SCDNR
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control

The Condition of South Carolina’s Estuarine and Coastal Habitats During 1999-2000

Below is the Table of Contents for the 1999-2000 SCECAP Report (Adobe PDF - file size 5.6MB). Adobe® Reader® is required to open this file and is available as a free download from the Adobe® Web site.

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Table of Contents

Section Page
TABLE OF CONTENTS i
LIST OF FIGURES ii
LIST OF TABLES v
1. INTRODUCTION 1
2. METHODS 3
   2.1. Sampling Design 3
   2.2. Water Quality Measurements 4
   2.3. Biological and Sediment Sampling 5
   2.4. Habitat Evaluation 7
   2.5. Quality Assurance 7
   2.6. Data Analyses 8
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 9
   3.1. Station Array 9
   3.2. Water Quality 9
      Temperature 14
      Salinity 14
      Dissolved Oxygen 15
      pH 17
      Nutrients 19
      Biochemical Oxygen Demand 22
      Total Organic Carbon 22
      Fecal Coliform Bacteria 23
      Turbidity 24
      Alkalinity 25
      Integrated Water Quality Measure 25
   3.3 Sediment Quality 28
      Sediment Composition 28
      TOC 28
      TAN 29
      Contaminants 30
      Toxicity 32
      Integrated Assessment of Sediment Quality 33
   3.4 Biological Condition 35
      Phytoplankton 35
      Benthic Communities 36
      Finfish and Crustacean Communities 41
      Contaminant Levels in Fish Tissu 47
   3.5 Incidence of Litter 48
   3.6 Integrated Measure of South Carolina’s Estuarine Habitat Quality 48
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 55
LITERATURE CITED 57
DATA APPENDICES 63

Data from this survey period can also be found on the Data Tables page.