Figure 23-1. Index Map of Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, 
Showing the Locations of the Three Sectors of the Bay. 
community has deteriorated, and the waters have become more turbid in 
response to human perturbations. Chief among these perturbations have been 
domestic sewage discharge and stream runoff. Both processes have been closely 
related to the tenfold increase of the human population in the watershed over 
the past three decades. Banner (2) and Smith (8) have summarized the 
historical conditions leading to the present environmental status of the bay. 
The present stress regime is about to be drastically modified by diversion of 
the sewage discharge to a site removed from Kaneohe Bay. This paper 
discusses, from the bias of my own mass-balance approach to ecosystem 
analysis, interim results of a team investigation designed to ascertain ecosystem 
responses of Kaneohe Bay to the relaxation of sewage stress, and to derive 
predictive ability therefrom. The data, and many of the ideas presented here, 
are properly credited to other members of the research teamJ 
1. Working group leaders are: S. V. Smith (chemistry), E. Laws 
(phytoplankton), J. Hirota (zooplankton), R. E. Brock (benthos), P. L. 
Jokiel (microcosms). Principal cooperators from the Naval Ocean Systems 
Center are E. C. Evans III, J. G. Grovhoug, and R. S. Henderson. 
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