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Volume I

The South Florida Environment
Water Year 2004

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Units of Measurement

Glossary of Technical Terms

Chapters

Chapter 1 - Introduction to the 2005 South Florida Environmental Report – Volume I

Chapter 2A - Status of Water Quality in the Everglades Protection Area

Chapter 2B - Mercury Monitoring, Research and Environmental Assessment in South Florida

Chapter 2C - Status of Phosphorus and Nitrogen in the Everglades Protection Area

Chapter 3 - Phosphorus Controls for the Basins Tributary to the Everglades Protection Area

Chapter 4 - STA Performance, Compliance and Optimization

Chapter 5 - Hydrology of the South Florida Environment

Chapter 6 - Ecology of the Everglades Protection Area

Chapter 7 - Update on RECOVER Implementation and Monitoring for the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan

Chapter 8 - Implementation of the Long-Term Plan for Achieving Water Quality Goals in the Everglades Protection Area

Chapter 9 - Invasive Exotic Species in the South Florida Environment

Chapter 10 - Lake Okeechobee Protection Program – State of the Lake and Watershed

Chapter 11 - Kissimmee River Restoration and Upper Basin Initiatives

Chapter 12 - Management and Restoration of Coastal Ecosystems

Appendices

Appendix 1-1 - Peer Review Panel Comments on the 2005 South Florida Environmental Report

Appendix 1-2 - Comments on the 2005 South Florida Environmental Report from Outside Persons and Organizations

Appendix 1-3 - 2005 South Florida Environmental Report Authors’ Responses to Comments

Appendix 1-4 - Final Report of the Peer Review Panel for the 2005 South Florida Environmental Report

Appendix 2A-1 - Summary of Water Year 2004 Water Quality Monitoring Results

Appendix 2A-2 - Summary of Water Year 2000 through Water Year 2004 Water Quality Monitoring Results at Individual Monitoring Stations

Appendix 2A-3 - Summary of WY2004 Attainment of the Dissolved Criteria at Individual Everglades Monitoring Stations

Appendix 2A-4 - Summary of Annual Specific Conductance at Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge Interior Marsh Monitoring Sites

Appendix 2B-1 - Annual Permit Compliance Monitoring Report for Mercury in Downstream Receiving Waters of the Everglades Protection Area

Appendix 2B-2 - STA-2 Mercury Special Studies Project Report

Appendix 2B-3 - Impacts of Sulfur Contamination on the Everglades System

Appendix 2C-1 - Water Quality Standards for Phosphorus within the Everglades Protection Area

Appendix 2C-2 - Annual Summary of Phosphorus Concentrations at Everglades Protection Area Monitoring Stations during Water Year 2004

Appendix 3-1 - Water Year 2004 Permit-Level Data

Appendix 3-2 - Annual Permit Compliance Monitoring Report for Non-ECP Discharge Structures

Appendix 3-2a - Non-ECP Water Quality Sampling Sites, Monitoring Schedule, and Flow Volumes

Appendix 3-2b - Summary Statistics of Non-ECP Water Quality Monitoring Data for Water Year 2004

Appendix 3-2c - Time Series and Box Plots for Non-ECP Water Quality Monitoring Data Exhibiting Excursions from Class III Numeric Standards for Water Year 2004

Appendix 3-2d - Time Series and Box Plots of Total Phosphorus at Non-ECP Monitoring Sites for Water Year 2004 and Earlier Periods  [Note: File updated on 3/4/2005]

Appendix 3-2e - Water Quality Monitoring Data for Non-ECP Monitoring Locations for Water Year 2004

Appendix 3-2f - Statements of Authenticity of the Sampling and Analytical Programs for the Non-ECP Permit

Appendix 3-2g - Total Phosphorus Water Quality Data for Everglades Stormwater Program Basins

Appendix 4-1 - Water Year 2004 Water Quality Data for STA-1W

Appendix 4-2 - Statements of Authenticity of the Sampling and Analytical Programs for the EFA Permits

Appendix 4-3 - Water Year 2004 Diel Data for STA-1W

Appendix 4-4 - Annual Permit Compliance Monitoring Report for Mercury in the Stormwater Treatment Areas

Appendix 4-5 - Water Year 2004 Water Quality Data for STA-2

Appendix 4-6 - Water Year 2004 Diel Data for STA-2

Appendix 4-7 - Quarterly Reports on Modified Permit Monitoring at STA-2

Appendix 4-8 - Water Year 2004 Water Quality Data for STA-5

Appendix 4-9 - Water Year 2004 Diel Data for STA-5

Appendix 4-10 - Water Year 2004 Water Quality Data for STA-6

Appendix 4-11 - Scope of Work for Programming Support to Automate the Calculation of Water Budgets for Each Treatment Cell in the STAs

Appendix 4-12 - Time Series Plots Showing Flow and Total Phosphorus Load and Concentration for the STAs

Appendix 4-13 - Vegetation Coverage Maps for STA-2, STA-5, and STA-6 – December 2003

Appendix 4-14 - Scope of Work for Hydraulic Tracer Study of STA-2, Cell 3

Appendix 5-1 - Historical Daily Average Water Levels

Appendix 5-2 - Water Year 2004 Monthly Inflows and Outflows

Appendix 7-1 - Summary of CERP Systemwide Assessment Performance Measures

Appendix 7-2 - Summary of CERP Systemwide Evaluation Performance Measures

Appendix 11-1 - Supplemental Baseline and Reference Data for the Kissimmee River Restoration

Appendix 12-10 - Biscayne Bay Water Quality Trends

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