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local Governments, including major metropolitan areas, have little 

 impact on upstream v/ater resource projects that can bring about 

 major changes in the quality and amount of fresh water inflow 

 to the estuary. 



Another problem is that of coordination within local governments. 

 As at other levels, local departments often work at cross pur- 

 poses. The port development agency may favor filling estuaries 

 at the opposition of the parks department; or the building of 

 public-access roads by the highway department may destroy the 

 wildlife protected by the fish and game department. 



Intergovernmental relations among agencies are also hanhazard. 

 For example, rational estuarial management must intearate related 

 land and water uses. Yet land-water zoning plans are rarely 

 coordinated, because the State sets water ouality use standards 

 and owns the submerged lands, while the counties and local qovern- 

 ments control the use of land bordering these waterways. 



Conflicts may also occur, as illustrated by the following state- 

 ment: "State and local novernments frequently find themselves 

 in adversary positions concerning conservation and recreation 

 facilities, with local governments both hesitating to move them- 

 selves (financial limitations being the chief factor) and objec- 

 ting to State action that would remove real estate from local 

 property tax rolls or othen-.'ise impinge on local government 

 prerogatives" (V-3-10). 



