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4.0 WATER QUALITY AT TIDAL STATIONSBetween January 1993 and December 2000, as part of a larger Charlotte Harbormonitoring program, the District conducted monthly water quality monitoring at sevensites in the tidal reaches of the Peace and Myakka rivers. The sites were located atfixed geographic coordinates (shown in Fig. 18), which were at or near locations thathad been sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in an earlier monitoringprogram conducted during the 1980s.The 1993-2000 monitoring program used a synoptic, tidally-based sampling design.During each monthly sampling event all sites were sampled within a single 24-hourperiod. At each site sampling was performed within one hour of (predicted) slack lowtide. The objective of this design was to provide synoptic water quality information froma set of fixed monitoring locations. To provide a clearer picture of watershed impacts,the data were collected during the portion of the tidal cycle when water quality would bemost influenced by hydrologic and pollutant loadings from the Peace and Myakka Riverwatersheds and least influenced by estuarine and marine water masses from CharlotteHarbor and the Gulf of Mexico.The monitoring stations were generally shallow-water sites, with water depths typicallyranging between 1-3 m . Only two stations — CH-002 on the Myakka River and CH-005 on the Peace — had depths exceeding 3m on most sampling dates.During each monthly sampling event the monitoring design, based on U.S. EPAguidance (EPA 1991), called for near-surface water chemistry samples to be collectedat a depth of 0.5 m at each station. At the two deeper-water sites an additional (nearbottom)sample was collected at a depth 0.5 m above the bottom. Vertical hydrographicprofiles were recorded during each sampling event, with measurements taken at depthintervals of 0.5 m (shallow-water stations) or 1 m (deeper-water stations), beginning atthe top of the water column and extending to the bottom.Summaries of selected water quality constituents are shown in Appendix B. In addition,detailed analyses of water quality status and trends in Charlotte Harbor and the tidalreaches of its tributaries— based on data collected by the District and a number of otheragencies — is currently being performed by the Charlotte Harbor National EstuaryProgram. A report summarizing those analyses will be published by the EstuaryProgram during 2002.50
###TidalMyakkaRiverTidalPeaceRiverSarasota Co.DeSoto Co.#CH-001CH-029##CH-002#CH-02BCH-05B##CH-005#CH-004NCharlotte Co.Charlotte Harbor5 0 5 10 MilesFigure 18. Location of the SWFWMD fixed-station monitoring locations in the tidalreaches of the Peace and Myakka river systems.51
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Peace and Myakka RiverWater Quality
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CONTENTSExecutive Summary .........
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REPORT ORGANIZATION AND SCOPEThe pr
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“Good” water quality conditions
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The primary manmade influences incl
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Yields of total suspended solids (T
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are transported from fresh to more
Page 15 and 16: LIST OF FIGURESFigure 1. Map showin
Page 17 and 18: 1.0 INTRODUCTION1.1 BACKGROUNDDurin
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Page 23 and 24: Figure 1. Locations of USGS gaging
Page 25 and 26: ANNUAL RAINFALLANNUAL STREAMFLOW% O
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Page 29 and 30: • Big Slough Canal near Myakka Ci
Page 31 and 32: Table 2. Annual WQI values for non-
Page 33 and 34: Peace River at Zolfo Springs (USGS
Page 35 and 36: Horse Creek near Myakka Head (USGS
Page 37 and 38: Myakka River near Sarasota (USGS ga
Page 39 and 40: 3.0 CONSTITUENT LOADS AND YIELDSEst
Page 41 and 42: Table 3. Estimated annual TN loads
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Page 45 and 46: Table 7. Estimated annual TP loads
Page 47 and 48: Table 9. Estimated annual TSS loads
Page 49 and 50: Myakka City gaging station (in wate
Page 51 and 52: PEA CE CREEK CANAL nr WAHNETASADDLE
Page 53 and 54: PEACE CREEK CANAL nr WAHNETASADDLE
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Page 69 and 70: Median color values for Florida riv
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Page 73 and 74: 5.0 REFERENCESCanfield, D., and M.
Page 75 and 76: Water Quality Conditionsand Polluta
Page 77 and 78: TURBIDITY (NTU), BY STATION AND WAT
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Page 81 and 82: TSS, BY STATION AND WATER YEARGAGE_
Page 83 and 84: COLOR (PCU), BY STATION AND WATERGA
Page 85 and 86: COLOR, BY STATION AND WATER YEARGAG
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Page 89 and 90: SPEC. COND. (uS/CM), BY STATION AND
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Page 93 and 94: DO, BY STATION AND WATER YEARGAGE_N
Page 95 and 96: CHLA [MONOCHROMATIC, uG/L], BY STAT
Page 97 and 98: CHLA [MONOCHROMATIC], BY STATION AN
Page 99 and 100: NH4-N, BY STATION AND WATER YEARGAG
Page 101 and 102: NO23-N (MG N/L), BY STATION AND WAT
Page 103 and 104: NO23-N, BY STATION AND WATER YEARGA
Page 105 and 106: TKN, BY STATION AND WATER YEARGAGE_
Page 107 and 108: PO4-P (MG P/L), BY STATION AND WATE
Page 109 and 110: PO4-P, BY STATION AND WATER YEARGAG
Page 111 and 112: TP, BY STATION AND WATER YEARGAGE_N
Page 113 and 114: TOC (MG/L), BY STATION AND YEARGAGE
Page 115 and 116: TOC, BY STATION AND YEARGAGE_NUM WY
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Near-surface salinity (ppt)SITE WY
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Near-surface salinity (ppt)SITE WY
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Near-surface color (PCU)SITE WY N M
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Near-surface TSS (mg/L)SITE WY N Mi
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Near-surface TSS (mg/L)SITE WY N Mi
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Near-surface turbidity (NTU)SITE WY
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Secchi depth (m)SITE WY N Minimum 2
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Secchi depth (m)SITE WY N Minimum 2
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Near-surface pHSITE WY N Minimum 25
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DO (mg/L) - all depthsSITE WY N Min
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DO (mg/L) - all depthsSITE WY N Min
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Near-surface PO 4 —P (mg P/L)SITE
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Near-surface DIN (mg N/L)SITE WY N
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Near-surface DIN (mg N/L)SITE WY N
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Near-surface chlorophyll-a (µg/L)S
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