OPEN FILE REPORT NO. 85


 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 The authors wish to acknowledge a number of individuals and thank them for their
assistance in creating this volume. Gary Maddox, Laura Morse, Gail Sloane, Margaret
Murray, Tom Biernacki, Cindy Cosper, Andy Roach, Paul Hansard, and Jay Silvanima, from
Division of Water Resource Management, Watershed Monitoring and Data Management
Section guided the spring water analyses effort. Without their knowledge and experience,
the sampling, analyses and data quality and delivery could not have been accomplished
within the requisite timeframe.

 We would also like to acknowledge the efforts of numerous people from various Water
Management Districts and State Parks who were so helpful in either collecting or helping to
collect data for this project. In particular, the authors wish to thank David Hornsby from
the Suwannee River Water Management District for contributing his time and expertise.
We also thank Tony Countryman and Nick Wooten from the Northwest Florida Water
Management District; Eric DeHaven, David DeWitt, Joe Haber, and Chris Tomlinson from
the Southwest Florida Water Management District; Richard Harris from Blue Springs State
Park, and Will Ebaugh from the U.S. Forest Service. There are many other anonymous
individuals whose efforts benefited this project.

 Many thanks go to staff members of the Florida Geological Survey. Frank Rupert
organized the text, figures, tables and photographs into the digital publishable format. John
Marquez, Alan Baker and Jim Cichon, with their cartographic expertise, created the many
maps utilized in this report. Walt Schmidt, Jon Arthur, Rodney DeHan, Rick Copeland and
Jackie Lloyd reviewed the text and data, supplying many su--.-I Di .n- and corrections.

 Many Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) employees assisted
with this project. They are: Division of Water Resource Management, Bureau of
Laboratories Sampling Training: Russel Frydenborg, Tom Frick; Bureau of Laboratories -
Chemistry and Biology Analyses: Yuh-Hsu Pan, Kate Brackett, Maria Gonzalez, Amzad
Shaik, Harrison Walker, Chris Armour, Tom Ebrahimizadeh, Chris Morgan, Colin Wright,
Matt Curran, Dave Avrett, Rick Kimsey, Latasha Fisher, Elena Koldacheva, Keith Tucker,
Elliot Healy, Dawn Dolbee, Blanca Fach, Ping Hua, Anna Blalock, Patsy Vichaikul, Akbar
Cooper, Richard Johnson, Paula Peters, Gary Dearman, Virginia Leavell, Ceceile Wight,
Travis Tola, Dale Simmons, Latasha Fisher, Rob Buda, Melva Campos, Karla Whiddon,
Daisys Tamayo; Bureau of Watershed Management, Watershed Monitoring and Data
Management Section: Tracy Wade, Thomas Seal; Division of Waste Management: Bill
Martin, David Meyers. We appreciate the efforts of all these individuals.

 Finally, the Florida Geological Survey Springs Team Members wish to thank Jim
Stevenson, Florida Springs Task Force Chairman, for his tireless dedication to Florida's
springs.

 FLORIDA SPRINGS TASK FORCE

 David Struhs, Secretary of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, direct-
ed the formation of a multi-agency Florida Springs Task Force to provide recommended
strategies for the protection and restoration of Florida's springs. The Task Force, consisting
of sixteen Floridians who represent one federal and three state agencies, four water man-