Dona Bay WMP - Sarasota.WaterAtlas.org - University of South Florida

Water quality data are collected on a monthly basis at five locations in the study area byMote Marine Laboratory, in part to fulfill obligations of Sarasota County under its MS-4permit under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program(Jones 2005). Data have been collected by researchers from the University of SouthFlorida, as part of the SWFWMD’s Minimum Flows and Levels monitoring program, inaddition to monthly water quality collections by staff from the SWFWMD.The water quality collected as part of the SWFWMD effort was collected from 25stations located throughout the study area (Figure 5.3). Data from these stations werecollected during the period of August 2003 to September 2005. This data set forms thebasis for efforts to develop salinity-flow relationships that are discussed in greater detaillater in this chapter.Figure 5.3 – Location of SWFWMD Monitoring Stations5 - 7