Wauberg (Alachua County)

Florida LAKEWATCH Water Chemistry Summary

Location: Latitude 29°31'32", Longitude 82°18'7"

Period of record: 109 sampling dates; March 31, 1990 to December 14, 1999

Surface area (LAKEWATCH): 371 acres / 150 hectacres     Bathymetric Map

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

Geologic formation (Brooks 1981):

The geology is dominated by clayey sand and clay with sandy to clayey limestone of the Hawthorne Formation.

Physiographic region (Brooks 1981):

The water body lies in the Fairfield Hills subdivision of the Marion Hills division of the Ocala Uplift District.

Supplemental, unpublished water chemistry data, University of Florida.

Numbers reported below are the average for 8 months sampled:
 
pH
8.0
 Sulfate (mg/L)
5.4
Total alkalinity (mg/L as CaCO3)
19.7
 Calcium (mg/L)
6.3
Conductance (µS/cm @ 25 °C)
78
 Magnesium (mg/L)
3.1
Color (Pt-Co units)
24
 Sodium (mg/L)
7.7
Chloride (mg/L)
11.7
 Potassium (mg/L)
0.8
Silicon (mg/L)
0.4
    

Long-term Florida LAKEWATCH Data

Numbers reported below are the minimum, average, and maximum value for the 109 months sampled:

 
Minimum
Average
Maximum
Long-term total phosphorus concentrations (µg/L)
54
113
303
Long-term total nitrogen concentrations (µg/L)
1150
1640
2400
Long-term total chlorophyll concentrations (µg/L)
29.7
79.4
180.3
Long-term Secchi depth (ft)
1.1
2.1
3.0

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-26-99
99
1290
65.0
2.1
Feb-20-99
107
1370
57.0
2.0
Mar-23-99
99
1460
57.7
2.5
Apr-23-99
120
1350
46.0
2.5
May-28-99
117
1470
63.7
2.3
Jun-25-99
97
1480
97.3
2.0
Jul-25-99
88
1610
65.0
2.2
Aug-12-99
87
1860
133.0
1.8
Sep-25-99
77
1910
131.0
1.5
Oct-28-99
65
1380
70.0
2.3
Nov-18-99
68
1390
57.0
2.5
Dec-14-99
80
1470
51.0
2.5
         
1999 Average
92
1500
74.5
2.2

 

Wauberg (Alachua County)

Florida LAKEWATCH Aquatic Plant Summary

Aquatic plant data collected on May 26, 1999

Percent area covered with aquatic vegetation (PAC, %)
6
Percent of lake's volume filled with vegetation (PVI, %)
1
Average emergent plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)
3.0
Average floating-leaved plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)
0.5
Average submersed plant biomass (kg wet wt/m2)
0.0
Average width of emergent and floating-leaved zone (ft.)
19
Average lake depth (m)
3

 

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

Common Name Plant Species
Frequency (%)
red maple Acer rubrum
100
knot grass Paspalum distichum
80
water tupelo Nyssa aquatica
60
wax myrtle Myrica cerifera
60
buttonbush Cephalanthus occidentalis
60
maidencane Panicum hemitomon
60
water hemlock Cicuta mexicana
60
pickerelweed Pontederia cordata
50
cat-tail Typha spp.
40
water-pennywort Hydrocotyle umbellata
40
spatterdock Nuphar luteum
30
elderberry Sambucus canadensis
30
smartweed Polygonum hydropiperoides
20
torpedograss Panicum repens
20
sweetbay Magnolia virginiana
20
sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua
20
floating water-hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes
10
duck-potato Sagittaria lancifolia
10
willow Salix spp.
10

 

Wauberg (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
15
1.1
0.1
6.4
28.7
Bluegill
419
28.2
0.3
50.3
447
Bowfin
1
0.7
3
54.5
225
Brook silverside
57
0.2
0
0.2
1.4
Brown bullhead
4
4.5
0.1
14.5
72.1
Eastern mosquitofish
3
0
0
0.14
1.97
Florida gar
20
12.1
0.8
50.1
328.6
Gizzard shad
15
2.1
0
10.3
39.5
Golden shiner
8
0.5
0
6.9
65
Largemouth bass
92
23.6
1.1
82
284.6
Redear sunfish
1
0.4
0.1
24.3
183.1
Seminole killifish
17
0.3
0
4.2
22.3
Taillight shiner
20
0
0
0.1
0.4
Warmouth
10
0.6
0
1.5
12
           
Total
682
74.3
      

 

\1 Total # of species = 14.
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 Wauberg (Alachua County) electrofishing sampling (o). The lines represent linear regressions for logged values of the 60 Florida lakes.

Wauberg (Alachua County)

Trawl Data
Species 
Size Group
Mean CPM
Range of TL
1998
species other than black crappie were not measured
1999
bluegill
all
19.72
47 - 246
bluegill
318 cm
7.33
-
brown bullhead
all
0.11
173 - 446
Florida gar
all
0.39
550 - 775
gizzard shad
all
0.78
190 - 292
golden shiner
all
0.06
210
largemouth bass
all
0.11
248 - 283
redear
all
0.38
110 - 271
redear
318 cm
0.11
-

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