Ecological effects of the Houston Lighting & Power Company Cedar Bayou Generating Station on the environments of Trinity Bay and Vicinity. Final Report.

Date

1980

Authors

Bedinger, C.A., Jr.
Baker, J.H.
Childers, R.E.
Ivy, J.T.
Janousek, J.
Jobe, W.D.
Kwok, A.Y.
Zotter, J.D., Sr.

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Publisher

Southwest Research Institute

Abstract

This report gives the results of studies initiated by Southwest research Institute (SwRI) for Houston Lighting & Power Company (HL&P) to cover the environmental monitoring of the Cedar Bayou Generating Station. The sampling collecions were initiated in Febuary 1973 and continue through the present. This report covers the sampling period March 1973 to July 1979. The objective of this study is to determine the ecological effects of the long term operation of the Cedar Bayou Station on the ecology of the Trinity Bay receiving waters.

Description

407 pgs.

Keywords

environmental effects, analysis, data, water quality, methodology, phytoplankton, zooplankton, benthos, nekton, electric power plants, environmenal aspects, bay

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