At this time, some stations currently sampled could be dropped with 

 no real loss in information. The Bay Point site (IN) in front of the 

 intakes has never provided much data — the area is too exposed and rocky 

 to provide a good habitat. Additionally, it will be non-existent after 

 the temporary cofferdam in front of Unit 3 intake is removed. Station 

 BL is also too exposed to provide a good shore-zone habitat. Additionally, 

 it has a high abundance of juvenile and adult Homo sapiens during the 

 summer months which may cause resident fish to move to other nearby 

 shore-zone sites. While the GN site is somewhat sheltered, it is 

 dissimilar to the JC site because it lacks vegetative cover, and thus is 

 not a comparable control site. Because an extensive data base exists 

 for GN, I would recommend keeping it along with JC, WP and SS and dropping 

 IN and BL sites. The effort saved by not sampling these stations could 

 be redistributed to more intensively sample the potentially impacted 

 Jordan Cove sites. 



73 



