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PROJECT INFORMATION Project Code Short Description Project Manager (customer) Section Field Project Manager Start Date End Date Full Description ARCK Arbuckle Creek Watershed Joe Albers WC jalbers 03-FEB-1989 30-SEP-2003 The Arbuckle Creek basin water quality monitoring program encompasses an area characterized by beef, intensive dairy cattle, and citrus operations. The basin is located in Highlands and Polk Counties. Water quality monitoring stations have been sampled since 1988. The objectives of this program are: 1.Monitoring water quality in support of the FDEP s Dairy Rule by providing nutrient concentrations at the dairy outflows and providing information to evaluate the effectiveness of dairy BMP s. 2.Assessing tributary, basin loading, and concentration inputs to Lake Okeechobee. The data will delineate the relative importance of tributary loading within the basin, and to the whole basin output. 3.Developing basin and spatial scale models to predict changes in loads to Lake Okeechobee as a function of land use including the following a) Providing data for determining statistical or mechanistic relationships between rainfall, land use (or land type), and nutrient runoff into streams. b) Providing data to help identify the cause of high episodic phosphorus events. Data generated from this program also support the Lake Istokpoga water quality monitoring program and is integral in development of the Lake Okeechobee Water Quality Management Plan as required by the state's Surface Water Improvement and Management Legislation of 1987. Query returned 1 project record(s).

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