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variations in volume, concentration, or composition of wastes can have 

 much more impact on an estuarine environment, where wastes may remain 

 in one area for extended periods of time, than in a freely flowing river, 

 where wastes are being constantly carried away from an outfall. This 

 means that waste discharges into estuarine and coastal environments 

 must be more constantly and carefully monitored than those discharged 

 into rivers. 



The obvious means to acquire information would be 1) a stringent and 

 wide-spread monitoring program, or 2) development of a mandatory 

 reporting system for use by individual industrial and municipal facil- 

 ities themselves. Actual implementation of either method presents 

 equally obvious problems, however. The vast expenditure of time and 

 money for routine monitoring of every waste outfall in the estuarine 

 zone is prohibitive. The enforcement of a mandatory reporting system 

 also represents more man-hours and money than are feasible to consider. 

 Yet monitoring is a necessity, su a simple reporting method for all 

 possible studies and existing monitoring systems must be devised and the 

 data gathered funneled into a central location for broad-scale analysis. 



The adequacy, or lack thereof, of existing monitoring systems can then 

 be determined and broadened only as absolutely necessary. 



The information needed for routine water quality monitoring associated 

 with pollution surveillance is also needed as basic data input for 

 management and for basic research. An effective routine monitoring 



