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LAKE OKEECHOBEE AMD THE EVERGLADES<br />

Miami Canal at water plant, Hialeah, Fla.<br />

Location.- water-stage recorder, lat. 25°50', long. 80°17', in sec. 18,'T. 53 8., R. 41<br />

LV,' at Waffll water plants Hialeah, on State Highway 25 (Fenumberea), Half & mile<br />

upstream from 54th Street Bridge; datum <strong>of</strong> gage Is 0.13 foot above mean sen. level, datum,<br />

<strong>of</strong> 1929.<br />

Auxiliary water-stage recorder on Blscayne Bay at foot <strong>of</strong>,Aviation Avenue In Coconut<br />

Grove, 500 feet north <strong>of</strong> U. S. Coast Guard station, and 7i miles sou<strong>the</strong>ast <strong>of</strong> gaging<br />

station in Hialeah; datum <strong>of</strong> auxiliary gage Is at mean sea level, datum <strong>of</strong> 1929.<br />

Records available.- January 1940 to September 1945.<br />

Extremes.- Maximum discharge measured during year, 926 second-feet Oct. 27; mrxlmum gage<br />

helgltt, 4.42 feet Sept. 15; maximum reverse flow measured, 192 second-feet Bar. 25;<br />

minimum gage height, -0.67 foot Jfer. 22. ,<br />

1940-45: Maximum discharge measured, 1,690 second-feet Nov. 4, 1940; mnclaum gage<br />

height, that <strong>of</strong> Sept, 15, 1945; maximum reverse flow measured, 390 second-.feet June 23,<br />

1943; minimum gage height, -0.67 foot July 2, 1943, Jfer. 22, 1945.<br />

Remarks.- Records fair above 250 second-feet and poor below. Flow affected b;r tide; discharge<br />

computed by using gage heights and tide ranges atauxiliary gage as a factor.<br />

Day<br />

T<br />

2<br />

3<br />

4 5<br />

6<br />

. 7 a9<br />

10<br />

11<br />

12<br />

13<br />

14<br />

18<br />

16<br />

17<br />

18<br />

19<br />

20<br />

21<br />

22<br />

23<br />

24<br />

25<br />

26<br />

-27<br />

28<br />

29<br />

30<br />

31<br />

Oct.<br />

329<br />

,329<br />

316<br />

316<br />

303<br />

893<br />

888<br />

290<br />

293<br />

286<br />

293<br />

331<br />

340<br />

336<br />

334<br />

366<br />

448<br />

4%<br />

622<br />

588<br />

674<br />

578<br />

569<br />

a6j&8<br />

a608<br />

a628<br />

647<br />

657<br />

652<br />

668<br />

668<br />

Discharge, in second-feet, water year October 1944 to September 1S45<br />

Nov. Dec. ,Jan. Fab. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug.<br />

657<br />

668<br />

668<br />

662<br />

862<br />

657<br />

658<br />

638<br />

637<br />

647<br />

658<br />

632<br />

632<br />

662<br />

668<br />

668<br />

668<br />

863<br />

663<br />

684<br />

684<br />

684<br />

684<br />

684<br />

663<br />

663<br />

663<br />

648<br />

648<br />

663<br />

K<br />

604<br />

685<br />

568<br />

556<br />

536<br />

636-<br />

536<br />

536<br />

581<br />

581<br />

521<br />

508<br />

508<br />

. 495<br />

Month<br />

462<br />

457<br />

46J,<br />

465<br />

485<br />

414<br />

408<br />

480<br />

414<br />

395<br />

' 409<br />

389<br />

402<br />

402<br />

395<br />

382<br />

\<br />

408<br />

382<br />

240<br />

495<br />

478<br />

467<br />

430<br />

414<br />

414<br />

414<br />

409<br />

989<br />

385<br />

356<br />

355<br />

361<br />

230<br />

> 200<br />

f<br />

1<br />

> 800<br />

1<br />

[<br />

'<br />

120<br />

I-<br />

40<br />

/<br />

10<br />

-<br />

' -<br />

October. ...................................<br />

Member. ..................................<br />

December. ..................................<br />

Calendar year 1944 ......................<br />

4amt arjt.......... ...........................<br />

Pebrn&nr .........<br />

March. .T ...................................<br />

fie11......................................<br />

SSL:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::::<br />

July. .............'.........................<br />

AnKs<br />

Septw*»r.................................»<br />

t<br />

)<br />

'<br />

later year 1944-45 .......:.....,........ 78; 834 t684 0 216 156,400<br />

t May bave been exceeded Sept. 15, 16, during period <strong>of</strong> hurricane,<br />

a Ho gage-height record; discharge interpolated.<br />

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