The following data are summarized as seasonal average values for lake and river sampling locations located within the watershed. While these data are useful to serve as a general picture of watershed health, these data must be viewed with caution because these samples have been taken from ecologically different water resources.

Rivers:

Samples from most rivers located in this watershed are averaged as part of these data summaries.

Season	Total Nitrogen	Nitrate (NO3)	Total Phosphorus	Orthophosphate	Number of Sample Stations	Number of Samples
JUL-SEP 2024	1,624 ug/l		95 ug/l	0.04 mg/l	2	2
JAN-MAR 2024	293 ug/l		165 ug/l	0.04 mg/l	4	4
OCT-DEC 2023			38 ug/l		3	5
JUL-SEP 2023	1,155 ug/l		79 ug/l	0.05 mg/l	8	8
APR-JUN 2023	1,221 ug/l		82 ug/l	0.05 mg/l	8	14
JAN-MAR 2023	1,325 ug/l		60 ug/l	0.04 mg/l	8	8
OCT-DEC 2022			81 ug/l		6	12
JUL-SEP 2022	1,125 ug/l		100 ug/l		8	8
APR-JUN 2022			75 ug/l		6	12
JAN-MAR 2022	1,494 ug/l		62 ug/l		7	7
Five Year Seasonal Graph	Graph		Graph	Graph
Five Year Graph of All Samples	Graph		Graph	Graph

Source(s): Lake County Surface Water Quality, LAKEWATCH Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring, FDEP Historic Data from Legacy STORET, Seminole County Legacy Storet Data, SJRWMD Water Quality Data, FDEP Central Regional Operations Center, FDEP Watershed Monitoring Section, FDEP, Water Quality Standards and Special Projects (Florida), USGS National Water Information System, Lake County Water Resource Management, St. Johns River Water Management District

Lakes:

Samples from most lakes located in this watershed are averaged as part of these data summaries.

Season	Total Nitrogen	Nitrate (NO3)	Total Phosphorus	Orthophosphate	Number of Sample Stations	Number of Samples
APR-JUN 2024	1,144 ug/l		43 ug/l		3	3
JAN-MAR 2024	776 ug/l		34 ug/l		6	18
OCT-DEC 2023	839 ug/l		30 ug/l		6	15
JUL-SEP 2023	689 ug/l		19 ug/l		6	14
APR-JUN 2023	808 ug/l		22 ug/l		6	12
JAN-MAR 2023	916 ug/l		28 ug/l		6	12
OCT-DEC 2022	787 ug/l		29 ug/l		6	9
JUL-SEP 2022	772 ug/l		25 ug/l	0.06 mg/l	11	22
APR-JUN 2022	853 ug/l		30 ug/l	0.05 mg/l	11	25
JAN-MAR 2022	949 ug/l		33 ug/l	0.03 mg/l	11	17
Five Year Seasonal Graph	Graph		Graph	Graph
Five Year Graph of All Samples	Graph		Graph	Graph

Source(s): Lake County Surface Water Quality, LAKEWATCH Supplemental Water Quality Sampling, LAKEWATCH Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring, FDEP Historic Data from Legacy STORET, SJRWMD Water Quality Data, FDEP Central Regional Operations Center, FDEP Watershed Monitoring Section, FDEP, Water Quality Standards and Special Projects (Florida), Watershed Action Volunteer Water Quality Data, FDEP - Central Regional Operations Center, FDEP Watershed Monitoring Section, Florida LAKEWATCH, Lake County Water Resource Management, St. Johns River Water Management District

• Water Quality Sampling Locations - View a map showing the point locations of water quality monitoring stations which collect data being presented on the Water Atlas.

Southwest Florida Water Management District calculates the Aquifer Resource Indicator (ARI) for their three groundwater regions each month. The ARI was created to provide the public with a gauge of groundwater levels in their area, so they can develop an understanding of the severity and cycles of drought and recovery. The three regions include: North (Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Levy, Marion, and Sumter counties), Central (Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas, and Polk counties), and South (Charlotte, DeSoto, Hardee, Highlands, Manatee, and Sarasota counties). Learn More about the Aquifer Resource Indicator >>

To determine the ARI for a region, each well is compared weekly to its respective low-normal value and the difference is calculated. The weekly differences are reduced to a monthly value for all monitoring wells within a region, and the resulting ARI value represents how far water levels in the aquifer must rise or fall to reach their respective low-normal values.

Source: SWFWMD Hydrologic Data Section Data

River	Flows Whole River Range	Flows Data by Segment	Levels Whole River Range	Levels Data By Segment
Wekiva River	In the past 30 days Average river flow is faster than it has been historically.	Flows Data Table and Graph	In the past 30 days Average water levels are higher than they have been historically.	Levels Data Table and Graph
Blackwater Creek	In the past 30 days Average river flow is faster than it has been historically.	Flows Data Table and Graph	In the past 30 days Average water levels are higher than they have been historically.	Levels Data Table and Graph

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