| TCNS |
Taylor Creek - Nubbin Slough |
Cynthia Douglas |
WQM |
cdouglas |
14-SEP-1982 |
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The Taylor Creek/Nubbin Slough water quality monitoring program encompasses an area characterized by beef and intensive dairy cattle
operations. The basin is located primarily in southeast and central Okeechobee County and parts of Martin County. A water quality monitoring network has been sampled by SFWMD since 1979. This program was initiated as a means of identifying trends and quantifying changes in water quality due to changes in land use and/or implementation of BMPs on beef cattle ranches and dairy farms in the basin. This program is jointly funded by the state/federal Taylor Creek Headwaters/Rural Clean Waters Program. The program is part of the District s Lake Okeechobee Operating Permit, granted by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. It was recommended by the Kissimmee River Resource Planning Management (380), and the Lake Okeechobee Technical Advisory Committee to; identify trouble spots, inform individual landowners of the impacts of implementing BMPs to improve water quality, and to provide the state and federal agencies responsible for administering cost-share programs, a method of measuring the cost-effectiveness. The District intensified the monitoring effort in fiscal year 87/88, by approximately doubling the number of sampling sites. In fiscal year 91/92, the network design was again modified to provide more intensive and comprehensive monitoring. |
