Florida LAKEWATCH Water Chemistry Summary
Location: Latitude 27°18'16", Longitude 81°24'14"
Period of record: 56 sampling dates; April 22, 1994 to December 12, 1999
Surface area (LAKEWATCH): No data available. Bathymetric Map
Lake Region (Griffith et al. 1997): Southern Lake Wales Ridge
Geologic formation (Brooks 1981):
The geology is dominated by deeply weathered beach and dune sand with some clay lenses of the preglacial Pleistocene.
Physiographic region (Brooks 1981):
The water body lies in the Eastern Complex of the Central Ridge subdivision of the Lake Wales Ridge division of the Central Lake District.
Supplemental, unpublished water chemistry data, University of Florida.
Numbers reported below are the average for 1 month sampled:
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Long-term Florida LAKEWATCH Data
Numbers reported below are the minimum, average, and maximum value for the 56 months sampled:
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1999 Florida LAKEWATCH Data
Numbers reported below are monthly averages calculated from 3 stations for total phosphorus (TP, µg/L), total nitrogen (TN, µg/L), chlorophyll (CHL, µg/L) and Secchi depth (SECCHI, ft) during 1999:
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June (Highlands County)
Florida LAKEWATCH Aquatic Plant Summary
Aquatic plant data collected on July 7, 1999
| Percent area covered with aquatic vegetation (PAC, %) |
16
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| Percent of lake's volume filled with vegetation (PVI, %) |
5
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| Average emergent plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2) |
2.6
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| Average floating-leaved plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2) |
1.0
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| Average submersed plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2) |
0.2
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| Average width of emergent and floating-leaved zone (ft.) |
52
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| Average lake depth (m) |
4
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Frequency that plant species occur in 20 evenly spaced transects around the lake.
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| torpedograss | Panicum repens |
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| maidencane | Panicum hemitomon |
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| slender spikerush | Eleocharis baldwinii |
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| wax myrtle | Myrica cerifera |
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| water primrose | Ludwigia octovalvis |
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| buttonbush | Cephalanthus occidentalis |
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| pickerelweed | Pontederia cordata |
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| water-pennywort | Hydrocotyle umbellata |
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| elephant-ear | Colocasia esculenta |
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| rush fuirena | Fuirena scirpoidea |
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| duck-potato | Sagittaria lancifolia |
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| spatterdock | Nuphar luteum |
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| swamp titi | Cyrilla racemiflora |
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| common salvinia | Salvinia rotundifolia |
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| para grass | Brachiaria mutica |
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| smartweed | Polygonum hydropiperoides |
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| cone-spur bladderwort | Utricularia gibba |
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| flat-sedge | Cyperus odoratus |
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| red maple | Acer rubrum |
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| alligator-weed | Alternanthera philoxeroides |
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| melaleuca | Melaleuca quinquenervia |
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| willow | Salix spp. |
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| stonewort | Nitella spp. |
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| common duckweed | Lemna minor |
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| banana-lily | Nymphoides aquatica |
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| cat-tail | Typha spp. |
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| water-moss | Fontinalis spp. |
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| variable-leaf milfoil | Myriophyllum heterophyllum |
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| purple bladderwort | Utricularia purpurea |
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| sedge family | Cyperaceae |
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| giant bulrush | Scirpus californicus |
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| giant reed | Phragmites australis |
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| giant cutgrass | Zizaniopsis miliacea |
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| musk-grass | Chara spp. |
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| southern cutgrass | Leersia hexandra |
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| bald cypress | Taxodium distichum |
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| jointed flat sedge | Cyperus haspan |
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June (Highlands County)
Electrofishing Data
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| Brook silverside |
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| Florida gar |
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| Largemouth bass |
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| Redear sunfish |
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1 Total # of species = 8.
2 Weights calculated using regressions from Hoyer and Canfield
1994 and from Bill Schaeffer, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
(personal communication).
Catch per unit of effort (kg of fish / hour of sampling) versus total chlorophyll (mg/m3) and number of fish species collected versus surface area of lake for 60 Florida lakes sampled by Canfield and Hoyer (1992) (•) and Lake June (Highlands County) electrofishing sampling (o). The lines represent linear regressions for logged values of the 60 Florida lakes.