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or estuarine zone. Unfortunately, it appears that many of 

 these estimates were chosen for dramatic effort, rather than 

 as an actual indication of damace caused. 



Solution: An effort has been made to eliminate the wild 

 estimate and to enter only actual measurements. Data consid- 

 ered when makinq such an estimate would include such items 

 as declining water quality, decrease of pollution-sensitive 

 species and increase of pollution-tolerant species, closed 

 shellfish beds, etc. 



Handbook Section 13. Water Quality Standards 

 Problem: The water quality standards information for the 

 entire coastline is complete, but the various States use 

 different bases Tor classifying their waters and reserving 

 them for particular uses. The cateqories of use sometimes 

 do not fit overtly with those shown in the Act which set un 

 the water quality standards procedures. Also, the standards 

 frequently refer to an entire water area or to a part of an 

 area with such vaoueness that obtaining an idea of actual 

 acreage included is impossible. 



Solution: The uses which are allowed were often availdble 

 and have been entered in the Inventory. The rest of the 

 problem does not appear amenable to solution at tiiis time. 



It is anparent that while there is a wide variety of information on 

 the estuaries of the L'nited States, thfre are some very large gaps 



