Florida Aquifer Size and Grandeur

A huge amount of rain on the state of northern Florida to the south year after year. The average annual rainfall for the entire state is about 51 inches, with higher average quantities in North Florida and South Florida. Central Florida is the average annual rainfall of the state about 51 inches. However, the Florida landscape can absorb much during tropical storms and hurricanes. The amount of water absorbed in the Florida landscape is huge on the expected absorption rate showing over 20 inches on an annual average. Florida Water land borders, then holds it in a structured hydrogeological natural phenomenon called "aquifer systems". Aquifers are critical to the freshwater resources of Florida because they contain or hold fresh water for drinking, agriculture and industry to use as it is needed.

Gravity forces the groundwater movement in hydrogeological aquifer system. Florida also has nearly 8,000 temperate and subtropical waters. The state has thousands of lakes, rivers, springs and water "ephemeral" or the sink, the Everglades, and a lot of quicksand well. In fact, Lake Okeechobee is the largest lake in Florida about 683 square miles.

Florida magnitudes Spring

The surface of the Florida land is an act of incredible balance. Florida landmass is "floating" in a vast aquifer (underground water) of fresh water flowing into the sub-surface of the Florida Panhandle south of Miami. Water from the aquifer flows with flow and tidal cycle in the aquifer monitoring rain models for aquifer recharge. The largest aquifers produce larger sources "artesian" and how do you measure a spring is its volume flow.

The springs are measured in "quantities" where "first" magnitude springs are the largest "second" magnitude is the second and so on. The magnitude of the spring refers to the volume of water to be discharged from the opening of each second spring. The first spring has a magnitude of flow rate greater than 100 cubic feet per second. Florida officials registered 300 springs "artesian" and 27 first magnitude springs. Examples of first magnitude springs in Florida are Silver Springs, Weeki Wachee Springs Kings Bay in Crystal River upstream.

Crystal River upstream form from the first magnitude springs where I learned to dive as a youngster. The opening of the spring is form Kings Bay with crystal clear water aquifer at a depth of about 50 feet. The average temperature of the water flowing over the opening spring is about 72 degrees F every day, winter or not.

Another interesting statistic is that the spring rate is directly related to the recharge rate of the Florida aquifer system, which is based on average amounts of annual rainfall in the "spring shacks" or local watersheds to the source in question . When all the points are added, the springs of Florida produce higher volumes of water than anywhere else on Earth. The deeper and the first magnitude springs and aquifer systems discovered to date are located in the northern Florida near Tallahassee.

Florida springs and ecosystems are unique and can not be recreated by man, which gives them an enormous ecological value. Many sources of Florida are coastal and create streams and rivers in the Gulf of Mexico or the Atlantic Ocean. These ecosystems are unique and contain a diverse population of aquatic life and marine life depends on life. This includes marine species living in freshwater, brackish and salt water.

Interestingly, spring can not be owned by individuals or industry, if the spring is accessible from the adjacent public roads. Florida law in this case is murky at best, because the state of Florida issues allows the phosphate industry to take my landscape in these unique ecosystems.
Reference

1. DEP - (Florida Department of Environmental Protection)

2. Learn more about Springs in West Central Florida. (Swfwmd.state.fl.us)

3. Sinkhole information. (Lakecountyfl.gov)

4. The amount of water and politics in Florida. (Srwqis.tamu.edu)

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