SANTA FE WATERS Test bed
The CUAHSI
WATERS Test Bed project—Design and Demonstration
of a Distributed Sensor Array for Predicting Water Flow
and Nitrate Flux in the Santa Fe Basin. The study site
is the
YSI - lab in a can ISUS sensor for telemetry W Graham, D Maidment, J Martin at the Santa Fe River Santa Fe River sinks into the ground at O'Leno State Park Santa Fe Rise comes back out of the ground YSI nitrate sensor and CTD sonde in Millpond spring
Deployed Sensors
Nitrate Sensors:
Two nitrate sensors were tested in the
Ichetucknee system of Springs. Both had associated CTD sondes and used
telemetry via cell phone to deliver data back to a computer at UF including
hourly barometric pressure, water depth, temperature, conductivity and nitrate.
The YSI 9600 sensor uses flow injection
technology and works on standard cadmium reduction/diazotization principles
(lab in a can), while the Satlantic In-Situ Ultraviolet Spectrometer (ISUS)
uses ultraviolet absorption spectrometry.
Conductivity,
Temperature sensors:
Twelve CTD (conductivity, temp, depth)
sondes are deployed at stream gages along the Santa Fe river, New River and in
the Ichetucknee (Figure 2). They automatically record conductivity and
temperature data every 15 minutes. They are downloaded manually every month and data is imported to the
Hydrologic Information system.
Figure 2.
Locations of CTD sondes and co-located river gages in the Santa Fe basin.
Hydrologic Information System
(HIS)
We are beta testing the HIS system
developed by a CUAHSI team. You can access data
in networks 3 ways:
1.
Hydroseek
website (hosted by
a.
Accesses
webservices on all HIS servers (11 Waters Testbeds) + national
NWIS webservice + EPA Storet webservice.
b.
http://www.hydroseek.org/search/
2.
DASH
website (hosted by UF Water Institute)
a.
Accesses
webservices on our UF HIS server (1 Waters Testbed) + national NWIS webservice.
b.
http://ees-his06.ad.ufl.edu/dash
3.
MS
Excel HIS Web Service client (created by UT-Austin, edited by KM); see below.
Instructions for all three are available here (pdf) (updated June 11,
2008)
HIS Webservice Excel Client - Download Time Series
Data Another way to access the data in our HIS database
is through MS Excel 2007. You must
install a small program on your PC –
Click here: http://his.cuahsi.org/hydroexcel.html
Then you can use
these Excel sheets below in which you can see sites, dates of record, variables
recorded and time series.
o CTD Sondes
(HydroExcel 2007) updated
Nov 2009
o USGS gages in
Santa Fe (HydroExcel 2007) updated Nov 2009
o SRWMD
Daily Rainfall in Santa Fe (HydroExcel 2007) updated Nov 2009
o SRWMD
Daily Surface River Data in Santa Fe (HydroExcel 2007) updated Nov 2009
Surface water time series
After careful analysis, USGS flow stations and FDEP STORET Water Quality stations (2nd column) in the Santa Fe basin were selected and geographically/hydrologically matched for comparison.
Flow
Metadata (.doc) – discusses the NWIS station selection and parameters
etc. (12/2006)
Water Quality Metadata (.doc) – discusses STORET station selection & parameters and matching stations for flow and wq (12/2006)
Access Database (.mdb
à .rar) – has time series data and shapefiles of USGS
flow data and STORET water quality data
for USGS gages paired to STORET by sample date (12/22/06) click here to
download RAR utility http://www.rarlab.com/
Groundwater time series
Santa Fe groundwater quality and
levels – raw data from SRWMD Nov 2006 (.xls .zip) updated Nov 2006
Santa Fe Groundwater Quality data
and Graphs (.xls - nov. 29) updated Nov 2006
Map images
See
other maps and data at Santa Fe Critical Zone
Observatory page
Last updated by K. McKee Nov-18-2009