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Lecanto 1 & 2<br />

#S<br />

Well Site Description<br />

#S Unconfined UFAS<br />

#S TR20-2<br />

#³ Semi-confined UFAS<br />

#Y Perched Water Table<br />

with confined UFAS<br />

Note: * Surficial S<strong>and</strong><br />

Unsaturated<br />

Engle Park<br />

#S<br />

Unconfined<br />

UFAS<br />

2W<br />

#S<br />

#³<br />

SR52W<br />

#Y<br />

Spring Hill<br />

98*<br />

#S<br />

2NW<br />

#S<br />

1N<br />

1NW #S #S<br />

#³ 1SW<br />

Locally Perched<br />

Water Table<br />

<strong>Weeki</strong> 11<br />

#Y<br />

2NE<br />

#S<br />

3E<br />

#³<br />

BR-2 #Y<br />

Brooksville<br />

East<br />

#Y<br />

#Y<br />

San Antonio<br />

Park<br />

99X* #S<br />

BR-3<br />

#Y<br />

LB-12<br />

#³<br />

#³<br />

Mascotte<br />

#Y<br />

SR 577<br />

Semi-confined<br />

UFAS<br />

Figure 2. Location of hydrogeological provinces within the Northern Tampa Bay area (Basso,<br />

2004).<br />

surrounding area is the Integrated Northern Tampa Bay model. The construction <strong>and</strong><br />

calibration of this model was part of a cooperative effort between the SWFWMD <strong>and</strong> Tampa<br />

Bay Water, a regional water utility that operates 11 major wellfields in the area. The Integrated<br />

Northern Tampa Bay (INTB) Model covers a 4,000 square-mile area of the Northern Tampa Bay<br />

region (Figure 3).<br />

An integrated model represents the most advanced simulation tool available to the scientific<br />

community in water resources investigations. It combines the traditional ground-water flow<br />

model with a surface water model <strong>and</strong> contains an interprocessor code that links both systems.<br />

One of the many advantages of an integrated model is that it simulates the entire hydrologic<br />

system. It represents the “state-of-art” tool in assessing changes due to rainfall, drainage<br />

alterations, <strong>and</strong> withdrawals.<br />

The model code used to run the INTB simulation is called the Integrated Hydrologic Model<br />

(IHM) which combines the HSPF surface water code <strong>and</strong> the MODFLOW ground-water code<br />

using interprocessor software. During the INTB development phase, several new<br />

enhancements were made to move the code toward a more physically-based simulation. The<br />

most important of these enhancements was the partitioning of the surface into seven major l<strong>and</strong><br />

use segments: urban, irrigated l<strong>and</strong>, grass/pasture, forested, open water, wetl<strong>and</strong>s, <strong>and</strong><br />

mining/other. For each l<strong>and</strong> segment, parameters were applied in the HSPF model consistent<br />

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