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Alafia River Minimum Flows and Leve
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Table of Contents Table of Contents
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4.3.1 HEC-RAS Modeling ............
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Table of Figures Figure 1-1. Buildi
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Figure 2-33. Phosphorus concentrati
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Figure 5-12. Habitat Gain/Loss for
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Table 5-2. Mean elevation, local (c
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flow, with the exception that withd
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Acknowledgement The authors would l
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9) Water quality; and 10) Navigatio
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Water Management District typically
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Peace River at Zolfo Springs, FL. s
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Period of Record Median Daily Flows
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to enhance understanding of histori
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River watershed, to the east by the
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an adjacent area locally known as t
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Water in the surficial aquifer is r
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The Upper Floridan aquifer (UFA) sy
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Figure 2-4. May and September 2001
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head differences indicating breache
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data (multiple regression) analyses
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2.2 Land Use Changes in the Alafia
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Before discussing individual sub-ba
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Table 2-2. Land use and land cover
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Table 2-3. Land use and land cover
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Figure 2-13. 1972 and 1999 Land use
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2.2.4 Lithia Springs Sub-Basin The
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2.3 Hydrology The assessment of min
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occurred during the spring were sim
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Conversely, since most of the Unite
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extending from 1940 to 1969 can be
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third highest flow occurred early i
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Flow (cfs) Alafia River at Lithia,
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100 North Prong Alafia River at Key
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Flow (cfs) South Prong Alafia River
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Alafia River at Lithia - Water Qual
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South Prong Watershed Above USGS Ga
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Comparisons of land use changes and
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Comparison of Median Daily Flows fo
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Comparisons of Annual 25% Exceedanc
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Figure 2-25. Lithia Springs Major b
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2.3.4.3.2 Discharge from Lithia Spr
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Relationship Between Lithia Springs
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Buckhorn Spring Main Discharge (Wit
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versus flow. The third plot typical
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Alafia River at Lithia, FL Phosphor
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While elevated phosphorus concentra
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Peace River at Arcadia, FL 20 Phosp
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Alafia River at Lithia, FL Nitrate/
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2.4.2 Potassium and Trend Analysis
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Alafia River at Lithia, FL 14 Potas
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Table 2-10. Results of Kendall's ta
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Chapter 3 Ecological Resources of C
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1) maintenance of minimum water dep
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flow regimes and these life history
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subsidy of water and nutrients that
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Chapter 4 Technical Approach for Es
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4.2.1 HEC-RAS Cross-Sections Cross
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PHABSIM analysis required acquisiti
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Figure 4-5. Upstream vegetation cro
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level, whenever possible. Immature
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Page 181 and 182: A Review of “Alafia River Minimum
Page 183 and 184: The draft report for setting MFLs f
Page 185 and 186: methodologies, analyses, and conclu
Page 187 and 188: The SWFWMD has employed a building
Page 189 and 190: MFLs for the Alafia and Myakka rive
Page 191 and 192: RALPH PLOTS AND ANALYSES Recent and
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Mark Hammond, Director, Resource Ma
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Table 1. Mann-Whitney Statistical A
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Comparison of July Rainfall Totals
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