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Groundwater loads to Tampa Bay are estimated using the three-aquifer framework from Zarbock et al. (1994). The anlz_gw() function computes monthly TN, TP, and hydrologic loads for all bay segments.

Methodology

Three aquifer types contribute to each bay segment each month.

Floridan aquifer: Flow is estimated with Darcy’s Law: Q = 7.4805 x 10^-6 x T x I x L, where T is transmissivity (ft²/day), I is the hydraulic gradient (ft/mile), and L is the flow zone length (miles). Q is in million gallons per day (MGD). Monthly nutrient loads (kg/month) are Q x C x 8.342 x 30.5 / 2.2, where C is the TN or TP concentration in mg/L. Monthly hydrologic load (m³/month) is Q x 3785 x 30.5. Transmissivity and flow zone length are fixed constants per segment from Zarbock et al. (1994). Hydraulic gradients are season-specific: months 1-6 and 11-12 are dry season; months 7-10 are wet season. Lower Tampa Bay and Remainder Lower Tampa Bay have zero gradient in the dry season and Boca Ciega Bay has zero gradient in both seasons.

Surficial and intermediate aquifers: Loads are fixed monthly constants per segment derived from 1995-1998 (surficial) and 1999-2003 (intermediate) SWFWMD monitoring data. These values have not changed since the original analysis.

Floridan aquifer concentrations

Floridan aquifer TN and TP concentrations (mg/L) can be obtained from the Water Atlas API using util_gw_getwq(). The default stations are 18340 (CR 581 North Fldn) and 18965 (SR 52 and CR 581 Deep), the two Pasco County Floridan aquifer monitoring wells used in the 2022-2024 loading analysis. Old Tampa Bay uses the first station mean only and Hillsborough Bay uses the arithmetic mean of both station means. The rest of the bay segments retain fixed historical values from the 1995-1998 SWFWMD analysis that have been used unchanged in every loading cycle through 2021.

# Requires internet access; retrieves Floridan aquifer concentrations
wqdat <- util_gw_getwq()

When wqdat = NULL (the default in anlz_gw()), hardcoded concentrations from the 2022-2024 analysis are used directly.

Estimating groundwater loads

anlz_gw() requires only a year range. Hardcoded 2021 FDEP potentiometric surface gradients are used for all years because updated contours were not available when the 2022-2024 analysis was run.

gw <- anlz_gw(yrrng = c(2022, 2024))

head(gw)
#>   Year Month source        segment      tn_load     tp_load   hy_load
#> 1 2022     1     GW Boca Ciega Bay 0.0004188783 0.003957298 0.0132126
#> 2 2022     2     GW Boca Ciega Bay 0.0004188783 0.003957298 0.0132126
#> 3 2022     3     GW Boca Ciega Bay 0.0004188783 0.003957298 0.0132126
#> 4 2022     4     GW Boca Ciega Bay 0.0004188783 0.003957298 0.0132126
#> 5 2022     5     GW Boca Ciega Bay 0.0004188783 0.003957298 0.0132126
#> 6 2022     6     GW Boca Ciega Bay 0.0004188783 0.003957298 0.0132126

Load columns are in tons/month and hy_load is in million m³/month.

To pass concentrations retrieved from the API:

# Requires internet access
wqdat <- util_gw_getwq()
gw_api <- anlz_gw(yrrng = c(2022, 2024), wqdat = wqdat)

Temporal summary

Setting summtime = 'year' sums monthly loads to annual totals. The Month column is dropped.

anlz_gw(yrrng = c(2022, 2024), summtime = 'year')
#>    Year source          segment     tn_load    tp_load    hy_load
#> 1  2022     GW   Boca Ciega Bay  0.00502654 0.04748757  0.1585512
#> 2  2023     GW   Boca Ciega Bay  0.00502654 0.04748757  0.1585512
#> 3  2024     GW   Boca Ciega Bay  0.00502654 0.04748757  0.1585512
#> 4  2022     GW Hillsborough Bay 20.72632859 2.46652041 73.9028084
#> 5  2023     GW Hillsborough Bay 20.72632859 2.46652041 73.9028084
#> 6  2024     GW Hillsborough Bay 20.72632859 2.46652041 73.9028084
#> 7  2022     GW  Lower Tampa Bay  0.10948950 0.62279120  3.8203550
#> 8  2023     GW  Lower Tampa Bay  0.10948950 0.62279120  3.8203550
#> 9  2024     GW  Lower Tampa Bay  0.10948950 0.62279120  3.8203550
#> 10 2022     GW    Manatee River  0.10249411 0.50923100  3.5031130
#> 11 2023     GW    Manatee River  0.10249411 0.50923100  3.5031130
#> 12 2024     GW    Manatee River  0.10249411 0.50923100  3.5031130
#> 13 2022     GW Middle Tampa Bay  0.28633333 1.62254143  9.9954764
#> 14 2023     GW Middle Tampa Bay  0.28633333 1.62254143  9.9954764
#> 15 2024     GW Middle Tampa Bay  0.28633333 1.62254143  9.9954764
#> 16 2022     GW    Old Tampa Bay  6.58537094 1.95697341 60.1804539
#> 17 2023     GW    Old Tampa Bay  6.58537094 1.95697341 60.1804539
#> 18 2024     GW    Old Tampa Bay  6.58537094 1.95697341 60.1804539
#> 19 2022     GW   Terra Ceia Bay  0.01894529 0.10028212  0.6552311
#> 20 2023     GW   Terra Ceia Bay  0.01894529 0.10028212  0.6552311
#> 21 2024     GW   Terra Ceia Bay  0.01894529 0.10028212  0.6552311