Environmental Monitoring

Timely, comprehensive and accurate information is essential in monitoring efforts to protect the region's water resources.

The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) is involved in a broad spectrum of research and monitoring programs and advanced modeling efforts; and has been gathering data about the region's water and land resources for more than 40 years.

Historical information about weather, rainfall and changes in vegetation or land-use forms a foundation for today's and tomorrow's planning, operations, research and restoration initiatives.

Real-time data, especially when combined with historic data, helps SFWMD to make effective, informed water resource management decisions. Information about how natural and man-made systems are working, or not working -- individually and interactively -- is essential to short and long term water resource management and restoration.