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Main Title Contaminant transport from Elliott and Commencement bays
Author Curl, H. C. ; Baker, E. T. ; Bates, T. S. ; Cannon, G. A. ; Feely, R. A.
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Author Title of a Work
Curl, Herbert Charles.
CORP Author National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA. Pacific Marine Environmental Lab.;Environmental Protection Agency, Seattle, WA. Region X.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Puget Sound Estuary Program,
Year Published 1988
Report Number EPA-910-9-87-177; CONTRIB-903
Stock Number PB89-143267
OCLC Number 18782367
Subjects Chemical oceanography--Washington (State)--Elliott Bay ; Chemical oceanography--Washington (State)--Commencement Bay
Additional Subjects Elliott Bay ; Commencement Bay ; Water pollution ; Transport properties ; Tables(Data) ; Sediments ; Meteorology ; Physical oceanography ; Urban areas ; Metals ; Organic compounds ; Trace elements ; Puget Sound Estuary Program ; Environmental transport ; Region 10
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=94007A5H.PDF
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ESAD  EPA-910-9-87-177 3 copies Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 06/08/2016
NTIS  PB89-143267 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation viii, 136 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Abstract
Major sources of contamination to Puget Sound are concentrated in the urban embayments. Most of these contaminants are particulates or adhere to particles. If these particulates are dense, they tend to fall out of the water column near the source; thus analysis of the sediment within urban embayments can provide an indication of the level of contamination, and by proximity, of the probable source of that contamination. During spring and summer 1985, and again in January 1986, the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) made a series of observations designed to determine to what degree contaminants in Elliott and Commencement Bays could leave the bays and enter the main basin of Puget Sound. The approach employed in the study was to map the distribution of water properties (salinity, suspended particulate matter or SPM, and toxic trace metals and organics) during a period of high river runoff and during combined sewer overflow events after heavy rainfall. Current meters and sediment traps were employed, providing a continuous record of salinity, temperature, current speed and direction which allows a calculation of horizontal transport.
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Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche. "April 1988." PB89-143267 Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-110).