South Florida Water Management District

🌧️ Watch the weather, wait to water. Check the forecast to see if rain is on the way before turning on your irrigation system. Water conservation is encouraged year-round. Visit SFWMD.link/3OanEYF for more tips. #SmartIrrigation #WaterConservation

✏️ Deadline Extension! 🗓️ You now have until Wednesday, August 7 to submit a public comment on sections of the Draft 2023-2024 Lower East Coast Water Supply Plan Update. 💻 All interested partners, stakeholders and the public are encouraged to review the documents and provide written comments. Visit SFWMD.link/3ADJ5v2 to read the draft documents. 📧 Email comments to ndemonst@sfwmd.gov

Happy System Administrator Appreciation Day to our amazing IT team!    Your hard work and dedication keep our SFWMD systems and technology running smoothly across our 16-county region. Thank you for your service and for all that you do!

👏 Today, we are celebrating the one-year anniversary of the ALJO Four Corners Rapid Infiltration Project. This water storage and water quality project in Southwest Florida stores excess water from the local watershed to help support the balance of fresh and salt water in the Caloosahatchee Estuary.   Together, with our partners, we are continuing to protect and enhance our precious water resources for generations to come.

🐦👀 Reminder: The next birding tour in the newly designated C-44 STA is this weekend!   Details: 🗓️ Saturday, July 27, 2024 ⏰ 8:00am 📍C-44 Reservoir & STA, Minute Maid Rd., Indiantown, FL 💻 Register and reserve your spot here: SFWMD.link/3Xy0rpE   Visit audubonofmartincounty.org for more information.

🌿 Read SFWMD staff updates on weather, water, and other ecological conditions from across South Florida in the latest Weekly Environmental Conditions Report.   Visit SFWMD.link/3YiMJaK to read the latest update.

💦 The District maintains an extensive and complex system of microwave communication towers and scientific monitoring stations that can remotely operate water control structures and transmit important environmental data. 👀 This vast network - known as the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems, or SCADA - includes 52 microwave towers and more than 1,200 monitoring stations that are strategically placed throughout the District’s 16-county region. ⭐️ From Orlando to the Florida Keys, SCADA transmits real-time data to District staff. Our professional meteorologists, water managers, engineers, and control room staff monitor this data 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. 💧 Rainfall totals, water levels, and other environmental data collected through the SCADA network area are used to guide important water management decisions. This environmental data is easily accessible to the public. 💻 Visit SFWMD.gov/DBHydro for more info.

Weekly water levels update for key South Florida water bodies:   💧 Lake Okeechobee: 12.25 ft NAVD88 (13.56 ft NGVD29) 💧 WCA 2A: 10.7 ft NAVD88 (12.21 ft NGVD29) 💧 WCA 3A: 9.26 ft NAVD88 (10.78 ft NGVD29)   Reminder: The SFWMD upgraded the reference system used to measure water elevations. The water elevation readings, also known as water level readings, are now being reported in the newer North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88), instead of the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29). While there is no difference in the actual water level, the water level readings in the NAVD88 measurement system will read about 0.6 feet to 1.6 feet less than the readings in the older NGVD 29 measurement system.   Want to receive these updates straight to your inbox or phone? Sign up for email or text messages from SFWMD: SFWMD.link/30QLmka

👏 Three culverts are now under construction for the L-28 South Culverts Project! This project will support Everglades restoration and will restore and reconnect Water Conservation Area 3A with Big Cypress National Preserve and Lostmans Slough. In addition, the timing and distribution of water will be improved to re-establish ecological connectivity and restore hydrologic conditions in Big Cypress National Preserve and western Everglades National Park. ⭐️ 

👏 Congratulations to the Vertical Datum Implementation and Deployment Team for winning the July 2024 Team of the Month Award! The District upgraded the reference system used to measure water elevation readings in our monitoring network. We shifted from reporting water elevation readings in the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). This includes data within the District’s environmental database for hydrologic, meteorologic, hydrogeologic and water quality data. While there is no difference in the actual water level, the water level readings in the NAVD88 measurement system will read about 0.6 feet to 1.6 feet less than the readings in the older NGVD29 measurement system. Congratulations team on a job well done!