Assessment of 1978 Water Quality Conditions in the Upper Potomac Estuary

摘要

The second successive intensive monitoring program in the Potomac Estuary was performed by the Annapolis Field Office, U.S. E.P.A., during the period of July to September, 1978. This program consisted of three distinct elements: (1) slack tide sampling over a sixty-five mile reach of the upper estuary; (2) sampling of the effluents at the eight major wastewater treatment plants in the Washington Metropolitan Area and (3) special field and laboratory studies which addressed specific aspects of the dissolved oxygen budget for mathematical modelling purposes as well as the chronic problem of eutrophication.