Description
This report summarizes the existing data from the FIU South Florida Estuarine Water Quality
Monitoring Network. This includes water quality data collected from 28 stations in Florida Bay,
22 stations in Whitewater Bay, 25 stations in Ten Thousand Islands, 25 stations in Biscayne Bay,
49 stations on the Southwest Florida Shelf (Shelf), and 28 stations in the Cape Romano-Pine
Island Sound area. Each of the stations in Florida Bay were monitored on a monthly basis with
monitoring beginning in March 1991; Whitewater Bay monitoring began in September 1992;
Biscayne Bay monthly monitoring began September 1993; the SW Florida Shelf was sampled
quarterly beginning in spring 1995; and monthly sampling in the Cape Romano-Pine Island
Sound area started January 1999.