Santa Fe (Alachua County)

Santa Fe (Alachua County)

Florida LAKEWATCH Water Chemistry Summary

Location: Latitude 29°44'33", Longitude 82°4'37"

Period of record: 156 sampling dates; August 16, 1986 to December 12, 1999

Surface area (LAKEWATCH): No data available.

Lake Region (Griffith et al. 1997): Upper Santa Fe Flatwoods

Geologic formation (Brooks 1981):

The geology is dominated by deeply weathered clayey sand and granular sand of the Hawthorne Formation.

Physiographic region (Brooks 1981):

The water body lies in the Perched Lake and Prairies division of the Central Lake District.

Supplemental, unpublished water chemistry data, University of Florida.

Numbers reported below are the average for 7 months sampled:

pH	6.0	Sulfate (mg/L)	6.1
Total alkalinity (mg/L as CaCO₃)	1.8	Calcium (mg/L)	2.5
Conductance (µS/cm @ 25 °C)	60	Magnesium (mg/L)	2.7
Color (Pt-Co units)	30	Sodium (mg/L)	7.3
Chloride (mg/L)	12.7	Potassium (mg/L)	0.6
Silicon (mg/L)	0.1

Long-term Florida LAKEWATCH Data

Numbers reported below are the minimum, average, and maximum value for the 156 months sampled:

	Minimum	Average	Maximum
Long-term total phosphorus concentrations (µg/L)	4	10	39
Long-term total nitrogen concentrations (µg/L)	270	430	740
Long-term total chlorophyll concentrations (µg/L)	1.3	6.6	34.3
Long-term Secchi depth (ft)	3.7	7.8	14.7

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:

Date	TP (µg/L)	TN (µg/L)	CHL (µg/L)	SECCHI (ft
Jan-28-99	13	510	9.3	6.0
Mar-23-99	13	490	11.0	5.5
Apr-12-99	14	480	10.7	5.5
May-16-99	16	460	8.0	6.5
Jun-20-99	16	470	12.0	5.3
Jul-25-99	10	470	14.0	6.7
Aug-22-99	13	450	12.0	8.2
Sep-26-99	12	460	9.3	7.5
Oct-24-99	12	410	6.3	10.3
Nov-21-99	8	510	4.3	10.3
Dec-12-99	9	550	5.7	10.0

1999 Average	12	480	9.3	7.4

Santa Fe (Alachua County)

Florida LAKEWATCH Aquatic Plant Summary

Aquatic plant data collected on May 12, 1993

Percent area covered with aquatic vegetation (PAC, %)	5
Percent of lake's volume filled with vegetation (PVI, %)	1
Average emergent plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	3.6
Average floating-leaved plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	2.7
Average submersed plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	0.5
Average width of emergent and floating-leaved zone (ft.)	100
Average lake depth (m)	6

Frequency that plant species occur in 15 evenly spaced transects around the lake.

Common Name	Plant Species	Frequency (%)
maidencane	Panicum hemitomon	93
bald cypress	Taxodium distichum	80
buttonbush	Cephalanthus occidentalis	73
slender spikerush	Eleocharis baldwinii	67
wax myrtle	Myrica cerifera	60
banana-lily	Nymphoides aquatica	53
pickerelweed	Pontederia cordata	53
water-pennywort	Hydrocotyle umbellata	40
rush fuirena	Fuirena scirpoidea	33
spatterdock	Nuphar luteum	27
dwarf arrowhead	Sagittaria subulata	27
floating water-hyacinth	Eichhornia crassipes	20
common salvinia	Salvinia rotundifolia	20
sawgrass	Cladium jamaicense	20
giant bulrush	Scirpus californicus	13
Baldwin flat sedge	Cyperus globulosus	13
duck-potato	Sagittaria lancifolia	7
red ludwigia	Ludwigia repens	7
salt-bush	Baccharis spp.	7
willow	Salix spp.	7
para grass	Brachiaria mutica	7
bog-moss	.	7

Santa Fe (Alachua County)

Florida LAKEWATCH Aquatic Plant Summary

Aquatic plant data collected on May 16, 1996

Percent area covered with aquatic vegetation (PAC, %)	.
Percent of lake's volume filled with vegetation (PVI, %)	.
Average emergent plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	1.7
Average floating-leaved plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	1.6
Average submersed plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	0.6
Average width of emergent and floating-leaved zone (ft.)	99
Average lake depth (m)	.

Frequency that plant species occur in 15 evenly spaced transects around the lake.

Common Name	Plant Species	Frequency (%)
bald cypress	Taxodium distichum	100
maidencane	Panicum hemitomon	93
slender spikerush	Eleocharis baldwinii	73
buttonbush	Cephalanthus occidentalis	73
banana-lily	Nymphoides aquatica	67
tapegrass	Vallisneria americana	60
pickerelweed	Pontederia cordata	47
stonewort	Nitella spp.	47
floating water-hyacinth	Eichhornia crassipes	40
common salvinia	Salvinia rotundifolia	33
spatterdock	Nuphar luteum	33
water-pennywort	Hydrocotyle umbellata	33
sawgrass	Cladium jamaicense	27
rush fuirena	Fuirena scirpoidea	27
pipewort	Eriocaulon spp.	27
alligator-weed	Alternanthera philoxeroides	20
red ludwigia	Ludwigia repens	20
cone-spur bladderwort	Utricularia gibba	20
purple bladderwort	Utricularia purpurea	20
knot grass	Paspalum distichum	20
baby-tears	Micranthemum umbrosum	13
coontail	Ceratophyllum demersum	13
variable-leaf milfoil	Myriophyllum heterophyllum	13
bog-moss	Mayaca fluviatilis	13
giant bulrush	Scirpus californicus	13
duck-potato	Sagittaria lancifolia	7
fragrant water-lily	Nymphaea odorata	7
Australian pine	Casuarina equisetifolia	7
wax myrtle	Myrica cerifera	7
water primrose	Ludwigia octovalvis	7
para grass	Brachiaria mutica	7
soft rush	Juncus effusus	7
respuinata bladderwort	Utricularia resupinata	7

Santa Fe (Alachua County)

Florida LAKEWATCH Aquatic Plant Summary

Aquatic plant data collected on May 19, 1998

Percent area covered with aquatic vegetation (PAC, %)	12
Percent of lake's volume filled with vegetation (PVI, %)	2
Average emergent plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	3.1
Average floating-leaved plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	0.4
Average submersed plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	0.5
Average width of emergent and floating-leaved zone (ft.)	111
Average lake depth (m)	6

Frequency that plant species occur in 20 evenly spaced transects around the lake.

Common Name	Plant Species	Frequency (%)
buttonbush	Cephalanthus occidentalis	100
maidencane	Panicum hemitomon	100
bald cypress	Taxodium distichum	100
slender spikerush	Eleocharis baldwinii	75
stonewort	Nitella spp.	55
pickerelweed	Pontederia cordata	50
wax myrtle	Myrica cerifera	45
tapegrass	Vallisneria americana	40
banana-lily	Nymphoides aquatica	30
rush fuirena	Fuirena scirpoidea	30
water-pennywort	Hydrocotyle umbellata	25
bog-moss	Mayaca fluviatilis	25
sawgrass	Cladium jamaicense	20
spatterdock	Nuphar luteum	15
giant bulrush	Scirpus californicus	15
red maple	Acer rubrum	15
red ludwigia	Ludwigia repens	10
coontail	Ceratophyllum demersum	10
floating water-hyacinth	Eichhornia crassipes	5
common salvinia	Salvinia rotundifolia	5
alligator-weed	Alternanthera philoxeroides	5
American lotus	Nelumbo lutea	5
baby-tears	Micranthemum umbrosum	5
cat-tail	Typha spp.	5
water-moss	Fontinalis spp.	5
cone-spur bladderwort	Utricularia gibba	5
purple bladderwort	Utricularia purpurea	5
purple fanwort	Cabomba pulcherrima	5
salt-bush	Baccharis spp.	5
water primrose	Ludwigia octovalvis	5
knot grass	Paspalum distichum	5
bladderwort	Utricularia foliosa	5

Santa Fe (Alachua County)

Electrofishing Data

			Canfield and Hoyer (1992) Ranges
Species¹	#/hr	kg/hr²	min weight (kg/hr)	mean weight (kg/hr)	max weight (kg/hr)
Black crappie	1	0.3	0.1	6.4	28.7
Bluegill	105	4.1	0.3	50.3	447
Bluespotted sunfish	9	0	0	0	0.1
Bowfin	110	0.2	3	54.5	225
Brook silverside	8	12.7	0	0.2	1.4
Chain pickerel	7	3.8	0	17.5	57.1
Dollar sunfish	6	0	0	0.3	0.5
Eastern mosquitofish	3	0	0	0.14	1.97
Florida gar	42	19.9	0.8	50.1	328.6
Golden shiner	9	0.4	0	6.9	65
Lake chubsucker	33	6.7	0.1	40.7	161.9
Largemouth bass	64	37.7	1.1	82	284.6
Redear sunfish	6	0.8	0.1	24.3	183.1
Spotted sunfish	3	0	0	0.9	3.2
Taillight shiner	10	0	0	0.1	0.4
Threadfin shad	95	0.6	0	2.7	10.9
Warmouth	10	0.2	0	1.5	12
Yellow bullhead	2	0.7	0	2.2	7.2

Total	523	88.1

^{1 Total # of species = 18.

² Weights calculated using regressions from Hoyer and Canfield 1994 and from Bill Schaeffer, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (personal communication).}