LIST OF FIGURES


Figure page

2-1 Map of the State of Florida showing the three early water management districts and
 the five current water management districts. ............. ...............35.....

3-1 Map of the Southwest Florida Water Management District showing the Alafia, Peace
 and Myakka rivers and the USGS gage locations used in this study on each. ..................56

3-2 Percent-of-flow reductions that result in a 15% reduction in the number of days that
 flows on the Alafia, middle Peace and Myakka rivers are achieved. Horizontal lines
 represent the flow reduction standards chosen by the SWFWMD for each river.
 Graphs are adapted from Kelly et al. 2005a, b, and c. ................... ............... 5

3-3 Percent-of-flow reductions that result in a 15% reduction in the number of days that
 flows on the Alafia, middle Peace and Myakka rivers are reached. Gage flow has
 been divided by the area of the watershed above the gage and power curves fit to
 each rivers data. ............. ...............58.....

3-4 Percent flow reduction required to result in a 15% loss of top width plotted against
 flow for the Alafia, Myakka, and middle Peace Rivers. .................. ................5

3-5 Percent of flow reduction corresponding to a 15% spatial loss (measured as the
 summation of cross-section top width) plotted against the percent of flow reduction
 corresponding to a 15% temporal loss (measured as a loss of days during which the
 river historically reached a specific flow), for the Alafia, Myakka, and middle Peace
 R ivers. ............. ...............60.....

4-1 Location map of the Braden River in southwest Florida. ................. ................ ...._.72

4-2 Location of surveyed cross-sections across the Braden River. .........__ ..... ............. ...74

4-3 Portion of the digital elevation model generated of the Braden River. ........._.... .............73

4-4 Portion of the Braden River with modeled inundation patterns from a 1% exceedance
 flow ............. ...............75.....

4-5 LiDAR points used in the DEM of the Braden River ................. ......... ................76

4-6 Conceptual view of inundated area calculated by HEC-RAS and in a GIS
 environment. The Shaded Blue area represents Modeled inundation patterns in GIS.
 The Red trapezoid is a depiction of how HEC-RAS would estimate the inundated
 area. .............. ...............77....