Coastal Pollution

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Coastal Pollution

• Sewage, industrial waste, soil nutrients, power
  plant thermal, agriculture runoff, oil seeps
  mistakes, dumping, outboard motors, plastics,
  dumping, dredging wastes, fish processing, etc.

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Regulation of Discharges

• Clean Water Act MPRSA
• Regulate dumping point source discharges
• Requires a National Pollutant Discharge
  Elimination System (NPDES) permit
• Compliance is mandated by monitoring

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What is a Monitoring System?

• Addresses the goals of the permit
• Ecosystem public health concerns
• Scaled to size of discharge
• Based on best available science
• Detect changes due to anthropogenic forces rather
  than environment

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What is a Monitoring System?

• Addresses the goals of the permit
• Ecosystem public health concerns
• Scaled to size of discharge
• Based on best available science
• Detect changes due to anthropogenic forces rather
  than environment

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Summary

• Systematized view of ocean monitoring programs
• Achieves permitting requirements helps reduce
  costs/redundancies
• Brings public/agencies into the circle