A Review of the Florida Keys Carrying Capacity Study (2002) / Chapter Skim
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8 Marine Module
8 Marine Module
Pages 37-40
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This feeling was based, in part, on comments expressed by both URS Corporation, Inc., staff and professional biologists during the 2-day workshop in Key Largo in January 2001. When it received the Draft CCAM in November 2001, the Committee was therefore surprised that the only input to the marine ecosystem came from the Integrated Water Module and that the Smart Growth scenario showed no measurable impact on the marine ecosystem.
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. The findings from the Smart Growth scenario reported in the Draft CCAM assume complete fulfillment of all water module and terrestrial management plans outlined in the document.
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The time scale for mixing in the near-shore zone between storms may result in a relatively uniform distribution of discharged constituents in that zone, but there is no way of determining such a distribution from the line-source mixing model. A two-dimensional, steady-state model with provisions for exchange with offshore waters might suffice to distribute conservative constituents discharged continuously, on the average.
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In short, the Marine Module is not an adequate tool for generating predictions on marine water quality or other important environmental endpoints given the limitations of its diffusion model. The Draft CCAM Marine Module should not be used to make inferences about marine water quality.
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