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S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
Eric Cline Environmental Scientist
South Florida Water Management District Everglades System Assessment Unit
Loxahatchee Impoundment
Landscape Assessment (LILA):
Large Scale Physical Model
Replicating the Everglades Landscape
INTECOL 2012
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
Operations Management:
Eric Cline
Tom Dreschel
Project Manager :
Fred Sklar
ARM LNWR:
Sylvia Pelizza
Rebekah Gibble
Loxahatchee Impoundment Landscape Assessment (LILA):
Presentation objectives:
LILA toolbox
How those tools have been used
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
Objective:
Using LILA defined hydrologic regimes that sustain a healthy Everglades
ecosystem including tree island, ridge and slough and wading bird communities
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
45,000 GPM electric pump
Stilling well and float stage sensor (X12)
Isco and Sontek shallow water uplooking ADV (x5)
Custom notched flash boards
ADV (point measure) (X9) & flow tracker
Hydrologic Control and Monitoring System
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
L-40 levee
Header cell
M4 M3 M2 M1
Collection canal
Gate sensor Deep alligator hole Limestone island Sentinel ADV
Stage gauge Shallow alligator hole
CR10 Boardwalk Peat island
Flow station Enclosure
Culvert
Hydrologic Control and Monitoring System
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
Hydrologic Control and Monitoring System: Flow
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
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16.5
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14 14
15.70
15.43
15.29
15.13
14.78
14.45
15.24
15.48
15.7315.85
16.0016.11
16.33 16.3516.22
16.07
15.9115.79
16.5
16.5
15.5
15.5
13
14
14.63
14.35
14.00
15.01
14.98
12.5
13
13.5
14
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J F M A M J J A S O N D
#1 - Flood Control - Discharge?
#2 - Seasonal Control
#3 - Below Seasonal Control
#4 - Drought Control - Withdrawal?
Tree
Island
Deep
Slough
Shallow
Slough
Ridge
Hydrologic Control and Monitoring System: Stage
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
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Five –thousand seven-hundred and thirty-six (5,736)
native trees
LILA Tree Island Tool Box: Trees
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
Edge
Well
Edge
Well
Tree Island
Center
Well Deep
Well
≈1.34 m Deep
≈2.00 m
Deep
Seventy-six (76) groundwater wells on islands
Twelve (12) well points in sloughs/ridges
LILA Tree Island Tool Box: Well points
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
Thirty-six (36) SETs & Feldspar and Litter traps (X3)
How does
this thing
work?
LILA Tree Island Tool Box: Surface Elev. Tables
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
LILA Tree Island Tool Box: Shallow well & Soil temp
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
Research Overview
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
TREE ISLAND
PROJECTS
GW SW Interactions - FIU
Tree Growth and Survival – ISU & FIU
CO2
Soil CO2 flux- FIU
Litter trap/bag - FIU
SET/Feldspar- FIU
Tree Island Veg- FIU
Nutrient Stress - FIU
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
RIDGE & SLOUGH
PROJECTS R&S Comm.
Analysis - FIU
RAST (M1,M2) –
FIU EPA
GW SW
interactions - FIU
GPR Analysis -
FAU Floc capture -
SFWMD
Hydro-modeling
– SFWMD & FIU
LPIV – SFWMD & UNeb
Floc transport -
SFWMD
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
WILDLIFE
PROJECTS
Crayfish movement I
- SFWMD
Crayfish movement II
– SFWMD & FAU
Predator Release –
SFWMD & FAU
Foraging success I & II
– FAU
Non-native temp
tolerance – SFWMD &
USGS
Fish
Movement –
FIU Ridge Slough Deep water
Wet
Dry
Antenna
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
Utilizing LILA’s toolbox
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
LILA Research: Tree Island
Survival and growth
responses of eight tree
species along an
hydrologic gradient on
two tree island types
Mike Ross
Susanna Stoffella
A physical investigation
of groundwater-surface
water interaction
Rene’ Price
Pamela Sullivan
Determination of nutrient
limitation on trees
growing on tree islands
Mike Ross
Suresh Subedi
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
Tree Island Carbon
Budget
Len Scinto
Ryan Desliu
Robert Schroeder
Tree Island Understory Vegetation
Mike Ross
Jay Sah
Understory biomass and species richness Relationships with tree spacing, relative elevation and substrate type
LILA Research: Tree Island
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
LILA Research: Ridge and Slough
RAST: Ridge and Slough
Transplant
Len Scinto
Jenny Richards
Ryan Desliu
Alex Serna
Characterization the
Hydrodynamic Properties of
Everglades Floc (POM)
Scot Hagerthey
Kevin Black
Sam Athey
Marsh Vegetation and
Mapping
Mike Ross
Jenny Richards
Pablo Ruiz
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
LILA Research: Ridge and Slough
Preliminary non-invasive
characterization of biogenic
gas dynamics at M3E and
M2SS (LILA) using ground
penetrating radar
Xavier Comas
William Wright
LSPIV – Large Scale Particle
Image Velocimetry
Juan Gonzalez
David Admiraal
time-lapse camera
bubble build-up
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
LILA Research: Wildlife
Pulsed Production / Predator Release –
Crayfish Study
Nate Dorn
Mark Cook
Habitat Selection and Movement of Fish in
Response to Hydrology
Jen Rehage
Mark Cook
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
LILA Research: Wildlife
The Effects of Water
Depth and SAV on the
Foraging Success of
Wading Birds
Samantha Lantz
Rachael Harris
Dale Gawlik
Mark Cook
The Dispersal Response
of the Slough Crayfish to
Water Recession
Erynn Call
Mark Cook
LILA Low-Temperature
Tolerance of Non-Native
Everglades Fishes
Pamela J. Schofield
Mac Kobza
Mark Cook
Trap group
Gator hole
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
LILA Research: Tree Island
Restoring Tree Islands in the Everglades:
Experimental Studies of Tree Species
Survival and Growth
Arnold van der Valk
Paul Wetzel
Eric Cline
Fred Sklar
The role of recharge and evapotranspiration
as hydraulic drivers of ion concentrations in
shallow groundwater on Everglades tree
islands
Rene’ Price
Pamela Sullivan
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
LILA Research: GIS
The Development of a Geographic Information System (GIS) to Document Research in an
Everglades Physical Model
Sumanjit Aich
Tom Dreschel
Eric Cline
Fred Sklar
S O U T H F L O R I D A W A T E R M A N A G E M E N T D I S T R I C T
The End.
