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(2) Seasonal: Seasonal recreation users are those who 

 maintain residences at another place but who spend more 

 than one day at a time in the estuarine zone. These users 

 may range from those who SDend a single weekend to those 

 who spend one or two weeks or several months 1n some form 

 of residence, I.e., campground, hotel-motel, or cottage in 

 the estuarine zone. 



(3) Permanent: Those who maintain permanent recreation 

 residences in the estuarine zone. 



The demands for, and use of, the recreation resources in the estuarine 

 zone by all three user groups will increase substantially in the fu- 

 ture. Periodic users already overburden recreation facilities near 

 metropolitan areas as anyone who attempts to reach near shore areas 

 on weekends 1s well aware. With the growth of megalopoll from Maine 

 to Virginia, both coasts of Florida, northern Texas and California in 

 the near future, pressures from day-use participants is certain to 

 rise. 



In addition, both the periodic and seasonal user arouDS concentrate 

 the bulk of their pressures on the estuarine and coastal environment 

 in the short summer months span. Thus, the greatest use is made of 

 the shoreline and water in the period of maximum vegetal growth, and 

 often the time when supplies of fresh water for all purposes such as 

 drinking, carrying municipal wastes, etc., are least available. In- 

 structive in this regard is the growth of resort communities, such as 

 Ocean City, Md., from sleeDv towns of 25,000 persons in April, to 



