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Submersed Aquatic Vegetation; Zostera-Marina L; Water-Quality; Nutrient Enrichment; Nitrogen Loads; Chesapeake Bay; Pamlico-Sound; New-Jersey; Usa; Phytoplankton
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Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary: Case Study Of A Highly Eutrophic Coastal Bay System, Mj Kennish, Sb Bricker, Wc Dennison, Pm Glibert, Rj Livingston, Ken Moore, Et Al.
Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary: Case Study Of A Highly Eutrophic Coastal Bay System, Mj Kennish, Sb Bricker, Wc Dennison, Pm Glibert, Rj Livingston, Ken Moore, Et Al.
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The Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor Estuary is classified here as a highly eutrophic estuary based on application of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Estuarine Eutrophication Assessment model. Because it is shallow, poorly flushed, and bordered by highly developed watershed areas, the estuary is particularly susceptible to the effects of nutrient loading. Most of this load (similar to 50%) is from surface water inflow, but substantial fractions also originate from atmospheric deposition (similar to 39%), and direct groundwater discharges (similar to 11%). No point source inputs of nutrients exist in the Barnegat Bay watershed. Since 1980, all treated wastewater …