ABSTRACT
At the time of European settlement, the waterfront and watersheds provided transportation and bountiful resources of fi sh, wildlife, timber, agricultural land and water power. Later, they provided good locations and transportation routes for manufacturing. With natural resource depletion and waste production from these uses and from an expanding population, the environmental quality and ecological productivity of the waterfront and watersheds declined. Water, soil and sediments were contaminated, and terrestrial and aquatic habitats were degraded.
