Tampa Bypass Canal 
Monthly Discharge (Oct. 1982 -Sept. 1986) 
Figure 10. Monthly discharge for the Tampa Bypass Canal. 
WATER QUALITY 
A review of water quality in streams flowing to Tampa Bay can be 
quite extensive depending on the detail of the review. Dooris and Dooris 
(1985) in their review of the quantity and quality of surface flows to 
Tampa Bay discussed twelve stations for which water quality sampling had 
been conducted on a regular basis. Other data exist from a number of 
independent studies,but these data generally cover brief time periods and 
are not available from a centralized data base. The review of the Tampa 
Bay watershed by Drew, et al. (in review) identifies and reviews many of 
these miscellaneous sources of data. Much of the information presented 
here was synthesized from the review of Drew, et al. (in review). Since 
the effects of stormwater runoff and industrial or municipal discharges 
are discussed in other chapters of these proceedings, these topics are 
treated only lightly here. 
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