Silver (Lake County)

Silver (Lake County)

Florida LAKEWATCH Water Chemistry Summary

Location: Latitude 28°50'3", Longitude 81°48'6"

Period of record: 5 sampling dates; January 30, 1991 to July 29, 1991

Surface area (Shafer et al. 1986): 388 acres / 157 hectacres

Lake Region (Griffith et al. 1997): Central Valley

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 Central Lakes division of the Central Lake District.

Supplemental, unpublished water chemistry data, University of Florida.

Numbers reported below are the average for 2 months sampled:

Long-term Florida LAKEWATCH Data

Numbers reported below are the minimum, average, and maximum value for the 5 months sampled:

	Minimum	Average	Maximum
Long-term total phosphorus concentrations (µg/L)	10	17	23
Long-term total nitrogen concentrations (µg/L)	1370	2230	3500
Long-term total chlorophyll concentrations (µg/L)	1.0	5.5	8.7
Long-term Secchi depth (ft)	5.0	5.7	6.2

Florida LAKEWATCH data were not collected in 1999.

Silver (Lake County)

Florida LAKEWATCH Aquatic Plant Summary

Aquatic plant data collected on June 2, 1992

Percent area covered with aquatic vegetation (PAC, %)	56
Percent of lake's volume filled with vegetation (PVI, %)	13
Average emergent plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	1.7
Average floating-leaved plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	0.4
Average submersed plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)	1.4
Average width of emergent and floating-leaved zone (ft.)	202
Average lake depth (m)	1

Frequency that plant species occur in 10 evenly spaced transects around the lake.