Product Details
- Product Number
- 207752
- Series
- CIR-1302
- Scale
- NO SCALE
- Alternate ID
- 21-1302
- ISBN
- 978-1-4113-1252-4
- Authors
- RICHARD R RENDIGS
- Version Date
- 01/01/2007
- Regions
- MA
- Countries
- USA
- Media
- Paper
- Format
- Bound
Additional Details
- Description
- Most of the major urban centers of the United States including Boston, New York, Washington, Chicago, New Orleans, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle.are on a coast (fig. 1.1). All of these cities discharge treated sewage effluent into adjacent waters. In 2000, 74 percent of the U.S. population lived within 200 kilometers (km) of the coast. Between 1980 and 2002, the population density in coastal communities increased approximately 4.5 times faster than in noncoastal areas of the U.S. (Perkins, 2004). More people generate larger volumes of wastes, increase the demands on wastewater treatment, expand the area of impervious land surfaces, and use more vehicles that contribute contaminants to street runoff. According to the National Coastal Condition Report II (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2005a), on the basis of coastal habitat, water and sediment quality, benthic index, and fish tissue, the overall national coastal condition is only poor to fair and the overall coastal condition in the highly populated Northeast is poor.
- Survey Date
- 2007
- Print Date
- 2007
- Height In Inches
- 11.000
- Length In Inches
- 8.500
- Two Sided
- Yes
- Pieces
- 1
- Languages
- English
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