial uses” of the waters of the state (Subsection 403.061[10], Florida Statutes [F.S.]). Water quality criteria, expressed as numeric or narrative limits for specific parameters, describe the water quality necessary to maintain these uses for surface water and ground water. Florida’s surface water is protected for five designated use classifications, as follows:

Class I Potable water supplies Class II Shellfish propagation or harvesting Class III Recreation, propagation, and mainte nance of a healthy, well-balanced population of fish and wildlife Class IV Agricultural water supplies Class V Navigation, utility, and industrial use (there are no state waters currently in this class)

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# Florida Watershed Restoration Act

In 1998, the EPA settled a lawsuit with th e environmental group Earthjustice over Florida’s TMDL Program. The Consent Decr ee resulting from the lawsuit requires all TMDLs on the state’s 1998 Section 303(d) list of impaired waters to be developed in 13 years. If the state fails to develop the TMDLs, the EPA is required to do so. In response to concerns about the TMDL la wsuit and in recognition of the important role that TMDLs play in re storing state waters, the 1999 Fl orida legislature enacted the Florida Watershed Restoration Act (FWRA) (Cha pter 99-223, Laws of Florida). The act clarified the Florida Department of Envir onmental Protection’s (Department) statutory authority to establish TMDLs, required th e Department to develop a methodology for identifying impaired waters, specified that the Department could develop TMDLs only

for waters on a future state list of im paired waters developed using this new methodology, and directed the Department to es tablish an Allocation Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) to address the allocation pr ocess for TMDLs. The act also declared Lake Okeechobee impaired and, as required under the TMDL Consent Decree, allowed the state to develop a TMDL for the lake (see Noteworthy for a description of the legislation’s major provisions).

NOTEWORTHY: THE FLORIDA WATERSHED RESTORATION ACT

The Florida Watershed Restoration Act cont ains the following major provisions:

• Establishes that the 303(d) lis t submitted to the EPA in 1998 is for planning purposes only.

• Requires the Department to adopt 303(d) listi ng criteria (that is, the methodology used to define impaired waters) by rule.

• Requires the Department to verify impairm ent and then establish a Verified List for each basin. The Department must also evaluate whether proposed pollution control programs are sufficient to meet water quality standards, lis t the specific pollutant(s) and concentration(s) causing impairment, and adopt the basin-specific 303(d) list by Secretarial Order.

• Requires the Department’s Secretary to adopt TMDL allocations by rule. The legislation requires the Department to establish “reasonabl e and equitable” allocations of TMDLs, but

does not mandate how allocations will be made among individual sources.

• Requires that TMDL allocations consider existing treatment levels and management practices; the differing impacts that pollutant sources may have; the availability of treatment technologies, best management practices (BMPs), or other pollutant reduction measures; the feasibility, costs, and benefits of achieving the allocation; reasonable time frames for implementation; the potential applicability of moderating provisions; and the extent that nonattainment is caused by pollutants from outside Florida, discharges that have ceased, or alteration to a waterbody.

• Required a report to the legislature by Febr uary 2001 addressing the allocation process.

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• Authorizes the Department to develop basin plans to implement TMDLs, coordinating with the water management districts, the Florida Depa rtment of Agriculture and Consumer Services (DACS), the Soil and Water Conservation Distri cts, regulated parties, and environmental groups in assessing waterbodies for impairm ent, collecting data for TMDLs, developing TMDLs, and conducting at least one public meeting in the watershed. Implementation is voluntary if not covered by regulatory programs.

• Authorizes the Department and DACS to dev elop interim measures and BMPs to address nonpoint sources. While BMPs would be adopted by rule, they will be voluntary if not covered by regulatory programs. If they are ad opted by rule and the Department verifies their effectiveness, then implementation will provi de a presumption of compliance with water quality standards.

• Directs the Department to document the effect iveness of the combined regulatory/voluntary approach and report to the legislature by January 1, 2005. The report will include participation rates and recommendat ions for statutory changes.



# Determining Impairment Based on the State’s Impaired Surface Waters Rule

Section 303(d) of the federal Clean Wate r Act and the FWRA describe impaired waters as those waterbodies or waterbody se gments that do not meet applicable water quality standards. “Impairment” is a broa d term that includes designated uses, water quality criteria, the Florida antidegrada tion policy, and moderating provisions (see Noteworthy for explanations of these terms).

The state’s Identification of Impaired Surface Waters Rule (IWR) (Rule 62-303,

Florida Administrative Code [F.A.C.]) was developed in cooperation with a Technical Advisory Committee and adopted by the Fl orida Environmental Regulation Commission on April 26, 2001. It provides a science-ba sed methodology for evaluating water quality data in order to identify impaired waters, and establishes specific criteria for impairment based on chemical parameters, the interpretatio n of narrative nutrient criteria, biological impairment, fish consumption advisories, and ecological impairment. The complete text of the rule is available at http://www .dep.state.fl.us//legal/R ules/shared/62-303/62- 303.pdf.

The IWR also establishes thresholds for data sufficiency and data quality, including the minimum sample size required and the number of exceedances of the applicable water quality standard for a given sample size that identify a waterbody as impaired. The

number of exceedances is based on a statisti cal approach designed to provide greater

confidence that the outcome of the water quality assessment is correct. Waters that are identified as impaired through the IWR are prioritized for TMDL development and implementation

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# NOTEWORTHY: EXPLANATION OF TERMS

• Designated uses, discussed in an earlier sidebar, comprise the five classifications applied to
each of the state’s surface waterbodies.

• Water quality criteria comprise numeric or narr ative limits of pollutants.

• The Florida Antidegradation Policy (Sections 62-302.300 and 62-4.242, F.A.C.) recognizes that pollution that causes or contributes to new violations of water quality standards or to the continuation of existing violations is harmful to the waters of the state. Under this policy, the permitting of new or previously unpermitted existing discharges is prohibited where the discharge is expected to reduce the quality of a receiving water below the classification established for it. Any lowering of water quality caused by a new or expanded discharge to surface waters must be in the public interest (t hat is, the benefits of the discharge to public health, safety, and welfare must outweigh any adverse impacts on fish and wildlife or recreation). Further, the permittee must demons trate that other disposal alternatives (for example, reuse) or pollution prevention are not economically and technologically reasonable alternatives to the surface water discharge.

• Moderating provisions (provided in Subsection 62-302.300[10] and Rules 62-4 and 62-6, F.A.C., and described in Sections 62-302.300, 62-4.244, 62-302.800, 62-4.243, F.A.C., and Sections 403.201 and 373.414, F.S.) include mixing zones, zones of disc harge, site-specific alternative criteria, exemptions, and variances . These provisions are intended to moderate

the applicability of water quality standards where it has been determined that, under certain special circumstances, the social, econ omic, and environmental costs of such applicability outweigh the benefits.



# Determining impairment in individual water bodies takes place in two phases. First, in each river basin the Department evaluate s the existing water quality data, using the methodology prescribed in the IWR, to de termine whether waters are potentially impaired. Waters found to be potentially impaired are included on a Planning List for further assessment under Subsections 403.067(2) and (3), F.S. As required by Subsection 403.067(2), F.S., the Planning List is not used to administer or implement any regulatory program. It is submitted to the EPA for informational purposes only. The second step is to assess waters on the Planning List under Subsection 403.067(3), F.S., as part of the Department’s watershed management approach (described in the following section). The Department carries out additional data gathering and strategic monitoring, focusing on these poten tially impaired waters, and determines— using the methodology in Part III, Section 62-303.400, F.A.C.—if a waterbody is, in fact, impaired and if the impairment is caused by pollutant discharges. A Water Quality Assessment Report is pr oduced containing the results of this updated evaluation and a Verified List of impaired waters. The criteria for the Verified List are more stringent than those for the Pla nning List. The Depart ment is required to develop TMDLs for waters on the Verified List under Subsection 403.067(4), F.S. A watershed management plan (called a Basi n Management Action Plan, or BMAP) to reduce the amount of pollutants that cause impairments must also be produced and implemented.

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The Verified List is adopted by Secretar ial Order in accordance with the FWRA. Once adopted, the list is submitted to the EP A for approval as the state’s Section 303(d) list of impaired waters for the basin.



# Implementing Total Maximum Daily Loads

The Watershed Management Approach

The Department's statewide approach to water resource management, called the watershed management approach, is the fr amework for implementing TMDLs as required by the federal and state governments. The a pproach does not focus on individual causes of pollution. Instead, each ba sin is assessed as an entire functioning system, and aquatic

resources are evaluated from a basinwide perspective that considers the cumulative

effects of human activities. Water resour ces are managed on the basis of natural boundaries, such as river basins, rather than political or regulator y boundaries. Federal, state, regional, tribal, and local governments identify watersheds not meeting clean water or other natural resource goals and work coope ratively to focus resources and implement effective strategies to rest ore water quality. Extensive public participation in the decision-making process is crucial. The watershed management approach is not new, nor does it compete with or replace existing programs. Rather than relying on si ngle solutions to water resource issues, it is intended to improve the health of su rface water and ground water resources by strengthening coordination among such act ivities as monitoring, stormwater management, wastewater treatment, wetland restoration, land acquisition, and public

involvement. By promoting the management of entire natural systems and addressing the

cumulative effects of human activities on a wate rshed basis, this approach is intended to protect and enhance the ecol ogical structure, function, a nd integrity of Florida’s watersheds. It provides a framework for sett ing priorities and focu sing the Department’s resources on protecting and restoring water quality, and ai ms to increase cooperation among state, regional, local, a nd federal interests. By emphasizing public involvement, the approach encourages stewardship by all Fl oridians to preserve water resources for future generations. The watershed approach is intended to speed up projects by focusing funding and other resources on priority water quality problems, strengthening public support, establishing agreements, and funding multiage ncy projects. It avoids duplication by building on existing assessments and restorat ion activities and promotes cooperative monitoring programs. It encourages accountability for achieving water quality improvements through improved monitoring and the establishment of TMDLs.

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# The Watershed Management Cycle

As part of the Department’s watershed management approach, TMDLs will be developed, and the corresponding pollutant load ings allocated, as part of a watershed management cycle that rotates through the st ate’s 52 river basins ove r a 9-year period. The cycle’s 5 phases are as follows:

• Phase 1: Preliminary Watershed Evaluation. For each river basin, a Water Quality Status Report is developed, containing a Planning List of potentially impaired waters that may require the establishment of TMDLs. The report characterizes each basin’s hydrologic, ecologi cal, and socioeconomic setting as well as historical, current, and pr oposed watershed management issues and activities. It also contains a preliminary evaluation of major water quality parameters, water quality issues by planning unit, ecological resources, and basinwide pollutant loading

trends related to land uses. At the end of Phase 1, a Strategic Monitoring Plan is developed.

• Phase 2: Strategic Mo nitoring and Assessment. Additional data are collected through strategic monitoring and uploaded to STORET. The data are used to verify whether potentially impaired wa ters in each basin are impa ired and to calibrate and verify models for TMDL development. At the end of Phase 2, a Water Quality Assessment Report is produced for each basin that contains a Verified List of impaired waters. The report also provid es an updated and more thorough evaluation of water quality, associated bi ological resources, and current management plans. The Department will adopt the Verified List through a Secretarial Order and submit it to the EPA as the state’s Section 303(d) list of impaired waters.

• Phase 3: Development and Adoption of TMDLs. TMDLs for priority impaired

waters in the basin will be developed and adopted by rule. Because TMDLs cannot be developed for all listed waters during a single watershed management cycle due to

fiscal and technical limitations , waterbodies will be prioritized using the criteria in the IWR (Rule 62-303, F.A.C.).

• Phase 4: Development of a Basin Management Action Plan. A BMAP will be developed for each basin to specify how po llutant loadings from point and nonpoint

sources will be allocated and reduced in order to meet TMDL requirements. The plans will include regulator y and nonregulatory (i.e., volunt ary) and structural and nonstructural strategies, and existing manageme nt plans will be used where feasible. The involvement and support of affected stakeh olders in this phase will be especially

critical.

• Phase 5: Implementation of a Basin Management Action Plan. Implementation of the activities specified in the BMAP will begin. This includes carrying out rule development as needed, securing funding, in forming stakeholders and the public, and monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the plan.

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To implement the watershed cycle, the stat e’s river basins have been divided into five groups within each of the Department’s si x districts statewide, and each district will assess one basin each year. Table A.1 shows the basin groups for implementing the cycle in the Department’s districts, and Figure A.1 shows these groups and the rotating cycle in the districts. Table A.2, which lists the basin rota tion schedule for TMDL development and implementation, shows that it will take nine years to complete one full cycle of the state. The watershed management cycle is an iterati ve, or repeated, proce ss. One of its key components is that the effec tiveness of management activ ities (TMDL implementation) will be monitored in successive cycles. M onitoring conducted in Phase 2 of subsequent cycles will be targeted at evaluating whethe r water quality objectives are being met and whether individual waters are no longer impaired. The Department also will track the implementation of scheduled restoration activ ities, whether required or voluntary, to ensure continued progress towards meeting the TMDLs.

Table A.1: Basin Groups for Implementing the Watershed Management Cycle, by Department
District Office

District Group 1
Basins Group 2
Basins Group 3
Basins Group 4
Basins Group 5
Basins

Northwest Ochlockonee–
St. Marks Rivers Apalachicola– Chipola Rivers Choctawhatchee River and Bay–St. Andrew Bay Pensacola Bay Perdido River and Bay

Northeast Suwannee River Lower St. Johns

River – St. Marys–Nassau

Rivers Northeast Coast Lagoons

Central Ocklawaha River Middle St. Johns

River Upper St. Johns

River Kissimmee River Indian River Lagoon

Southwest Tampa Bay Tampa Bay
Tributaries Sarasota Bay– Peace and Myakka

Rivers Withlacoochee
River Springs Coast

South Everglades West
Coast Charlotte Harbor Caloosahatchee

River Fisheating Creek Florida Keys

Southeast Lake Okeechobee St.Lucie–

Loxahatchee
Rivers Lake Worth Lagoon–Palm
Beach Coast Biscayne Bay–
Southeast Coast Everglades

Table A.2: Basin Rotation Schedule for TMDL Development and Implementation

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Note: Projected years for Phases 3, 4, and 5 may chang e due to accelerated local activities, length of plan development, legal challenges, etc.108Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysFigure A.1: Five-Year Rotating Basin Cycle in the Department’s Six Districts

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Pollutants can enter a waterbody through point source discharges (generally from a specific facility) or nonpoint discharges (e.g., stormwater runoff, septic tanks). Government agencies, businesses, organizati ons, and individuals w ho contribute to these discharges will be asked to share the res ponsibility of attaining TMDLs through load allocations (the amount of a specified pollutant allotted for discharge) that are based on

an established TMDL. Table A.3 summarizes these potentially affected stakeholders, and the actions they may be asked to take to help achieve a TMDL.

Table A.3: Potentially Affected Stakeholders and Actions To Achieve TMDLs

Potentially Affected Stakeholders Actions To Achieve TMDL

Municipal stormwater/wastewater programs Reduce and treat urban stormwater runoff through stormwater retrofits, repl acement of septic tanks

Commercial developers, homebuilders, individual

homeowners Improve development design and construction, enhance BMPs, replace septic tanks

Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment facilities, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permitted facilities Reduce pollutant loadings from permitted discharges

Farming and silviculture operations Reduce and treat runoff through BMPs

Federal, regional, state agencies; regional and local water quality coalitions Carry out waterbody restoration projects



# Permitting and Other Approaches

N ATIONAL 

# P OLLUTANT 

# D ISCHARGE 

# E LIMINATION 

# S YSTEM 

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# All point sources that discharge to surf ace waterbodies require an NPDES permit. These permits can be classified into two t ypes: domestic or industrial wastewater discharge permits, and stormwater permits. NPDES-permitted point sources may be affected by the development and implementation of a TMDL. All NPDES permits include “reopener clauses” that allow the De partment to incorporate new discharge limits when a TMDL is established. These new limitations may be incorporated into a permit when a TMDL is implemented or at the next permit renewal, depending on the timing of the permit renewal and workload. For NP DES municipal stormwater permits, the Department intends to insert the followi ng statement once a BMAP is completed:

“The permittee shall undertake those activities specified in the (Name of Waterbody) Basin Management Action Plan in accordance w ith the approved schedule set forth in the

BMAP.”

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D OMESTIC AND 

# I NDUSTRIAL 

# W ASTEWATER 

# P ERMITS


# In addition to NPDES-permitted facilities, a ll of which discharge to surface waters, Florida also regulates domes tic and industrial wastewater discharges to ground water via land application. Since ground wa ter and surface water are so intimately linked in much of the state, reductions in loadings from th ese facilities may be needed to meet TMDL limitations for pollutants in surface waters. If such reductions are identified in the BMAP, they would be implemented through modi fications of the existing state permits.

F LORIDA 

# S TORMWATER 

# /E NVIRONMENTAL 

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# With the implementation of the state’s st ormwater treatment rule in 1982, Florida became the first state to require the treatment of stormwater from all new development. Today, except in the area served by the No rthwest Florida Water Management District, new development projects receive an Envir onmental Resource Permit that combines stormwater flood protection, stormwater trea tment, and wetland protection/mitigation into a single permit. These permits are desi gned to obtain 80 percent average annual load reduction of total suspended solids. This le vel of treatment may n eed to be increased, depending on the allocation of load reductions, especially for nutrients. For example, the St. Johns River Water Management District recently adopted basi n-specific criteria for the Lake Apopka watershed that require th e phosphorus loading from new development not to exceed predevelopment phosphorus loading.

L OCAL 

# L AND 

# D EVELOPMENT 

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# Since structural stormwater treatment prac tices can only achieve certain levels of load reductions, and because the hydrologic changes accompanying urban development often cause ecological impacts to aquatic sy stems, local land development codes that promote “low-impact development” are an im portant component of restoring impaired waters. Local codes may need to be reviewed to determine how to promote developments that minimize impervious surfaces (such as reduced street widths or the use of pervious pavements), promote the protecti on of vegetation, promote the protection and restoration of riparian buffers along streams and lakes, and adopt the principles of the Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Progr am in local landscaping codes.

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# M ANAGEMENT 

# P RACTICES


# Typically, BMPs refer to a practice or co mbination of practices that, based on sound science and best professional judgment, are determined to be the most effective and practicable means of reduci ng nonpoint source pollutant di scharges and improving water quality. Both economic and technological cons iderations are included in the evaluation of what is practicable. BMPs may include stru ctural controls (such as retention areas or detention ponds) or nonstr uctural controls (such as street sweeping or public education). Many BMPs have been developed for urban st ormwater to reduce pollutant loadings and peak flows. These BMPs accommodate site-specific conditions, including soil type, slope, depth to ground water, and th e designation of receiving waters.

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The passage of the FWRA increased the emphasis on implementing BMPs to reduce nonpoint source pollutant discharges from ag ricultural operations. Recognizing that the development and adoption of BMPs might take several years, the legislature authorized the use of Interim Measures (IMs) during th e BMP development process for agricultural operations. In essence, IMs ar e a set of logical conservation practices designed to reduce agricultural nonpoint pollutant discharges based on current knowledge and best professional judgment. These practices will evolve into more formal BMPs as better

scientific data on their effectiveness is obtained. Once DACS adopts BMPs, the Department is charged with verifying their effectiveness in reducing ag ricultural nonpoint s ources. Once verified, agricultural operations that have implemented BMPs will receive a waiver of liability and presumption of compliance similar to th at granted a developer who obtains an

Environmental Resource Permit.

O THER 

# S TRATEGIES


# The success of implementing nonpoint source TMDL load allocations will require variety, creativity, stakeholder commitment to watershed management, and personal stewardship. In addition to BMPs, othe r possible strategies for meeting TMDLs, restoring water quality, and preventing the fu rther degradation of Florida’s watersheds include cost sharing, waste minimization, pollu tion prevention, new approaches to land use design and development, and pollutant tr ading. The Department will assemble a Technical Advisory Committee to help devel op a pollutant-trading ru le, which must be reviewed by the legislature prior to its adop tion. The Department will also continue to

work with local stakeholders on TMDL a llocation issues and im plementation plans.

Sources of Information

For information on establishing and imp lementing TMDLs, contact Jan MandrupPoulsen at (850) 245-8448. Additional informa tion is available on the Department’s Web site at www.dep.state.fl.us/w ater/watersheds/index.htm.

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# Appendix B: Information on Reasonable Assurance

TO: Interested Parties

FROM: Mimi Drew, Director

Division of Water Facilities

DATE: September 2002

SUBJECT: Guidance for Developmen t of Documentation To Provide Reasonable Assurance that Proposed Pollu tion Control Mechanisms Will Result in the Restoration of Designated Uses in Impaired Waters

The purpose of this memo is to describe the types of information that should be considered, and subsequently documented, wh en evaluating whether there is sufficient

reasonable assurance that:

1. Proposed pollution control mechanisms (typically described in watershed management or restoration plans) addre ssing impaired waters will result in the attainment of applicable water quality st andards (designated uses) at a clearly defined point in the future, and

2. Reasonable progress towards restoration of designated uses will be made by the time the next 303(d) list of impaired waters is due to be submitted to the EPA.

There are many site-specific issues rela ted to determining whether reasonable assurance has been provided. Accordingly, this document describes the elements or issues that should be considered when evaluating a submittal or when documenting the basis for the Department’s decision, rather than attempting to establis h specific criteria on

what constitutes reasonable assurance. It should be noted that the term “reasonable assurance” is used throughout many Department programs and rules, and this guidance specifically addresses the issues

related to the “reasonabl e assurance” provided by proposed pollution control mechanisms. This guidance should not be us ed to evaluate the meaning of reasonable assurance in other contexts, par ticularly in permitting decisions.



# Background

The Impaired Surface Waters Rule (IWR), Rule 62-303, F.A.C. (Identification of Impaired Surface Waters), establishes a form al mechanism for identifying surface waters in Florida that are impaired (do not meet applicable water qua lity standards) by pollutants. Most waters that are verified as being impaired by a pollutant will be listed on

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the state’s 303(d) list purs uant to the Florida Watershe d Restoration Act (FWRA) and Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. Once listed, Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) will be developed for the pollutants causing the impairment of the listed waters. However, as required by the FWRA, the Department will evaluate whether existing or proposed pollution control mechanisms will effectively address the impairment before placing a water on the stat e’s Verified List. If the Department can document there is reasonable assurance that the impairment will be effectively addressed by the control measure, then the water will not be listed on the final Verified List (other impaired waters that will not be listed in clude waters with TMDLs and waters impaired by pollution).



# Current Rule Text Relating to Evaluati on of Pollution Co ntrol Mechanisms

The rule text addressing the evaluation of proposed pollution control mechanisms is

as follows:

Section 62-303.600, Evaluation of Pollution Control Mechanisms



# 3. Upon determining that a waterbody is im paired, the Department shall evaluate whether existing or proposed technol ogy-based effluent limitations and other pollution control programs under local, state, or federal authority are sufficient to

result in the attainment of a pplicable water qua lity standards.

4. If, as a result of the factors set forth in (1), the waterbody segment is expected to attain water quality standards in the futu re and is expected to make reasonable progress towards attainment of water qual ity standards by the time the next 303(d) list is scheduled to be submitted to EPA, the segment shall not be listed on the Verified List. The Department shall document the basis for its decision, noting any proposed pollution control mechanisms and expected improvements in water quality that provide reasonable assuran ce that the waterbody segment will attain applicable water qu ality standards.



# Responsible Parties for Reason able Assurance Demonstration

It is ultimately the Department’s responsib ility to assure adequate documentation in

the administrative record whenever the De partment decides to not list an impaired waterbody segment for a given pollutant. This documentation will be very important because the Verified Lists will be adopted by Order of the Secretary and third parties will be provided an opportunity to challenge, via an administrative hearing, all listing decisions (both those listing a wa ter and those to not list a wa ter for a given pollutant). However, the Department expects that local st akeholders will often offer to prepare the necessary documentation to demonstrate re asonable assurance th at proposed control mechanisms will restore a given waterbody. The Department will provide guidance to

stakeholders on what information is needed and how it should be submitted.

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# Time Frame for Development of Documentation

The Department plans to prepare basin-sp ecific Verified Lists as part of its watershed management cycle, which rotates th rough all of the state’ s basins over a fiveyear, five-phased cycle 1 

# . During the first phase of the cycle, the Department will assess water quality in the basin and prepare a dr aft Planning List of potentially impaired waters. The Department and interested part ies will then have approximately one year (Phase 2) to monitor waters on the pla nning list and prepare documentation, as appropriate, to provide reasonable assurance th at impaired waters will be restored. The Department will review submittals from interested parties during Phase 2, before adopting the Verified List for the basin cont aining the waterbody segment in question.



# What It Means To Be Under Local, State, or Federal Authority

Both the FWRA and the IWR require that the pollution control programs under consideration be “under local, stat e, or federal authority.” A pollution control program will be considered "under loca l, state, or federal authority" if the program is subject to or re quired by a local ordinance, state statute or rule, or federal statute or regulation. Programs will also be considered under local, state, or federal authority if they are subject to a written agreement, signed by both local stakeholders and at least one governmental entity, that includes measurable goals, performance criteria, benchmarks, and back-up corrective action s to assure the further progress of the

program. It is important to note that these written agreements do not need to be enforceable for nonregulated nonpoint sources. Many nonpoint sources are currently outside of the regulatory pr ograms of EPA, the Department, and the water management di stricts, and reducti ons at these nonpoint sources will be voluntary. In fact, pollu tion control mechanisms for these nonpoint sources would be voluntary even if a TMDL we re developed. As such, these agreements may provide the same level of reasonable assurance that can be provided for a TMDL implementation plan as long as they maintain the Department’s enforcement capability over all point sources involved.



# Time Frame for Attaining Water Quality Standards

The FWRA and the IWR do not establish a specific time limit by which waters must attain applicable water quality standards or designated uses. However, the pollution control mechanisms or watershed restoration pl an must provide reasonable assurance that designated uses will be met at some time in the future . As such, the documentation submitted to the Department must provide a specific date by which time designated uses are expected to be restored. In cases where designated uses will not be met for many years, the documentation should also provide justification as to why the specified time is needed to restore designated uses.

1 

# Federal regulations currently call for state 303(d) lists every tw o years, but Florida plan s to submit annual updates based on the basin-specific Verified Lists.

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Parameter-Specific Nature of Demonstration

For the Department not to place an impaire d waterbody segment on the Verified List, reasonable assurance must be provided for each pollutant that has been documented to be causing impairment of the waterbody segment. However, some entities, including the Department, may want to provide reasona ble assurance addressing only selected pollutants, which could result in the Department not listi ng the waterbody segment for those pollutants, but still listing it for othe rs. In this event, TMDLs will only be developed for the remaining listed pollutants.



# Information To Consider and Docu ment when Assessing Reasonable

Assurance in the IWR

To provide reasonable assurance that existing or proposed pollution control mechanisms will restore designated uses, the following information should be evaluated

and documented for the Administrative Record:

5. A Description of the Impaired Water —name of the water listed on the Verified List, the location of the waterbody a nd watershed, the watershed/8-digit cataloging unit code, the NHD identifier (whe n they become available), the type (lake, stream, or estuary) of water, the water use classification, the designated use not being attained, the length (miles) or area (acres) of impaired area, the pollutant(s) of concern (those identifie d as causing or contributing to the impairment), and the suspected or docume nted source(s) of the pollutant(s) of

concern.

6. A Description of the Water Qua lity or Aquatic Ecological Goals —a description of the water qua lity–based targets or aqua tic ecological goals (both interim and final) that have been established for the pollutant(s) of concern, the averaging period for any numeric water qu ality goals, a discussion of how these goals will result in the rest oration of the waterbody’s impaired designated uses, a schedule indicating when interim and final targets are expected to be met, and a description of procedures (with thresholds) to determine whether additional (backup) corrective actio ns are needed.

7. A Description of the Proposed Man agement Actions To Be Undertaken

— names of the responsible participating en tities (government, private, others), a summary and list of existing or propos ed management activities designed to restore water quality, the geographic scope of any proposed management activities, documentation of the estimat ed pollutant load reduction and other benefits anticipated from implementa tion of individual management actions, copies of written agreements committing pa rticipants to the management actions, a discussion on how future growth and new sources will be addressed, confirmed sources of funding, an implementation sc hedule (including interim milestones and

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# the date by which designated uses will be restored), and any enforcement programs or local ordinances, if the management strategy is not voluntary.

8. A Description of Procedures for Monitoring and Reporting Results —a description of the water qua lity monitoring program to be implemented (including station locations, parameters sampled, a nd sampling frequencies) to demonstrate reasonable progress; quality assurance/quality control elements that demonstrate the monitoring will comply with Rule 62-160, F.A.C.; procedures for entering all appropriate data into STORET; the res ponsible monitoring a nd reporting entity; the frequency and format for reporting results; the freque ncy and format for reporting on the implementation of all proposed management activities; and methods for evaluating progress towards goals.

9. A Description of Proposed Corrective Actions —a description of proposed corrective actions (and any supporting document[s]) that will be undertaken if water quality does not improve after impl ementation of the management actions or if management actions are not co mpleted on schedule, and a process for notifying the Department that these corre ctive actions are being implemented.



# Water Quality–Based Targets and Aquatic Ecological Goals

Some of the most important elements liste d above are the requirements to provide water quality–based targets or aquatic ecological goals and a discussion on how resultant pollutant(s) reduction targets/goals will result in restoration of designated uses. Some people have expressed concern about these ta rgets because they e quate a water quality– based restoration target with a TMDL (thus assuming a “Catch 22” that a TMDL is

needed to make a demonstration that a TMDL is not needed). However, as is also the case for TMDLs, water quality–based targets can take many forms, and need not be a result of a complex hydrodyna mic/water quality model. In some cases, there may be sufficient hi storical data (pal eolimnological data, loadings from periods predating the impairmen t, or baseline data for Outstanding Florida

Waters 2 

# , for example) that could be used to dete rmine an appropriate water quality target. In other cases, simplified modeling (incl uding regression analysis) may allow for conservative estimates of the assimilative capacity that could then be used as the basis for restoration goals. And, finally, a water qual ity target may have been developed that would be scientifically equiva lent to (or act as the basis for) a TMDL, but the target has not been administratively adopted as a TM DL. In each of these cases, a sound water quality target could be used to evalua te whether the proposed pollution control mechanisms will sufficiently reduce loadings to meet the assimilative capacity of the water in question and result in at tainment of designated uses.

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# Baseline data would be data for the year prior to designation of the OFW.

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Interim Targets

Because it will usually take many years to restore fully the designated uses of an impaired water, interim water quality targets will often be needed to measure whether reasonable progress is being made towards the restoration of designa ted uses. Examples of such interim targets are provided in the last section of this docum ent, but site-specific measures are also encouraged.



# Averaging Periods for Water Quality Targets

While the averaging period for water qualit y–based targets should be consistent with how the underlying standard is expressed, they can often be expre ssed in a variety of ways and need not be expressed as “daily lo ads.” Annual averages or medians are often appropriate for some parameters, but shorte r-term (seasonal, for example) averages maybe necessary if the impairment is limited to specific seasons or parts of the year. Multiyear averages may be appropriate in limited circumstances where there is naturally high

variation of the wate r quality target.



# Estimates of Pollutant Reducti ons from Restoration Actions

It will often be difficult to estimate precisely the pollutant reductions that will result from specific restoration activities. This is particularly true for the implementation of best management practices (BMPs). Howeve r, to provide reasonable assurance that a

BMP or other restoration action will reduce loadings of the po llutant of concern to a level that will restore the water’s designated uses, documentation should address how the reductions were calculated, in cluding providing documented values from the scientific

literature for reductions attri buted to similar management actions. If the expected reductions are expressed as a range, the midpoint of the range should be used as the basis for estimating reductions, unless documenta tion is provided supporting the use of

different removal efficiencies in this specific application.



# New Sources/Growth

Another key element is the discussion on how future growth and new sources will be addressed. Restoration goals mu st address possible increased loadings of the pollutant of concern that are anticipated due to population growth or land use changes in contributing watersheds, both from point and nonpoint sources. This will be particularly important for waters impaired by nutrients, given that so many Florida watersheds are faced with continuing urban, residential, and agricultura l development that results in increased nutrient loading from stor mwater, septic tanks, and wastewater discharges.

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# Examples of Reasonable Progress

The determination of whether there will be reasonable progress towards attainment of water quality standards will be very site- and pollutant-specific. Documentation should be provided supporting specific progre ss towards restoration of the designated uses of the impaired water. Possible exampl es of reasonable progre ss include, but are not limited to the following:

• A written commitment to implement controls reducing loadings within a specified time frame from watershed stakeholders representing at least 50 percent of the anthropogenic load of the pollutant(s) of concern;

• Evidence of at least a 10 percent reducti on (or alternatively, a percent reduction consistent with meeting the water quality target by the specified date) in annual anthropogenic loading of the pollutant(s) of concern;

• Evidence of at least a 10 percent decreas e (or alternatively, a percent decrease consistent with meeting the water quality ta rget by the specified date) in the annual average concentration of the polluta nt(s) of concern in the water;

• Bioassessment results showing there has been an improvement in the health of the biological community of the water, as meas ured by bioassessment procedures similar to those used to determine impairment and conducted in si milar conditions; or

• Adoption of a local ordinance that specifica lly provides water quality goals, restricts growth or loads tied to the pollutant(s ) of concern, and provides an enforcement option if the proposed management measur e(s) are not implemented as required.

Reasonable progress must be made by the ti me the next 303(d) list is due to be submitted to EPA, which is currently every two years. EPA has contemplated changing the listing cycle to every four or five y ears, and the IWR was specifically worded to allow a longer time frame for requiring reas onable progress in the event that the listing cycle changes.



# Long-Term Requirements

If at any time the Department determines that reasonable assu rance and reasonable progress are not being met, the order adopti ng the Verified List will be amended to include the waterbody on the Ve rified List for the pollutant(s) in question. Additional reasonable progress must be made each time a waterbody is considered for listing under Rule 62-303, F.A.C. (every five years)

. If you have any questions about this guida nce memo, contact Daryll Joyner of the Department’s Bureau of Watershed Ma nagement in Tallahassee at 850-245-8431.

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Appendix C: Methodology fo r Determining Impairment Based on the Impaired Sur face Waters Rule

The Impaired Surface Waters Rule

To identify impaired waters in each of the state’s river basins, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Department) evaluates water quality data using the science-based methodology in the Identifi cation of Impaired Surface Waters Rule (IWR) (Rule 62-303, Florida Administrative Co de [F.A.C.]). The rule establishes specific criteria and thresholds for impairment, in addition to data sufficiency and data quality requirements. The methodology describe d in the rule is based on a statistical approach designed to provide greater confid ence that the outcome of the water quality assessment is correct. The complete text of the IWR is available at http://www.dep.state.fl.us//legal/Rules/sha red/62-303/62-303.pdf. As part of the watershed management appr oach, for each river ba sin in the state the Department will follow the methodology in Section 62-303.300, F.A.C., to develop a Planning List of potentially impaired wate rs to be assessed under Subsections 403.067(2) and (3), Florida Statutes (F.S.). The methodology for developing the Planning List includes an evaluation of aquatic life use support, primary contact and recreational use support, fish and shellfish consumption use support, drinking water use support, and protection of human health. Data older than 10 years cannot be used to evaluate water quality criteria exceedances for the Planni ng List. As required by Subsection 403.067(2), F.S., the Planning List will not be used to administer or implement any regulatory program, and is submitted to the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for informational purposes only. After further assessment, using the me thodology in Part III, Section 62-303.400, F.A.C., the Department will determine if wa ters on the Planning List are, in fact, impaired and if the impairment is caused by pollutant discharges. These waters are placed on a Verified List. The criteria for the Verified List are more stringent than those for the Planning List. Data older than 7.5 year s should not be used to verify impairment. The Verified List will be adopted by Secr etarial Order and forwarded to the EPA for approval as Florida’s Section 303(d) list of impaired waters. The Department will develop TMDLs for these waters under Subsection 403.067(4), F.S.



# Attainment of Designated Use(s)

While the designated uses of a given waterbody are established using the surface water quality classification system described pr eviously, it is important to note that the EPA uses slightly different terminology in its description of designated uses. Because the Department is required to provide use attain ment status for both the state’s 305(b) report and the state’s 303(d) list of impaired wa ters, the Department uses EPA terminology when assessing waters for use attainment. The water quality evaluations and decision processes for listing impaired waters that ar e defined in Florida’s IWR are based on the following designated use attainment categories:

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# Aquatic Life Use Support-Based Attainment Primary Contact and Recreation Attainment Fish and Shellfish Consumption Attainment Drinking Water Use Attainment

Protection of Human Health

Table C.1 summarizes the designated uses as signed to Florida’s various surface

water classifications.

Table C.1: Designated Use Attainment Categories for Surface Waters in Florida

Designated Use Attainment Category Used in

IWR Evaluation Applicable Florida Surface Water Classification

Aquatic Life Use Support-Based Attainment Class I, II, and III Primary Contact and Recreation Attainment Class I, II, and III Fish and Shellfish Consumption Attainment Class II Drinking Water Use Attainment Class I

Protection of Human Health Class I, II, and III



# Sources of Data

The Department’s assessment of water qua lity for each basin statewide includes an analysis of quantitative data from a vari ety of sources, many of which are readily available to the public. These sources in clude the EPA’s Legacy and modernized

STO rage and RET rieval (STORET) databases, the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), the Department, the Florida Department of Hea lth (FDOH), the water management districts, local governments, and volunteer monitoring groups. Historically, the Department carried out statewide water quality assessments using data available in the EPA’s Legacy STORET Database; STORET makes up approximately 60 percent of the statewide data used in the IWR assessment. The Legacy STORET dataset is a repository of da ta collected and uploaded by numerous organizations through 1999. The Legacy STORET Database can be accessed at http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/storet/index.htm. In 2000, the EPA created a modernized version of STORET that included new features designed to address da ta quality assuranc e/quality control concerns (see the new STORET Web site at http:// www.epa.gov/storet/. However, because of software difficulties associated with batch uploading of data to the modernized STORET, the data being uploaded to the national repository d ecreased dramatically, and lingering problems have temporarily reduced STORET’s importance as a statewide data source. It houses only about 5 percent of th e statewide IWR Database. Approximately 35 percent of the data used in the IWR assessment was provided by individual organizations that for various r easons, such as time constraints or resource limitations, were not able to en ter their data into the nationa l database. The organizations providing the largest datasets in clude the South Florida, Sout hwest Florida, and St. Johns River Water Management Distri cts; the USGS; and the University of Florida LakeWatch volunteer monitoring group. Severa l of these databases are read ily available to the public

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via the Internet: the South Florid a Water Management District at http://www.envirobase.usgs.gov/, the USGS at http://water.usgs.gov/, and LakeWatch at http://lakewatch.ifas.ufl.edu/. The Department created the IWR Database in 2002 to evaluate data simultaneously in accordance with the IWR methodology for every basin in the state, based on the appropriate data “window.” For the Verifi ed List assessment, the window is 7.5 years (for the IWR Database), and the Planni ng List assessment window is 10 years. Table

C.2 shows the periods of record for the Verifi ed and Planning List s for the five basin

groups. The evaluation of water quality in the state’s basins also includes some qualitative

information. These sources are described in the Water Quality Status Reports and Water Quality Assessment Reports for each basin.

Table C.2: Data Used in Developing the Planni ng and Verified Lists, First Basin Rotation Cycle

Basin Group Reporting Period of Data Record Used in IWR
Evaluation
Group 1 Planning List January 1, 1989–December 31, 1998

Verified List January 1, 1995–June 30, 2002

Group 2 Planning List January 1, 1991–December 31, 2000

Verified List January 1, 1996–June 30, 2003

Group 3 Planning List January 1, 1992–December 31, 2001

Verified List January 1, 1997–June 30, 2004

Group 4 Planning List January 1, 1993–December 31, 2002

Verified List January 1, 1998–June 30, 2005

Group 5 Planning List January 1, 1994–December 31, 2003

Verified List January 1, 1999–June 30, 2006

Note: Typically, a 10-year data record is used for the development of the Planning Lists, and a 7.5- year record is used for the Verified Lists.



# Methodology

To determine the status of surface water qualit y in individual river basins in Florida, three categories of data—chemistry data, biological data, and fish consumption advisories—were evaluated to determine pot ential impairments for the four designated use attainment categories discussed earlier: aquatic life, primary contact and recreation, fish and shellfish consumption, drinking wa ter use, and protection of human health.

Aquatic Life Based Attainment

The IWR follows the principle of independe nt applicability. A waterbody is listed for potential impairment of aquatic life use support based on exceedances of any one of four types of water quality indi cators (numeric water quality criteria, nutrient thresholds, biological thresholds, and toxicity data).

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E XCEEDANCES OF 

# N UMERIC 

# W ATER 

# Q UALITY 

# C RITERIA


# The chemistry data from STORET used in evaluating impairment were also used for preparing the state’s 305(b) report. Only ambient surface water quality stations were included in the assessment of impairment. Wa ter quality information from point sources

or wells was excluded. Monito ring stations were classified as one of five waterbody types—spring, stream, lake, estuary, or black water—based on criter ia described in the latest 305(b) report. The assessmen ts included the following parameters:

Metals Arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, chromium VI, chromium III, copper, iron, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, thallium, and zinc

Nutrients Chlorophyll a for streams and estuaries, and Trophic State Index (TSI) (chlorophyll a, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus) for lakes

Conventionals Dissolved oxygen (DO), fecal coliform, total coliform, pH,

unionized ammonia

The requirements for placing waters on the Planning List include d a minimum of 10 temporally independent samples from th e 10-year period of record shown in Table C.2, unless there were 3 exceedances of water qua lity or 1 exceedance of an acute toxicity criterion in a 3-year period. The screeni ng methodology for the Verified List requires at least 20 samples from the last 5 years pr eceding the Planning List assessment. An exceedance, meaning that water quality criteria or standards are not met, is recorded any time the criterion is exceeded by any amount . An exceedance for DO, however, means that a waterbody does not meet the DO criterion , rather than an actual exceedance of the

criterion. To determine if a water should be placed on the Planning List for each parameter, the chemical data were analyzed using a comput er program written to assess the data, based on criteria established in the IWR, with tw o exceptions. First, unionized ammonia data were not analyzed by the program, but rath er with an Excel spreadsheet. Second, because the full complexity of the pH criter ion could not be programmed, the incomplete listings for pH are not included. They will be further examined while additional data are collected during Phase 2 of the watershed management cycle. Data analysis and statistical summaries of waterbody identific ation numbers (WBIDs ), waterbody types, and parameters obtained from the STORET Da tabase were conducted using Access, SAS statistical software, and Ar cView geographic information system (GIS) applications. The data for metals and conventional para meters were compared with the state surface water quality criteria in Section 62-302.530, F.A.C. (IWR). The rule contains a table of sample numbers versus exceedan ces. A waterbody was placed on the Planning List if there was at least 80 percent confiden ce that the actual criteria exceedance rate was greater than or equal to 10 percent. To be placed on the Verified List, at least a 90 percent confidence rate was required.

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E XCEEDANCES OF 

# N UTRIENT 

# T HRESHOLDS


# The state currently has a narra tive nutrient criterion instead of a numeric value for

nutrient thresholds. The narrative criterion states, “In no case shall nutrient concentrations of a body of wa ter be altered so as to cau se an imbalance in natural populations of aquatic flora or fauna.” The IWR provides an interpretation of the

narrative nutrient crite rion. In general, the TSI and the annual mean chlorophyll a values are the primary means for assessing whethe r a waterbody should be assessed further for nutrient impairment.

The rule also considers other information that might indicate an imbalance in flora or fauna due to nutrient enrichment, such as algal blooms, excessive macrophyte growth, a decrease in the distribution (e ither in density or aerial c overage) of seagrasses or other submerged aquatic vegetation, changes in al gal species richness, and excessive diel oxygen swings. Potential nutrient impairment was evalua ted by calculating annual mean chlorophyll

a values for estuaries and streams and the TSI for lakes. For lakes, the TSI was calculated using chlorophyll a , total phosphorus, and total nitr ogen measurements. Direct

evidence of imbalances of flora and fauna in waterbodies was also considered in the evaluation of nutrient impairments. In estuarine areas, a water was considered nutrient enriched if the annual mean chlorophyll a values were greater than 11 micrograms per liter ( μ g/L), or if annual mean chlorophyll a values increased by more than 50 percen t over historical values for at least two consecutive years. For streams, a wate r was considered nutri ent enriched if the annual mean chlorophyll a values were greater than 20 μ g/L, or if the annual mean increased by more than 50 percent over hist orical values for at least two consecutive

years. A lake with a mean color greater than 40 platinum cobalt units (PCUs) was

considered nutrient enriched if the annual mean TSI exceeded 60. A lake with a mean color less than or equal to 40 PCUs was considered nutrient enriched if the annual mean TSI exceeded 40. In addition, a lake was cons idered nutrient enriched if there was an increase in TSI over the 1989 to 2000 period, or if TSI measurements were 10 units higher than historical values.

E XCEEDANCES OF 

# B IOLOGICAL 

# T HRESHOLDS



# Bioassessments were carried out for streams, lakes, canals, and rivers using the IWR as guidance and following the Department ’s standard operating procedures, which provide definitions and specific methods for th e generation and analysis of bioassessment

data. These are referenced in the individua l bioassessment data tabl es contained in the Status Reports. The purpose behind using a bioassessment methodology in surface water

characterizations is that bi ological components of the envi ronment manifest long-term water quality conditions and thus provide a bette r indication of a wate rbody’s true health than discrete chemical or physical measuremen ts alone. Similar to water quality criteria,

bioassessment methods involve the identific ation of a biological reference condition, based on data from unimpaired or least impacted waters in a given region.

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# For the Planning and Verified List assessm ents, the reference condition data were used to establish expected sc ores, ranging from best to wors t, for various measures of community structure and function, such as numbe rs or percentages of particular species or feeding groups. Data on community stru cture and function from waters of unknown quality in the same region as reference waters were compared with the expected scores of

metrics to evaluate th eir biological integrity. Metrics (e.g., number of taxa, percent Dipt era, percent filter feeders) were used independently and as an aggr egated group called an index. Indices have advantages over individual metrics in that they can integrat e several related metrics into one score that reflects a wider range of biol ogical variables. A number of bioassessment metrics and indices exist for assessing populations of plan t and animal life, including fish, diatoms (e.g., microscopic algae and unicellular plankt on), and macroinvertebrates (e.g., insects, crayfish, snails, and mussels). Only macroinvertebrate data from ambient si tes in state surface waters were used in the bioassessments analyzed for the Planning and Verified Lists. The data included sites designated as test and background sites for National Pollutant Di scharge Elimination System (NPDES) fifth-year insp ections, but excluded data fr om effluent outfalls from discharging facilities, or data from monitoring sites not cl early established to collect ambient water quality data. Because s ite-specific habitat and physicochemical assessment information (e.g., percent suitable m acroinvertebrate habita t, water velocities,

extent of sand or silt smothering, and riparian [Definition: Of, on, or relating to the banks of a natural course of water.] buffer zone widths) was not available at the time of reporting, it was not included. However, this information is instrumental in pinpointing the causes for failed bioassessment metrics and will be included in future reporting. The data used to develop the Planning a nd Verified Lists were obtained from the Department’s Biological Database (SBI O) and the EPA’s STORET Water Quality Database, where it could be substantiated that the data were generated in compliance with the bioassessment standard operating proce dures referenced in the IWR (Section 62- 303.330, F.A.C.).

The data from these databases are used w ithout regard to the randomness of sample site selection. For the purposes of the Status Reports, the seasons are defined as follows: winter (1/1–3/31), spring (4/1–6/30), summer (7/1–9/30), and fall (10/1–12/31). Wet seasons are generally spring and summer, a nd dry seasons are fall and winter, although conditions can vary in the state as a whole.

L AKE 

# C ONDITION 

# I NDEX


# The scoring of the individual metrics of the Lake Condition Index (LCI), except percent Diptera, was performed acco rding to the following formula:

100(B/A) where A = the 95 percentile of the reference population and B = observed

value

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For percent Diptera, the following formula was used:

100 (100-B)/(100-A) where A = the 95 percen tile of the reference population and B

= observed value

An average LCI score was cal culated by averaging the scor es of the six metrics in the method: total number of taxa; total number of taxa belonging to the orders Ephemeroptera, Odonata, and Trichoptera (EOT taxa); percent EOT taxa; ShannonWiener Diversity Index score; Hulbert Index score; and percent Dipteran individuals. LCI calculations were only provided for clear lakes (< 20 PCUs). As macroinvertebratebased indices have not been shown to assess colored lakes in Florida accurately (> 20 PCUs), they have been excluded from bioassess ments. A poor or very poor rating based on the average score constituted a failed bioassessment, based on the IWR.

S TREAM 

# C ONDITION 

# I NDEX


# A total Stream Condition Index (SCI) score was calculated by adding the scores of

the seven metrics in the method: total number of taxa; total number of taxa belonging to the orders Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera (EPT taxa); percent Chironomid taxa; percent dominant taxa; percent Diptera; pe rcent filter feeders; and Florida Index. A poor or very poor rating based on the total sc ore constituted a failed bioassessment, based on the IWR. The Water Quality Status Repor ts contain definitions and specific methods for the generation and analysis of bioassessment data.

B IO 

# R ECON


# To establish an impairment rating based on BioRecon data, three metrics were used: the Florida Index score, total number of taxa, and total number of EPT taxa. If all three metrics failed to meet thresholds, the wate r was deemed “impaired” based on the IWR.

B IOLOGICAL 

# I NTEGRITY 

# S TANDARD


# Quantitative data, generated through the use of Hester-Dendy artificial substrate samplers, were used to calculate Shannon-Wi ener Diversity Index scores for paired background and test sites, as specified in th e Biological Integrity St andard of Subsection 62-302.530(11), F.A.C. One failure of the sta ndard meant that a waterbody segment was listed as potentially impaired.

E VALUATION OF 

# T OXICITY 

# D ATA


# Although the IWR describes the use of toxicity data for the assessment of aquatic life-based attainment, no ambient toxicity da ta are available for assessment and this

metric was not used.

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# Primary Contact and Recreation Attainment

For Class I, II, or III waters, a waterbody was potentially impaired if the following

criteria were met:

• The waterbody segment did not meet the applicable water quality criteria for bacteriological quality,

• The waterbody segment included a bathing area that was closed by a local health department or county government for more than 1 week or more than once during a calendar year based on b acteriological data,

• The waterbody segment included a bathing ar ea for which a local health department or county government issued closures, advi sories, or warnings totaling 21 days or more during a calendar year based on bacteriological data, or

• The waterbody segment included a bathing area that was closed or had advisories or warnings for more than 12 weeks dur ing a calendar year based on previous bacteriological data or on de rived relationships between bact eria levels and rainfall or

flow.

Fish and Shellfish Consumption Attainment

For Class I, II, or III waters, a waterbody wa s potentially impaired if it did not meet the applicable Class II water quality criteria for bacteriological quality, or if a fish consumption advisory had been issued. Fish consumption advisories were based on the FDOH’s “limited consumption” or “no consumption” advisories for surface waters because of high levels of mercury in fish tissue. In addition, for Class II waters, waterbody segments that had been appr oved for shellfish harvesting but were downgraded to a more restrictive classificat ion were listed as potentially impaired.

Drinking Water Attainment and Protection of Human Health

For Class I waters, a waterbody was potenti ally impaired if it did not meet the applicable Class I water quality criteria.

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Appendix D: Integrated Assessme nt (Master List) for the Florida Keys Basin

Data collected since the 1996 305(b) Report upd ate of the 303(d) list were used to update the listing status of waters. Table D.1 contains the listing st atus of all assessed waters in the basin as of June 30, 2006. All of the waters in the table are Class III marine water. It should be noted that subsequentto the 2004 update of the 303(d) list, some waterbody segments were further subdivided to produce separate segments for islands, embayments and beaches versus their surrounding watersheds. Therefore, Table D.1 shows the waterbody identification numbers (WBIDs) under which these segments were designated in the 1998 303(d) list, as well as the new or currently recognized WBIDs for

them. Information in this appendix was obtaine d from an inventory of the Legacy and modernized STORET databases, as well as data contributed dire ctly to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (D epartment) by individual data providers.

Table D.2 includes only stations with data from the Planning and Verified assessment periods.128Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysTable D.1: Integrated Water Quality Report (MasterList) for the Florida Keys Basin, by Planning UnitWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified PeriodLOWER KEYS PLANNING UNIT6018 BAHIAHONDASTATE PARKCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6018 BAHIAHONDASTATE PARKCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 2 / 126; VP = 2 / 2536018 BAHIAHONDASTATE PARKCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ND 3a PP = No data; VP = No dataWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys129WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8072 DRYTORTUGASGULFCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.066 ug/L), 2000 (1.0ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L) 2002 (1.045ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and 2005 (1.0ug/L). No TN or TP data available foranalysis.8072 DRYTORTUGASGULFCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 196; VP = 0 / 1738072 DRYTORTUGASGULFCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 0 / 197; VP = 6 / 1688072 DRYTORTUGASGULFCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 0 / 422; VP = 22 / 4718073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL pH ID 3b PP = 0 / 3; VP = 0 / 178073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 98073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 1 / 426; VP = 0 / 3818073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards130Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)NI 2 Historically observed minimum valueof 2.0 from 1994 - 1998. The annualChl-a average did not exceed theminimum historical average by morethan 50% on two consecutive years.8073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 1 / 98073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL FecalColiformIM 5 Low 2017 PP = 325 / 2262; VP = 362 / 30368073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 78073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 1 / 98073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Copper ID 3b VP = 2 / 98073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Chromium3 ID 3b VP = 0 / 28073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the FloridastandardsWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys131WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.288 ug/L), 2000(1.249 ug/L), 2001 (1.057 ug/L), 2002(1.139 ug/L), 2003 (1.089 ug/L), 2004(1.033 ug/L) and 2005 (1.081 ug/L).TN (0.285 mg/L) does not exceedthreshold of 1.0 mg/L. TP (0.013mg/L) does not exceed threshold of0.19 mg/L. BOD (1.0 mg/L) does notexceed threshold of 2.1 mg/L. Dataindicate that the WBID is nitrogen andphosphorous limited (TN/TP median= 21.235, standard deviation of18.533, range 1.987 - 93.85, 26observations).8073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b PP = 0 / 6; VP = 0 / 98073 KEY WESTGULFCOASTAL Alkalinity ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards8074 FLORIDAKEYS GULF1COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8074 FLORIDAKEYS GULF1COASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 306; VP = 0 / 2588074 FLORIDAKEYS GULF1COASTAL Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8074 FLORIDAKEYS GULF1COASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards132Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8074 FLORIDAKEYS GULF1COASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.061 ug/L), 2000(1.488 ug/L), 2001 (1.033 ug/L), 2002(1.376 ug/L), 2003 (1.194 ug/L), 2004(1.186 ug/L) and 2005 (1.0 ug/L). TN(0.23 mg/L) does not exceedthreshold of 1.0 mg/L. TP (0.0108mg/L) does not exceed threshold of0.19 mg/L. Data indicate that theWBID is nitrogen and phosphorouslimited (TN/TP median = 23.423,standard deviation of 11.981, range4.211 - 43.10, 15 observations).8074 FLORIDAKEYS GULF1COASTAL Arsenic ID 3b PP = 0 / 6;8074 FLORIDAKEYS GULF1COASTAL pH ID 3b PP = 0 / 5; VP = 1 / 98074 FLORIDAKEYS GULF1COASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 7 / 300; VP = 6 / 2598075 FLORIDAKEYS GULF2COASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8075 FLORIDAKEYS GULF2COASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 407; VP = 0 / 3578075 FLORIDAKEYS GULF2COASTAL Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standardsWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys133WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8075 FLORIDAKEYS GULF2COASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 24 / 417; VP = 24 / 3668075 FLORIDAKEYS GULF2COASTAL pH NI 2 PP = 0 / 26; VP = 1 / 338075 FLORIDAKEYS GULF2COASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.188 ug/L), 2000(1.249 ug/L), 2001 (1.031 ug/L), 2002(1.485 ug/L), 2003 (1.057 ug/L), 2004(1.101 ug/L) and 2005 (1.008 ug/L).TN (0.21 mg/L) does not exceedthreshold of 1.0 mg/L. TP (0.0119mg/L) does not exceed threshold of0.19 mg/L. Data indicate that theWBID is nitrogen and phosphorouslimited (TN/TP median = 21.519,standard deviation of 12.447, range5.212 - 43.08, 15 observations).8075 FLORIDAKEYS GULF2COASTAL Arsenic ID 3b PP = 0 / 6;8075 FLORIDAKEYS GULF2COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL FecalColiformID 3b VP = 0 / 48079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL pH ID 3b VP = 0 / 5134Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 38079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 351; VP = 0 / 3298079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 38079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 28079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 38079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 1 / 345; VP = 2 / 3338079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Copper ID 3b VP = 0 / 38079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Chromium3 ID 3b VP = 0 / 18079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the FloridastandardsWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys135WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.0 ug/L), 2000 (1.038ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002 (1.0ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and 2004(1.004 ug/L) and 2005 (1.0078 ug/L).TN (0.3815 mg/L) does not exceedthreshold of 1.0 mg/L. TP (0.02 mg/L)does not exceed threshold of 0.19mg/L. BOD (0.0006 mg/L) does notexceed threshold of 2.1 mg/L. Dataindicate that the WBID is nitrogen andphosphorous limited (TN/TP median= 19.075, standard deviation of6.1270, range 13.85 - 28.55, 4observations).8079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Alkalinity ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards8079 NAS KEYWESTOCEANCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 38080 NEWFOUNDHARBORKEYSOCEANCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 1 / 127; VP = 1 / 2548080 NEWFOUNDHARBORKEYSOCEANCOASTAL pH ID 3b PP = 0 / 2; VP = 0 / 2136Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8080 NEWFOUNDHARBORKEYSOCEANCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 198; VP = 0 / 1818080 NEWFOUNDHARBORKEYSOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8080 NEWFOUNDHARBORKEYSOCEANCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 1 / 190; VP = 9 / 1758080 NEWFOUNDHARBORKEYSOCEANCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8080 NEWFOUNDHARBORKEYSOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.0 ug/L), 2000 (1.007ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002 (1.0ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and 2004 (1.0ug/L) and 2005 (1.0 ug/L). No TN orTP data available for analysis.6012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL Iron NI 2 VP = 0 / 22Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys137WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL Zinc NI 2 VP = 0 / 226012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL Lead NI 2 VP = 0 / 226012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL Copper IM 5 Medium 2012 PP = No Data; VP = 8 / 216012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL Cadmium NI 2 VP = 0 / 226012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL pH NI 2 VP = 1 / 29138Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL Arsenic NI 2 VP = 0 / 226012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c PP = 19 / 73; VP = 28 / 10456012A BIG PINEKEYCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 VP = 1 / 286012B BAHIAHONDABAYSIDEBEACH Bacteria NI 2 Medium 2012Beach advisories < 21 days/yr in20056012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenID 3b VP = 3 / 46012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL pH ID 3b VP = 0 / 46012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 36012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 36012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL Copper ID 3b VP = 0 / 36012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 36012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL FecalColiformID 3b VP = 0 / 4Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys139WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 36012C NO NAMEKEYCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 3140Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6012D LONGBEACHCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6012D LONGBEACHCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ND 3a PP = No data; VP = No data6012E BIG TORCHKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)ND 3a No annual average chlorophyll dataavailable.6012E BIG TORCHKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ND 3a PP = No data; VP = No data6013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available dataWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys141WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Turbidity ID 3b PP = 0 / 1; VP = 0 / 16013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 166013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL FecalColiformID 3b VP = 1 / 166013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c PP = 35 / 73; VP = 35 / 9156013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Copper ID 3b VP = 0 / 166013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 166013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 166013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 166013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards142Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 156013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYSCOASTAL pH ID 3b PP = 0 / 2; VP = 0 / 18Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys143WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6013B SUGARLOAF COASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6013B SUGARLOAF COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 VP = 0 / 216013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 19144Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 196013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 196013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 196013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL Copper IM 5 Medium 2012 PP = No Data; VP = 5 / 19Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys145WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 196013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL pH NI 2 VP = 0 / 236013C CUDJOEKEYCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c PP = 17 / 77; VP = 21 / 10256013D LITTLEKNOCKEMDOWN KEYCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ND 3a PP = No data; VP = No data6013D LITTLEKNOCKEMDOWN KEYCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.146Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Iron NI 2 PP = 0 / 2; VP = 0 / 316014A KEY WEST COASTAL MethylChlorideID 3b PP = 0 / 2;6014A KEY WEST COASTAL pH NI 2 PP = 0 / 5; VP = 0 / 366014A KEY WEST COASTAL TrichlorethyleneID 3b PP = 0 / 2;6014A KEY WEST COASTAL FecalColiformIM 5 Low 2017 PP = 418 / 2256; VP = 459 / 25736014A KEY WEST COASTAL Manganese ND 3aPP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Nitrate ND 3aVP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6014A KEY WEST COASTAL TetrachloroethyleneID 3b PP = 0 / 2;6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 35; VP = 0 / 306014A KEY WEST COASTAL UnionizedAmmoniaND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards;6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Zinc NI 2 PP= 0 / 2; VP= 0 / 316014A KEY WEST COASTAL Fluoride ID 3b PP = 0 / 2; VP = 0 / 26014A KEY WEST COASTAL Cadmium ID 3b PP = 0 / 2; VP = 0 / 256014A KEY WEST COASTAL Lead NI 2 PP = 0 / 2; VP = 0 / 316014A KEY WEST COASTAL Selenium ID 3b PP = 0 / 2;6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Bromoform ID 3b PP = 0 / 2;6014A KEY WEST COASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 1 / 34; VP = 20 / 1936014A KEY WEST COASTAL Aluminum ID 3b PP = 0 / 2;Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys147WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Alkalinity ND 3a PP= 0 / 26014A KEY WEST COASTAL Barium ND 3aPP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Chloroform ID 3b PP = 0 / 2;6014A KEY WEST COASTAL MethyleneChlorideID 3b PP = 0 / 2;6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Copper IM 5 Medium 2012 PP = No Data; VP = 9 / 316014A KEY WEST COASTAL Arsenic NI 2 PP = 0 / 2; VP = 0 / 316014A KEY WEST COASTAL DichloroethyleneID 3b PP = 0 / 2;148Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6014A KEY WEST COASTAL CarbonTetrachlorideID 3b PP = 0 / 2;6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Chromium3 ID 3b VP = 0 / 66014A KEY WEST COASTAL Conductance ND3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6014A KEY WEST COASTAL Chloride ID 3bPP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standardsWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys149WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6014A KEY WEST COASTAL DissolvedSolidsND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL FecalColiformID 3b VP = 1 / 176014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL pH NI 2 VP = 0 / 206014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 146014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 146014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL Alkalinity ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 106014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 146014B STOCKISLANDCOASTAL Chromium3 ID 3b VP = 0 / 4

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Parameters

of Concern Parameters

Assessed Using the 2001 Impaired
Surface

Waters Rule (IWR) Assessment
Status [Planning list (PL), I mpaired (IM) , Not Impaired (NI), No data (ND),
Insufficient data (ID)] EPA’s Integrated Report Category 2 

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# 6014B STOCK

ISLAND COASTAL Nutrients (Other) IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified as impa ired for nutrients based on "other information" indicating an imbalance in flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62

- 303.450(2), F.A.C. However, the Department is currently evaluating whether existing and proposed control measures provide reasonable

assurance t hat the nutrient impairment will be addressed, and the Department may not include this listing on the final verified list adopted by Secretarial Order. The specific

areal extent of the reasonable

assurance demonstration is also pending further review, but may include WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B, 6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B, 6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B, 6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A, 6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A, 6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.

6014B STOCK

ISLAND COASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 14

6014B STOC K
ISLAND COASTAL Dissolved Oxygen NI 2 VP = 0 / 20

6014B STOCK

ISLAND COASTAL Copper IM 5 Medium 2012 PP = No Data; VP = 7 / 14

6014C US NAVAL

AIR STATION

KEY WEST COASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Florida

standardsWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys151WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL pH ID 3b VP = 0 / 196014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 156014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 156014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 156014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 156014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL Copper ID 3b VP = 0 / 156014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c PP = 62 / 74; VP = 66 / 945152Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 146014C US NAVALAIR STATIONKEY WESTCOASTAL FecalColiformID 3b VP = 0 / 198073A N.ROOSEVELT/COW KEY(KW)BEACH Bacteria ID 3b NoBeach advisories in 2000, 2001 or2002. No data available for 2003,2004 or 2005.Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys153WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8073B KENNEDYDR & N.ROOSEVELT(KW)BEACH Bacteria ID 3b NoBeach advisories in 2000 or 2002and only 9 days of advisories in 2001.No data available for 2003, 2004 or2005.8073C SIMONTONSTREETBEACH (KW)BEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2004, 2005, and 2006.8073D FT ZACHARUTAYLORSTATE PARKBEACH Bacteria NI 2 Beach advisories < 21 days/yr in2005.8073E SOUTHBEACH (KW)BEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.8073F HIGGSBEACHBEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and2006.8073G RESTBEACH (KW)BEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2001. No data available for 2003,2004, 2005, and 2006.8073H SMATHERSBEACHBEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006.8080A BAHIAHONDASANDSPURBEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2005 and 2006.8080B BAHIAHONDAOCEANSIDEBEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2001, 2005, and 2006.MIDDLE KEYS PLANNING UNIT6010 LONG KEY COASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c VP = 5 / 125154Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6010 LONG KEY COASTAL pH ID 3b VP = 0 / 126010 LONG KEY COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6010 LONG KEY COASTAL FecalColiformID 3b VP = 0 / 96010 LONG KEY COASTAL Conductance ND 3aVP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6010 LONG KEY COASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 126010 LONG KEY COASTAL Copper ID 3b VP = 3 / 116010 LONG KEY COASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 126010 LONG KEY COASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 126010 LONG KEY COASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 12Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys155WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6010 LONG KEY COASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6010 LONG KEY COASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 126010 LONG KEY COASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 126016 DUCK KEY COASTAL FecalColiformID 3b VP = 0 / 116016 DUCK KEY COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6016 DUCK KEY COASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 126016 DUCK KEY COASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 126016 DUCK KEY COASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 12156Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6016 DUCK KEY COASTAL Copper ID 3b VP = 0 / 106016 DUCK KEY COASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 106016 DUCK KEY COASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6016 DUCK KEY COASTAL pH ID 3b VP = 0 / 126016 DUCK KEY COASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6016 DUCK KEY COASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 126016 DUCK KEY COASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c PP = 64 / 86; VP = 66 / 9958071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Copper NI 2 PP = 0 / 44; VP = 0 / 31Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys157WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL pH NI 2 PP = 2 / 98; VP = 1 / 1218071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Zinc NI 2 PP = 0 / 48; VP = 0 / 368071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL UnionizedAmmoniaND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards;8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 25 / 280; VP = 11 / 1768071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Lead NI 2 PP = 0 / 47; VP = 0 / 368071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Oil/Grease ID 3b PP = 0 / 6; VP = 0 / 98071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)NI 2 Historically observed minimum valueof 2.62675 from 1994 - 1998. Theannual Chl-a average did not exceedthe minimum historical average bymore than 50% on two consecutiveyears.8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Mercury ID 3b PP = 18 / 19; VP = 2 / 38071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL DissolvedSolidsND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards158Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Chloride ID 3b PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (3.525 ug/L), 2000(2.222 ug/L), 2001 (1.989 ug/L) 2002(2.25 ug/L), 2003 (2.033 ug/L) and2004 (2.079 ug/L). TN (0.33 mg/L)does not exceed threshold of 1.0mg/L. TP (0.0106 mg/L) does notexceed threshold of0.19 mg/L. Dataindicate that the WBID isphosphorous limited (TN/TP median= 33.602, standard deviation of111.45, range 4.018 - 1300, 162observations).8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Cadmium NI 2 PP = 0 / 48; VP = 0 / 368071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Benzene ID 3b PP = 0 / 7; VP = 0 / 108071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Arsenic NI 2 PP = 0 / 69; VP = 0 / 368071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Alkalinity ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL Fluoride ID 3b PP = 0 / 1;8071 FLORIDAKEYS GULFCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 21 / 324; VP = 19 / 215Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys159WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8076 FLORIDAKEYS GULF3COASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 0 / 128; VP = 0 / 2558076 FLORIDAKEYS GULF3COASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 238; VP = 0 / 2148076 FLORIDAKEYS GULF3COASTAL pH ID 3b PP = 0 / 4; VP = 0 / 98076 FLORIDAKEYS GULF3COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8076 FLORIDAKEYS GULF3COASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 1 / 235; VP = 1 / 2148076 FLORIDAKEYS GULF3COASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.295 ug/L), 2000(1.146 ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002(1.196 ug/L), 2003 (1.025 ug/L), 2004(1.01 ug/L) and 2005 (1.161 ug/L). NoTN or TP data available for analysis.8076 FLORIDAKEYS GULF3COASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards160Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8077 FLORIDABAY GULF 1COASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (3.732 ug/L), 2000 (2.11ug/L), 2001 (1.278 ug/L), 2002 (1.623ug/L), 2003 (1.695 ug/L), 2004 (1.36ug/L) and 2005 (1.047 ug/L). TN(0.39 mg/L) does not exceedthreshold of 1.0 mg/L. TP (0.0095mg/L) does not exceed threshold of0.19 mg/L. Data indicate that theWBID is phosphorous limited (TN/TPmedian = 44.281, standard deviationof 45.015, range 2.834 - 350, 480observations).8077 FLORIDABAY GULF 1COASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 66 / 1344; VP = 12 / 8598077 FLORIDABAY GULF 1COASTAL pH NI 2 PP = 11 / 225; VP = 15 / 3578077 FLORIDABAY GULF 1COASTAL Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8077 FLORIDABAY GULF 1COASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8077 FLORIDABAY GULF 1COASTAL Arsenic NI 2 PP = 0 / 69;8077 FLORIDABAY GULF 1COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)NI 2 Historically observed minimum valueof 2.0 from 0989 - 1993. The annualChl-a average did not exceed theminimum historical average by morethan 50% on two consecutive years.Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys161WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8077 FLORIDABAY GULF 1COASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 14 / 1356; VP = 14 / 8768081 BOAT KEYOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8081 BOAT KEYOCEANCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 132; VP = 0 / 1218081 BOAT KEYOCEANCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 1 / 125; VP = 1 / 2528081 BOAT KEYOCEANCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 0 / 130; VP = 6 / 1218081 BOAT KEYOCEANCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8081 BOAT KEYOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.051 ug/L), 2000(1.005 ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002(1.070 ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and2004 (1.0 ug/L) and 2005 (1.0 ug/L).No TN or TP data available foranalysis.8082 GRASSYKEY OCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.0 ug/L), 2000 (1.007ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002 (1.0ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and 2004 (1.0ug/L) and 2005 (1.0 ug/L). No TN orTP data available for analysis.8082 GRASSYKEY OCEANCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards162Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8082 GRASSYKEY OCEANCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 0 / 32; VP = 1 / 328082 GRASSYKEY OCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8082 GRASSYKEY OCEANCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 33; VP = 0 / 318082 GRASSYKEY OCEANCOASTAL pH ID 3b VP = 0 / 28083 LONG KEYOCEANCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 3 / 130; VP = 7 / 1188083 LONG KEYOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8083 LONG KEYOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.0 ug/L), 2000 (1.014ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002 (1.0ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and 2004 (1.0ug/L) and 2005 (1.0 ug/L). No TN orTP data available for analysis.8083 LONG KEYOCEANCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 134; VP = 0 / 1206011A VACA KEY COASTAL Iron NI 2 VP = 0 / 486011A VACA KEY COASTAL pH NI 2 PP = 0 / 2; VP = 0 / 576011A VACA KEY COASTAL Zinc NI 2 VP = 0 / 486011A VACA KEY COASTAL Alkalinity ND 3aVP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6011A VACA KEY COASTAL Lead NI 2 VP = 0 / 486011A VACA KEY COASTAL Cadmium NI 2 VP = 0 / 40Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys163WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6011A VACA KEY COASTAL Turbidity ID 3b PP = 0 / 1; VP = 0 / 16011A VACA KEY COASTAL Nitrate ND 3a VP=nocriteria in the Floridastandards6011A VACA KEY COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6011A VACA KEY COASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c PP = 55 / 82; VP = 264 / 45156011A VACA KEY COASTAL Copper IM 5 Medium 2012 PP = No Data; VP = 19 / 476011A VACA KEY COASTAL Chromium3 ID 3b VP = 0 / 116011A VACA KEY COASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=nocriteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6011A VACA KEY COASTAL Arsenic NI 2 VP = 0 / 46164Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6011A VACA KEY COASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6011A VACA KEY COASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 3 / 128; VP = 5 / 3106011B KEYCOLONYBEACH Bacteria ND 3aPP = No data; VP = No data6011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL pH ID 3b VP = 0 / 86011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available dataWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys165WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 86011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 86011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL Copper ID 3b VP = 0 / 76011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 66011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 86011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 0 / 128; VP = 1 / 2626011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenPL 3c VP = 5 / 85166Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6011C GRASSEYKEYCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 88076A VETERAN'SBEACHBEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2004 and 20058077A CURRYHAMMOCKSTATE PARKBEACH Bacteria NI 2 Beach advisories < 21 days/yr in20058081 BOAT KEYOCEANCOASTAL pH ID 3b PP = 0 / 2; VP = 0 / 2Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys167WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8081A COCO PLUMBEACHBEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2001, 2004, 2005, and 2006.8081B SOMBREROBEACHBEACH Bacteria NI 2 Beach advisories < 21 days/yr in2005UPPER KEYS PLANNING UNIT6002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY UnionizedAmmoniaND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards;6002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 334; VP = 0 / 1736002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY pH NI 2 PP = 4 / 1898; VP = 3 / 10156002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 0 / 89; VP = 0 / 546002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY Nutrients(other)PL 3cThe Florida Keys embayments wereidentified as potentially impaired fornutrients based on "other information"indicating an imbalance in flora or fauna,pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C.Further investigation is required.6002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY Arsenic ID 3b PP = 0 / 7;6002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 57 / 2000; VP = 41 / 1055168Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6002 MANATEEBAYESTUARY Nutrients(HistoricChla)NI 2 Historically observed minimum valueof 2.0 from 1994 - 1998. The annualChl-a average did not exceed theminimum historical average by morethan 50% on two consecutive years.6003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY Nutrients(HistoricChla)NI 2 Historically observed minimum valueof 2.0 from 1994 - 1998. The annualChl-a average did not exceed theminimum historical average by morethan 50% on two consecutive years.6003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY pH NI 2 PP = 2 / 1649; VP = 2 / 10356003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY UnionizedAmmoniaND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards;6003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY Turbidity NI 2 PP = 4 / 606; VP = 1 / 3276003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY Nutrients(Other)PL 3cThe Florida Keys embayments wereidentified as potentially impaired fornutrients based on "other information"indicating an imbalance in flora or fauna,pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C.Further investigation is required.6003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 38 / 1950; VP = 40 / 11546003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standardsWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys169WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY Arsenic NI 2 PP = 0 / 21;6003 BARNESSOUNDESTUARY FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 0 / 47;6005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY Lead ID 3b PP = 0 / 5;6005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY pH NI 2 PP = 18 / 1630; VP = 4 / 7886005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 187; VP = 0 / 906005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY Nutrients(HistoricChla)NI 2 Historically observed minimum valueof 2.0 from 1994 - 1998. The annualChl-a average did not exceed theminimum historical average by morethan 50% on two consecutive years.6005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY Copper ID 3b PP = 0 / 5;6005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY Arsenic ID 3b PP = 0 / 7;6005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY Cadmium ID 3b PP = 0 / 5;170Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY DissolvedOxygenNutrients(Other)PL 3cThe Florida Keys embayments wereidentified as potentially impaired fornutrients based on "other information"indicating an imbalance in flora or fauna,pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C.Further investigation is required.6005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY DissolvedOxygenDissolvedOxygenNI 2 Low 2011 PP = 43 / 1730; VP = 15 / 8296005 LONGSOUNDESTUARY Zinc ID 3b PP = 0 / 5;6009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Iron NI 2 VP = 1 / 316009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 316009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL pH NI 2 VP = 0 / 316009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 1 / 73; VP = 3 / 2276009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Cadmium NI 2 VP = 0 / 286009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Lead NI 2 VP = 0 / 306009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Copper IM 5 Medium 2012 PP = No Data; VP = 21 / 296009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Chromium3 ID 3b VP = 0 / 46009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the FloridastandardsWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys171WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Arsenic NI 2 VP = 0 / 306009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Alkalinity ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6009 PLANTATIONKEYCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c VP = 12 / 315172Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 196017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL pH NI 2 VP = 0 / 206017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 1 / 127; VP = 2 / 2716017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c VP = 7 / 2056017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 196017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 196017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Copper ID 3b VP = 4 / 166017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 17Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys173WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 196017 UPPERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c PP = 6 / 41; VP = 11 / 585174Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL pH ID 3b VP = 0 / 166019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 166019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 166019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Copper IM 5 Medium 2012 PP = No Data; VP = 8 / 136019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 15Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys175WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 166019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL FecalColiformID 3b VP = 0 / 146019 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 16176Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)NI 2 Historically observed minimum valueof 2.0 from 1994 - 1998. The annualChl-a average did not exceed theminimum historical average by morethan 50% on two consecutive years.8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL pH NI 2 PP = 27 / 1926; VP = 10 / 11038078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Zinc NI 2 PP = 0 / 10;8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 36 / 863; VP = 10 / 5198078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 15 / 2620; VP = 11 / 13828078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Arsenic NI 2 PP = 0 / 49;8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Lead NI 2 PP = 0 / 10;8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Chloride ID 3b PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standardsWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys177WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.724 ug/L), 2000(1.171 ug/L), 2001 (1.031 ug/L), 2002(1.023 ug/L), 2003 (1.129 ug/L) and2004 (1.011 ug/L). TN (0.47 mg/L)does not exceed threshold of 1.0mg/L. TP (0.0058 mg/L) does notexceed threshold of0.19 mg/L. Dataindicate that the WBID isphosphorous limited (TN/TP median= 84.700, standard deviation of70.791, range 8.808 - 545, 336observations).8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Cadmium NI 2 PP = 0 / 10;8078 FLORIDABAY GULF 2COASTAL Copper NI 2 PP = 0 / 10;8084 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.0 ug/L), 2000 (1.007ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002 (1.0ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and 2004 (1.0ug/L) and 2005 (1.0 ug/L). No TN orTP data available for analysis.8084 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYOCEANCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 6 / 131; VP = 10 / 120178Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8084 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYOCEANCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 1 / 179; VP = 3 / 3058084 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYOCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8084 LOWERMATECUMBE KEYOCEANCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 136; VP = 0 / 1208085 PLANTATIONKEY OCEANCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 4 / 189; VP = 8 / 1808085 PLANTATIONKEY OCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8085 PLANTATIONKEY OCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.0 ug/L), 2000 (1.003ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002 (1.0ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and 2004 (1.0ug/L) and 2005 (1.0 ug/L). No TN orTP data available for analysis.8085 PLANTATIONKEY OCEANCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 194; VP = 0 / 179Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys179WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8086 RODRIGUEZKEY OCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.0 ug/L), 2000 (1.000ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002 (1.0ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and 2004 (1.0ug/L) and 2005 (1.0 ug/L). No TN orTP data available for analysis.8086 RODRIGUEZKEY OCEANCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 1 / 131; VP = 1 / 1198086 RODRIGUEZKEY OCEANCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8086 RODRIGUEZKEY OCEANCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 136; VP = 0 / 1208087 KEY LARGOOCEAN 1COASTAL Nutrients(Chla)NI 2 The annual average Chla values donot exceed IWR threshold of 11.0ug/L in 1999 (1.0 ug/L), 2000 (1.000ug/L), 2001 (1.0 ug/L), 2002 (1.0ug/L), 2003 (1.0 ug/L) and 2004 (1.0ug/L) and 2005 (1.051 ug/L). No TNor TP data available for analysis.8087 KEY LARGOOCEAN 1COASTAL DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 1 / 164; VP = 1 / 1478087 KEY LARGOOCEAN 1COASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data8087 KEY LARGOOCEAN 1COASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 169; VP = 0 / 1496005A LITTLEBLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 151; VP = 0 / 81180Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6005A LITTLEBLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6005A LITTLEBLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Nutrients(HistoricChla)NI 2 Historically observed minimum valueof 2.0 from 1994 - 1998. The annualChl-a average did not exceed theminimum historical average by morethan 50% on two consecutive years.6005A LITTLEBLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6005A LITTLEBLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Arsenic ID 3b PP = 0 / 7;6005A LITTLEBLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY pH NI 2 PP = 13 / 1550; VP = 1 / 7626005A LITTLEBLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Nutrients(Other)PL 3cThe Florida Keys embayments wereidentified as potentially impaired fornutrients based on "other information"indicating an imbalance in flora or fauna,pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C.Further investigation is required.6005A LITTLEBLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 47 / 1650; VP = 12 / 802Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys181WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6005B BLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Nutrients(HistoricChla)NI 2 Historically observed minimum valueof 2.0 from 1994 - 1998. The annualChl-a average did not exceed theminimum historical average by morethan 50% on two consecutive years.6005B BLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY pH NI 2 PP = 11 / 502; VP = 8 / 2776005B BLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 121; VP = 0 / 736005B BLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Nitrate ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6005B BLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6005B BLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Arsenic ID 3b PP = 0 / 7;6005B BLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY Nutrients(other)PL 3cThe Florida Keys embayments wereidentified as potentially impaired fornutrients based on "other information"indicating an imbalance in flora or fauna,pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C.Further investigation is required.6005B BLACKWATER SOUNDESTUARY DissolvedOxygenNI 2 PP = 12 / 602; VP = 11 / 3176005EBJOHNPENNEKAMPSTATE PARKBEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 20066006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Copper IM 5 Medium 2012 PP = No Data; VP = 42 / 86182Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Cadmium NI 2 VP = 0 / 856006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Lead NI 2 VP = 0 / 896006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL pH NI 2 VP = 0 / 886006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Zinc NI 2 VP = 0 / 916006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available data6006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Iron NI 2 VP = 0 / 916006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL FecalColiformNI 2 PP = 12 / 256; VP = 24 / 5966006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenIM 4c PP = 59 / 162; VP = 80 / 25456006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Chromium3 ID 3b VP = 0 / 86006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a VP=no criteria in the FloridastandardsWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys183WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Arsenic NI 2 VP = 0 / 886006A SOUTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Alkalinity ND 3a VP=no criteria in the Floridastandards6006B MIDDLE KEYLARGOCOASTAL pH ID 3b PP = 0 / 13; VP = 0 / 116006B MIDDLE KEYLARGOCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ND 3a PP = No data; VP = No data184Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6006B MIDDLE KEYLARGOCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenID 3b PP = 0 / 13; VP = 0 / 116006B MIDDLE KEYLARGOCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6006B MIDDLE KEYLARGOCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards6006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL pH ID 3b PP = 0 / 41; VP = 0 / 86006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Nutrients(HistoricChla)ID 3b VP = Limited available dataWater Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys185WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Iron ID 3b VP = 0 / 86006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL FecalColiformID 3b PP = 0 / 42; VP = 0 / 86006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Zinc ID 3b VP = 0 / 86006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Copper IM 5 VP = 5 / 86006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Cadmium ID 3b VP = 0 / 86006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Lead ID 3b VP = 0 / 86006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL DissolvedOxygenID 3b PP = 3 / 42; VP = 2 / 76006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Conductance ND 3a PP=no criteria in the Floridastandards; VP=no criteria in theFlorida standards186Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period6006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)IM 4b The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs 6018, 6012A, 6012B,6012C, 6012D, 6013A, 6013B,6013C, 6013D, 6014A, 6014B,6014C, 6010, 6016, 6019, 6011A,6011B, 6011C, 6009, 6017, 6006A,6006B, 6006C, and 6006Z.6006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Arsenic ID 3b VP = 0 / 86006C NORTH KEYLARGOCOASTAL Turbidity NI 2 PP = 0 / 36;6006Z PUMPKINKEYBEACH Bacteria ND 3aPP = No data; VP = No data8078A HARRYHARRISCOUNTYPARKBEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2002, 2004, 2005, and 2006.Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys187WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8078B ISLAMORADA LIBRARYBEACHBEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2004, 2005, and 2006.8078C FOUNDER BEACH Bacteria IM 5 Low 2017 Beach advisories > 21 days/yr in2002, 2004, 2005, and 2006.8084A SEA OATSBEACHBEACH Bacteria ID 3b In 2000 there were 10 days ofadvisories. No Beach advisories in2001 or 2002. No data available for2003, 2004 or 2005.8084B ANNE'SBEACHBEACH Bacteria NI 2 Beach advisories < 21 days/yr in2005188Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8998 FLORIDACOASTCOASTAL Nutrients(Other)Nutrients(Other)IM 4b Medium 2012 The Florida Keys were identified asimpaired for nutrients based on "otherinformation" indicating an imbalancein flora or fauna, pursuant to Rule 62-303.450(2), F.A.C. However, theDepartment is currently evaluatingwhether existing and proposedcontrol measures provide reasonableassurance that the nutrientimpairment will be addressed, andthe Department may not include thislisting on the final verified list adoptedby Secretarial Order. The specificareal extent of the reasonableassurance demonstration is alsopending further review, but mayinclude WBIDs6018, 6012A, 6012B, 6012C, 6012D,6013A, 6013B, 6013C, 6013D,6014A, 6014B, 6014C, 6010, 6016,6019, 6011A, 6011B, 6011C, 6009,6017, 6006A, 6006B, 6006C, and6006Z.Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys189WBIDWaterbodySegmentWaterbodyType11998 303(d)Parametersof ConcernParametersAssessedUsing the 2001ImpairedSurfaceWaters Rule(IWR)AssessmentStatus[Planning list(PL), Impaired(IM), NotImpaired (NI),No data (ND),Insufficientdata (ID)]EPA’sIntegratedReportCategory2PriorityforTMDLDevelopmentProjectedYear forTMDLDevelopmentComments (#Exceedances / # Samples) PP =Planning Period, VP = Verified Period8998 FLORIDACOASTCOASTAL Mercury(based on fishconsumption)IM 5 Low 2011 Data verified to be within the last 7.5years for limited consumption ofSnook, Red Drum, Great Barracuda,King Mackerel 33-39 inches, SpottedSeatrout greater then 20 inches, LittleTunny, Cobia, Greater Amberjack,Bluefish, Crevalle Jack, Shark lessthen 43 inches, Permit and Wahoo.NO consumption advisory for KingMackerel greater then 39 inches andShark greater then 43 inches. WBIDsinclude: 6006A-C, 6009, 6010,6011A+C, 6012A,C-E, 6013A-D,6014A-C, 6016, 6017, 6018, 6019,8071, 8072, 8073, 8074, 8075, 8076,8077, 8078, 8079, 8080, 8081, 8082,8083, 8084, 8085, 8086, 80871The designation "stream" includes canals, rivers, and sloughs. The designation “lake” includes some marshes.2The EPA’s 305(b)/303(d)Integrated Report categories are as follows:1–Attains all designated uses;2–Attains some designated uses;3a–No data and information are available to determine if any designated use is attained;3b–Some data and information are available, but they are insufficient for determining if any designated use is attained;3c–Meets Planning List criteria and is potentially impaired for one or more designated uses;3d—Meets Verified List criteria and is potentially impaired for one or more designated uses;4a–Impaired for one or more designated uses and the TMDL is complete;4b–Impaired for one or more designated uses, but no TMDL is required because an existing or proposed pollutant control mechanismprovides reasonableassurance that the water will attain standards in the future;4c–Impaired for one or more designated uses but no TMDL is required because the impairment isnot caused by a pollutant; and5–Water quality standards are notattained and a TMDL is required.190Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysTable D.2: Water Quality Monitoring Stations Used in the Assessment for the Florida Keys Basin, by Planning UnitWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.Lower Keys Planning Unit6018 BAHIA HONDA STATE PARK COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE173 FL779433 2000 2006 2538072 DRY TORTUGA GULF COASTAL 3m FWC-WQMP338 Garden Key 1999 2006 1608072 DRY TORTUGA GULF COASTAL 3m FWC-WQMP341 Northwest Channel 1999 2006 1588072 DRY TORTUGA GULF COASTAL 3m FWC-WQMP321 Loggerhead Channel 1999 2006 1548072 DRY TORTUGA GULF COASTAL 3m FWC-WQMP349 Logerhead Inshore 1999 2006 1628072 DRY TORTUGA GULF COASTAL 3m FWC-WQMP348 Hospital Key 1999 2006 1608072 DRY TORTUGA GULF COASTAL 3m FWC-WQMP320 Loggerhead Marker 1999 2006 1588073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE170 FL092123 2000 2006 2558073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE305 FL963834 2000 2006 2588073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE306 FL817993 2000 2006 2558073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW23Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #10 1999 2000 558073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW29 Key West - Rest Beach #2 1999 2000 638073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE307 FL853528 2000 2001 218073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE309 FL357964 2000 2001 208073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE308 FL220059 2000 2001 198073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW28 Key West - Rest Beach #1 1999 2000 638073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE184 FL138730 2000 2006 2238073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW27Key West - Smathers #3Monitoring Well 1999 2005 2608073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE373 FL824578 2002 2003 98073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW25Key West - Smathers #1Monitoring Well 1999 2000 1768073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP325 SE Marquesas 1999 2006 1668073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW20Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #7 1999 2000 50Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys191WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW19Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #6 1999 2000 508073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW18Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #5 SWO 1999 2005 2138073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW101 Key West - White Street Pier 2002 2005 1238073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMSWS351SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SHELFWATER QUALITY MONITORING 1999 2004 3638073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW100Key West - Smathers #4Monitoring Well 2003 2005 918073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040880FTM BLUE LAGOON 2005 2006 1168073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP319 N Boca Grande Channel 1999 2006 1638073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP318 KW Northwest Channel 1999 2006 1678073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP317 Garrison Bight 1999 2006 1688073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP315 Calda Channel 1999 2006 1678073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW21Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #8 1999 2000 508073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP312 E. Harbor Key Channel 1999 2006 1688073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW13 Key West - Blue Lagoon 1999 2000 558073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW36 Key West - Southern-most Pt. 1999 2000 468073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW61Key West - Grinnell Street StormWater Outfall #2 1999 2005 2088073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP277 Key West Cut A 1999 2006 1698073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP278 Western Head 1999 2006 1698073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP279 Main Ship Channel 1999 2006 1698073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP280 Eastern Dry Rocks 1999 2006 1688073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP281 Middle Ground 1999 2006 1628073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW30 Key West - Rest Beach #3 1999 2000 638073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW35 Key West - South Beach 1999 2005 3118073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW26Key West - Smathers #2Monitoring Well 1999 2005 3048073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW34 Key West - Higgs Beach 1999 2000 71192Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW31 Key West - Rest Beach #4 1999 2000 648073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW32 Key West - Rest Beach #5 1999 2000 628073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP274 Boca Chica Channel 1999 2006 1688073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW33 Key West - Dog Beach 1999 2000 328073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 11FLKNMSFKNMS_KW_CHANL Key West Channel 2003 2005 81378073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW60Key West - Grinnell Street StormWater Outfall #2 1999 2005 2088073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW63Key West - Storm Water Outfall offof White St. Rest Beach 1999 2005 2178073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW64Key West - Storm Water Outfall offof White St. Rest Beach 1999 2005 2288073 KEY WEST GULF COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040872FTM WHITE STREET PIER 2005 2006 978074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMSWS375SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SHELFWATER QUALITY MONITORING 1999 2004 3478074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP305 Cudjoe Key 1999 2006 1678074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP309 Marvin Key Channel 1999 2006 1688074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP209 Channel Key 1999 2006 1738074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP313 Lower Harbor Keys 1999 2006 1658074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP306 Johnson Key Channel 1999 2006 1678074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP307 Tarpon Belly Keys 1999 2006 1678074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP311 Shark Key 1999 2006 1668074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP310 Snipe Keys 1999 2006 1668074 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200326 Florida Bay - Cudjoe Basin 2003 2003 288075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200227 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay 2001 2002 408075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP302 Content Passage 1999 2006 1678075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP301 Cutoe Key 1999 2006 1678075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP303 Pine Channel 1999 2006 1648075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200323 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay 2003 2003 348075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200229 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay 2002 2002 12Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys193WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLW200502 Florida/Biscayne Bay 2005 2005 178075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLW200522 Florida West 2005 2005 78075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200325 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay 2003 2003 298075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP296 W. Bahia Honda Key 1999 2006 1528075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP314 Bluefish Channel 1999 2006 1668075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP308 Kemp Channel 1999 2006 1668075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP300 Little Pine Key 1999 2006 1628075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP295 Bullfrog Banks 1999 2006 1558075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200327Florida Bay - Bahia HondaChannel 2003 2003 438075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200323Florida Bay - 8 Miles NW GreatWhite Heron Park 2003 2003 238075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200321Florida Bay - 15 Miles SWFlamingo 2003 2003 388075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200029 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay 2000 2001 258075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200030 StateNonTrend - Kemp Channel 2000 2000 198075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMSWS376SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SHELFWATER QUALITY MONITORING 1999 2004 3478075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP304 Toptree Hammock Chan. 1999 2006 1658075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200320Florida Bay - 10 Miles N ofLignumvitae Key 2003 2003 438075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLWALT053 Florida/Biscayne Bay 2005 2005 228075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200328 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay 2003 2003 348075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP298 Harbor Key Bank 1999 2006 1678075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP299 Bogie Channel 1999 2006 1588075 FLORIDA KEYS GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200129StateNonTrend - Torch KeyMangroves 2001 2001 188079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP276 Western Sambo 1999 2006 1698079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP403 Western Sambo 1999 2006 1688079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP266 Tarpon Creek 1999 2006 160194Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP268 Saddlebunch Keys 1999 2006 1668079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP269 West Washerwoman 1999 2006 1698079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP270 Maryland Shoal 1999 2006 1698079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP271 Boca Chica Key 1999 2006 1698079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP275 Boca Chica Mid 1999 2006 1698079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP273 Eastern Sambo Offshore 1999 2006 1698079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP272 Eastern Sambo 1999 2006 1698079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP261 American Shoal Channel 1999 2006 1688079 NAS KEY WEST OCEAN COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040881FTM BOCA CHICA BAY 2005 2006 848080 NEWFOUND HARBOR KEYS OCEAN COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200327 StateNonTrend - Cudjoe Bay 2003 2003 248080 NEWFOUND HARBOR KEYS OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP253 Spanish Harbor Keys 1999 2006 1578080 NEWFOUND HARBOR KEYS OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP254 Bahia Honda Key 1999 2006 1628080 NEWFOUND HARBOR KEYS OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP257 Long Beach 1999 2006 1558080 NEWFOUND HARBOR KEYS OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP258 Big Pine Channel 1999 2006 1698080 NEWFOUND HARBOR KEYS OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP260 Newfound Harbor Keys 1999 2006 1578080 NEWFOUND HARBOR KEYS OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP262 Looe Key Channel 1999 2006 1698080 NEWFOUND HARBOR KEYS OCEAN COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE171 FL187399 2000 2006 2546012A BIG PINE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040902FTM CAHILL PINES & PALMS 2005 2006 776012A BIG PINE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL11 Duck Key 2002 2004 1856012A BIG PINE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040909FTM DOCTOR'S ARM 2005 2006 786012A BIG PINE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040906FTM EDEN PINES COLONY 2005 2006 766012A BIG PINE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040905FTM MATES BEACH 2005 2006 1026012A BIG PINE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040904FTM SANDS SUBD. AREA 2005 2006 776012A BIG PINE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040898FTM JOLLY ROGER ESTATES 2005 2006 786012A BIG PINE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040895FTMBREEZESWEPT BEACHESTATES 2005 2006 736012A BIG PINE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL10 Marathon, Dolphin Dr. 2002 2004 190Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys195WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6012B BAHIA HONDA BAYSIDE BEACH 3M 21FLDOH MONROE172 FL030849 2000 2006 2546012C NO NAME KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040907FTM DOLPHIN HARBOR 2005 2006 786013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYS COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL15 Key Largo, Rock Harbour 2002 2004 1866013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYS COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200130 StateNonTrend - Waltz Key Basin 2001 2001 236013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYS COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL14 Tavernier, Banyan Lane 2002 2004 1756013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYS COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040892FTM SUGARLOAF SHORES EAST 2005 2006 916013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYS COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040893FTM SUGARLOAF SHORES WEST 2005 2006 916013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYS COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040891FTM BAYPOINT 2005 2006 966013A SADDLEBUNCH KEYS COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040894FTM SUGAR SHACK MARINA 2005 2006 966013C CUDJOE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040903FTM VACATION HARBOR 2005 2006 786013C CUDJOE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL12 Conch Key 2002 2004 2056013C CUDJOE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040901FTM CUDJOE GARDENS 2005 2006 776013C CUDJOE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL13 Islamorada, Port Antigua 2002 2004 1906013C CUDJOE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040900FTM SUMMERLAND KEY FISHERIES 2005 2006 916013C CUDJOE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040899FTM CUTTHROAT HARBOR ESTATES 2005 2006 776013C CUDJOE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040897FTM VENTURE OUT 2005 2006 786013C CUDJOE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040896FTM SUMMERLAND COVE ISLES 2005 2006 786014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW51 Key West - Bight#2 1999 2000 556014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW53 Key West - Bight #4 1999 2000 556014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW5 Key West - Garrison Bight #5 1999 2000 606014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW52 Key West - Bight#3 1999 2000 556014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW65Key West - Storm Water Outfall offof White St. Rest Beach 1999 2005 2066014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW41 Key West - Hilton Docks #5 1999 2000 486014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW62Key West - Grinnell Street StormWater Outfall #2 1999 1999 186014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW66 Key West - Fort St. SWO 1999 2005 189196Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW40 Key West - Hilton Docks #4 1999 2000 486014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW43 Key West - Zero Duval#1 1999 2005 2176014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW54Key West - Elizabeth Street 12"Storm Water Outfall 1999 2005 2196014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW55Key West - Greene Street StormWater Outfall 1999 2005 2186014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW56Key West - William Street StormWater Outfall 1999 2005 2206014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW57Key West - Margaret Street StormWater Outfall 1999 2005 2186014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW59Key West - Grinnell Street StormWater Outfall #2 1999 2005 2186014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW8 Key West - Garrison Bight #8 1999 2000 446014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW4 Key West - Garrison Bight #4 1999 2000 596014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW15Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #2 1999 2000 506014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW9 Key West - Garrison Bight #9 1999 2000 446014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW58Key West - Grinnell Street StormWater Outfall #1 1999 2005 2196014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW12Key West - Fourth Street StormWater Outfall 1999 2005 1956014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200230StateNonTrend - Man of WarHarbor 2002 2002 276014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040873FTM KEY WEST BIGHT 2005 2006 1176014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040874FTM TRUMAN HARBOR 2005 2006 1166014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040876FTM ZERO DUVAL 2005 2006 1166014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040877FTM RIVIERA CANAL 2005 2006 836014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040878FTM GARRISON BIGHT 2005 2006 1166014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040883FTMCOW KEY CHANNEL - VAHOSPITAL 2005 2006 726014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040884FTM SIGSBY 2005 2006 1166014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW1 Key West - Garrison Bight #1 1999 2000 606014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW17Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #4 1999 2000 50Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys197WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW11 Key West - Truman Ave. #2 1999 2000 476014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW39 Key West - Hilton Docks #3 1999 2000 486014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW14Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #1 1999 2000 506014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMKW-MZLKEY WEST WWTP MONITORINGWELL INTERVAL=1280-1320'; 2000 2000 286014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW16Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #3 1999 2000 506014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW2 Key West - Garrison Bight #2 1999 2000 606014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMKW-MZUKEY WEST WWTP MONITORINGWELL INTERVAL=675-725'; 1 2000 2000 286014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW22Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #9 1999 2000 506014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW24 Key West - Cow Key Channel 1999 2000 356014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW3 Key West - Garrison Bight #3 1999 2000 616014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW37 Key West - Hilton Docks #1 1999 2000 486014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW38 Key West - Hilton Docks #2 1999 2000 486014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW10Key West - Truman Avenue StormWater Outfall 1999 2005 2116014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP316 Man of War Harbor 1999 2006 1686014B STOCK ISLAND COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040875FTMOCEANSIDE MARINA - SAFETYHARBOR II 2005 2006 986014B STOCK ISLAND COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040882FTM BOYD'S CAMPGROUND 2005 2006 856014B STOCK ISLAND COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040879FTM SAFETY HARBOR 2005 2006 1036014B STOCK ISLAND COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040886FTM KEY HAVEN 2005 2006 846014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL17 Key Largo, SextonCove Estates 2002 2003 1716014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M21FLKTNCTNCFL16 Key Largo,Pimlico Lane 2002 2004 1966014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040885FTM TAMARAC PARK 2005 2006 776014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040887FTM BOCA CHICA OCEAN SHORES 2005 2006 536014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M21FLFTM 28040888FTM ROCKLAND VILLAGE 2005 2006 776014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M21FLFTM 28040889FTM GULFREST PARK 2005 2006 77198Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M21FLFTM 28040890FTM SIMILAR SOUND 2005 2006 948073C SIMONTON STREET BEACH (KW) BEACH 3M 21FLKEYW46 Key West - Mallory Docks#2 1999 2000 418073C SIMONTON STREET BEACH (KW) BEACH 3M 21FLKEYW45 Key West - Mallory Docks#1 1999 2005 2038073C SIMONTON STREET BEACH (KW) BEACH 3M 21FLKEYW49 Key West - Simonton Pier 1999 2000 538073C SIMONTON STREET BEACH (KW) BEACH 3M 21FLKEYW48 Key West - Mallory Docks#4 1999 2000 418073C SIMONTON STREET BEACH (KW) BEACH 3M 21FLKEYW47 Key West - Mallory Docks#3 1999 2000 418073C SIMONTON STREET BEACH (KW) BEACH 3M 21FLKEYW50 Key West - Bight#1 1999 2000 558073C SIMONTON STREET BEACH (KW) BEACH 3M 21FLDOH MONROE183 FL145983 2000 2006 2118073C SIMONTON STREET BEACH (KW) BEACH 3M 21FLKEYW44 Key West - Zero Duval#2 1999 2000 538073C6014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW17Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #4 1999 2000 506014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW11 Key West - Truman Ave. #2 1999 2000 476014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW39 Key West - Hilton Docks #3 1999 2000 486014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW14Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #1 1999 2000 506014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMKW-MZLKEY WEST WWTP MONITORINGWELL INTERVAL=1280-1320'; 2000 2000 286014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW16Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #3 1999 2000 506014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW2 Key West - Garrison Bight #2 1999 2000 606014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMKW-MZUKEY WEST WWTP MONITORINGWELL INTERVAL=675-725'; 1 2000 2000 286014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW22Key West - Holiday Inn BeachSide #9 1999 2000 506014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW24 Key West - Cow Key Channel 1999 2000 356014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW3 Key West - Garrison Bight #3 1999 2000 616014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW37 Key West - Hilton Docks #1 1999 2000 486014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW38 Key West - Hilton Docks #2 1999 2000 486014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKEYW10Key West - Truman Avenue StormWater Outfall 1999 2005 211Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys199WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6014A KEY WEST COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP316 Man of War Harbor 1999 2006 1686014B STOCK ISLAND COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040875FTMOCEANSIDE MARINA - SAFETYHARBOR II 2005 2006 986014B STOCK ISLAND COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040882FTM BOYD'S CAMPGROUND 2005 2006 856014B STOCK ISLAND COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040879FTM SAFETY HARBOR 2005 2006 1036014B STOCK ISLAND COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040886FTM KEY HAVEN 2005 2006 846014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL17 Key Largo, SextonCove Estates 2002 2003 1716014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M21FLKTNCTNCFL16 Key Largo,Pimlico Lane 2002 2004 1966014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040885FTM TAMARAC PARK 2005 2006 776014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040887FTM BOCA CHICA OCEAN SHORES 2005 2006 536014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M21FLFTM 28040888FTM ROCKLAND VILLAGE 2005 2006 776014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M21FLFTM 28040889FTM GULFREST PARK 2005 2006 776014C US NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST COASTAL 3M21FLFTM 28040890FTM SIMILAR SOUND 2005 2006 948073C SIMONTON STREET BEACH (KW) BEACH 3M 21FLKEYW46 Key West - 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Florida Bay 2002 2002 288077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB20 Peterson Key 1999 2004 11658077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200221 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay 2002 2002 12202Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB27 Sprigger Bank 1999 2004 11598077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB28 Old Dan Bank 1999 2004 11658077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200126 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay 2001 2001 338077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB18 Rabbit Key Basin 1999 2004 11638077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLWALT131 Florida/Biscayne Bay 2005 2005 278077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200318Florida Bay - 5 Miles N Conch Key 2003 2003 338077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP282 Arsenic Bank 1999 2006 1628077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP285 Channel Key Pass 1999 2006 1678077 FLORIDA BAY GULF 1 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200308 Florida Bay - 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Channel 1999 2006 1698081 BOAT KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP250 Seven Mile Bridge 1999 2006 1648081 BOAT KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP247 Key Colony Beach 1999 2006 1678082 GRASSY KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200438 Florida Bay 2004 2004 348082 GRASSY KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP248 Coffins Patch Channel 1999 2006 1678083 LONG KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP244 Long Key Pass Inshore 1999 2006 1628083 LONG KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP242 Long Key Channel 1999 2006 1688083 LONG KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP245 Long Key Pass Channel 1999 2006 1678083 LONG KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP241 Long Key 1999 2006 165Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys203WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM LV-7Vaca Key - Little Venice - 97 StCanal head 2005 2006 3866011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM LV-8Vaca Key - Little Venice - 91 StCanal mouth 2005 2006 5846011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM LV-9Vaca Key - Little Venice - 91 StCanal head 2005 2006 3806011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM LV-6Vaca Key - Little Venice - 97 StCanal mouth 2005 2006 6246011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE176 FL658167 2000 2006 2556011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM LV-3Vaca Key - Little Venice - 112 StCanal head 2005 2006 3866011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL08 Big Pine Key, Whispering Pines 2002 2003 2286011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL09 Marathon, 27th Ave. 2002 2004 1906011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040919FTM COCO PLUM - WEST 2005 2006 1626011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040917FTM BONEFISH BAY 2005 2006 1626011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040910FTM CASTAWAYS - 15TH ST CANAL 2005 2006 986011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040911FTM BOOT KEY HARBOR 2005 2006 766011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040912FTMFARO BLANCO BAYSIDE -BASIN 2005 2006 976011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040913FTM WINNER DOCKS 2005 2006 1236011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040915FTM YELLOWTAIL DRIVE 2005 2006 1006011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM LV-5Vaca Key - Little Venice - 100 StCanal head 2005 2006 3856011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040916FTM 113TH STREET CANAL 2005 2006 846011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200128 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay 2001 2001 336011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040918FTM COCO PLUM - EAST 2005 2006 1586011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM LV-1Vaca Key - Little Venice - 112 StCanal mouth 2005 2006 6166011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM LV-2Vaca Key - Little Venice - 100 StCanal offshore 2005 2006 2716011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040908FTM SOMBRERO ISLE 2005 2006 976011A VACA KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM LV-4Vaca Key - Little Venice - 100 StCanal mouth 2005 2006 636204Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6011B KEY COLONY BEACH 3M 21FLFTM 28040930FTM KEY COLONY BEACH 2 2005 2006 986011B KEY COLONY BEACH 3M 21FLFTM 28040914FTM KEY COLONY BEACH 1 2005 2006 986011C GRASSEY KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE177 FL078289 2000 2006 2546011C GRASSEY KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040920FTM JOLLY ROGER RV PARK 2005 2006 946011C GRASSEY KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040922FTM JG ESTATES 2005 2006 94Upper Keys Planning Unit6002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS14NORTHERN MANATEE BAY INSMALL BAY JUST N. OF MB1999 2002 2956002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS16NW MANATEE BAY AT END OFC111 CANAL AT MARKER #61999 2002 5436002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS19SW MANATEE BAY 2PLATFORMS AT SITE ON ISSTAGE1999 2002 5096002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBE4 Manatee Bay1999 2001 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBG1 Manatee Bay2004 2004 166002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBF9 Manatee Bay1999 2004 1006002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBE5 Manatee Bay1999 2000 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBF5 Manatee Bay1999 2003 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBG6 Manatee Bay2000 2004 566002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBF3 Manatee Bay1999 2003 1006002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBF2 Manatee Bay2002 2004 266002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBF1 Manatee Bay2002 2004 626002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBE9 Manatee Bay1999 2003 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBE8 Manatee Bay1999 2001 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBE7 Manatee Bay2002 2004 466002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBE6 Manatee Bay2001 2003 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS13NORTHERN MANATEE BAY SWOF MBLS121999 2002 6356002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBF7 Manatee Bay1999 2003 55Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys205WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBG5 Manatee Bay1999 2004 736002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBH3 Manatee Bay1999 1999 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBK9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBH2 Manatee Bay1999 2003 906002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBH1 Manatee Bay1999 2002 1306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBL5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 856002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBG9 Manatee Bay1999 2003 1556002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBL7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBG8 Manatee Bay1999 2001 656002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBG4 Manatee Bay1999 2004 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBC9 Manatee Bay2000 2004 466002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS12NE MANATEE BAY IN SMALLBAY NW OF MBLS101999 2002 3836002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBE3 Manatee Bay2003 2004 406002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS05100 YDS OFF EAST ISLAND ATMARKER #2 250 YDS OF1999 2002 4676002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBG3 Manatee Bay2000 2003 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS07 NW OF MBLS06 AT MARKER # 21999 2002 5046002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS08 SW MANATEE BAY1999 2002 5936002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS09SO. MANATEE BAY N SIDE OFEAST ISL. 200 YDS NE.1999 2002 4376002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS10NE OF MBLS09 IN MANATEEBAY 1/4 MI. W. 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1006002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBB9 Manatee Bay2003 2003 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBA4 Manatee Bay1999 2002 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBA3 Manatee Bay2000 2004 616002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBA2 Manatee Bay1999 2004 316002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBA1 Manatee Bay1999 2004 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBB51 Biscayne Bay1999 2004 16166002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEM2 Manatee Bay1999 2004 1626002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBB51BISCAYNE WATER QUALITYSTATIONS1999 2001 4606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEM1 Manatee Bay1999 2004 1576002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBA7 Manatee Bay1999 2003 406002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBF8 Manatee Bay1999 2000 656002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB03 Manatee Bay1999 2004 11666002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBE1 Manatee Bay2000 2004 1026002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBD9 Manatee Bay1999 2004 516002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBD8 Manatee Bay1999 2004 866002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBD7 Manatee Bay2002 2004 466002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBD6 Manatee Bay2000 2003 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBD5 Manatee Bay2000 2002 30Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys207WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBD4 Manatee Bay1999 2004 916002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBB7 Manatee Bay1999 2004 916002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBD2 Manatee Bay1999 2001 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBE2 Manatee Bay1999 2004 916002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBC8 Manatee Bay2000 2004 766002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBC7 Manatee Bay2001 2004 516002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBC6 Manatee Bay1999 1999 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBC5 Manatee Bay1999 2004 1206002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBC4 Manatee Bay1999 2003 906002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBC3 Manatee Bay1999 2001 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBC2 Manatee Bay2002 2003 906002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBC1 Manatee Bay1999 2004 366002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBK7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBB8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 1999 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBI8 Manatee Bay2000 2002 556002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBI7 Manatee Bay1999 2003 556002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBA2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 106002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBA5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBA6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBA9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 1999 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBB3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 416002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBB4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBB5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2000 30208Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBD6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 316002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBB7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBJ2 Manatee Bay1999 2004 1486002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBC4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBC5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2000 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBC6 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBC7 FLORIDA BAY STATION2001 2001 166002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBC8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBD1 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 406002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBD2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBD3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBD4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBB6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBK3 Manatee Bay1999 2004 726002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBL8 Manatee Bay1999 2002 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBL7 Manatee Bay1999 2003 656002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBL6 Manatee Bay1999 2002 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBL4 Manatee Bay1999 2004 716002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBL3 Manatee Bay2002 2004 406002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBL1 Manatee Bay1999 2004 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBK9 Manatee Bay1999 2002 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBK7 Manatee Bay1999 2001 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBK6 Manatee Bay2001 2003 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBI9 Manatee Bay1999 2002 75Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys209WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBK4 Manatee Bay1999 2003 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBJ1 Manatee Bay1999 2004 406002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBK2 Manatee Bay1999 2004 566002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBF6 Manatee Bay1999 2004 906002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBJ9 Manatee Bay1999 2003 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBH4 Manatee Bay2002 2003 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBJ7 Manatee Bay2001 2001 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBJ6 Manatee Bay1999 2002 356002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBJ5 Manatee Bay1999 2003 906002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBJ4 Manatee Bay1999 2000 256002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBJ3 Manatee Bay1999 2004 316002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBJ8 Manatee Bay1999 2004 856002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBK5 Manatee Bay1999 2002 706002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBI7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 356002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBH2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBH3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBH6 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBH7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2001 2001 166002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBH8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBI3 Manatee Bay2000 2004 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBI2 Manatee Bay1999 2000 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBI1 Manatee Bay1999 2004 906002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBI3 FLORIDA BAY STATION2000 2000 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBH1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 100210Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBI5 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBJ2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2001 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBI9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBJ1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBJ5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 566002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBH9 Manatee Bay1999 2004 726002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBH8 Manatee Bay1999 2004 876002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBH7 Manatee Bay2001 2003 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBK2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 356002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBH6 Manatee Bay1999 2004 766002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBH5 Manatee Bay2001 2001 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBD8 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBI4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBE8 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2001 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBD9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBJ6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 206002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBG9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 756002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBE1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM2000 2000 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBE2 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBE4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBE6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2001 2001 166002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBE9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 45Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys211WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBF3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBF5 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2001 466002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBF6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 456002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBG4 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBE5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2000 606002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBI4 Manatee Bay1999 2004 1076002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBF7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBI5 Manatee Bay1999 2004 466002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBG5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBG6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 306002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBG3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 206002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBG2 FLORIDA BAY STATION2000 2000 156002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBI6 Manatee Bay2003 2003 106002 MANATEE BAY ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBF8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2000 706003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSG3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 466003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSG4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSF9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSG6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSF8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSF7 FLORIDA BAY STATION2001 2001 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSG1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSF6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 30212Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSE6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSF3 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSF2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSG7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSI7 FLORIDA BAY STATION2000 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSF1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 466003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSE8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSF5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSI2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2001 466003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSJ4 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2001 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSA7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSE3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 256003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSJ2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSJ1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSI9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSI5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSI3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSG9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSI1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSH8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSH7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 1999 45Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys213WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSH5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSH4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSH1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSI6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSA4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2001 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSB1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSB5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSB4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSB3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEM3 Manatee Bay1999 2004 1466003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSA8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSB9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSA5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSC1 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSA3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 916003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSA1 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSJ5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSB8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBB50BISCAYNE WATER QUALITYSTATIONS1999 2001 4206003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLFMRISTR200448 Barnes Sound2004 2004 196003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSA6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 30214Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSC9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSE1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSD9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSD8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSD7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2001 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSD6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSD4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM2001 2001 166003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSB7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM2001 2001 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSD1 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSE2 FLORIDA BAY STATION2000 2001 466003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSC8FLORID BAY MONITORINGSTAITON2000 2000 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSC7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2000 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSC6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 466003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSC5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSC4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSC2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSD2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBL8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSH4 Barnes Sound1999 2001 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSH2 Barnes Sound2002 2003 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSH1 Barnes Sound1999 2002 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSG9 Barnes Sound1999 2004 66Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys215WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSG8 Barnes Sound2002 2002 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBL1 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSG7 Barnes Sound1999 2003 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB01 Card Sound Bridge1999 2004 11666003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB02 Middle Bay1999 2004 11706003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB04 Barnes Sound1999 2004 11666003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS11WESTERN BARNES SOUND E.OF MBLS10 THRU CUT IN K1999 2002 6276003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBL6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSH7 Barnes Sound1999 2004 916003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSG6 Barnes Sound1999 2003 1656003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSG4 Barnes Sound1999 2004 1016003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSG3 Barnes Sound1999 2003 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSG2 Barnes Sound2003 2004 256003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSG1 Barnes Sound2000 2004 426003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSF9 Barnes Sound2000 2003 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSF8 Barnes Sound1999 1999 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSF7 Barnes Sound2001 2002 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBL9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 256003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS04WEST CENTRAL BARNESSOUND1999 2002 8486003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSK4 Barnes Sound2000 2004 626003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBL4 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2001 566003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSI8 Barnes Sound1999 2003 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSE1 Barnes Sound1999 2002 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSK2 Barnes Sound1999 2003 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSK1 Barnes Sound1999 2003 60216Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSJ9 Barnes Sound1999 2003 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSJ8 Barnes Sound2000 2004 566003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSJ7 Barnes Sound1999 2004 826003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSJ6 Barnes Sound1999 2004 766003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSJ5 Barnes Sound1999 2004 666003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSJ4 Barnes Sound1999 2001 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSJ3 Barnes Sound2001 2003 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSJ2 Barnes Sound1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSH5 Barnes Sound2000 2004 666003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSI9 Barnes Sound2000 2003 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSH6 Barnes Sound1999 2004 576003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBK8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 416003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSI7 Barnes Sound2000 2001 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSI6 Barnes Sound1999 2004 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSI5 Barnes Sound1999 2004 466003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSI4 Barnes Sound1999 2004 966003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSI3 Barnes Sound1999 2004 616003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSI2 Barnes Sound1999 2004 516003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSI1 Barnes Sound1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSH9 Barnes Sound1999 2004 866003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSH8 Barnes Sound1999 2003 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS20 NE BARNES SOUND1999 2002 6916003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSJ1 Barnes Sound2000 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSC7 Barnes Sound1999 2001 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSB5 Barnes Sound1999 2003 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSB6 Barnes Sound2001 2004 52Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys217WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSB7 Barnes Sound2001 2004 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSB8 Barnes Sound2000 2004 616003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSB9 Barnes Sound1999 2003 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSC1 Barnes Sound1999 2004 556003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSC2 Barnes Sound1999 2002 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSC3 Barnes Sound2003 2003 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSC4 Barnes Sound1999 2004 526003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSC5 Barnes Sound1999 2004 666003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS06WEST BARNES SOUND SE OFLITTLE #6 ISLAND1999 2002 7226003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSE2 Barnes Sound2000 2003 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSB2 Barnes Sound1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSC8 Barnes Sound2000 2000 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSC9 Barnes Sound2000 2003 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSD1 Barnes Sound1999 2004 316003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSD2 Barnes Sound1999 2004 1066003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSD3 Barnes Sound1999 2004 876003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSD4 Barnes Sound2001 2003 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSD5 Barnes Sound2002 2002 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSD6 Barnes Sound1999 2003 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSD7 Barnes Sound1999 2001 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSD8 Barnes Sound2000 2004 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSD9 Barnes Sound1999 2003 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSC6 Barnes Sound2000 2004 866003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 11FLKNMSFKNMS_CARD_SND Card Sound Bridge2001 2006 182496003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS21NE MANATEE BAY ALSO NE OFMBLS201999 2002 429218Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSF5 Barnes Sound1999 2003 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSF4 Barnes Sound2001 2004 416003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSF3 Barnes Sound1999 2003 1056003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSF2 Barnes Sound1999 2004 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSF1 Barnes Sound1999 2004 776003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSE9 Barnes Sound2004 2004 266003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSE8 Barnes Sound1999 2004 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSE7 Barnes Sound2001 2003 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSE6 Barnes Sound1999 2004 1176003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSE5 Barnes Sound2000 2003 856003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSB4 Barnes Sound1999 2003 1356003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSE3 Barnes Sound1999 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSB3 Barnes Sound1999 2004 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBB50 Biscayne Bay1999 2004 14836003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSA1 Barnes Sound1999 2004 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSA3 Barnes Sound1999 2004 1216003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSA4 Barnes Sound1999 2004 516003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSA5 Barnes Sound2000 2004 1176003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSA6 Barnes Sound1999 2003 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSA7 Barnes Sound2000 2000 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSA8 Barnes Sound1999 2003 1056003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSA9 Barnes Sound2002 2003 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSB1 Barnes Sound1999 2002 906003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSK5 Barnes Sound1999 2004 1176003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSE4 Barnes Sound2001 2003 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSK7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 15Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys219WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBG7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBF9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSJ7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSJ9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSK1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2000 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSK2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSK3 FLORIDA BAY STATION2001 2001 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSK5 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBG8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 516003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSK6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 616003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSK4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSL3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 316003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSL5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSL6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2000 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSL7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSJ6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 316003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSL9 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 556003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSB6 FLORIDA BAY STATION2001 2001 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSK3 Barnes Sound2001 2004 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSF6 Barnes Sound1999 2003 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSL9 Barnes Sound1999 2003 956003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSK7 Barnes Sound2000 2004 70220Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBK51999 2001 516003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBK4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBK3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 406003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBK1 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSK6 Barnes Sound1999 2001 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBH9BISCAYNE BAY MONITORINGSTAITON1999 2001 216003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSK8 Barnes Sound1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSK9 Barnes Sound1999 2003 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSL1 Barnes Sound2001 2001 156003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSL2 Barnes Sound1999 2003 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSL3 Barnes Sound1999 2001 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSL7 Barnes Sound1999 2004 656003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBI2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBJ9 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 106003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBJ8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 606003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSL8 Barnes Sound1999 2002 756003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSL6 Barnes Sound1999 2004 876003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSL5 Barnes Sound2000 2004 456003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBI1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306003 BARNES SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEBSL4 Barnes Sound2002 2004 466005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSF6FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM2000 2001 266005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSF7 353501999 2001 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSF5 Long Sound1999 1999 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSD9 Long Sound1999 2000 35Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys221WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSF8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 456005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSE6 9701141999 2001 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSF3 Long Sound1999 1999 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSF1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSE9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2001 2001 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSE7 Long Sound1999 2000 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSF4 353501999 2000 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSE4 353502000 2001 366005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSE3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSE1 9703121999 2000 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSG1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSD8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 156005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSC9FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSD2 353502000 2001 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSD1 Long Sound2001 2001 116005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSD6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSD5 353501999 2001 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSD3 Long Sound1999 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSI2 FLORIDA BAY STATION2000 2001 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSE2 Long Sound1999 1999 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSK8 9701141999 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSH8 Long Sound1999 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSJ4 Long Sound1999 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSJ6 353501999 2001 46222Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSJ7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM2001 2001 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSJ8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSJ9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 606005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSK2 Long Sound1999 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSK3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2001 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSJ2 353501999 2000 556005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSK7 9703121999 1999 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSI8 Long Sound1999 2001 616005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSL1 Long Sound1999 2001 566005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSL2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSL4FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 156005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSL5 353501999 1999 156005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSL6 Long Sound2000 2001 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSL7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 2000 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSL8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSL9 353501999 2000 606005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSK4 Long Sound1999 2000 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSH7 353501999 2001 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSG3 353501999 1999 156005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSG4FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSG5 353501999 2000 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSG7 Long Sound1999 2001 1006005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSG8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 36Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys223WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSH1 353501999 2001 316005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSH2FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM2001 2001 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSH4 9703121999 1999 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBK8 Manatee Bay2000 2004 856005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS22NE LONG SOUND JUST W. OFMBLS02 RECORDER AT ST1999 2002 5326005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSG2 Long Sound2000 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSH9 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSJ8 Long Sound1999 2002 456005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSI3 9702121999 2000 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS02NE CORNER OF LONG SOUNDPROPER1999 2002 4956005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBL5 Manatee Bay1999 2004 1526005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSI5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 756005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSI7 Long Sound1999 2000 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBL2 Manatee Bay2001 2001 156005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSH6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 656005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSE3 Long Sound1999 2004 466005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSK2 Long Sound1999 2003 506005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSD1 Long Sound2001 2003 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSD2 Long Sound2000 2004 416005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSD3 Long Sound1999 2003 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSD4 Long Sound1999 2005 416005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSD5 Long Sound1999 2004 766005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSD6 Long Sound1999 2004 426005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSD7 Long Sound2000 2003 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSD8 Long Sound1999 2004 56224Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSD9 Long Sound1999 2003 756005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSC8 Long Sound2000 2004 366005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSE2 Long Sound1999 2005 616005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSC7 Long Sound1999 2002 506005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSE4 Long Sound2000 2004 866005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSE5 Long Sound1999 2004 716005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSE6 Long Sound1999 2001 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSE7 Long Sound1999 2004 516005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSE8 Long Sound2001 2002 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSE9 Long Sound2001 2001 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSF1 Long Sound1999 2002 556005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSF2 Long Sound1999 2004 566005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSF3 Long Sound1999 2004 166005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSF4 Long Sound1999 2002 506005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSF5 Long Sound1999 2003 556005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSE1 Long Sound1999 2003 556005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSB4 Long Sound2003 2004 426005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSA1 Long Sound2001 2004 506005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSA2 Long Sound1999 2004 416005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSA3 Long Sound1999 2004 316005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSA4 Long Sound2000 2004 566005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSA5 Long Sound1999 2003 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSA6 Long Sound1999 2003 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSA7 Long Sound1999 2002 456005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSA8 Long Sound2001 2004 316005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSA9 Long Sound1999 2005 66Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys225WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSB1 Long Sound1999 2004 516005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSC9 Long Sound1999 2003 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSB3 Long Sound1999 2005 566005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSF9 Long Sound2001 2004 576005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSB5 Long Sound1999 2004 606005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSB6 Long Sound2000 2000 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSB7 Long Sound1999 2004 616005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSB8 Long Sound1999 2003 506005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSB9 Long Sound1999 2002 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSC1 Long Sound1999 2002 556005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSC2 Long Sound2001 2004 416005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSC3 Long Sound1999 2005 316005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSC4 Long Sound1999 2004 556005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSC5 Long Sound1999 2004 566005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSC6 Long Sound2000 2004 416005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSB2 Long Sound1999 2001 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSK6 Long Sound2001 2005 536005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSI9 Long Sound1999 2005 866005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSJ1 Long Sound2001 2003 606005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSJ2 Long Sound1999 2004 856005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSJ4 Long Sound1999 2004 976005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSJ5 Long Sound2001 2005 466005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSJ6 Long Sound1999 2002 606005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSJ7 Long Sound2001 2004 316005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSD7 9701142000 2000 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSJ9 Long Sound1999 2001 60226Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSC8 FLORIDA BAY STATION2000 2001 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSF7 Long Sound1999 2003 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSK4 Long Sound1999 2000 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSI6 Long Sound2000 2000 156005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSK7 Long Sound1999 2004 416005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSK8 Long Sound1999 2002 706005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSL1 Long Sound1999 2004 656005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSL2 Long Sound1999 2003 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSL3 Long Sound2002 2002 156005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSL4 Long Sound1999 2003 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSL5 Long Sound1999 2002 756005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSL6 Long Sound2000 2003 606005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSL7 Long Sound1999 2004 626005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSL8 Long Sound1999 2003 456005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSL9 Long Sound1999 2005 1186005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSK3 Long Sound1999 2004 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSH4 Long Sound1999 2004 966005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMTCC9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSG1 Long Sound2000 2002 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSG2 Long Sound2000 2004 616005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSG3 Long Sound1999 2004 616005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSG4 Long Sound1999 2001 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSG5 Long Sound1999 2004 476005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSG6 Long Sound2003 2003 156005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSG7 Long Sound1999 2002 1106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSG8 Long Sound1999 2003 60Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys227WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSG9 Long Sound2002 2005 776005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSH1 Long Sound1999 2004 926005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSI8 Long Sound1999 2004 866005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSH3 Long Sound2003 2003 156005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSI7 Long Sound1999 2004 866005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSH5 Long Sound2002 2002 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSH6 Long Sound1999 2002 756005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSH7 Long Sound1999 2005 666005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSH8 Long Sound1999 2004 416005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSH9 Long Sound1999 2002 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSI1 Long Sound2001 2004 526005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSI2 Long Sound2000 2002 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSI3 Long Sound1999 2002 456005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSI4 Long Sound2003 2003 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSI5 Long Sound1999 2004 916005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSF8 Long Sound1999 2001 556005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSH2 Long Sound2001 2001 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEFBLS Long Sound1999 2005 1226005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSB1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSA2FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2001 316005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSA9 353501999 2000 406005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB08 Long Sound1999 2004 11666005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBI9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 606005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSA8 Long Sound,2001 2001 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMFBLSFLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 61228Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSB2 Long Sound1999 2001 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSA7 Long Sound1999 2000 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSA6 353501999 2000 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSA5FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSA4 9701142000 2001 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSC7 353501999 2000 356005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSA3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 1999 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBE4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 606005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSC2 353502001 2001 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSC62000 2000 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSC5 Long Sound1999 2001 516005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSC4 Long Sound1999 2000 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSC3 9703121999 1999 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSB3 353501999 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBD7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 306005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSC1FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 256005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSB9 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 1999 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSB8 353501999 1999 206005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSB7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 416005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSB6FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM2000 2000 106005 LONG SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSB5 Long Sound1999 2001 206009 PLANTATION KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040943FTM INDIAN MOUND ESTATES2005 2006 956009 PLANTATION KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040941FTM LONG ISLAND POINT2005 2005 156009 PLANTATION KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE352 FL6877212002 2006 200Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys229WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6009 PLANTATION KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040940FTM1 TREASURE HARBOR 12005 2006 1146009 PLANTATION KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040938FTM HOLIDAY ISLES2005 2006 946009 PLANTATION KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040939FTM PELICAN COVE2005 2006 766009 PLANTATION KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040945FTM BOATMANS COLONY2005 2006 1126009 PLANTATION KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040944FTM PLANTATION KEY COLONY2005 2006 1146009 PLANTATION KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040942FTM VENETIAN SHORES2005 2006 956017 UPPER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040936FTM CAPTAIN CANVAS2005 2006 936017 UPPER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE180 FL0281892000 2006 2546017 UPPER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL3M 21FLFTM 28040933FTM PAPA JOE'S2005 2006 956017 UPPER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040935FTM CARRIBE BOATS2005 2006 966017 UPPER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040937FTM WHALE HARBOR2005 2006 766017 UPPER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040934FTM WORLDWIDE SPORTSMAN2005 2006 946019 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040929FTM PORT ANTIGUA 12005 2006 946019 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040928FTM LOWER MATECUMBE BEACH2005 2006 966019 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040931FTM PORT ANTIGUA 32005 2006 946019 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040932FTM DAVIS SHORES2005 2006 946019 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL05 Cudjoe Key, Cudjoe Gardens2002 2004 2188078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBB8 353502001 2001 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBA4 Florida Bay1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBA5 9702181999 1999 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBA6 353501999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBA8 Florida Bay1999 2001 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBD3 9703171999 1999 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBA9 9703171999 2001 858078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBB1 9702181999 2000 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBB2 353501999 2000 25230Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBB3 Florida Bay1999 2000 458078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBB4FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBB9 Florida Bay1999 2001 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBB7 Florida Bay1999 2001 318078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBC1 Florida Bay1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBC5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2001 2001 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBC4 353501999 2001 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBC6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBC2FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBD2 353502001 2001 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBA3 353501999 1999 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M21FLSFWMFBD1 FLORIDA BAY STATION2000 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBC9 353501999 2001 458078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBC8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBC7 Florida Bay1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBB6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCA1FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2001 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBA1 Florida Bay2000 2001 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCB3 Davis Cove1999 2000 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCB2FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCA8 Davis Cove1999 1999 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCA7FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2001 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCA6 Davis Cove1999 1999 10Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys231WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCA5FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCB5 353501999 1999 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCA2 353501999 2001 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCB6 Davis Cove1999 2000 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M21FLSFWMABD8 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2001 458078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABD7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABD6 Alligator Bay2000 2000 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABD5FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 508078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABD3 353501999 2001 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABD2 9702131999 1999 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M21FLDADEBWC3 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 618078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCA3 353502000 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCC7FLORIDAY BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M21FLSFWMFBD4 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2001 708078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCD8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2001 518078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB11 L. Madeira Bay1999 2004 11648078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCD7 Davis Cove1999 1999 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCD6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCD5 353501999 2001 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCD4FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM2000 2000 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCB4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2001 318078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCC9 9702131999 2000 358078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBA2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCC5 Davis Cove1999 2001 20232Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCC4FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2001 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCC3 Davis Cove1999 2001 218078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCC2 Davis Cove1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCC1FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCB9 353502000 2000 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCB7 9703141999 2001 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMDCD1 Davis Cove1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCD2 Trout Cove1999 2001 518078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABD7 Alligator Bay1999 2004 518078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABD8 Alligator Bay1999 2001 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCD9 Trout Cove2000 2000 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCD8 Trout Cove1999 2001 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCD7 353501999 2001 358078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCD5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCC3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCD3FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABD3 Alligator Bay1999 2003 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCD1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCC8 353501999 2001 518078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCC7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2000 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCC6 9702132000 2000 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCC5FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBTCFLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 518078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCD4 353501999 1999 10Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys233WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABC5 Alligator Bay2001 2002 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 112WRD 251253080320100 Trout Creek at Mouth, Fl1999 2000 888078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABB5 Alligator Bay2001 2001 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABB8 Alligator Bay1999 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABB9 Alligator Bay1999 2004 818078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABC1 Alligator Bay1999 2003 458078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABC2 Alligator Bay1999 2004 818078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABD6 Alligator Bay2000 2004 568078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABC4 Alligator Bay1999 2004 568078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABD5 Alligator Bay1999 2004 708078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABC6 Alligator Bay1999 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABC7 Alligator Bay1999 2004 718078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABC8 Alligator Bay1999 2002 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABC9 Alligator Bay2000 2001 658078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABD1 Alligator Bay2001 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABD2 Alligator Bay1999 2004 568078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCC2 Trout Cove,2000 2000 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEABC3 Alligator Bay1999 2003 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABC8 9701211999 1999 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCA1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMLMI9 353501999 1999 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMJBL4BISCAYNE BAY MONITORINGSTAITON1999 2001 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB24 Butternut Key1999 2004 11648078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB23 Park Key1999 2004 11668078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB22 Captain s Key1999 2004 1165234Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCC4 Trout Cove2001 2001 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB12 Terrapin Bay1999 2004 11598078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCA4 Trout Cove1999 1999 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB09 Duck Key1999 2004 11668078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABC9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 668078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBLMFLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 568078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBD9 Florida Bay1999 1999 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBD8 Florida Bay2000 2000 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBD7 Florida Bay1999 2000 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB21 Porpoise Lake1999 2004 11658078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCB2 Trout Cove1999 2000 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCC1 353501999 2000 508078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCB9 9703141999 2000 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCB8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM2000 2000 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCB7 353501999 1999 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCB6 353501999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCB5 Trout Cove1999 2001 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCA2 353502001 2001 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCB3 9701211999 1999 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCA3 9703142000 2000 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCB1 Trout Cove2000 2000 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCA9 9702131999 1999 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCA8 Trout Cove1999 2000 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCA7FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCA6 Trout Cove1999 1999 10Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys235WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCA5 9701211999 2001 318078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMFBD5 353501999 1999 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMTCB4FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2001 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200316Florida Bay - 2000 Feet W ofTavenier2003 2003 288078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200411 Florida Bay2004 2004 298078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200322 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay2003 2003 298078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200124 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay2001 2001 338078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200026 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay2000 2000 338078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200022 StateNonTrend - Florida Bay2000 2000 288078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCD6 Trout Cove2004 2004 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200319 Florida Bay - Lignumvitae Key2003 2003 288078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTT200024 StateTrend - Florida Bay2000 2000 288078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200315Florida Bay - 2 Miles NWLignumvitae Key2003 2003 138078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200312 Florida Bay - Russell Key2003 2003 288078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRIFLO200309 Florida Bay - Tern Key2003 2003 288078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCD9 Trout Cove2000 2002 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCD8 Trout Cove1999 2004 918078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBC9 Florida Bay1999 2004 1158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M21FLFMRIFLW200512 Florida/Biscayne Bay2005 2005 178078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M21FLDADELMI9 Little Madeira Bay1999 2002 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBD1 Florida Bay2000 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBD2 Florida Bay2001 2004 778078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBD3 Florida Bay1999 1999 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBD4 Florida Bay1999 2004 1158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBD5 Florida Bay1999 2003 60236Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBD6 Florida Bay2002 2004 378078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200425 Florida Bay2004 2004 148078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBD8 Florida Bay2000 2004 868078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTR200447 Florida Bay2004 2004 298078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBLM Little Madeira Bay1999 2004 1268078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABD1 Alligator Bay2001 2001 168078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTT200310 StateTrend - Florida Bay2003 2003 248078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTT200224 StateTrend - Florida Bay2002 2002 198078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLFMRISTT200103 StateTrend - Florida Bay2001 2001 268078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCD5 Trout Cove2000 2003 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBD7 Florida Bay1999 2002 758078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCA7 Trout Cove1999 2002 508078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCB5 Trout Cove1999 2001 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCB4 Trout Cove1999 2004 618078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCB3 Trout Cove1999 2003 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCB2 Trout Cove1999 2000 358078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCB1 Trout Cove2000 2000 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCD7 Trout Cove1999 2003 708078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCA8 Trout Cove1999 2002 508078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCB8 Trout Cove2000 2002 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCA6 Trout Cove1999 2004 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCA5 Trout Cove1999 2004 868078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCA4 Trout Cove1999 2003 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCA3 Trout Cove2000 2004 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCA2 Trout Cove2001 2003 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCA1 Trout Cove1999 2001 40Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys237WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCA9 Trout Cove1999 2003 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCC5 Trout Cove1999 2003 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCD4 Trout Cove1999 2003 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCD3 Trout Cove1999 2002 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCD2 Trout Cove1999 2004 868078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCD1 Trout Cove1999 2004 478078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCC9 Trout Cove1999 2004 518078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCC8 Trout Cove1999 2004 928078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCB6 Trout Cove1999 2004 818078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCC6 Trout Cove2000 2004 418078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCB7 Trout Cove1999 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCC4 Trout Cove2001 2003 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCC3 Trout Cove1999 2003 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCC2 Trout Cove2000 2002 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCC1 Trout Cove1999 2000 508078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCB9 Trout Cove1999 2003 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBD9 Florida Bay1999 2002 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADETCC7 Trout Cove2000 2002 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCC1 Davis Cove1999 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCC8 Davis Cove2001 2001 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCB3 Davis Cove1999 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCB4 Davis Cove1999 2001 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCB5 Davis Cove1999 2004 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCB6 Davis Cove1999 2001 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBTC Trout Cove1999 2005 1108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCB1 Davis Cove2001 2004 46238Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBC8 Florida Bay1999 2004 718078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCA9 Davis Cove2001 2004 368078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCC2 Davis Cove1999 2003 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCC3 Davis Cove1999 2004 558078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCC4 Davis Cove1999 2001 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCC5 Davis Cove1999 2004 418078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCC6 Davis Cove2002 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCC7 Davis Cove1999 2004 568078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCB8 Davis Cove2001 2004 618078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCA1 Davis Cove1999 2004 708078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABC7 Alligator Bay1999 1999 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABC6 353501999 2001 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABC4 Alligator Bay1999 1999 258078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABC3BISCAYNE BAY MONITORINGSTAITON1999 1999 48078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABC2 9703141999 2000 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABC1 353501999 2001 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCB2 Davis Cove1999 2004 818078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABB8 Alligator Bay1999 2001 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCB9 Davis Cove2000 2003 458078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCA2 Davis Cove1999 2004 408078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCA3 Davis Cove2000 2003 508078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCA5 Davis Cove1999 2003 808078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCA6 Davis Cove1999 2002 208078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCA7 Davis Cove1999 2004 518078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCA8 Davis Cove1999 2004 318078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMABB9 Alligator Bay1999 2000 40Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys239WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBA5 Florida Bay1999 2004 458078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBB4 Florida Bay1999 2004 718078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBC1 Florida Bay1999 2002 458078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBB9 Florida Bay1999 2004 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBB8 Florida Bay2001 2003 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBB7 Florida Bay1999 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCC9 Davis Cove1999 2004 568078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBC3 Florida Bay2003 2003 158078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCB7 Davis Cove1999 2004 518078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBC4 Florida Bay1999 2004 978078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBA6 Florida Bay1999 2003 908078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBA7 Florida Bay2004 2004 168078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBA8 Florida Bay1999 2003 908078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBA9 Florida Bay1999 2004 1118078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBB1 Florida Bay1999 2004 668078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBB2 Florida Bay1999 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBB3 Florida Bay1999 2003 908078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBB6 Florida Bay1999 2004 1168078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBA3 Florida Bay1999 2004 368078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCD6 Davis Cove1999 2004 558078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCD7 Davis Cove1999 2004 418078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCD8 Davis Cove1999 2003 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBC2 Florida Bay1999 2004 708078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCD5 Davis Cove1999 2002 558078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBA2 Florida Bay1999 2004 468078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBA1 Florida Bay2000 2002 55240Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBA4 Florida Bay1999 2003 608078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBC7 Florida Bay1999 2000 308078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCD4 Davis Cove2000 2000 108078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEDCD1 Davis Cove1999 2004 708078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBC6 Florida Bay1999 2004 718078 FLORIDA BAY GULF 2 COASTAL 3M 21FLDADEFBC5 Florida Bay2001 2003 458084 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE181 FL9286842000 2002 538084 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE178 FL9317342000 2006 2538084 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP236 Alligator Shoal1999 2006 1678084 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP235 Lower Matecumbe Key1999 2006 1688084 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP239 Lower Matecumbe Chnl1999 2006 1688084 LOWER MATECUMBE KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP238 Matecumbe Harbor1999 2006 1688085 PLANTATION KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP401 Alligator Reef1999 2006 1678085 PLANTATION KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP232 Upper Matecumbe Key1999 2006 1638085 PLANTATION KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP230 The Rocks1999 2006 1688085 PLANTATION KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP229 Plantation Point1999 2006 1668085 PLANTATION KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP228 Conch Reef1999 2006 1678085 PLANTATION KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP233 Upper MateCumbe Chnl1999 2006 1668086 RODRIGUEZ KEY OCEAN COASTAL3M FWC-WQMP227 Triangles1999 2006 1668086 RODRIGUEZ KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP226 Tavernier Harbor1999 2006 1608086 RODRIGUEZ KEY OCEAN COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP224 Molasses Reef Channel1999 2006 1678086 RODRIGUEZ KEY OCEAN COASTAL3M FWC-WQMP223 Mosquito Bank1999 2006 1688087 KEY LARGO OCEAN 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP221 Radabob Key Channel1999 2006 1668087 KEY LARGO OCEAN 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP220 Radabob Key1999 2006 1678087 KEY LARGO OCEAN 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP217 Rattlesnake Key1999 2006 1648087 KEY LARGO OCEAN 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP215 Carysfort Channel1999 2006 162Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys241WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.8087 KEY LARGO OCEAN 1 COASTAL 3M FWC-WQMP214 Port Elizabeth1999 2006 1596005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEJBD4 Joe Bay2001 2005 366005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBA1 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2001 206005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBD5 Little Blackwater1999 1999 506005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBA2 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBA3 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 716005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBH9 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2003 606005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBA4 Little Blackwater Sound2000 2004 366005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBH8 Little Blackwater Sound2000 2002 356005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBI1 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2002 806005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBC3 Little Blackwater Sound2003 2003 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBI2 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2001 706005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBA5 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 756005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBI4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 356005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBI5 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 826005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBI6 Little Blackwater Sound2002 2003 606005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBI7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 266005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBI8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 826005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBI9 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 756005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBJ1 Little Blackwater Sound2000 2001 206005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBJ2 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 716005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBJ3 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 906005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBI3 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBE7 Little Blackwater2001 2001 106005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBG2 353502001 2001 106005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBG1 353501999 2001 35242Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBF8 Little Blackwater1999 2000 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBF7 9703111999 1999 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBF6FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 566005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBF5FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBF4 Little Blackwater1999 2000 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBF3FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2001 406005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMMBLS03CENTRAL LITTLE BLACKWATERSOUND1999 2002 6836005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBF1 353501999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBE3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 566005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBE8 353501999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBL4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 756005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBE6 353501999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBC7FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2001 766005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBE5FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 106005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBJ4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2001 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBE2FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBE1 Little Blackwater1999 2001 356005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBD8 9703111999 2001 316005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBA9 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2002 406005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBA8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 766005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBA7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 836005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBE9 Little Blackwater2000 2000 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBK7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 356005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBC9 Little Blackwater1999 2000 65Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys243WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBA4 353502000 2000 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBA3 353501999 2001 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBA2 353501999 2000 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY3M 21FLSFWMLBA1 Little Blackwater,1999 1999 106005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB06 L. Blackwater Snd1999 2004 11656005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBK3 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 576005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBK4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 906005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBK5 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2004 376005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBK6 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 706005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBA7FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBH5 Little Blackwater Sound2000 2004 776005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBA8 Little Blackwater1999 2001 556005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBK8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2002 706005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBK9 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBL1 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2003 406005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBL2 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2002 606005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBL3 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2001 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBH4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 566005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBL9 Little Blackwater Sound2000 2004 466005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBL8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 766005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBL7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 606005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBL6 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 926005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBL5 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 616005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADELSF6 Long Sound2000 2005 676005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBC4 353502001 2001 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBJ6 Little Blackwater Sound2000 2003 30244Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBJ7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 656005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBJ8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 786005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBJ9 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2003 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBK1 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 816005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBK2 Little Blackwater Sound2002 2004 366005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBD4 Little Blackwater1999 2000 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBD3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 206005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBD2 9701131999 1999 206005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBG3 Little Blackwater1999 2000 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBA5 9703111999 2001 366005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBD6 353501999 2001 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBJ5 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2002 906005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBC2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 356005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBC1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBB9FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBB8 Little Blackwater1999 1999 206005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBB7 9703111999 1999 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBB6 353501999 2001 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBB4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBB3FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBB2 Little Blackwater1999 2001 316005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBB1 353501999 2001 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBA9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBC8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 30Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys245WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBE5 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 716005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBB5 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2003 406005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBK9FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 356005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBB4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2002 606005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBD4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 526005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBD5 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 1016005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBD6 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 666005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBD7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBD8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 556005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBD9 Little Blackwater Sound2003 2003 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBE1 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2002 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBE2 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 356005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBF8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 816005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBE4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 856005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBL4 353501999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBE6 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 626005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBE7 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2002 406005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBE8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 576005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBE9 Little Blackwater Sound2000 2002 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBF1 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 466005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBF2 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2003 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBF3 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2002 556005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBF4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 766005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBF5 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBF6 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 856005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBF7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 76246Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBE3 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 816005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBL9 9701132000 2001 216005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBC1 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 616005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBC2 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 556005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBB9 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 776005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSE5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 356005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBC4 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2004 626005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBC5 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2004 416005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBC6 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2004 416005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBC7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2001 756005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBB8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 606005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLSF2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBC8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBL1 Little Blackwater2001 2001 106005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBH6 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 756005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBL2FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBL8 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 656005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBB7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 706005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBL7 Little Blackwater1999 2001 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBL6 Little Blackwater1999 1999 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBA6 Little Blackwater Sound2002 2003 406005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBH7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2001 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBG4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 356005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBD2 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBD3 Little Blackwater Sound2000 2003 60Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys247WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBL5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBB6 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 926005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBD1 Little Blackwater Sound2002 2004 326005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBC9 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 1266005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBI5FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2001 316005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBJ8FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBJ7FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBJ6 9703112000 2000 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBG8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBJ5 Little Blackwater1999 2000 756005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBJ4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM1999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBJ3 353501999 2001 466005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBJ2 Little Blackwater1999 1999 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBJ1 Little Blackwater2000 2001 206005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBI8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 406005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBK1 9703111999 2001 716005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBH1 353501999 1999 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBI4FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBI3 9701131999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBH3 Little Blackwater1999 2000 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBH4 9703111999 2001 466005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBH5FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION FROM DERM2000 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBH6 Little Blackwater1999 2000 45248Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBH7FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2001 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBF9 Little Blackwater Sound2002 2004 626005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBI1 Little Blackwater1999 2001 556005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBH9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2001 2001 106005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBH8 353502000 2000 106005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBI7 Little Blackwater1999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBG9 Little Blackwater Sound2004 2004 276005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBG4 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 816005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBG3 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2001 406005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBI2 Little Blackwater1999 2000 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBK3FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBG5 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2001 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBG2 Little Blackwater Sound2001 2001 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBG6 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 1126005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBG8 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 616005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBG1 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 606005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBH1 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBH2 Little Blackwater Sound2002 2004 526005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBH3 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 706005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBK6 Little Blackwater1999 1999 256005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBB3 Little Blackwater Sound1999 1999 156005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBG5 9701131999 2001 466005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBG6 Little Blackwater1999 1999 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBK4FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 456005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBB2 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 46Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys249WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBK8 353501999 2000 306005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBG7 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2003 706005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBK7 353501999 2000 206005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADELBB1 Little Blackwater Sound1999 2004 616005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMLBG7 353501999 2000 406005A LITTLE BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLDADEMBL9 Manatee Bay1999 2001 356005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWC3 Blackwater Sound1999 2000 456005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWC2FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM2000 2000 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWB9 9701172001 2001 166005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWB8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 606005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWC1BISCAYNE BAY MONITORINGSTAITON2001 2001 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWC4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 1999 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWC5 353501999 2000 606005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWC7 353502000 2000 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWC9 Blackwater Sound2001 2001 316005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWD2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2000 456005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWB6FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWA3 353501999 2000 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWD1FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 1999 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWC6FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 906005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWA6 Blackwater Sound1999 1999 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLFMRISTR200120StateNonTrend - BlackwaterSound2001 2001 336005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWA1 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 766005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLSFWMBWD3 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 45250Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSK8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBSK9BISCAYNE BAY MONITORINGSTAITON1999 1999 66005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWA1FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2000 456005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWA5 9703171999 2000 456005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWA4 Blackwater Sound1999 2001 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLSFWMBWB5 FLORIDA BAY STATION1999 2000 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWA7FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM1999 2000 456005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWA8 353502001 2001 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWA9 Blackwater Sound1999 2000 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWB1 Blackwater Sound1999 2001 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWB2 9702181999 1999 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWB3FLORIDA BAY STATIONS FROMDERM2000 2001 756005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWB4 353501999 1999 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWA2FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION2000 2001 316005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWD3 Blackwater Sound1999 2003 756005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWA3 Blackwater Sound1999 2002 606005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWC2 Blackwater Sound2000 2004 466005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWC4 Blackwater Sound1999 2003 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWC5 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 1116005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWC6 Blackwater Sound1999 2003 1356005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWC7 Blackwater Sound2000 2004 256005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWC8 Blackwater Sound2002 2002 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWC9 Blackwater Sound2001 2004 766005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWB9 Blackwater Sound2001 2004 76Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys251WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWD2 Blackwater Sound1999 2003 606005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWB8 Blackwater Sound1999 2003 906005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWD4 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 606005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWD5 Blackwater Sound2004 2004 166005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWD6 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 516005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMFBBWBISCAYNE BAY MONITORINGSTAITON1999 2001 586005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEFBBW Blackwater Sound1999 2003 1356005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWD9 Blackwater Sound1999 2003 1206005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWD8 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 1156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWD7 Blackwater Sound2000 2004 466005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWD1 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWA9 Blackwater Sound1999 2003 756005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWD6 353501999 1999 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWD7 Blackwater Sound2000 2000 156005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWD8 Blackwater Sound1999 2001 606005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWD9 Blackwater Sound1999 2001 616005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWB5 Blackwater Sound1999 2000 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWB4 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 606005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWB3 Blackwater Sound2000 2003 1206005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWC1 Blackwater Sound2001 2003 756005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWB1 Blackwater Sound1999 2001 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMBWD4 9703171999 2000 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWA8 Blackwater Sound2001 2004 466005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWA7 Blackwater Sound1999 2002 756005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWA6 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 406005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWA5 Blackwater Sound1999 2003 75252Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysWBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWA4 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 816005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M 21FLSFWMFLAB05 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 11656005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWA2 Blackwater Sound2000 2001 456005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWB6 Blackwater Sound1999 1999 306005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWB7 Blackwater Sound2001 2004 766005B BLACKWATER SOUND ESTUARY 3M21FLDADEBWB2 Blackwater Sound1999 2004 676006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040947FTM HAMMER POINT2005 2006 996006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040952FTM BUCCANEER POINT2005 2006 916006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040949FTM1 SHERATON KEY LARGO2005 2006 1236006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040959FTMCROSS KEY WATERWAYSESTATES2005 2006 966006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040958FTM LARGO SOUND2005 2006 636006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040957FTMJOHN PENNEKAMP CORALREEF SP2005 2006 876006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040956FTM WINSTON WATERWAYS2005 2006 1136006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040955FTMKEY LARGO KAMPGROUNDAND MARINA2005 2006 1156006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040961FTM ANGLER'S PARK2005 2006 966006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M21FLFTM 28040953FTM PORT LARGO2005 2006 1156006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M21FLFTM 28040962FTM SEXTON COVE2005 2006 1166006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040951FTM KEY LARGO BEACH2005 2006 1136006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040950FTM MANDALAY2005 2006 936006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040948FTM KEY LARGO OCEAN RESORTS2005 2006 966006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040946FTMBLUEWATER MOBILE HOMEPARK2005 2006 1156006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE182 FL9551722000 2006 2546006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLDOH MONROE320 FL0584172000 2006 2566006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040954FTM KEY LARGO TRAILER VILLAGE2005 2006 966006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL02 Big Coppitt, Porpoise Point2002 2004 208Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys253WBIDWaterbody SegmentTypeClassStoret Station IDStation DescriptionBegin DatesEndDatesNo.ofObs.6006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040960FTM TWIN LAKES2005 2006 966006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL03 Saddlebunch Keys, Bay Point2002 2004 2336006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL01Boca Chica, Boca Chica OceanShores2002 2004 2136006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040966FTM GILBERT'S ANCHORAGE2005 2006 966006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040965FTM LAKE SURPRISE ESTATES 22005 2006 966006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040964FTM LAKE SURPRISE ESTATES 12005 2006 966006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040963FTM GARDEN COVE2005 2006 1166006A SOUTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLKTNCTNCFL04 Sugarloaf Key, Sugarloaf Shores2002 2004 2136006B MIDDLE KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMBSJ82000 2000 306006B MIDDLE KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMBSL8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 2001 456006B MIDDLE KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMBSH9FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 2001 466006B MIDDLE KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 112WRD 251105080231800JEWFISH CREEK AT US 1, KEYLARGO FL1999 1999 126006B MIDDLE KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMBSI4FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSTATION1999 1999 156006B MIDDLE KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLSFWMBSI8FLORIDA BAY MONITORINGSITE1999 1999 306006C NORTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040969FTM DISPATCH CREEK 12005 2006 966006C NORTH KEY LARGO COASTAL 3M 21FLFTM 28040970FTM OCEAN REEF CLUB MARINA2005 2006 94254Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysAppendix E: Permitted Facilitiesand Landfills in the FloridaKeys Basin, by Planning UnitTable E.1: Permitted Facilities withDischarges, by Planning UnitFacility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*Upper Keys Planning UnitFLA016679 Morada Bay Restaurant STPOverseas Highway, MileMarker (MM) 81.4Islamorada DW A N 0.0040FLA017168 Intus Residences STP 101 Crandon Blvd., #175 Key Biscayne DW A N 0.0090FLA017261 Coral Shores Coin Laundry MM 90, Overseas Highway Tavernier IW A N 0.0000FLA014836 Mariner’s Club WWTP 97501 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0100FLA014994 Mariner’s Hospital 50 High Point Road Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA015002 Harbour 92 Condominium 200 Harbor View Drive Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014876Careless Navigator–Formerly HogHeaven85361 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014736Anthony’s (Was: Korkey’s IslandSeafood)97630 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014700 Key Largo Elementary School 104801 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014706 Newport Village Apartments1 Harry Davis Cir (MM 101,U. S. Highway 1)Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014712 US Coast Guard Station Islamorada 183 Palermo Dr. Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014727 Paradise Point MHP 99 Seaside Ave. Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014729 Sea Gulls Condominium 87465 Old Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014732 Key Largo Kampground & Marina 101551 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014733 Florida Keys RV Park 106003 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014734 Futura Yacht Club 88540 Overseas Highway Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014737 Bentley’s Restaurant 82779 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0040FLA014739 Beacon Reef Condominium 83201 Old Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014750 Tarpon Flats Condominiums 81250 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014754 Senor Frijoles Restaurant 103900B Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014755 Captain Jax R V Park (H) 103650 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys255Facility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA014759 Pelican Palms Trailer Park Old Highway, MM 82.7 Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014765 Tradewinds/K-mart Shopping Center 101499 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014770 Paradise Pub–STP Overseas Highway, MM 102 Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014774 Islamorada Laundry 225 Dogwood Lane Islamorada IW A N 0.0100FLA014775 Calusa Camp Resort U. S. Highway 1 & Calusa St. Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014777 Sunset Hammock Condominium 94220 Overseas Highway Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014779Island Grill (was Big Conch B & G,Hawk Channel B&G)U. S. Highway 1, MM 85.5 Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014780 Sand Pebbles Condominium WWTF80450 Overseas Highway,#101Islamorada DW A N 0.0090FLA014789 Fantasy Harbor Condo (H) Units 3&5 76430 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0012FLA014791 Westin Beach Resort Key Largo 97000 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014795 Koblick Marine Center 51 Shoreland Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014802 Coral Harbor Club 88181 Old Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014803 Tamarind Bay Club, Inc. 104500 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014806 Lorelei Restaurant 81920 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014810 Pink Plaza aka: N Key Largo Plaza103400 Overseas Highway,#240Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014817 Winn Dixie (Key Largo) 105900 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014819 Quay Restaurant–Key Largo WWTF102050 South OverseasHighwayKey Largo DW A N 0.0120FLA014837 Florida Bay Club 103500 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014842 Pelican Cove Condominium 84457 Old Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014846 Maison Matecumbe 80639 Old Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014851 Green Turtle Inn STP Overseas Highway, MM 81 Islamorada DW A N 0.0050FLA014853 Pilot House Restaurant 13 Seagate Blvd. Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014860 Key Largo Shopper (H)Corner State Rd. 4A &U. S. Highway 1Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014864 Harbor Lights Motel of Holiday Isle 84951 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014865 Ramada Inn (KL) 99751 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014868 Marina del Mar 529 Caribbean Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0000256Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysFacility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA014871 Cross Key Inc.Morris Avenue off U. S.Highway 1Key Largo DW A N 0.0050FLA014880 Landings of Largo 9800 Dockside Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014881 Tavernier Harbor House WWTF 90311 Overseas Highway Tavernier DW A N 0.0150FLA148822 Gusto’s 82748 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014885 Manatee Bay Club 100 Morris Lane Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014888 Howard Johnson’s Key Largo Overseas Highway, MM 102 Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014895Smuggler’s Cove Marina & Resort (akaRichmond’s Landing)85500 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014898 Coral Sands Trailer Park WWTP95350 Overseas Highway,Box 15Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014900 Plaza 103/Leeside Prof Bldg 102900 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014901 Summer Sea Condominium 88500 Overseas Highway Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014910 Boy Scouts of America Sea Base STP 73800 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014915 Marriott/Key Largo (wasTwin Harbors) Overseas Highway, MM 104 Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014918 Ocean Reef Club Maintenance Road Key Largo IW A N 0.7600FLA014926 Whale Harbor Inn STPOverseas Highway, MM 83.7,OceanIslamorada DW A N 0.0200FLA014927 Kelly’s Motel on the Bay 104220 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014928 Hobo’s Marina 104200 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0050FLA014930 Koulangatta R O Plant 325 Atlantic Street Islamorada IW A N 0.0080FLA014933 Seabreeze Trailer Park 87425 State Rd. 4-A Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014938 Steve’s Timeout Barbeque OverseasHighway MM 81.5 Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014944 Largo Park (fka Glen’s) 101600 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014950 Cafe Largo STP 99530 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014958 Tavernier Hotel 91865 Overseas Highway Tavernier DW A N 0.0030FLA014960 New Mariners Hospital MM 91.5 Overseas Highway Tavernier DW A N 0.0200FLA014963 Waldorf Plaza Shopping CenterLaguna Ave. near U. S.Highway 1Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014966 Driftwood Travel Trailer Park Eastof U. S. Highway 1 Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014969 Islamorada Bakery/Restaurant 81620 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014977 Key Largo Harbor Marina 100 Ocean Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0075Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys257Facility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA014979 Fish House Restaurant 102401 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0043FLA014983 Sea Gulls Condominium 200 Wren Street Tavernier DW A N 0.0200FLA014989 Cheeca LodgeU. S. Highway 1, Mile Post #82Islamorada DW A N 0.0700FLA014991 Palms of Islamorada Condominium 79901 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014997 Sunset Acres MHP Overseas Highway, MM 92.9 Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA015000 Breezy Palms Resort Motel 80015 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA015005 Silver Shores MHP IncOverseas Highway, MM 96,OceansideKey Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA015007 Sunset Inn Resort 82200 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0300FLA015010 Kawama Yacht Club Condominium 1500 Ocean Bay Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA015030 Pennekamp State Park P.O. Box 487 Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014723 Anchor Condominium Overseas Highway, MM 92.5 Tavernier DW A N 0.0090FLA014746 Ocean Divers, Inc. 522 Caribbean Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014833 Snook’s 99470 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA015017 Blue Waters Trailer Village Burton Drive Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA179949 Waffle House OF Key Largo 100270 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014768 Dolphins Plus (H) 147 Corinne Place Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014890 Moon Bay Condominium 104350 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014998 Sandy Point Condominium 108 Costa Brava Drive Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA015020 Papa Joe’s Restaurant U. S. Highway 1, MM 79.7 Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014945 Hampton Inn (Was Ocean 80) Overseas Highway, MM 80 Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA017286 Tracher Marine WWTF Overseas Highway, MM 81.2 Islamorada DW A N 0.0380FLA014937 Squid Row Restaurant 81901 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0090FLA014708 Coral Shores High School 89951 Overseas Highway Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014849 Sanctuary Condominium @ Key Largo100 Sanctuary Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014959 Holiday Inn (Key Largo) 99701 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014786 Pizza Hut Restaurant–Key Largo 99021 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014801 Tavernier Towne Shopping Center Overseas Highway, MM 91.3 Tavernier DW A N 0.0500FLA014891 Plantation Yacht Harbor Resort 87000Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000258Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysFacility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA014829 Executive Bay Club Condo 87200 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014879 Pelican Plaza WWTF 86701 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0036FLA014731 Matecumbe Resort76261 Overseas Highway, MM76.5Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA015003Howard Johnson’s Islamorada atHoliday IsleOverseas Highway, MM 84.2 Islamorada DW A N 0.0300FLA014757 Days Inn of Islamorada82749 Overseas Highway, MM82.5Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014921 Marker 88 Restaurant S T P Overseas Highway, MM 88 Islamorada DW A N 0.0075FLA014699 Plantation Key Government Complex 2 High Point Road Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014743 Italian Fisherman Restaurant 104000 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014767 Woody’s Cocktail LoungeOverseas Highway, MM 82,GulfIslamorada DW A N 0.0033FLA014852 Lake Surprise II Condo 16 Mangrove Lane Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA015023 Ocean Pointe Condominiums 500 Burton Drive Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014866 Dino’s (was Captain’s Cove) 81031 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0075FLA014964 Key Largo Ocean Resort 94825 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014726 Holiday Isle Resort Overseas Highway, MM 84.2 Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014745 Windley Key Trailer Park 84961 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014782 Ocean Harbour Condominium 87851 S. R. 905 Islamorada DW A N 0.0240FLA014797 Uncle’s Restaurant 80939 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0150FLA014993 Rock Harbor Club 97652 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA015019 Holiday by the Sea Condominium 300 Ocean Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014697 Plantation Key Elementary School 100 Lake Street Tavernier DW A N 0.0200FLA014932 Big Kahuna 106690 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014807 La Siesta Resort Overseas Highway, MM 80.4 Islamorada DW A N 0.0125FLA014811 Best Western Suites of Key Largo 201 Ocean Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014840 Islamorada Professional Bldg P. O. Box 1361 Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA017385 Theater of the Sea MM 84.5, Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0015FLA014970 America Outdoors Campground 97450 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014724 Coral Grill RestaurantU. S. Highway 1, MM 83.5,GulfIslamorada DW A N 0.0000Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys259Facility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA015015 Buttonwood Bay CondominiumsU. S. Highway 1, 96000Overseas HighwayKey Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014788 Fantasy Harbor Condo (H) Units 1&4 MM 76.5, U. S. Highway 1LowerMatecumbe KeyDW A N 0.0000FLA014962 Turek Building Turek Building, Apt. 213 Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014984 Coastal Waterway Trailer Park 101620 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA015001 Anchorage Resort & Yacht Club 107800 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLRNEE272 King’s Kamp 103620 Overseas Highway Key Largo NEX A Y 0.0000FLRNEE273 Captain Jax 103650 Overseas Highway Key Largo NEX A Y 0.0000FLA013650 Southern Bell T & T Co Right ofWay U. S. Highway 1 None UIC A N 0.0000FLA014787 Indian Waterways Village (H) 89240 Overseas Highway Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014847 Tropical Reef Resort 84977 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014942 Harborage Condominiums Overseas Highway, MM 97.5 Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014972 Tropic Vista Motel 90701 Overseas Highway Tavernier DW A N 0.0000FLA014995 Family Paradise Island 107900 Overseas Highway Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA014956 Caloosa Cove Marina/Resort 73801 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0240FLA014769 Chesapeake of Whale Harbor 83409 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014916 Lazy Days Restaurant 79867 Overseas Highway Islamorada DW A N 0.0000FLA014832 Key Largo Yacht Club & Condo 1501 Ocean Bay Drive Key Largo DW A N 0.0000FLA178519 Shrimp Improvement Systems LP 88005Overseas Highway Islamorada IW A N 0.0000Middle Keys Planning UnitFLA016256 Marathon Plaza II 5101 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0040FLA014903Coconut Cay Resort (fka: Sea HorseMotel)7196 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014747Ramada (was Wellesley Inn/Hojo’sMth)U. S. Highway 1 Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014707 Marathon High School 350 Sombrero Beach Road Marathon DW A N 0.0150FLA014906 Maytag Coin Laundry 5998 Overseas Highway Marathon IW A N 0.0160FLA014869 International House of Pancakes6495 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014703 Monroe Regional Service Center2796 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000260Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysFacility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA014738 Pizza Hut (Marathon) 9981 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014740 Reef at Marathon Resort Club6800 Overseas Highway/U. S.Highway 1Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014742 Marathon Key Beach Club 4590 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014751Boot Key Marina/Faro BlancoOceanside1000 15thSt. Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014752Sombrero Resort and LighthouseMarina19 Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0200FLA014760 Brenner Office Building (H)Duck Key Dr. & Golf CourseDr.Duck Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014766 Aultman Construction Co Inc 6799 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014771 Tropic Isle Apts. 41stStreet, Gulf Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014772 Hawk’s Cay Resort MM 61 Duck Key DW A N 0.1000FLA014776 Keys Marine LaboratoryOverseas Highway, MM 68GulfLayton DW A N 0.0075FLA014778 Seawatch Condominium 11840 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0240FLA014783 Casa de los Tres (H) 1501 Sombrero Boulevard Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014784 Marathon Manor Nursing Home 320 Sombrero Beach Road Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014790 Cobia Point Condo 1515 Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014798 Marathon Trailerama STP 1571 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014799 Royal Plum Condominium 133 Coco Plum Drive Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014809 Mid-Town Trailer Park 37thStreet, Gulf Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014825 Trade Winds West Condo 5301 Ocean Terrace Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014830 Treasure Cay Condominium 130 Coco Plum Drive Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014831 Faro Blanco Condominium 1996 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014834 Hampton Inn Marathon 1688 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0200FLA014838 Captain’s Quarters Condominium 227South Anglers Drive Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014874 Sombrero Ridge Condo 303 Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014884 Island Club Condo 9 Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014886Home Depot–Marathon WWTP/Boot Key Harbor PlazaOverseas Highway, MM 49.7 Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014899 Gulfshore Apts. (The Rock Apts.) 999 41stGulf Marathon DW A N 0.0075Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys261Facility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA014913 Sombrero County Club 4000 N. Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0100FLA014934 Sombrero Reef Inn 500 Sombrero Beach Road Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014936 Fishermen’s Hospital 3101 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014941 Coyne’s Laundry 11201 Overseas Highway Marathon IW A N 0.0000FLA014947 Key RV Park 6099 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA149616 Prieto, Radames and ReginaLemon Avenue & FerreiraStreetGrassy Key IW A N 0.0000FLA014965 Jolly Roger Trailer Park 59275 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014974 Sugarloaf Key KOAU. S. Highway 1, SugarloafKeySummerlandKeyDW A N 0.0000FLA014975 Coral Club Condominium 389 Anglers Drive North Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014981 Harbor House Condominium 1217 Sombrero Blvd.. Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014985 K-mart Plaza Marathon 5561 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014986 Spanish Galleon Condo 1115 Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014988 Key Lime Resort 11600–1stAve., Gulf Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014990 Schooner Condominium WWTP 605 Sombrero Beach Road Marathon DW A N 0.0050FLA015004 Office Depot Plaza 11100 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0085FLA015006Blackfin Resort & Marina aka: EconoLodge & Hurricane4650 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA015008 Coral Lagoon Resort 12399 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA015011 Galway Bay Mobile Home Park 1361 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA015012Coco Plum Beach Apts/TerracesCondo105 Ave. D, Coco Plum Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA015018 Lucy Apartments 489–63rdSt., Ocean Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA015027 Monroe Regional Services Center 2796 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0100FLA014976 Marathon Marina 1021 11thStreet Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014999 Outdoor Resorts at Long Key Overseas Highway, MM 65.5 Long Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014897 Sombrero Marina @ Dockside Lounge 35 Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0035FLA014835 Panda House Chinese Restaurant 5230 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014749 Wendy’s Restaurant 5150 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014919 Windy City Laundry 1700 Overseas Highway Marathon IW A N 0.0090262Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysFacility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA014744 Casa Cayo Condo STP 1500 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014822 T & W Seafood (aka Willey’s Rest)1490 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0120FLA015016 Long Key Townhouse Condominium 65700 Overseas Highway Long Key DW A N 0.0000FLA015025 Long Key State Recreation Area 67400 Overseas Highway Long Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014978 Little Italy Restaurant Overseas Highway, MM 68.5 Layton DW A N 0.0040FLA014996 Harbor Club South Condo Assoc 423 Sombrero Beach Road Marathon DW A N 0.0090FLA014720 Key Colony Beach, City of 600 N. 8thStreetKey ColonyBeachDW A N 0.0000FLA014823 Quay Restaurant 12650 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014968 Kingsail Resort 7050 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0150FLA014987 Pelican Motel & Trailer ParkOverseas Highway, MM 59.2GulfMarathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014863 Marathon Vet Clinic (H) 11187 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014873 Oceanside Isle Apartment Overseas Highway, MM 70 Long Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014935 Fiuesta Key KOA Overseas Highway, MM 70 Long Key DW A N 0.0600FLA014698 Eastwind Apartments 240 Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014728 Buccaneer Lodge Resort STP 2600 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014792 Gulfside Village Condo Assn 5800 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA015014 Bonefish Tower 2000 Coco Plum Dr. Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014856 Marie’s Yacht Harbor Club Avenue “I” Coco Plum Beach Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014992 Hawks Nest 1 Kyle Way South Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014785 Holiday Inn (Marathon) 13201 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014713 USCG Station (Marathon) 1800 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLRNEE280 Hog Key Marine, Inc. 1096 Overseas Highway Marathon NEX A Y 0.0000FLRNEE286 Seven Mile Marina, Inc. 1090 Overseas Highway Marathon NEX A Y 0.0000FLA016202 Publix PlazaOverseas Highway atSombrero Beach Rd.Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014709 Marathon Airport Terminal 9400 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014735 Marathon Country Club Condominium 15 Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014710 Stanley Switlik Elementary 3400 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0000FLA014877 Guidance Clinic of the Middle Keys 3000 41stStreet, Ocean Marathon DW A N 0.0200Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys263Facility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA017532 Faro Blanco Resort 1996 Overseas Highway Marathon DW A N 0.0200FLA179612 Sombrero Country Club P. O. Box 500969 Marathon IW A N 0.0000FLA181293 Grassy Key Aquatic Center Inc 59300Overseas Highway Grassy Key IW A N 0.0000Lower Keys Planning UnitFLA017085 Big Pine Key Fishing Lodge WWTF Overseas Highway, MM 33 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0250FLA014701 Gerald Adams Elementary School 5855 College Rd. Key West DW A N 0.0000FLA014716 Key Deer National Wildlife Refuge P. O. Box 510 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014717City Electric aka Stock Island SteamWWTPFront St., Stock Island Key West DW A N 0.0000FL0002089 Utility Bd of Key West/Stock IslandPP Front Street Key West IW A Y 7.6200FLA014719 Key West Resource Recovery Facility 5701 West Junior College Rd Key West IW A N 0.0050FLA014721 Lower Florida Keys Health Systems 5900 Junior College Rd Key West DW A N 0.0000FL0025976 Richard A Heyman WWTP–Key WestTrumbo Point Annex–FlemingKeyKey West DW A Y 10.0000FLA014773 Harbor Shores Mobile Home Park 6800 Maloney Ave. Key West DW A N 0.0000FLA014808 Looe Key Reef Resort MM 27, Overseas Highway Ramrod Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014816 Carlson Duplex (H) Narcissus Ave Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014826 Coconut Grove Mobile Home Park 6621-4A Maloney Ave. Key West DW A N 0.0000FLA014827Water’s Edge Colony Mobile HomePark5700 Laurel St (at Second)Key West(Stock Is)DW A N 0.0000FLA014841 Sugarload Baptist Mission (HRS) Crane Boulevard Sugarloaf Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014843 Handte Duplex #3 (H) Lot 3, Block 19, Eden Pine Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014844 Handte Duplex #9 (H) Lot 3, Block 9, Eden Pine Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014845 Little Palm Island 28500 Overseas Highway Little Torch Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014867 Key Haven Utility Key Haven Road Key West DW A N 0.2000FLA014870 Breezy Pines Trailer Park US #1, Mile Post 29.8 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014872 Pearl Trailer Court (HRS) 25 3RDStreet Key West DW A N 0.0000FLA014875 Sunshine Key Camping Resort Overseas Highway MM 38.7 Ohio Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014878 Lucky’s Landing 133 Barry Avenue Little Torch Key DW A N 0.0090FLA014889 Geiger Key Marina 5 Geiger Key Rd. Geiger Key DW A N 0.0000264Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysFacility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA014905 Coral Shrimp Co 4THStreet 4THStreet Stock Island IW N N 0.0007FLA014911 Old Barnett Bank of the Keys (H)MM 25, U. S. Highway 1, P. O.Box 1299SummerlandKeyDW A N 0.0000FLA014914 Mangrove Mama’s Restaurant OverseasHighway @ MM 20 Sugarloaf Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014917 Seahorse Campground Route 5, Box 500 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014929 Montego Bay Food & Spirits Overseas Highway, MM 30.1 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014951 Key West Resort Utility 6630 FrontSt., Stock Island Key West DW A N 0.0000FLA014955 GMSB Inc MM 23.8, U. S. Highway 1SummerlandKeyIW A N 0.2850FLA014957 Morgan ShrimpPackers, Inc. ShrimpRoad–Stock Island Key West IW A N 0.0015FLA014971 Boyd’s Key West Campground 6401 Maloney Ave. Key West DW A N 0.0000FLA014973Lady Alexander Condo Association,Inc.1505 Sombrero Blvd. Marathon DW A N 0.0050FLA015013 Oceanside Marina 5950 Peninsula Ave. Key West DW A N 0.0000FLA015028 Big Pine Key Road Prison P. O. Box 509 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014702 Sugarloaf Elementary School Crane Blvd. Sugarloaf Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014800 Roy’s Trailer Park 6500 Maloney Ave. (Stock Is.) Key West DW A N 0.0000FLA014948 Seaside Resort 55 Boca Chica Road Big Coppitt Key DW A N 0.0400FLA014725 Lazy Lakes Campgrounds Johnson RoadUpper SugarloafKeyDW A N 0.0000FLA014859 Caribbean Village WWTP 1211 Overseas Highway Big Coppitt Key DW A N 0.0060FLA014980 Summerland Palms Trailer Park Overseas Highway, MM 24.9SummerlandKeyDW A N 0.0075FLA014902 Bluewater Key RV ParkU. S. Highway 1, SaddlebunchKeySaddlebunchKeyDW A N 0.0000FLA014804 Big Pine Plaza Shopping Center S.R.S-940 and Wilder Road Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA017163 Peninsular Marine Enterprises 6000 Peninsula Ave. Key West DW A N 0.0090FLA014855 Key Deer GrillP. O. Box 322, SandsSubdivisionBig Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA147117 Boca Chica Naval Air Station Naval Air Station Bldg. A827 Key West DW A N 0.0000FLA014821 Porpoise Point Reel & Racquet Club Jade Drive at U. S. Highway 1 Big Coppitt Key DW A N 0.0050FLA014982 Big Pine Motel Overseas Highway, MM 30.7 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0050Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida Keys265Facility IDFacility NameAddressCityType1Status2NPDES3DesignCapacity(in mgd)*FLA015033 Bahia Honda State Park #4 36850 Overseas Highway Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA015031 Bahia Honda State Park #2 U. S.Highway 1, MM 37 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA016204 Big Pine Key School Overseas Highway, MM 30.5 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0050FLRNEE297 Manatee Bay Marine, Inc. 99 Morris Lane Key Largo NEX A Y 0.0000FLA014893 Sugarloaf Lodge Overseas Highway, MM #17 Sugarloaf Key DW A N 0.0000FLA014946 Venture Out at Cudjoe Cay Spanish Main Drive Cudjoe Cay DW A N 0.0000FLA015032 Bahia Honda State Park Sand Spur 3 36850 Overseas Highway Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0100FLA014796 Sands Subdivision Affordable Housing P. O. Box 430391 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0000FLA017381 KD’S Big Pine Steak & Seafood House Overseas Highway, MM 31 Big Pine Key DW A N 0.0035Notes:1Facility Type:DW = Domestic WasteIW = Industrial WasteUIC = Underground Injection ControlNEX = Stormwater No Exposure Certification2Status:A = ActiveI = Inactive3NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System):Y = Yes (surface water discharger)N = No (not a surface water discharger)* mgd = millions of gallons per day266Water Quality Assessment Report: Florida KeysTable E.2: Permitted Landfill Facilities in the Florida Keys Basin, by Planning UnitFacility IDFacility NameAddressCityStatusFacility TypeUpper Keys Planning Unit79483 Key Largo Dump (Old) State Road905A Key Largo Inactive Solid Waste79544 Key Largo Landfill State Road905 Key Largo Inactive Solid WasteMiddle Keys Planning Unit79548 Boot Key Landfill State Road931 Boot Key Inactive Solid Waste79484 Long Key LandfillU. S. Highway 1, Long Key,between Mile Marker 67 & 68Long Key Active Solid WasteLower Keys Planning Unit79482 Middle Torch Key Middle Torch Rd. Middle Torch Key Inactive Solid Waste79636Stock Island Landfill(Key West Landfill)Junior College Rd. Key West Active Solid Waste79485 Cudjoe Key LandfillCudjoe Key Rd., West of MileMarker 21.5Cudjoe Key Active Solid Waste79597 Flemming Key SW Corner of Flemming Key Flemming Key Inactive Solid Waste

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Appendix F: Level I Land Use in the Florida Keys Basin, by Planning Unit

Table F.1: Level 1 2004 - 2005 Land Use in the Upper Keys Planning Unit
Level 1 Type Percent of Basin

1000 Urban and Built-up 2.22

2000 Agriculture (includes improved pasture) 0.00

3000 Rangeland 0.05

4000 Upland Forest 1.40

5000 Water 2 

# 88.44

6000 Wetlands 7.70

7000 Barren Land 0.03

8000 Transportation, Communications, and Utilities 0.16

Total 100

Table F.2: Level 1 2004 -2005 Land Use in the Middle Keys Planning Unit
Level 1 Type Percent of Basin

1000 Urban and Built-up 1.58

2000 Agriculture (includes improved pasture) 0.00

3000 Rangeland 0.15

4000 Upland Forest 0.23

5000 Water 95.49

6000 Wetlands 2.32

7000 Barren Land 0.06

8000 Transportation, Communications, and Utilities 0.17

Total 100

Table F.3: Level 1 2004 - 2005 Land Use in the Lower Keys Planning Unit
Level 1 Type Percent of Basin

1000 Urban and Built-up 2.90

2000 Agriculture (includes improved pasture) 0.00

3000 Rangeland 0.79

4000 Upland Forest 0.59

5000 Water 86.15

6000 Wetlands 9.12

7000 Barren Land 0.09

8000 Transportation, Communications, and Utilities 0.35

Total 99.99

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# Appendix G: Documentation Pr ovided during Public Comment

Period

Keys Basin Verified Listing Meeting

Marathon, August 18, 2006 Public Meeting Questions, Comments and Responses

Mike Zimmerman (Everglades National Park): Mr. Zi mmerman asked if the water quality assessment for the Keys included Florida Bay. Response: Pat Fricano responded that it was supposed to but that a glitch in the GIS data layer had eliminated the Florida Bay stations and they didn’t get included in this assessment. Pat further indicated that the error would be corrected in the next assessment, prior to final adoption of the verified

list.

Mike Zimmerman (Everglades National Park): Mr. Zi mmerman then asked if the water quality assessment for the Keys included the water quality stations in the embayments in and around the upper Keys, as there was a lot of water quality data being collected there. Response: Pat Fricano recounted that those water quality stations had also been eliminated by the glitch in the GIS data layer and that the error would be corr ected in the next run of the IWR database. Pat further indicated that any nearshore stations, within 200 feet of the shoreline of any island WBID, were included in this assessment for that particular island

Ellen Alderman (Homeowner): “The bridge construc tion on US 1 is causing water quality degradation in

Blackwater and Barnes Sounds.” Response: Pat Fricano asked what aspect of the bridge construction she thought was responsible for the degradation

Ellen Alderman (Homeowner): Ms. Alderman said the pulling up of the mangroves, which was releasing nutrients into the water. This was exacerbated by the passing of Hurricane Wilma which made things worse by churning up the water. Response: Pat Fricano said they had to separate the man induced impacts from the hurricane impacts. “When Hurricane Charley passed through Lee and Char lotte Counties, DEP decided not to include or at least flag any water quality data that were entered into our database during that time period because hurricane water quality data were not truly reflective of ambient conditions. Hurricane induced impacts are an act of God and not subject to the influence of, or regulation by humankind.”

Alex Score (World Wildlif e Fund): Ms. Score made a statemen t that the local environmental groups wanted DOT to hold a public meeting to discuss the bridge construction issue and its affect on water quality.

Nancy Perez (Homeowner): Ms. Perez stated that three times since 1983 major discharges by the C111 canal created problems in Barnes Sound. “This time the C111 canal again, plus road construction impacts, plus hurricane Wilma broke the camel’s back”. Response: Pat Fricano stated that while driving in the Upper Keys last year, he noticed that the waters in and around US 1 were already green, exhibiting an obvious algae bloom, which occurred before the onset of bridge construction and the passing of Hurricane Wilma.

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Alex Score (World Wildlife Fund): Ms. Score counte red that yes, the water was green but it was clear green, not the green brown turbid water we are seeing today. Response: Pat Fricano stated that you cannot control turbidity churned up by hurricanes.

Jon Fajans (Fla. Institute of Oceanography): Jon respond ed that we can address wh at we put on the ground for hurricanes to wash into the water, and that DOT was using slag as a road bed base in the bridge construction, which brings with it all kinds of contaminants.

Mike Zimmerman (Everglades National Park): “The presence of sulfate in the water can facilitate the methylation of mercury into methyl mercury. Are you looking at sulfate as a cause of the mercury problem in fish tissue? Sulfate is being put on the agricultural fields as a fe rtilizer / soil amendment. Sulfur reducing bacteria causes th e problem of mercury methylation and the presence of sulfur controls

the chemical reaction.” Response: Nathan Bailey responded that we are no t specifically monitoring or looking at sulfate.

Mike Zimmerman (Everglades National Park): “Are you looking at the pesticide endosulfan and its

metabolites”? Response: Pat Fricano responded that if endosulfan or any other pesticide data were in the database, we would compare the data to state water quality standards and denote any impairment.

Jon Fajans (Fla. Institute of Oceanography): “Is the Department looking at arsenic? It gets into shellfish”. Response: Pat Fricano stated that if any “shellfish consumption advisory” is issued for arsenic, it would be considered an impairment of water quality. If any water column arsenic data exists in the database, we would compare the data to state water quality standards and denote any impairment.

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HT Pontin (Master Mariner): Asked a question as to why a specific dredge and fill permit was issued by the Department for some development activity. Response: Pat Fricano stated that the TMDL prog ram is a different progra m from the dredge and fill program, and we have no knowledge of decisions made on individual dredge and fill permits. Response: Gus Rios told Mr. Pontin that he could get that information to him. He gave Mr. Pontin his business card and asked Mr. Pontin to give him a call.

HT Pontin (Master Mariner): Mr. Pontin made a statement that the State of Florida has no sovereignty jurisdiction south of Long Key, as those islands and waters were never properly conveyed to Florida by the Spanish government. Response: Pat Fricano stated that state sovereignty land issues are not the subject of today’s meeting, and that he needed to take that matter up with the DEP Division of State Lands.

END PUBLIC COMMENTS

# Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Division of Environmental Assessment and Restoration

Bureau of Watershed Restoration
2600 Blair Stone Road, Mail Station 3565
Tallahassee, Florida 32399

- 2400
(850) 245

- 8561
www.dep.state.fl.us/water