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sentltivt and proiongtd monitoring program of farfield areas'. It la 

 recommended that NOAA be much more speolfic In Its recommended 

 monitoring program elements. Theee should Include Incorporation of the 

 following aspects. 



t Ongoina and proposed monitoring programs are too limited and iaok 

 required seasonal and regional coverage, sampling frequency, 

 quantification and key measurements appropriate to assessment and 

 forecasting of most probable environmental and bletic consequeneea of 

 effluent discharge. 



e The Massachusetts Bay site of the proposed outfall Is regionally an open 

 system, It is subject to significant farfield Influences, such as the Incursion 

 of toxic bloom elements and nutrients from the QuIf of Maine and North 

 Shore, and Itself has a farfield influence in Cape Cod Bay and Stellv^agen 

 Bank. Proposed and ongoing monitoring programs should Incorporate 

 suitable farfield surveillance strategies. 



• An ecosystem analysis incorporating suitable models of physical 

 processes is essential in the evaluation of the fate, distribution, actual and 

 potential foodweb and toxic consequences of the stimulated primary 

 production expected to accompany sewage effluent discharge. Routine 

 monitoring surveys are not adequate to this requirement, and must be 

 based on process-oriented strategies having appropriate temporal and 

 spatial coverage scaled to the dynamics of the phytoplankton, 

 zooplankton, fish and marine mammals. Suitable incorporation of benthic 

 processes into the monitoring activities Is also needed. 



