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The South Florida Watershed Journal

• Pond apple season

  Is a pond apple in the hand ...
  
  Worth more than one in the tree?
  
  Pond apples age quickly
  once they fall from the tree I'm just happy to hear one kerplunk ...
  
  Into the water, instead of landing in the street.
  
  I commonly see them' [...]
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• "Upside down" swamp?

  Funny how the dark green pinelands
  almost look like the low spots,
  
  Whereas the real deep spots,
  the cypress, look like hills.
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• Swamp angels of "up high"

  Here's a look at some "high-ground-and-low-ground-
  
  But-essentially-flat" terrain.
  The swamp is essentially flat
  but the mosaic has its mountains
  and valleys, too 
  Although I don't know how flat "3-feet-in-the-middle-of-that-open-water-pool" in the center of that circular sink hole depression would feel?  My guess is that the fringe of the' [...]
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• Big flow years

  Flows from Isaac don't compare
  to the big flow years of 2003-2005
  
  This chart depicts weekly-interval freshwater discharge data released through the Caloosahatchee's S-79 flow structure.  Anywhere you see blue or black dots indicate time periods when the desired input of freshwater into the estuary was exceeded. 
  ' [...]
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• Controlled blow out

  Freshwater flows through the Caloosahatchee's S-79 structure exceeded the desirable flow envelope for mixing freshwater into the downstream estuary for the first time all year.
  
  The good news is Isaac wasn't a huge (or sustained) blowout event.
  
  Yes, this graph is a lot to digest,
  But there's [...]
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• Cypress are still green ...

  But they are fading into
  a duller early fall hue
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• Hot hot hot hot cold hot hot

  Was it a hot summer?
  
  Not really: Naples Airport didn't have a single day top 95 °F and daytime temperatures consistently stayed below the long-term daily high.
  
  Can you see our last
  cold front in April?
  Then again it isn't cool yet either.
  
  Our first cold [...]
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• Word on the street

  This gate is getting a little TLC
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• Faster, stronger, more powerful

  S12D is open for business.
  
  It lets water into downstream Everglades Nat'l Park.
  
  Can you see the gates
  are pulled up as high as they'll go?
  Word on the street is that its getting rehabilitated and automated, too.
  
  At least that's what I read on the [...]
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• Finally!

  I knew it was just a matter of time.
  
  Fifteen minutes later I was out
  on the other side back in the sun.
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