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Volume I

The South Florida Environment

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Units of Measurement

Glossary of Technical Terms

Chapters

Chapter 1A: Introduction to the 2008 South Florida Environmental Report - Volume I

Chapter 1B: Strategies for Reengineering Water Quality Monitoring in South Florida

Chapter 2: Hydrology of the South Florida Environment

Chapter 3A: Status of Water Quality in the Everglades Protection Area

Chapter 3B: Mercury and Sulfur Monitoring, Research and Environmental Assessment in  South Florida

Chapter 3C: Status of Phosphorus and Nitrogen in the Everglades Protection Area

Chapter 4: Phosphorus Source Controls for the Basins Tributary to the Everglades Protection Area

Chapter 5: STA Performance, Compliance and Optimization

Chapter 6: Ecology of the Everglades Protection Area

Chapter 7A: Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Annual Report

Chapter 7B: 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: The Status of Nonindigenous Species in the South Florida Environment

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

Chapter 11: Kissimmee Basin

Chapter 12: Management and Restoration of Coastal Ecosystems

Chapter 13: Everglades Forever Act Annual Financial Report


Appendices

Chapter 1A                  

Appendix 1A-1: Overview of the Peer-Review Process for the 2008 South Florida Environmental Report – Volume I

Appendix 1A-2: Peer-Review Panel Comments on the Final 2007 South Florida Environmental Report – Volume I

Appendix 1A-3: Peer Review Panel Comments on the Draft 2008 South Florida Environmental Report – Volume I

Appendix 1A-4: Comments on the Draft 2008 South Florida Environmental Report – Volume I from Outside Persons and Organizations

Appendix 1A-5: Authors’ Responses to Comments on the Final 2007 and Draft 2008 South Florida Environmental Report – Volume I

Appendix 1A-6: Final Report of the Peer-Review Panel for the Draft 2008 South Florida Environmental Report – Volume I

Appendix 1A-7: Authors’ Responses to the Peer-Review Panel Report on the Draft 2008 South Florida Environmental Report – Volume I              

Chapter 1B                  

Appendix 1B-1: Objectives for Water Quality Monitoring in Water Conservation Area 2A

Appendix 1B-2: Summary of Statistical Analyses of Water Quality in Water Conservation Area 2A         

Chapter 2                    

Appendix 2-1: Hydrological Monitoring Network of the South Florida Water Management District

Appendix 2-2: Historical Daily Average Water Levels

Appendix 2-3: Monthly Historical Average, Water Year 2006 and Water Year 2007 Water Levels

Appendix 2-4: Water Year 2007 Monthly Inflows and Outflows

Appendix 2-5: Monthly Historical Average, Water Year 2006 and Water Year 2007 Flows      

Chapter 3A                    

Appendix 3A-1: Summary of Water Year 2007 Water Quality Monitoring Results

Appendix 3A-2: Summary of Water Year 2003 through Water Year 2007 Water Quality Monitoring Results at Individual Monitoring Stations

Appendix 3A-3: Summary of Water Year 2007 Attainment of the Everglades Dissolved Oxygen Site-Specific Alternative Criteria at Individual Monitoring Stations

Appendix 3A-4: Annual Permit Compliance Monitoring Report for Non-ECP Discharge Structures

Appendix 3A-4a: Non-ECP Water Quality Sampling Sites, Monitoring Schedule, and Flow Volumes

Appendix 3A-4b: Summary Statistics of Non-ECP Water Quality Monitoring Data for Water Year 2007

Appendix 3A-4c: Time Series and Box Plots for Non-ECP Water Quality Monitoring Data Exhibiting Excursions from Class III Numeric Standards for Water Year 2007

Appendix 3A-4d: Time Series and Box Plots of Total Phosphorus at Non-ECP Monitoring Sites for Water Year 2007 and Earlier Periods

Appendix 3A-4e: Water Quality Monitoring Data for Non-ECP Monitoring Locations for Water Year 2007

Chapter 3B                    

Appendix 3B-1: Annual Permit Compliance Monitoring Report for Mercury in Downstream Receiving Waters of the Everglades Protection Area

Appendix 3B-2: Sulfur as a Regional Water Quality Concern in South Florida

Appendix 3B-3: Approaches to Modeling Sulfate Reduction and Methylmercury Production in the Everglades             

Chapter 3C                    

Appendix 3C-1: Annual Summary of Phosphorus Concentrations at Everglades Protection Area Monitoring Stations during Water Year 2007

Appendix 3C-2: Summary of Annual Flows and Total Phosphorus Loads by Structure for Water Year 2007

Appendix 3C-3: Annual Phosphorus Criteria Compliance Assessment for Water Year 2007

Chapter 4                    

Appendix 4-1: Annual Monitoring Data Summary for ECP and Non-ECP Basin Discharge Structures

Appendix 4-2: Water Year 2007 Permit-Level Data, Incentive Credits, and BMP Equivalent Point System and Plans           

Chapter 5                  

Appendix 5-1: Individual STA Performance Time Series Plots for the STAs

Appendix 5-2: STA Vegetation Maps

Appendix 5-3: STA Herbicide Application Summary for Water Year 2007

Appendix 5-4: STA Stilt Nesting Summary for Water Year 2007

Appendix 5-5: Avian Protection Plan for Black-Necked Stilts and Burrowing Owls in the Everglades Agricultural Area Stormwater Treatment Areas

Appendix 5-6: Statements of Authenticity of the Sampling and Analytical Programs for the EFA Permits

Appendix 5-7: Annual Permit Compliance Monitoring Report for Mercury in the STAs

Appendix 5-8: Dissolved Oxygen Data for STA-1E, STA-1W, STA-2, STA-3/4 and STA-5 and Site-Specific Alternative Criteria Estimates

Appendix 5-9: Graphic Summary of Residual Differences Measured to Calculate Site-Specific Alternative Criteria Limits

Appendix 5-10: Water Year 2007 Water Quality Data for STA-1E

Appendix 5-11: Water Year 2007 Water Quality Data for STA-1W

Appendix 5-12: Water Year 2007 Water Quality Data for STA-2

Appendix 5-13: Water Year 2007 Water Quality Data for STA-3/4

Appendix 5-14: Final Operation Plan PSTA Project in STA-3/4

Appendix 5-15: STA-3/4 PSTA Implementation Project Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Coverage Maps

Appendix 5-16: Water Year 2007 Water Quality Data for STA-5

Appendix 5-17: Water Year 2007 Water Quality Data for STA-6

Appendix 5-18: Annual Water and Constituent Mass Balance Budgets for the Flow-Ways and Treatment Cells in the STAs

Appendix 5-19: Plots of Period-of-Record Inflow versus Outflow Mass Loads and Areal Mass Loading versus Flow-weighted Mean Outflow Concentration for Constituents Monitored in the STAs

Appendix 5-20: Period-of-Record Inflow and Outflow Flow-Weighted Mean Concentrations, Inflow Areal Loading Rates and k Values for the STAs

Chapter 6       

Appendix 6-1: Environmental Responses to Water Management: A Strategic Research Plan for the Everglades Division

Chapter 7A                  

Appendix 7A-1: Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan Annual Report – 470 Report

Appendix 7A-2: Picayune Strand Restoration Baseline Report

Appendix 7A-3: Permitted Conditions Annual Reports for Acceler8 Projects

Appendix 7A-4: L-8 Reservoir Project: Annual Water Quality Assessment Report for Water Year 2007

Chapter 7B     None                                 

Chapter 8       None                  

Chapter 9       None                  

Chapter 10     None                  

Chapter 11     None                           

Chapter 12                  

Appendix 12-1: Coastal Ecosystems Division Science Plan             

Chapter 13      None

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