Monitoring Southern California's Coastal Waters -- Copyright -- Preface -- PURPOSE -- METHODS -- ORGANIZATION -- THE STUDY'S AUDIENCE -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 The Southern California Bight -- PHYSICAL SETTING -- Bathymetry -- Drainage Basin -- Circulation and Oceanography -- Climate and Hydrology -- HABITATS AND NATURAL RESOURCES -- LAND USE AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY -- SUMMARY -- 2 Sources of Pollution and Habitat Change -- MAJOR SOURCES OF CONTAMINANTS -- CLASSES OF CONTAMINANTS -- Oil Exploration and Production Wastes and Petroleum -- Radionuclides -- Bacteria and Pathogens -- Thermal Discharges -- Particulate Organic Matter and Solids -- Dissolved Nutrients and Eutrophication -- Trace Metals -- Synthetic Organic Chemicals -- Ocean Dumping -- OVERVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS -- Bightwide Environmental Issues -- DDT Contamination -- U.S.-Mexico Sewage Contamination -- Local Environmental Problems -- SUMMARY -- 3 Regulatory Framework and Public Concerns -- REGULATORY SECTOR -- Marine Water Quality -- Public Health and Safety -- Natural Resource Protection and Management -- INTERAGENCY COOPERATION -- PUBLIC CONCERNS FOR THE BIGHT -- SUMMARY -- 4 Monitoring and Research in the Southern California Bight -- THE MONITORING SECTOR -- Municipal Discharges -- County Sanitation Districts of Orange County -- City of Los Angeles -- Coastal Power Plants -- San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station -- Oil Exploration and Production -- Ocean Dumping and Dredge Disposal -- Nonpoint Sources -- Shoreline Erosion and Beach Replenishment -- Resource Monitoring -- Current Resource Monitoring -- Historical Monitoring and the CalCOFI Program -- Kelp Bed Monitoring -- Noncommercial Resources -- Water Quality Monitoring for Public Health -- National and Statewide Monitoring Programs -- Citizen and Community Monitoring.

Monitoring Expenditures -- Summary of Monitoring Activities -- THE RESEARCH SECTOR -- Federal Agencies -- State Agencies -- Local Agencies -- Universities -- Private Industry -- Research Successes -- SUMMARY -- 5 A Framework for the Analysis of Monitoring -- THE IMPORTANCE OF OBJECTIVES -- THE ROLE OF TECHNICAL DESIGN -- A FRAMEWORK FOR PRIORITIZING PROBLEMS -- The Assessment Framework -- A Synoptic Overview -- Supporting Detail -- SUMMARY -- 6 Analysis of Monitoring Efforts -- INSTITUTIONAL OBJECTIVES AND THEIR LIMITATIONS -- Objectives -- Institutional Limitations -- Nonpermit Activities -- Inflexibility -- Permit-by-Permit Approach -- TECHNICAL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION -- Statistical Design -- Field and Laboratory Procedures -- Data Management -- TECHNICAL INTERPRETATION AND DECISION MAKING -- OVERALL ORGANIZATION OF MONITORING -- Objectives -- Major Environmental Problems -- Spatial and Temporal Scales -- Allocation of Monitoring Resources -- SUMMARY -- 7 Conclusions and Recommendations -- CONCLUSIONS -- Current Monitoring Effort -- Lack of Program Integration -- RECOMMENDATIONS -- A Regional Approach -- References.