USGS Water-Year Summary 2024

261543080495000 L28 CANAL ABOVE S-140 NEAR CLEWISTON, FL

LOCATION - Lat 26°15'43", long 80°49'50" referenced to North American Datum of 1927, in SW 1/4 sec.34, T.48 S., R.35 E., Broward County, FL, Hydrologic Unit 03090202, Lat 26° 15'36.9", long 80° 49'49.3" referenced to North American Datum of 1983, on east bank, 300 ft upstream from the northern boundary of the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida and inside the southern boundary of the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, 3.1 mi east of the intersection of the Broward, Collier and Hendry county lines, 6.0 mi north of Pump Station S-140, 6.4 mi north of U.S. Interstate 75, and 33 mi south of Clewiston on the Levee 28 canal.

DRAINAGE AREA - Indeterminate

REVISIONS HISTORY - Maximum extreme for the period of record has been revised on May 24, 2018 and supersede those published.

SURFACE-WATER RECORDS

PERIOD OF RECORD - February 1997 to current year.

GAGE - Satellite data collection platform with water-stage shaft encoder and acoustic Doppler velocity meter (ADVM). Datum of gage is National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929.

COOPERATION - Seminole Tribe of Florida and USGS Greater Everglades Priority Ecosystems Science.

REMARKS - Records fair except for discharge below 100 cfs daily discharges, which are poor. Flow affected by G-89 and U.S. Sugar Outfall (USSO) culvert structures upstream and pump structure S-140 downstream. Positive flow is to the south. Discharge computed from continuous velocity record obtained from acoustic velocity meter and relations between stage vs. area and index velocity vs. mean channel velocity.

EXTREMES FOR PERIOD OF RECORD - Maximum gage height, 12.58 ft June 10, 2017 (Revised); minimum, 7.84 ft Mar. 7, 2002.