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such as agricultiiral land drainage, waste from recreational 

 facilities, and the specific effects of watercraft wastes in 

 estuaries. 



Solution: The principal waste characteristics of each major 

 type of industry with locations in the coastal zone were 

 defined, then combined with known water use by various of 

 these existing industries, where the processes and types of 

 treatment are known. The results of such combinations are 

 very general at best and have been automated in the Inventory 

 only where actual measurements v^ere encountered. 



Handbook Section 11. Use Damages 



Problem: Concrete use damages information is very rare. 

 Although the citizen can easily see and smell the results of 

 pollution in many areas, documentary proof is another matter. 

 Only in cases which have been the subject of an enforcement 

 action of one kind or another, has there been anv real effort 

 to prove a damage to use. Even then, it has been much easier 

 to get inform(?tion on commercial damages than on those recrea- 

 tional or aesthetic use. 



Damage to a snecies not of commercial or snorts value is almost 

 impossible to document, although it mav be critical to tlie food 

 chain. Most of the renaining information is subjective esti- 

 mation, by local residents or political entities, which provide 

 coverage limited by the intensity of local interest in estuary 



