New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research abstracts

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SURFACE WATERS OF WAIMEA INLET AND NELSON HA YEN: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY

D. M. Updegraff*

D. J. Stanton

M.

J. Spencer

Cawthron Institute, P.O. Box 175, Nelson, New Zealand

Abstract Because of mounting inflows of sewage and organic industrial effluents in Nelson Haven, Waimea Inlet, and Tasman Bay, a water quality survey to obtain background information, on 17 parameters from 28 sites was made during 1975. Water from sites remote from effluent discharges showed characteristics of normal seawater: water turbulence and tidal flushing appeared to be rapidly degrading, diluting, and dispersing the organic contaminants.

N.Z. Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 11 (3) : 559-75. Received 28 June 1976; revision received 7 February 1977.

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