Usually we have to wait until August to see sheetflow.
But this year it's already in peak form in
June.
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The top graph shows the current discharge rate (4,000 cfs) under the Big Cypress National Preserve portion of the Tamiami Trail. Thanks to abundant spring rain and a stormy last week, sheetflow is up at peak fall levels, unusual for this early in the wet season. The bottom chart shows annual discharge volume from 1964 to present. Over a million acre feet discharged under the Trail in 2005, but since then the annual totals have been half that (or even less). |
The swamp's secret recipe is rain and an
absence of gates,
The abundance of the latter in the Everglades which are still closed.
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