Nutrient Criteria Development Document: Estuarine and Coastal Waters
The Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Estuarine and Coastal Marine Waters provides scientifically defensible technical support in developing numeric nutrient criteria to protect the designated uses of estuaries and coastal marine waters.
- Federal Register Notice (October 10, 2001)
- Fact Sheet (August 2001)
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Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Estuarine and Coastal Marine Waters (pdf)
- Chapter 1: Introduction and Objectives
- Chapter 2: Scientific Basis for Estuarine and Coastal Waters Quantitative Nutrient Criteria
- Chapter 3: Classification of Estuarine and Coastal Waters
- Chapter 4: Variables and Measurement Methods To Assess and Monitor Estuarine/Marine Eutrophic Conditions
- Chapter 5: Databases, Sampling Design, and Data Analysis
- Chapter 6: Determining the Reference Condition
- Chapter 7: Nutrient and Algal Criteria Development
- Chapter 8: Using Nutrient Criteria To Protect Water Quality
- Chapter 9: Use of Models in Nutrient Criteria Development
- References
- Appendices
- Case Studies