Spring Creek

 The Spring Creek Watershed is located in the southern area of Lee County. It is approximately ten square miles in size. The watershed trunk originates at Estero Bay approximately 6,000 feet south of Coconut Road. The watershed is approximately two miles wide and five miles long. This watershed is generally located south of the Halfway Creek Watershed and north and west of the Imperial River Watershed.

The watershed boundary has changed somewhat since the 1979 "Water Management in Lee County" report by Johnson Engineering and the "Lee County Interim Surface Water Management Plan." The watershed has decreased in size approximately two square miles from the 1979 report. The majority of this area was north of Coconut Road and its extension to the east.

Johnson Engineering utilized a number of verification methods including SFWMD permit information and on-the-ground reconnaissance to generally confirm the watershed boundary presented in this report. The only significant flow crossing along the watershed boundary is a tidal salt water slough that runs through Bonita Bay. This slough cuts across the south watershed boundary and connects Spring Creek with the Imperial River. The Spring Creek Watershed boundary within Bonita Bay has been determined from Bonita Bay permit data on file at South Florida Water Management District. The Spring Creek main trunk remains a natural channel which has seen little modification.

A general description of the Spring Creek Watershed boundary is as follows: beginning at the intersection of Coconut Road and Spring Creek Road run east to U.S. 41; then south along U.S. 41 to the north line of Section 16, Township 47 South, Range 25 East; then run north along the north line of Section 16 to the northeast corner of Section 15; then north to the half section line of Section 11, Township 47 South, Range 25 East; then east to I-75; then south along I-75 to a point approximately 600 feet south of Strike Lane; then west to the east line of Bonita Springs Golf and Country Club; then south to the north line of Bonita Springs Golf Villas; then east, south, west, north and west around Bonita Springs Golf Villas to Corzine Road; then south along Corzine Road to Shangrila Road; then southwest along Shangrila Road to Old U.S. 41; then south along Old U.S. 41 for 1,000 feet; then generally west by contour to a point on U.S. 41 approximately 2,000 feet north of West Terry Street; then continuing west through Bonita Bay; then north by contour to the mouth of Spring Creek.

The above description is provided as general information only and does not constitute a legal description. See the watershed boundary map on page 48-WM for details of the boundary.

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