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1 Watersheds and the Hydrologic Cycle

2 The Global Hydrologic Cycle

3 Water Cycle in Florida

4 Florida Water Facts Surface Area = 170,452 km2
Average Rainfall = 140 cm (55”) Total Annual Rain = 238 billion m3 (62.6 trillion gallons) River and Stream = 51,858 miles Largest River = Apalachicola (Q = 25,000 ft3/s = 22 km3/yr) Lake Area = 12,100 km2 Springs ~ 8 billion gallons/ day Groundwater supplies 95% of water 7.2 billion gallons/day; 80% to S. Florida Low relief – travel time for water (rainfall to sea) can be decades

5 The Hydrologic Check-Book
Mass Balance Water mass is conserved Therefore: Water In = Water Out Sources Rain, Snow, Groundwater, Human Effluent Sinks Ground, River, Atmosphere, Humans Stores Wetlands, Lakes, Rivers, Soil, Aquifers

6 The Water Budget (Exam 1)
INFLOW OUTFLOW P= Q + ET + G + ΔS Precipitation Surface runoff Evapotranspiration Groundwater Storage

7 Annual Water Budget - Flatwoods
Transpiration (~ 70 cm) Interception (~ 30 cm) Rainfall (~ 140 cm) Surface Runoff (~ 3 cm) Infiltration to Deep Aquifer (~5 cm, though upto ~ 40 cm) Subsurface Runoff (~ 32 cm)

8 Annual Water Budget – Ag Land
Interception (~ 15 cm) Transpiration (~ 80 cm) Rainfall (~ 140 cm) Surface Runoff (~ 20 cm) Infiltration to Deep Aquifer (~5 cm, in areas much higher) Subsurface Runoff (~ 20 cm)

9 Annual Water Budget – Urban Land
Rainfall (~ 140 cm) Interception (~ 20 cm) Transpiration (~ 50 cm) Surface Runoff (~ 60 cm) Subsurface Runoff (~ 5 cm) Infiltration to Deep Aquifer (~ 2 cm)

10 Changes in Internal Stores
ΔStorage = Inputs – Outputs Usually easy to measure (e.g., lake volume) In > Out ? Out > in ? In = Out ? What if Inmeasured > Outmeasured AND water level is falling?

11 Rules of Water Balances
Water balance terms must be in common units (usually meters depth over the watershed area). Precipitation and ET measured in depth (m/yr) Water flows measured as volumes (m3/yr). Volume = Depth x Area Depth = Volume / Area

12 Catchment Water Balance
Area = 100 ha (10,000 m2 per ha) Annual Measurements: Rainfall = 2 m (tipping-bucket rain gage) Surface outflow (Q) = 2,000,000 m3 (weir) ET = 1.5 m (evaporation pan) Groundwater = 1,000,000 m3 (shallow wells) Assume ΔS=0

13 Budget: P= Q + ET + G + ΔS ∆S = 0 2.0 = 0.2 + 1.5 + 0.1 + 0 (?!)
Area = 100 ha; 1 ha = 10,000 m2 P = 2.0 m Q = 2,000,000 m3/(100 ha * 10,000 m2/ha) = 0.2 m ET = 1.5 m G = 1,000,000 m3/(100 ha * 10,000 m2/ha) = 0.1 m ∆S = 0 2.0 = (?!)

14 Watersheds A land area from which all rainfall drains to the same point. The “watershed” is technically the divide between two such areas (called basins)

15 Delineating Watersheds
Identify outlet point Identify high points Link high pts crossing contour lines at right-angles 2 3 1

16 High-Relief Watersheds

17 P + Qin1 + Qin2 = Qout1 + Qout2 + ET + G1 + G1 + ΔS
Why Watersheds? Control boundaries Water that falls either comes out the bottom or is abstracted Imagine a water budget if you weren’t sure where the water was going… P + Qin1 + Qin2 = Qout1 + Qout2 + ET + G1 + G1 + ΔS

18 Experimentation – Paired Watersheds
What is the effect of forest management on: Water yield Sediment yield Nutrient export Water temperature Time of transport

19 Paired Watershed Response

20 Paired Watershed Study of Forest Harvest Effects on Peakflows
LOGGING ROAD BUILDING Beschta et al – H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (OR)

21 Does watershed delineation work in Florida?
Low-relief Delineation of boundaries hard In parts of Florida, water flows depend on: where it rained, where the wind is blowing and where people put the canals and roads National contour maps too coarse (5 ft) Roads act as flow delineators ????

22 “Delineating” Watersheds in Florida

23 Paired Watersheds in Florida
Shown that (Riekerk 1983): High intensity logging increased water yields by 250% Low intensity logging increased water yields 150% Clear cutting altered nutrient export rates All forest operations (fire?) were less than urbanization (much more on this later)

24 Stream Patterns Dendritic patterns follow Strahler Order
1st order is unbranched 2nd order occurs when two 1st order reaches converge Increased order requires convergence of two reaches of the same order What are springs?

25 Network Forms Regional landform dictates shape
Regional geology dictates drainage density Regional climate (rainfall) dictates density and maturation rate

26 Stream Order Distribution

27 Watershed Networks Mass transport is optimal at minimum work
Reach and network scales at the SAME time Necessary conditions for dendritic drainage Minimal energy expenditure at any link in the network Equal Energy Expenditure per unit area Minimum Energy Expenditure in the Network as a whole Rodriguez-Iturbe et al. (1992) - WRR

28 Water Convergence Across Scales
- St Johns River Basin - Ocklawaha River Basin - Orange Creek Sub-Basin - Newnans Lake Watershed - Hatchett Creek Watershed - ACMF “Hillslope” - Lake Mize catchment il

29 Lake Mize hillslope Conference Center Lake Mize

30 Waldo Road Austin Cary Forest Lake Mize Hatchett Creek

31 Hatchet Creek Catchment
Hatchett Creek

32 Newnans Lake Watershed
Santa Fe Swamp Hatchett Creek Newnans Lake Watershed Gainesville Lake Forest Creek Newnans Lake Prairie Creek

33 Orange Creek Basin Newnans Lake Paynes Prairie Lochloosa Lake Orange

34 Ocklawaha River Basin Orange Creek Basin Rodman Reservoir Silver
Springs Ocklawaha River Ocklawaha River Basin Lake Apopka

35 St. Johns River Basin (and Water Management District)

36 Next Time… Precipitation Where it falls When it falls How it’s made
How we measure it


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