Samples have been collected near and adjacent to the new outfall location as well as at farfield reference locations throughout Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod Bay. The outfall becomes operational in November 1998. Syllids and oweniids are locally dominant.
Dominant species shift in order from year to year probably in response to timing of recruitment.
The dominant spionids change in abundance from year to year, but are always characteristic of normal coastal assemblages. Web abstracts engineered by Geoff Read , with content copyright IPA and Paulo da Cunha Lana .