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To provide its residents iritli a place to swim, the ci 

 lias fenced and chlorinated a section of polluted Lak 



at a rate of 4.5 per cent per year despite 

 abatement efforts. 



The Commission could not review compre- 

 liensively all aspects of the very large and 

 multifaceted pollution problem which ex- 

 tends up our rivers and into the soil and air, 

 pcuetratin<>- almost e\erv aspect of our 

 national life. The problem of pollution must 

 be viewed and combatted in the context of a 

 total waste management system — a task 

 which extends beyond the Commission man- 

 date and tlie Commission urges that this 

 broader task be assumed by others. The Com- 



ty of Cleveland 

 c Eric. 



mission, however, has sought to identify the 

 principal characteristics of the problem as it 

 affects the marine environment and to ad- 

 vance recommendations to deal with those 

 asi)ects of pollution unique to the coastal zone 

 and tlie sea. 



Characteristics of Coastal Zone Pollution 



The Great Lakes and oceans are the final 

 receptacle for most of tlie Nation's wastes. 

 Pollutants carried down the rivers or de- 

 ix)sited directly from the shores may be 

 trapped permanently within the estuarine 



