San Salvador Island is a small isolated carbonate platform on the southeastern edge of the Bahamian Archipelago. The Line Hole well field is located on an eogenetic karst aquifer on San Salvador Island's northern coast. The island's negative water budget and extensive lake cover have resulted in the upconing of saline water that has fragmented the once continuous freshwater lens. The Line Hole well field consists of several 15-cm diameter wells drilled into the fresh-water lens and arranged in a line perpendicular to the shore. The well field also has two monitoring wells (LH 1, and LH 13), that penetrate approximately 7 m below the water table into higher salinity groundwater. The well field was abandoned in 2016 upon saltwater intrusion to the aquifer. To evaluate the connectivity between the eogenetic karst aquifer monitored by the Line Hole well field and the ocean, we instrumented wells with HOBO U20L-04 loggers to measure pressure and temperature timeseries. We instrumented wells LH4, and LH8, in addition to the monitoring wells LH1 and LH13.
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Pressure, Temperature, and Specific Conductivity Measurements from Lakes on San Salvador Island, Bahamas
San Salvador Island is located on an isolated carbonate platform situated on the southeastern edge of the Bahamian Archipelago. Over half of the island's small area is covered by hypersaline lakes that expose the island's water table to evaporation. Many of the island's lakes are connected to the ocean by karst conduits, thereby allowing tidal pumping to drive the exchange of fresh and saltwater during tidal cycles. To investigate the influence of tidal cycles on lake water levels, we monitored water temperature, pressure, and specific conductivity for several lakes located on San Salvador Island, Bahamas. We instrumented lakes with HOBO Onset U20L-04 loggers with a water level accuracy of 0.14 cm. HOBO Onset data loggers were set to record measurements at intervals ranging from 30 seconds to 15 minutes. We chose sampling intervals as to not exceed the HOBO logger's data recording capacity based on our estimated return to the site to download data. For most of the lakes instrumented in this study, we combine multiple timeseries into an individual location file. Accordingly, a single data table may have temporal data gaps and time periods with different sampling intervals. The README.md file included with this dataset contains a table with lake names and locations, sampling rates, and deployment dates.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1743383
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10501114
- Publisher / Repository:
- HydroShare
- Date Published:
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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