Waste Water Runoff Inadequately Planned Term Paper

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I am convinced that Mallin's theories are true. First, he adequately supports them with his own research data. These quantitative statistics are difficult to ignore. In addition, others have made similar relational connections between populations and shellfish bed closure. Bain concurs with Mallin that shellfish beds closures are on the rise. He cites Kevin McAllister, President of Peconic Baykeeper, in noting that one-third of the Great South Bay's shellfish beds were closed for harvesting because of fecal bacteria, in 2006 (1). A report in Columbian notes that aging septic tanks that overflow in the summertime were a primary factor in the 2003 closure of all of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe's oyster beds in Dungeness Bay ("Pollution Closes" C6).

There is one primary questions that I think need to be addressed to follow up Mallin's results.

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What are the effects of increased agriculture in these areas? Is it primarily development of the land and the altering of drainage patterns and increased human populations that are causing such a fecal bacteria surge, or do the higher concentrations of livestock/acre have a significant impact as well? This would need to be addressed before I could say I was fully convinced that it was the higher density of humans that were most responsible fore shellfish bed closure......

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