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Summary of hydrologic data collected during 1975 in Dade County, Florida

Open-File Report 77-803
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Abstract

During the 1975 calendar year rainfall in Dade County, Fla., was 14.89 inches below the long-term average (57.17 in.). Ground-water levels ranged from 0.1 foot above to 1.1 feet below average. The highest and lowest ground-water levels for the year were both 1 foot below their long-term averages. In the Hialeah-Miami Springs area, ground-water levels in wells near the centers of the heaviest pumping ranged from 9.8 to 11.2 feet below mean sea level and in the Southwest well field area, ground-water levels near the centers of pumping ranged from 3.5 feet above to 3.4 feet below mean sea level. The combined average daily discharge from eight major streams and canals that flow into Biscayne Bay was 1,014 cubic feet per second (cfs), 124 cfs above the combined average daily flow for the 1974 water year. The combined average daily flow through the Tamiami Canal outlets was 568 cfs, 202 cfs below that of the 1974 water year. The position of the salt front in 1975 in the coastal part of the Biscayne aquifer was about the same as in 1974 except at Miami International Airport and Homestead Air Force Base where the salt front had encroached farther inland. (Woodard-USGS)
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Summary of hydrologic data collected during 1975 in Dade County, Florida
Series title Open-File Report
Series number 77-803
DOI 10.3133/ofr77803
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Year Published 1977
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey,
Description 120 p. :ill., maps ;27 cm.
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