LAKE WALES

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• • Lake Wales Ridge study area description
  • Groundwater study
    • Network design and sampling history
    • Target analytes and laboratory methods
    • Data and results summaries
      • Rainfall data
      • Groundwater-quality data
  • Lake study
  • Publications and presentations
  • Current related studies in the Ridge vicinity
  • Project personnel
  • Links to related sites
  • Provisional data statement

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Lake Wales Ridge Pesticide Monitoring: Additional studies and monitoring related to agricultural chemicals and water quality in central Florida

U.S. Geological Survey (see also http://fl.water.usgs.gov/)

• Regional Evaluations of the Hydrology of Polk and Highlands Counties
  U.S. Geological Survey, Altamonte Springs, FL [contact: Rick Spechler, Project Chief, (tele. 407-865-6725, email:spechler@usgs.gov) for additional information]
  • Spechler, R.M., and Kroening, S.E., 2007, Hydrology of Polk County, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2006-5320, 114 p.
  • Spechler, R.M., in preparation: Hydrology of Highlands County, Florida.

• USGS NATIONAL WATER-QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAM (NAWQA) STUDIES:
  • GA-FL Coastal Plain Drainages Unit http://fl.water.usgs.gov/NAWQA/index.html
  • South FL Unit http://fl.water.usgs.gov/Sofl/index.html/
    Includes a survey focused on agricultural-chemicals in groundwater underlying flatwoods citrus groveshttp://fl.water.usgs.gov/Sofl/gw/gwintro.html/

Florida Department of Environmental Protection http://www.dep.state.fl.us/

• Statewide Integrated Water Resources Monitoring Network
  http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/monitoring/
• Very Intensive Study Area (VISA) Networks - Citrus Agriculture, Polk County
  http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/monitoring/visa_net.htm

University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ in cooperation with the Fl. Dept. of Environmental Protection and the Fl. Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services

• Ridge Citrus Nitrogen Best Management Practices (BMP) Verifications Project http://128.227.177.113/bmp/ [or through the UF-IFAS Citrus Research & Education Center web site:http://www.crec.ifas.ufl.edu/ ]