The Choctawhatchee River Basin extends from Bullock County in southeast Alabama to the Choctawhatchee Bay in the Florida Panhandle. The Choctawhatchee River itself begins at the confluence of the East and West Forks in Dale County, AL thirty miles north of the Alabama-Florida border. Within Florida, the surface water drainage basin of the Choctawhatchee River covers approximately 1,529 square miles or 979,000 acres (Figure 1). The study area for this spring inventory was the portion of the drainage basin in Florida located within the Dougherty Karst Region (Figure 2).