Chesapeake Bay Water Column Contaminants Critical Issue Forum Proceedings
- Published:
- July 1, 1993
- Originator:
- Chesapeake Bay Program
The four critical issue forum questions were addressed by the participants as part of the effort to define the extent and magnitude water column contamination in the Chesapeake Bay basin. Two major pointswere made and reiterated throughout the discussion: 1) existing data are insufficient (i.e. spatially, temporally, and geochemically limited) to determine the nature, magnitude, and extent of water column samples is expensive and available resources are limitedhe focus of future monitoring or assessment of Bay basin water column contamination needs to be determined. A present, water column metals data for Bay tidal waters are limited; water column organic for Bay tidal waters are very limited or rare.