Lake County partnered with the Lake County Water Authority and The St. Johns River Water Management District to develop a Water Resource Atlas, a "One-Stop" site for all of Lake County’s water resource related data. With the aid of a grant from the Department of Commerce, Lake County contracted with the University of South Florida’s Center for Design and Research (CDR) to develop the site which provides citizens and environmental professionals with current and historical water data and information. The Atlas is a dynamic resource with constant updates to water quality information, development of K-12 curriculum for using the Atlas in the classroom and increased needs assessment capabilities.

Atlas Details:

• The atlas is a web-based application allowing for the browsing of spatial data such as aerial photographs, location of water resources, watershed or basin boundaries, recreation sites, boat ramps and other important GIS datasets and local water resource information.
• Provides a mapping interface allowing users to view multiple themes such as hydrography, ecology, wetlands, political boundaries, watershed boundaries and aerial photography.
• Water resource data pages are summarized by topic and displays key indices and parameters to determine the current conditions of a watershed, lake or river.
• Real-time water quality data and built-in computing tools allow users to determine current water quality of any given water body in the database.
• Built-in graphing tools provide graphs of all data in the database.
• Numerous query components allow users to discern meaning from the data presentations.
• Advanced data access tools allow users to query, graph, and download sampling location specific data.
• A document catalog system displays web links and Adobe Acrobat documents related to water resource issues.
• Information and functionality related to Total Maximum Daily Loads program, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, stormwater management, and other regulatory programs are integrated into the atlas.

If you would like to view the Lake County Water Resource Atlas, visit: http://www.lake.wateratlas.usf.edu

If you have questions or suggestions, contact Mike Bowers or Walter Wood with the Water Quality Services Division in the Department of Environmental Utilities at (352) 343-3776.