Proceedings of the National Symposium on Freshwater Inflow to Estuaries: Volume I

摘要

The Proceedings include 76 scientific and management papers on the institutional and management problems of providing freshwater inflow to estuaries, documented ecological effects in estuaries of modifying freshwater inflow, and suggested measures to bring freshwater inflow into water planning. The problems of freshwater inflow include reduction in volume due to inland water diversions, modification of seasonal flow regimes, reduction in water quality and alteration of sediment and nutrient content. Freshwater inflow problems were identified in Raritan Bay, Chesapeake Bay, southern Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, San Francisco Bay, and the Columbia River estuary.