Figure 23-1. Index Map of Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, 

 Showing the Locations of the Three Sectors of the Bay. 



community has deteriorated, and the waters have become more turbid in 

 response to human perturbations. Chief among these perturbations have been 

 domestic sewage discharge and stream runoff. Both processes have been closely 

 related to the tenfold increase of the human population in the watershed over 

 the past three decades. Banner (2) and Smith (8) have summarized the 

 historical conditions leading to the present environmental status of the bay. 



The present stress regime is about to be drastically modified by diversion of 

 the sewage discharge to a site removed from Kaneohe Bay. This paper 

 discusses, from the bias of my ovm mass-balance approach to ecosystem 

 analysis, interim results of a team investigation designed to ascertain ecosystem 

 responses of Kaneohe Bay to the relaxation of sewage stress, and to derive 

 predictive ability therefrom. The data, and many of the ideas presented here, 

 are properly credited to other members of the research team. 



1. Working group leaders are: S. V. Smith (chemistry), E. Laws 

 (phytoplankton), J. Hirota (zooplankton), R. E. Brock (benthos), P. L. 

 Jokiel (microcosms). Principal cooperators from the Naval Ocean Systems 

 Center are E. C. Evans III, J. G. Grovhoug, and R. S. Henderson. 



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