Great Lakes Water Quality Guidance

• Published in: Economic Analyses at EPA pp. 419 - 454
• Main Authors: Castillo, Eloise Trabka, Morris, Mark L., Raucher, Robert S.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 1997; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Environmental economics; Final Cost Analysis; EPA Estimate; Nonuse Values; Benefits Methodology; Pollutant Loading Reductions; Final Ria; TCDD; Point Source Dischargers; EPA's Guidance; Great Lakes Basin; Benefits Estimates; Salmon Anglers; Fox River; Great Lakes; Fish Consumption Advisories; Estimated Compliance Cost; Case Study Area; EPA Analysis; High Cost Scenarios; Final Guidance; Case Study Sites; Analytical Detection Level; Water Quality Benefits; Point Source Controls

By the mid-1980s, fish tissue studies conducted in the Great Lakes Basin suggested that earlier declines in contaminant levels of bioaccumulative pollutants (such as PCBs, DDT, and dieldrin) had leveled off Without new policy initiatives, many uses of the Great Lakes would be threatened. Alarmed abo...