This gage is monitored in cooperation with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

02323566 MANATEE SPRING NEAR CHIEFLAND, FL

LOCATION.--Lat 29° 29'24", long 82° 58'37", in SE1/4 sec. 26, T.11S., R. 13E., Levy County, 
   Hydrologic Unit 03110205, on left bank of Suwannee River at Manatee Spring State Park, and 
   7.2 mi west of Chiefland.

DRAINAGE AREA.--Indeterminate.

PERIOD OF RECORD.--March 1932 to June 1998 (miscellaneous discharge measurements), January 2001, to current year.

GAGE.--Water-stage and water-current meter recorders.  Datum of gage is National Geodetic Vertical 
   Datum of 1929. 

REMARKS.--Records poor.  Discharge computed from continuous velocity record obtained from the water-current meter. 
Flow affected by tide.  The Suwannee River flow can back up into the spring run during periods of high flow
producing negative velocities and discharges.  Flows recorded during these periods could contain a mixture of river
and spring flow, or be totally river flow.