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No abstract was published. A summary of the Introduction and Results follows.
Construction of an airport runway and docking facility was begun in early 1981 for Kosrae State, Federated States of Micronesia, in a previously pristine reef flat near the natural deep-water harbor at Okat on the northeast end of Kosrae Island. Beginning in May 1982, marine waters in the vicinity of construction was monitored on a quarterly basis for the following water quality parameters: pH, temperature, salinity, turbidity, total non-filterable residue (TNFR), dissolved oxygen (DO), total phosphorous (TP), orthophosphate (OP), total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN), total nitrogen (TN), nitrite+nitrate-nitrogen (NO) and ammonia nitrogen (NH). Monitoring revealed degradation of water quality around the airport runway, docking facility, harbor system, and surrounding reef flat complex due to increased turbidity levels attributed to construction operations. Results and conclusions are presented and discusses herein. Additional pre- and post-construction data are presented and discussed in WERI Technical Report No. 58 by Clayshulte and Zolan, 1985, and No. 68 by Clayshulte, 1986.
