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 SECTION 5. PROHLEMS AND SOLUTIONS 



Because no section in the Inventor/ contains all of the data deemed 

 necessary, there follov/s a brief discussion of each Inventory 

 section in v/hich maior problems were encountered and the measures 

 taken to overcome them. The results of these actions are reflected 

 primarily in this renort and not in the data entries of the 

 Inventory. 



H andbook Section 2. Area Description 

 Problem: 'lany of the necessary data are implicit on 

 available maps and charts, but very few measurements 

 of estuaries and their associated marshes and tidelands 

 have ever been extracted or orqanized. Not even the 

 II, S. Army Corns of Enoineers v/hich nerforms, or issues 

 permits for, most of the dredqinn in the Nation, was 

 able to provide information on spoil areas and fills 

 therein. No consistent data were available on landfills 

 of any kind, whether industrial, residential, or sanitary. 



Solution: Msinq n. S. Coast and ^.eodetic Survey' naviqation 

 charts and a 1940 II. S. Coast and Oeodetic Survev of tidal 

 shoreline measurements, the areas of many estuaries, marshes, 

 and snoil areas have been hand measured and comniled. 'lany 

 fills and snoil areas have also been 



