Lake Okeechobee Sediment Transport Project
Structure 77 on the Caloosahatchee River at Moore Haven, Florida
Suspended sediment from Lake Okeechobee might be a source of nutrients that helps trigger the growth and development of harmful algal blooms in the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Rivers.
Suspended sediment from Lake Okeechobee might be a source of nutrients that helps trigger the growth and development of harmful algal blooms in the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Rivers. Nutrients can be transported long distances when they are attached to sediment particles suspended in flowing water bodies.
There currently is no technology available for directly measuring the sediment concentration in a water body, so this study will attempt to use surrogate methods. Surrogate methods use something that is easily measurable on a continuous basis, such as river flow or turbidity, to predict something that is not continuously measurable, like sediment concentration.
The techniques developed during this study will be used to calculate the volume of sediment that is transported from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Rivers and the downstream estuaries. If successful, the surrogate methods developed for this study could be applied to other similar hydrologic systems.
Continuous discharge, gage height, and turbidity data
- USGS 02292010 CALOOSAHATCHEE CANAL DWS OF S-77 AT MOORE HAVEN FL
- USGS 02276877 ST. LUCIE CANAL BLW S-308, NR PORT MAYACA (AUX) FL
Periodic suspended sediment concentration data
- USGS 02292010 CALOOSAHATCHEE CANAL DWS OF S-77 AT MOORE HAVEN FL
- USGS 02276877 ST. LUCIE CANAL BLW S-308, NR PORT MAYACA (AUX) FL
Suspended sediment from Lake Okeechobee might be a source of nutrients that helps trigger the growth and development of harmful algal blooms in the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Rivers.
Suspended sediment from Lake Okeechobee might be a source of nutrients that helps trigger the growth and development of harmful algal blooms in the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Rivers. Nutrients can be transported long distances when they are attached to sediment particles suspended in flowing water bodies.
There currently is no technology available for directly measuring the sediment concentration in a water body, so this study will attempt to use surrogate methods. Surrogate methods use something that is easily measurable on a continuous basis, such as river flow or turbidity, to predict something that is not continuously measurable, like sediment concentration.
The techniques developed during this study will be used to calculate the volume of sediment that is transported from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie Rivers and the downstream estuaries. If successful, the surrogate methods developed for this study could be applied to other similar hydrologic systems.
Continuous discharge, gage height, and turbidity data
- USGS 02292010 CALOOSAHATCHEE CANAL DWS OF S-77 AT MOORE HAVEN FL
- USGS 02276877 ST. LUCIE CANAL BLW S-308, NR PORT MAYACA (AUX) FL
Periodic suspended sediment concentration data
- USGS 02292010 CALOOSAHATCHEE CANAL DWS OF S-77 AT MOORE HAVEN FL
- USGS 02276877 ST. LUCIE CANAL BLW S-308, NR PORT MAYACA (AUX) FL