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Evaluation of a Proposed Connector Well, Northeastern DeSoto County, Florida

Description: Abstract: At a 24,000-acre citrus grove, a connector well is proposed as a resource management tool for capturing water normally lost through evapotranspiration and by excess runoff. Such a well would connect the surficial sand aquifer with the deep, highly transmissive limestone Floridan Aquifer. Because of natural head differences, water would move by gravity flow from the sand into the Floridan Aquifer, thus replenishing water withdrawn for irrigation from the Floridan Aquifer. A 70-acre mar… more
Date: February 1974
Creator: Hutchinson, C. B. & Wilson, William E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Flood Profiles for Peace River, South-Central Florida

Description: "This report presents flood heights and profiles for a seventy-mile reach of Peace River from Bartow to Arcadia," Florida, "calculated using the United States Geological Survey step-backwater model." It includes maps, graphs, and tables.
Date: June 1978
Creator: Murphy, W. R., Jr.; Hammett, K. M. & Reeter, C. V.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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