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Ground-water flow beneath levee 35A from conservation area 2B, Broward County, Florida

Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4280
Prepared in cooperation with the South Florida Water Management District
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wri874280

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Abstract

Conservation Area 2B is an area of recharge for the surficial aquifer system in Broward County. Water stored in the conservation area provides the hydraulic potential for downward flow to the high permeability zone of the Biscayne aquifer. A 5.64 ft head differential (average for the period of record) between water levels in Conservation Area 2B and water levels in the adjacent levee 35A borrow canal causes water to leak into the canal at an average rate of about 0.0022 cu ft per sec per lineal foot of canal and accounts for a loss of 0.013 foot per day of surface water from Conservation Area 2B. Amounts of canal leakage and underflow are constantly changing and are dependent upon the head differential between Conservation Area 2B and the levee 35A borrow canal. (Author 's abstract)

Suggested Citation

Swayze, L.J., 1988, Ground-water flow beneath levee 35A from conservation area 2B, Broward County, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 87-4280, iii, 22 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/wri874280.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Ground-water flow beneath levee 35A from conservation area 2B, Broward County, Florida
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 87-4280
DOI 10.3133/wri874280
Year Published 1988
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Caribbean-Florida Water Science Center
Description iii, 22 p.
Country United States
State Florida
County Broward County
Other Geospatial Conservation Area 2B, Levee 35A
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