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Approximately five years ago, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) initiated a 22 country, 200 lake and impoundment study of nutrient load-eutrophication response relationships. Emphasis in the study is being given to the evaluation of the Vollenweider models for correlating nutrient load with eutrophication response. The U.S. part of this study included the investigation of about 40 waterbodies or parts thereof. The results of the U.S. and the other studies all show a strong correlation between the phosphorus load to a water body as normalized by mean depth and hydraulic residence time, and the planktonic algal chlorophyll, Secchi depth (water clarity), and the hypolimnetic oxygen depletion rate. These relationships have been developed to a sufficient degree of sophistication so that they are the method of choice for estimating the impact of altering the phosphorus load to a P-limited waterbody on eutrophication-related water quality.
While the U.S. OECD waterbodies were primarily lakes and impoundments, included as part of the data base upon which the statistical correlations were made were three parts of the Potomac estuary. It appears that in general, the OECD eutrophication modeling approach is applicable to estuarine systems as well as lakes and impoundments. In addition to reviewing the U.S. OECD study results, this paper presents a discussion of the modifications that may need to be made in the OECD-Vollenweider eutrophication modeling approach in order to apply it to some estuarine systems.
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Lee, G.F., Jones, R.A. (1981). Application of the OECD Eutrophication Modeling Approach to Estuaries. In: Neilson, B.J., Cronin, L.E. (eds) Estuaries and Nutrients. Contemporary Issues in Science and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5826-1_28
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