SUMMARY OF DATA FROM ONSITE AND LABORATORY ANALYSES OF SURFACE WATER AND MARSH POREWATER FROM SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT WATER CONSERVATION AREAS, THE EVERGLADES, SOUTH FLORIDA, MARCH 1995

By Michael M. Reddy, George Aiken, Paul F. Schuster, Charmaine Gunther, Scott Charlton, and Jason Tregellas

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Prepared in cooperation with the
SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT AND THE
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BRUCE BABBITT, Secretary

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
GORDON P. EATON, Director

For additional information write to:
Chief, Branch of Regional Research
U.S. Geological Survey
Box 25046, Mail Stop 418
Denver, CO 80225-0046

Contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Data file
• Summary
• References cited

Tables

1. Variable names and codes for sample description and identification
2. Variable names for onsite and laboratory measured parameters
3. Summary statistics for standard reference water samples (SRWS) and distilled-water blank samples (SBL)
4. Detection limits for laboratory and onsite analyses
5. Analyses of surface water and marsh porewater from the South Florida Water Management Districts Water Conservation Areas, the Everglades, South Florida, March 1995.
   • 5.A
   • 5.B
   • 5.C
   • 5.D

Photographs

1. A sampling site in the South Florida Water Management District Water Conservation Area 2A., December 1995, Photo by M. M. Reddy
2. Everglades study site locations, by Jason Tregellas