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Mowry Canal (C-103): Water Quality and Discharge into Biscayne Bay, Florida, 1975-1981.

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Date Issued:
1983-10
Summary:
The Mowry Canal (C-103) is located on the lower east coast of Florida approximately 25 miles south of Miami. Because of its location, it plays an important role in both flood protection and the salt water intrusion control network of southern Dade County (Fig.1). The Mowry Canal is of special interest to Biscayne National Park because its annual discharge is generally the greatest of the three major water management canals that discharge into southern Biscayne Bay (Fig.2). Mean annual discharges for water-years 1975-1980 (Oct 1-Sep 30) were recorded as 162,234 acre-feet for the Mowry Canal, 137,731 acre-feet for the Snapper Creek Canal (C-2), and 106-584 acre-feet for the Black Creek Canal (C-1) (WY 1978 is omitted since discharge data for tat year are not available for the Black Creek Canal). Typically the combined discharge from these three canals was greater than 400,000 acre-feet per year during the period of this study.
Title: Mowry Canal (C-103): Water Quality and Discharge into Biscayne Bay, Florida, 1975-1981.
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Name(s): Scheidt, Daniel J.
Flora, Mark D.
Everglades National Park (Agency : U.S.). South Florida Research Center
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Technical Report
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1983-10
Publisher: United States. Department of Commerce. National Technical Information Service.
Physical Form: electronic resource
Extent: 41 pages, illustrations, 28 cm.
Language(s): English
Summary: The Mowry Canal (C-103) is located on the lower east coast of Florida approximately 25 miles south of Miami. Because of its location, it plays an important role in both flood protection and the salt water intrusion control network of southern Dade County (Fig.1). The Mowry Canal is of special interest to Biscayne National Park because its annual discharge is generally the greatest of the three major water management canals that discharge into southern Biscayne Bay (Fig.2). Mean annual discharges for water-years 1975-1980 (Oct 1-Sep 30) were recorded as 162,234 acre-feet for the Mowry Canal, 137,731 acre-feet for the Snapper Creek Canal (C-2), and 106-584 acre-feet for the Black Creek Canal (C-1) (WY 1978 is omitted since discharge data for tat year are not available for the Black Creek Canal). Typically the combined discharge from these three canals was greater than 400,000 acre-feet per year during the period of this study.
Identifier: FI07053158 (IID), 1047566 (digitool), fiu:25454 (fedora), AAC5266QF
Note(s): Electronic reproduction. [Florida] : State University System of Florida, PALMM Project, 2007. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Electronic version created 2007, State University System of Florida.
Subject(s): Water quality -- Florida -- Biscayne Bay Region.
Water resources development -- Environmental aspects -- Florida -- Biscayne Bay Region.
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/feol/FI07053158.pdf
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Host Institution: FIU