USGS Water-Year Summary 2024

02286400 MIAMI CANAL AT S-354, AND S-3, AT LAKE HARBOR, FL

LOCATION - Lat 26°41'42", long 80°48'25" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in SE 1/4 sec.35, T.44 S., R.35 E., Palm Beach County, FL, Hydrologic Unit 03090202, 0.25 mi downstream of S-354 and pump station 3 at Lake Okeechobee, 0.05 mi south of U.S. Highway 27 on the Miami Canal in Lake Harbor.

DRAINAGE AREA - Indeterminate.

REVISIONS HISTORY - WDR FL-93-2A, 1992, (revised annual and monthly statistic record).

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - Prior to October 1940, monthly discharge only, published in WSP 1304. October 1988 to current year. December 1939 to June 1943 (published as Miami Canal at Lake Harbor, October 1957 to September 1988, published as Miami Canal at HGS-3, and S-3, at Lake Harbor.

GAGE - Satellite data collection platform with water-stage shaft encoder and acoustic Doppler velocity meter. Datum of gage is National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929. December 1, 1939 to June 30, 1943, nonrecording gage at this site at same datum. October 1, 1957 to September 30, 1959, dual water-stage recorder at present site, at datum 0.05 ft lower and October 1, 1959 to February 7, 1962, at datum 0.22 ft lower. October 1, 1957 to September 30, 1968, two deflection vane recorders. From 1981 water year to April 1, 1987, electromagnetic velocity meter and digital recorder. Electromagnetic velocity meter reinstalled May 11, 1988 and discontinued in the 1992 water year, September 11, 1991 to October 4, 2003, acoustic velocity meter. Satellite data collection platform installed September 11, 1991. Acoustic doppler velocity meter installed May 23, 2002 and ran simultaneously with the acoustic velocity meter until October 4, 2003 when the acoustic velocity meter was removed. Prior to October 1, 1998, lake stage published under station number 02286399. Lake station discontinued September 30, 1998.

COOPERATION - S-3 pump, syphon record and S-354 gate-operation record provided by South Florida Water Management District.

REMARKS - Flow is completely regulated by gates and the pump station at Lake Okeechobee. Discharge is the flow through acoustic velocity meter site located approximately 0.25 mi below the S-354 gate structure. Stage is also collected at the acoustic velocity meter site. Flow frequently reversed during and after periods of heavy rainfall by pumpage into the canal from agricultural lands in the Everglades, or by the operation of pump station 3 (negative figures indicate reverse flow towards Lake Okeechobee). Discharge computed from relations between stage vs. area and index velocity vs. mean channel velocity.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - CANAL STAGES: Maximum gage height 14.92 ft, present datum, Mar. 21, 1960 and Oct. 2, 1965: minimum, 7.43 ft Sept. 8, 2017.