Introduction In Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

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Section A: Water Quality
The primary issue of concern is the input of nutrients, toxics and metals, pathogens, and suspended solids into the Hillsborough River and its tributaries.

Section B: Water Quantity
This issue area provides a broad view of the present status of the water resources in the watershed, the pressures on those resources caused by human use of the water resource, and the management efforts that are employed to mitigate the impacts of those human uses.

Section C: Habitat and Living Resources
This issue area provides a broad view if the relative health and present ststus of the marine, esturine, freshwater, and upland systems associated witht he river that comprise the major components of the Hillsborough River Ecosystem.

Section D: Air Quality
This issue area provides an overview of the present status of air pollutant emissions, ambient air quality, and the deposition of contaminants within the watershed.

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