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The project of restoring the
Everglades is a 7.8 billion dollar endeavor, spanning more than 20 years,
that directly impacts all the taxpayers of South Florida who, via their
tax dollars, will help subsidize the project, along with Federal contributions.
Therefore, it is imperative that South Floridians, and actually all taxpayers,
have direct access to the latest environmental information collected by
the District regarding the changing state of health of the Everglades ecosystem
over time. The District is mandated by the State to collect information,
including meteorological, water quality, hydro geological, and flora/fauna
species distribution data.This information is stored in the District’s
environmental database, an Oracle  database
system, which is secured behind a computer firewall. General public access
to the main database is available but is limited to a partial, read-only
copy, updated monthly.
This District’s corporate environmental database
is the source of historical and up-to-date data for the 16-county south
Florida region. Input information for key ecosystem health indicators
is collected by the District via radio frequency microwave, strip chart
recorders, water samplers, field biologists, and information electronically
gathered at remote sensor locations. The information collected is quality
assured and then stored in the main environmental database. Over 100 water
quality and hydrologic parameters are monitored on either a weekly, biweekly,
monthly or quarterly basis at various locations throughout the Everglades
ecosystem.
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The
database maintains information of over 60,000 station-years of data, collected
at over 6,000 stations within the District. The kinds of Everglades biotic
health data that is stored in this database and can be made available
to the general public via the Living Everglades website and an information
digest format that features charts and maps include the following: Phosphorus
and other nutrient levels, mercury levels, high and low water extremes,
pesticides and other toxic substances, fish, amphibian, reptile, wading
bird, and aquatic invertebrate species populations and nesting information
including American crocodile, manatee, alligators, wood storks, Cape Sable
seaside sparrow, spotted sea trout, pink shrimp, Everglades deer, salinity
levels, plant spatial data (mangroves, tree island hammocks, peat-form
communities (sloughs and tall saw grass), sea grass, cat-tails, hydroperiod
information-inundation patterns, seasonal and inter-annual variability,
duration of uninterrupted flooding, duration of dry conditions, number
of dry events, wet season water level reversals, etc. These performance
measure areas were derived from recommendations made in the Southern Everglades
Restoration Alliance Report, Joint Performance Measures (December, 1998).