Conduit Flow Paths and Conduit/Matrix Interactions Defined by Quantitative Groundwater Tracing in the Floridan Aquifer

Groundwater tracing and cave mapping conducted in the Woodville Karst Plain of north Florida have revealed an extensive dendritic network of saturated conduits, more than 70 km in total length, that convey water to Wakulla Spring from the northeast, north, northwest, and south. In some places, the conduits are known to connect to swallets and in others are known to extend up-gradient into the aquifer matrix. Two sets of tracer tests were …