The South Florida Watershed Journal

  • Fake water line

    Here’s a case of a clearly defined water line …

    Except that it isn’t.

    What looks like an obvious water line ...
    is just another swamp illusion.
    What looks like a swampy shore is actually the result of a recent burn that was stopped dead [...]
  • Summer storm over swamp

    Run for cover!
    [...]
  • Swamp's revenge

    What is it about the swamp ...

    That makes me feel like a hydrologist always trying to catch up?

    The swamp contains thousands of  these cypress domes ...
    Too many to count and all of them unnamed.

    On the one hand, the swamp isn't' [...]
  • Downstream in the swamp

    Downstream on the Turner River
    will lead you to the mangrove coast
    [...]
  • Escaping downstream

    Here's the case for getting off road,
    and going with the flow ...

    Into the unknown.


    If only it was that easy!' [...]
  • The H.P. Williams Park

    Can you see the monument? [...]
  • More than just rocks!

    Many might see this as just another pile of rocks.

    But to aficionados of the Turner River it marks the keystone for resurrecting flows back into its natural channel.

    H.P. William's Wayside, looking north
    June 2011
    Technically, it marks the southern terminus of Turner [...]
  • South Florida Rain Chart

    July has been our rainiest month since September of last year [...]
  • Only hope now is a "perfect storm!"

    We know that rainfall affects development:
    A large part of water management is based on flood control …


    But can vice versa too much development also affect the rain?

    Southwest coast has been rainy:
    Click on map to see a rain chart for your area [...]
  • Waiting game

    Clouds have their work cut out to get gates back and flowing!
    [...]
1 2 3 4
  • Hot Topics