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DOI: 10.25497/d7901m
title: CERP Picayune Strand - Biological Monitoring of Aquatic and Terrestrial Fauna for the Picayune Strand Restoration Project (2005-2007)

description: This study is a continuation of an aquatic faunal monitoring program that has been conducted under contract with the Big Cypress Basin - SFWMD since 2001. The scope of the original monitoring project was modified to reflect a more accurate assessment of the final restoration design described in the Picayune Strand Restoration Project (PSRP) Project Implementation Report (PIR). The purpose of the current study was to develop baseline data for aquatic and terrestrial fauna that can serve as indicators of ecosystem change in response to the hydrologic restoration of the Picayune Strand State Forest (PSSF). Sampling sites for a suite of taxa were established in the immediate vicinity of SFWMD water level monitoring wells: 27 in PSSF and two in the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge (TTINWR) . Three reference sites in each of the three major habitats in Picayune were also established within nearby relatively undisturbed areas to provide taxa restoration targets: six in Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve (FSSP) and six in Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge (FPNWR) . Each aquatic fauna sampling site was coordinated with other monitoring efforts to avoid impacts to water quality and vegetation sampling sites. Sites located in PSSF, TTINWR, FSSP and FPNWR were given a prefix of SG, TT, FS and FP, respectively. Sampling sites were also established in representative major habitat types found in the immediate vicinity of SFWMD water level monitoring wells. Designated codes for each habitat are as follows: C = cypress slough; Cg = cypress with graminoid understory; G = wet prairie; Pm = mesic pine flatwoods; Ph = hydric pine flatwoods; Hh = hydric hammocks; Hm = mesic hammocks; Mf = freshwater marshes; and Ms = saltwater marshes. Aquatic fauna includes small fishes, amphibians, macro-invertebrates such as crustaceans, insects, snails and worms. Many aquatic organisms are not only indicators of ecosystem recovery but are vital elements in a complex food web. Ants and grasshoppers were used as surrogates for terrestrial invertebrate community diversity and as indicators of changes in plant communities and hydrologic conditions. Each faunal group (fish, amphibians, invertebrates) were monitored at each sampling site from 2005-2007. Hydrology and water quality parameters were also closely monitored at each sampling site. Each of the aforementioned indicator groups were analyzed using species compositions, relative abundances, diversity measures, and graphical multivariate methods to assess the effects of restoration activities over time. A copy of the final report and SOW for this study can be found in DOCUMENTUM SOUTH at the following location: Cabinets/CERP Project/Picayune Strand Restoration/11 Project Implementation Monitoring/11.02 Inland Monitoring/Aquatic Fauna and Terrestrial Invertebrates/CSWFL_2005_2007
DOI: 10.25497/d7bs3m
title: Caloosahatchee ASR PIlot Project - CCBRY-1 well 2004

description: To support the ongoing program to evaluate aquifer storage and recovery within the Caloosahatchee River Basin, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), in association with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), determined that an additional test boring should be taken at the Berry Groves site. The purpose of this test boring was to obtain continuous rock core samples in the interval from 200 to 1,000 feet below land surface (bls) for further evaluation of the subsurface conditions.
DOI: 10.25497/d7c017
title: CERP Picayune Strand - SFWMD Groundwater Monitoring

description: This groundwater monitoring project will evaluate potential effects resulting from the Picayune Strand Restoration Project (PSRP) before, during and after restoration of the historic hydrologic regime. In 1999, the SFWMD began continuous real-time monitoring of two Lucky Lake freshwater wells located just south of I-75 in Southern Golden Gate Estates (SGGE). During 2003-4, the SFWMD began monitoring 23 SGGE freshwater wells located throughout the PSRP north of Tamiami Trail. Three additional SGGE estuarine wells were installed below Tamiami Trail in the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge (TTINWR) and Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park (FSPSP) coastal marshes in 2006. The 28 wells are located in east-west bands across the project area and into adjacent lands being hydrologically affected by the PSRP canal system. Well sites are also distributed throughout different vegetative habitats to assess whether a suitable hydrology will be restored to the major types of pre-development plant communities. Each well provides data to document surface and surficial aquifer water levels and hydroperiods. The estuarine wells also record salinity, water temperature and specific conductivity. Well data is sent to the SFWMD DBHYDRO database at 15-minute intervals; the current dataset includes DBKEY links for daily mean values recorded with Campbell Scientific Measurement and Control Dataloggers. Additional breakpoint data for these wells are accessible in DBHYDRO with other DBKEYS. This monitoring began during baseline monitoring for the project and will be continued, at a minimum, through the year 2050. The well data is analyzed annually to determine water level stages and hydroperiods. These results will be used to assess the effects of the project on the inland plant and animal communities, allowing identification of potential project modifications needed to further improve restoration benefits.
DOI: 10.25497/d7cs3x
title: Caloosahatchee ASR PIlot Project - Treatment Facilities 2003

description: The conceptual design of the treatment facilities for the Caloosahatchee River ASR Pilot Project identified a need for certain design parameters and other information to be used in preparing a final design for the project. A treatment system has been proposed that potentially involves a two stage filtering process, consisting of a settling pond containing underdrains for collection of the water to be followed by conventional “Declining Rate Gravity Filters”. However, if the underdrain system were capable of delivering naturally filtered water in quantities needed, then the gravity filters would not be necessary. Therefore, in order to evaluate the need for the gravity filters and to properly design the size of the pond and underdrain system a geotechnical testing program was undertaken. Additional data were also necessary to develop a basis for design of the disinfection system, which currently proposes to utilize ultraviolet (UV) light. The UV process is influenced by color and turbidity of the water, which affect the transmittance of UV light. For the treatment system design, it is important to have a quantitative knowledge of the relationship of these parameters, and how they might be impacted by filtration through a soil/sand underdrain system. The objectives of the study were as follows: 1. Determine the soil profile and hydraulic properties of the shallow sediments at the site of the pilot project. 2. Determine if local soils can be economically processed to enhance their filtration/permeability characteristics so that the local soils could be used in constructing an under drain system or horizontal well system or both. 3. Evaluate expected flow capacity of a representative group of underdrains or horizontal wells that were to be constructed of local materials. 4. Determine if, for the purpose of the pilot project, imported sands can be expected to represent the conditions of the processed local soils that would be developed on site so that the pilot facilities can be built without constructing a soil processing system and incurring high unit costs for the relatively small volumes associated with the pilot project. 5. Evaluate the level of treatment that might be expected from the subsurface infiltration and collection system (e.g. an array of underdrains) and horizontal well systems and estimate performance by construction and testing a small-scale demonstration system using representative materials. 6. Test and measure the UV light absorbency characteristics of the local surface water for evaluation and design criteria to apply UV for disinfection in the pilot ASR treatment system. 7. Evaluate the local soils for contamination from chemicals related to the agricultural operations that have occurred at the site. 04606RLH.K1303.doc 2 8. Develop a groundwater flow model to appropriately evaluate the conditions that will affect the design of the infiltration and underdrain system.
DOI: 10.25497/d7d599
title: CERP Picayune Strand - Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve - Groundwater Monitoring

description: Groundwater monitoring at wells located in the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park. Monthly monitoring of groundwater levels at 25 wells located in the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park to supplement the PSRP monitoring effort with groundwater levels at stations located in the project area.
DOI: 10.25497/d7gp46
title: CERP Picayune Strand - Picayune Strand State Forest Breeding and Migrating Bird Population Count

description: This study provides an inventory of breeding and migrating landbird populations within the Picayune Strand State Forest. The monitoring dataset is associated with the USGS Bird Point Count Database (Database). The Database provides a public, searchable repository for point count data collected anywhere in North America. It also serves as a place for collaboration, a tool for managing surveys, and is the official site for National Wildlife Refuge point counts. The Database is housed at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, and was built in cooperation with the American Bird Conservancy and the USFWS National Wildlife Refuge system. http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/Point/
DOI: 10.25497/d7h01g
title: CERP Site 1 Impoundment - Threatened and Endangered Species Survey and General Fish and Wildlife Inventory

description: This project involves conducting detailed environmental surveys of land needed for the construction of the Site 1 Impoundment. The surveys shall include a determination of the presence or absence of threatened and endangered species, an inventory of other fish and wildlife species present, and a determination of the relative abundance of species encountered. This project will require a literature and data review, followed by field surveys. Among species to be noted are the wood stork, eastern indigo snake, West Indian manatee, crested caracara, gopher tortoise and burrowing owl.
DOI: 10.25497/d7jp4t
title: CERP Picayune Strand - Two Year Pre-Construction Panther Prey Baseline Monitoring Survey in the Picayune Strand Restoration Project (PSRP) Area

description: The quality and quantity of panther habitat in the Picayune Strand Restoration Project (PSRP) area has been affected by past land use practices, hydrologic alterations, road construction, exotic plant invasion, and the lack of fire management. Anecdotal information suggested that the reduced panther occurrence in the PSRP area was likely attributed to a reduction in prey abundance, primarily white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and feral hog (Sus scrofa), stemming from the degraded habitat quality associated with water management practices and the high levels of human disturbance aggravated by the primary and secondary road grid. The present extent of the Florida panther and its primary prey within the PSRP area from July 2005 â March 2007 was described based primarily on indicies of relative abundance (RAI) generated from infrared triggered remote camera surveys that will serve as a basis for future evaluations of project restoration impacts on, and benefits to, panther habitat. All panther prey images are stored in the following DASR location: \\cerp\projects\Data\Picayune Strand Restoration - PROJ 30\Project_Implementation_Monitoring\INLAND\MAMMALS\PANTHER_BASELINE The hyperlinked map for all the images to the camera locations is found in the following DASR location:: \\cerp\projects\GIS\PROJ_30\map_docs\cmn15236_PhotoHyperlink\PantherPhotoHyperlink_cmn15236.mxd
DOI: 10.25497/d7mg64
title: CERP Picayune Strand - Picayune Strand Restoration Project Weather Monitoring

description: The Picayune Strand Restoration Project (PSRP) monitoring effort is supplemented with meteorological data from one active weather station (Southern Golden Gate Estates), as well as four active and three inactive rainfall stations located throughout the project area and near vicinity. Data for these stations are available in DBHYDRO; the current dataset includes DBKEY links for daily mean or sum values primarily recorded with Campbell Scientific Measurement and Control Dataloggers. Two older, inactive stations recorded data with Belfort Rain Gauges: Fakahatchee Strand and East Golden Gate Estates. Copeland Tower station historically recorded data via standard rain can, and currently utilizes a tipping bucket. Additional data for the majority of stations are accessible in DBHYDRO with other DBKEYS; these data include breakpoint, daily maximum, and daily minimum values recorded with either Campbell Datalogger, Belfort Rain Gauge, or NRG rain gauge augmented with radar-based rainfall data. Two of the inactive stations were operated by the Florida Forestry Service: Copeland Tower (rain can) and Miles City Tower. All active stations are operated and maintained by SFWMD staff.
DOI: 10.25497/d7ms33
title: CERP - Lake Okeechobee Aquifer Storage and Recovery Pilot - Proj 32

description: This document presents and summarizes all activities conducted at two aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) systems that were designed, permitted, constructed, and operationally tested to fulfill requirements of the Lake Okeechobee ASR Pilot Project located on the Kissimmee River (also known as the Kissimmee River ASR system), and the Hillsboro ASR project. The Kissimmee River ASR (KRASR) system was designed, constructed, and operationally tested by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) – Jacksonville District. The Hillsboro ASR system was designed, constructed, and operationally tested by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) who also served as the local sponsor. These two ASR projects collectively are known as Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Pilot Projects. This document should be of interest to water resource scientists and engineers in the fields of groundwater hydrogeology and hydraulics, groundwater and surface water quality, permitting, facility operations, and cost evaluations of an ASR surface facility and wellfield.
DOI: 10.25497/d7n884
title: CERP - Aquifer Storage and Recovery Regional Study-PROJ 44

description: In April 1999, the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) proposed large-scale development of Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) facilities as the preferred method of providing additional freshwater storage required for overall restoration success. Six ASR components will collectively form the proposed CERP ASR System, which includes a total of 333 ASR wells and related surface facilities at the general locations in attached Figure A. All proposed ASR wells have a target capacity of 5 mgd (million gallons per day). Water treatment facilities were also included in the conceptual CERP ASR components. Total cost of the proposed CERP ASR System is approximately $1,700,000,000. The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Jacksonville District and the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) are 50/50 cost sharing partners for design studies required prior to implementation of any large-scale CERP ASR facilities.
DOI: 10.25497/d7r59d
title: CERP Picayune Strand - Faka Union No. 4 Groundwater Monitoring

description: This project comprises monthly groundwater level monitoring at eight wells located in the Northern Golden Gate Estates (NGGE) to supplement the Picayune Strand restoration project (PSRP) monitoring effort. Eight monitoring wells were drilled, analyzed and installed near the Faka Union No. 4 Water Control Structure (WCS) in October 2008. Each well site consists of one four-inch diameter well drilled to a depth of approximately 40 feet or less below land surface. Wells are operated and maintained by USGS staff, and water level data is collected monthly. This monitoring project is associated with the hydrogeologic evaluation of the surface water/water table aquifer interaction and the effects of this interaction on the surficial water table aquifer within the area adjacent to the Faka Union No. 4 WCS. The project will also evaluate potential effects resulting from the PSRP project before, during and after restoration of the historic hydrologic regime. The Faka Union No. 4 groundwater monitoring dataset is associated with a locally managed USGS water database. Surface water, groundwater and water quality data are compiled from these local, distributed databases into a national information system. The groundwater database contains records from approximately 850,000 wells that have been compiled during the course of groundwater hydrology studies over the past 100 years. Information from these wells is served via the Internet through NWISWeb, the National Water Information System Web Interface, which provides all USGS groundwater data that are approved for public release. More information regarding these databases can be found on the following websites: http://groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov and http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/ The Faka Union No. 4 dataset was downloaded via the NWISWeb. Field code information was obtained via the NWISWeb (http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/help?codes_help) and the following publication: User's Manual For the National Water Information System of the U.S. Geological Survey. Ground-Water Site Inventory System. U.S. Geological Survey. Open-File Report 2004-1238, Version 4.3. This NWIS user's manual can be downloaded at the following website: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1238/
DOI: 10.25497/d7rg6c
title: CERP Site 1 Impoundment - Phase 1 Construction Migratory Bird Monitoring

description: As a condition of the construction permit, environmental monitoring during the Site 1 Impoundment Project phase 1 construction is required. The contractor is required to keep construction activities under surveillance, management, and control to prevent impacts to migratory birds and their nests. Daily monitoring during construction activities shall be conducted during dawn and dusk, using the Daily Bird Monitoring Report.
DOI: 10.25497/d7s01z
title: RECOVER MAP 3.2.3.3 - South Florida Fisheries Habitat Assessment Program (FHAP-SF)

description: The goal of this project is to provide information for the spatial assessment and resolution of inter-annual variability in seagrass communities and to establish a baseline to monitorresponses of seagrass communities to water-management alterations associated with the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP activities). FHAP-SF is documenting the status and trends of seagrass distribution, abundance, reproductive and physiological status (ecoindicators), as well as providing process-oriented data such as photosynthetic quantum yields and epiphyte loads. Resource managers will be able to use the data to address ecosystem-response issues on a real-time basis and to weigh alternative restoration options. The purpose of this project is to develop a basic understanding of the relationships among salinity, water quality and seagreass species distribution and abundance in South Florida, to provide data to separate anthropogenically induced changes from natural ecosystem variation and to verify model predictions on species and ecosystem-level responses to system perturbations.
DOI: 10.25497/d7ts3z
title: RECOVER MAP 3.2.3.3 - South Florida Fisheries Habitat Assessment Program (FHAP-SF)

description: The goal of this project is to provide information for the spatial assessment and resolution of inter-annual variability in seagrass communities and to establish a baseline to monitorresponses of seagrass communities to water-management alterations associated with the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP activities). FHAP-SF is documenting the status and trends of seagrass distribution, abundance, reproductive and physiological status (ecoindicators), as well as providing process-oriented data such as photosynthetic quantum yields and epiphyte loads. Resource managers will be able to use the data to address ecosystem-response issues on a real-time basis and to weigh alternative restoration options. The purpose of this project is to develop a basic understanding of the relationships among salinity, water quality and seagreass species distribution and abundance in South Florida, to provide data to separate anthropogenically induced changes from natural ecosystem variation and to verify model predictions on species and ecosystem-level responses to system perturbations.
DOI: 10.25497/d7v01k
title: RECOVER MAP 3.2.3.2 Biscayne Bay Salinity Monitoring Network

description: The Biscayne Bay Salinity Monitoring Network's (BBSMN) primary purpose is to provide the quality and quantity of data sufficient for determining the effects of CERP on salinity regimes in Biscayne Bay and for other investigators to use in their analysis of effects on organisms. The primary BBSMN area of interest extends from the North Bay area, from just north of the Snake Creek Canal, to Manatee Bay. Historically, freshwater deliveries to Biscayne Bay were delivered through overland and groundwater sources (i.e., transverse glades and coastal wetlands and groundwater seeps and springs). These sources of freshwater flow to Biscayne Bay have been dramatically reduced. Monitoring the salinity conditions and several other water quality parameters in the nearshore shallow areas of Biscayne Bay is important as these areas are considered to be sentinel sites for monitoirng changes in salinity due to CERP project implementation. Thus, this project provides descriptive, spatial, and temporal analysis of salinity patterns in Biscayne Bay. The objectives of this statement of work are to: (1) continue monitoring salinity, conductivity, temperature, and depth at all agreed upon stations; (2) provide this quality assured data to other scientists and managers via the DASR on CERPZone or via the NPS websites; (3) establish reference conditions (document temporal and spatial variability of salinity in the nearshore region of Biscayne Bay); (4) determine the status and trends of a key variable of the Conceptual Ecological Model (CEM); and (5) provide data for evaluation of the MAP Performance Measures and review for the Systems Status Report. All statements of work, work plans, and deliverables (status, annual, and final reports) are stored in the North Docbase of Documentum at the following link: https://www.cerpzone.info/webtop/drl/objectId/0b009f5c80072974.
DOI: 10.25497/d7w01w
title: CERP Picayune Strand - USGS Groundwater Monitoring

description: This project comprises monthly groundwater level monitoring at twenty wells to supplement the Picayune Strand restoration project (PSRP) monitoring effort. Wells are operated and maintained by USGS staff, and water level data is collected monthly. This monitoring project will evaluate potential effects resulting from the PSRP project before, during and after restoration of the historic hydrologic regime. "This monitoring dataset is associated with a locally managed USGS water database. Surface water, groundwater, and water quality data are compiled from these local, distributed databases into a national information system. The groundwater database contains records from about 850,000 wells that have been compiled during the course of groundwater hydrology studies over the past 100 years. Information from these wells is served via the Internet through NWISWeb, the National Water Information System Web Interface, which provides all USGS groundwater data that are approved for public release. More information regarding these databases can be found on the following websites: http://groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/