Flow Velocity and Water Level Transects

The sheet flow over the Buttonwood Embankment during periods of high flow is an unknown element of the water budget for the Everglades. An ongoing project to estimate the flows over the embankment through modeling will require water-level and water velocity data measured at the embankment to accurately estimate simulated flows over this physical land feature. The actual measurement of water velocities and depths at the embankment would greatly improve the model calibration. Although it is virtually impossible to conventionally measure flow over the entire embankment, water depths and velocities at known points along the embankment, combined with the detailed topography of the embankment being developed in another ongoing project, should allow a much better estimate of the total flow than presently available.