Table 5. Commercial-industrial-mining self-supplied water withdrawals by County in Florida, 2015

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In 2015, the total amount of water withdrawn for self-supplied commercial-industrial-mining uses in Florida was estimated at 412 million gallons per day (Mgal/d). Water withdrawals include 409 Mgal/d of fresh water and 3 Mgal/d of saline water. Fresh groundwater accounted for 298 Mgal/d of the fresh water withdrawn while the remaining 111 Mgal/d was withdrawn from fresh surface water sources. All of the saline water (3 Mgal/d) was withdrawn from surface water. Polk County accounted for the largest amount of fresh groundwater withdrawn (41 Mgal/d) followed by Taylor County (40 Mgal/d), while Putnam County accounted for the largest amount of fresh surface water withdrawn (24 Mgal/d) followed by Escambia County (23 Mgal/d).

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Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5a4cfe32e4b0d05ee8c4caf1.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7N29W5M

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  • environment
  • usgs-5a4cfe32e4b0d05ee8c4caf1
  • public-supply-water-use
  • withdrawals
  • water-use
  • domestic
  • public-supply
  • domestic-water-use
  • consumptive-use
  • water-withdrawals

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