detritivores are favored directly by organic loading associated with the sewage 

 input, and indirectly by the products of inorganic nutrient loading (3, plus 

 additional project data). 



The relative impact of streams, rainfall, and sewage on freshwater and 

 nutrient dehvery on Kaneohe Bay can be estabUshed by a simple budgetary 

 analysis. Sewage contributes a minimal amount of freshwater (Table 23-1); 

 however, sewage accounts for most of the nitrogen and phosphorus delivery 

 (Table 23-2). 



The bay may thus be seen to be sporadically perturbed by fresh water and 

 associated sediment delivery, and chronicaUy perturbed by nutrient delivery. 

 This latter perturbation, which has increased dramatically over the past two 

 decades, will be terminated. 



Table 23-1. Spatial Distribution of Water Inputs to Kaneohe Bay 



(millions of m^/month) 



Process 



Table 23-2. Total Loading of "New" Nutrients on Southeast 

 Sector (thousands of moles/day) 



Nutrient 



Process 



Sewage 



Streams 



Total 



Nitrogen 

 Phosphorus 



30.5 

 3.4 



4.2 

 0.4 



34.7 

 3.8 



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