Watershed Monitoring Section (WMS) Cycle 3 Reporting Units

This layer defines the six boundaries of the "Cycle 3" Reporting Units used by the Status Monitoring Network of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Integrated Water Resource Monitoring program. These boundaries are intended to be utilized to spatially stratify statewide surface and ground water resources, beginning with Cycle 3 (January, 2009), and continuing until at least the end of Cycle 5 (December, 2011), or until the design of the program is altered. Additionally, this layer serves as a spatial and temporal update to replace the preceding layer of reporting units. Previous spatial boundaries were inherited from TMDL Basins which rotated on a five year statewide sampling cycle. The Cycle 3 Reporting Units are largely based off of manipulated Water Management District boundaries, from which a statewide sampling rotation is completed annually.